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Bill Clinton Says Obama Isn’t Ready
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Dec 16, 2007 04:04pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Sunday, December 16, 2007 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | New York Times
"Former President Bill Clinton made an unusually direct attack Friday night on Sen. Barack Obama, ... suggesting that voters who would support someone with Mr. Obama’s experience were willing to “roll the dice” on the presidency.
Appearing on “The Charlie Rose Show” on PBS, Mr. Clinton repeatedly questioned Mr. Obama’s preparedness for the White House, noting that he took office in Jan. 2005 and became a presidential candidate about two years later. (Mr. Obama was an Illinois state senator before that.)
“When is the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running?” Mr. Clinton said. At another point, he appeared to compare Mr. Obama to a “gifted television commentator” running for president. “They’d have only one year less experience in national politics” than Mr. Obama, he said.
When asked about Mr. Clinton’s comments Saturday in Waterloo, Iowa, Mr. Obama smiled and read words Mr. Clinton used in 1992 — “the same old experience is irrelevant” — to answer questions about his own presidential candidacy. It is the second time recently Mr. Obama has used that remark to push back against the former president.
“I’ve been involved in government for over a decade,” Mr. Obama said. “The notion that there is a particular kind of experience that he has had or his wife has had that is more relevant, I would dispute. I believe that I have the experience that the country needs right now.”
During the Rose interview, Mr. Clinton looked agitated at times as he talked about recent campaign problems faced by his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of NY, and her tough race against Mr. Obama and former Sen. John Edwards of NC in Iowa, which holds the first nominating contest on Jan. 3. At one point, Mr. Rose said that, in his control room, aides to Mr. Clinton were trying to persuade the show’s producers to end the interview." |
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