Someone please, just about anyone, though I'm looking sort of at one particular Hillary Clinton lover to really come on over and defend the bit..., uh, woman (and I use that term very loosely and feel bad about the disrespect it shows to all other women out there) and really explain just what is Hillary Clinton's experience?
What makes her more qualified for the office of President of the United States than anyone else, like say my birds, or the neighbors cats, or especially other legitimate candidates like her current opponent Senator Barack Obama.
Seriously, where does anyone, and I mean anyone, in their right mind come off saying that Hillary Clinton is the more experienced candidate. What experience are you counting? What measuring system are you using?
She was first lady. That got her a ton of experience didn't it?! (NOT!) Experience in attending funerals, state dinners, meeting and greeting (even if she didn't have to duck snipers) and things like that maybe, but when she was at these events it was as first lady. She was meeting other first ladies, other spouses of other dignataries and officials and the like, and never once really to have input into any matters of state. Do you really believe that is experience that qualifies someone to be President of the United States?
She is still the Junior Senator from New York, that the experience you want to count? A whopping 4 years of additional experience over the person that is ahead of her in the polls, ahead in delegate count, would be miles ahead of her if it was winner take all and not the screwed up proporational system that is keeping her in the running. And wow, she has helped passed a ton of bills, co-authored a ton of bills, sponsored a ton of legislation, oooops, not.
So what makes Hillary Clinton qualified or more qualified than the next person.
I'll re-use the question that Geraldine Ferraro raised -- if Hillary Clinton wasn't a woman would she be where she was? Answer: Hell No.
If she wasn't a former first lady, she wouldn't even have been elected as a carpet bagging Senator from New York. She'd have disappeared off into the sunset, or, you know what -- she'd have left her scumbag husband for his habitual cheating, rather than sticking around with him because her own addictive personality won't let her slink away from power.
Hillary Clinton respresents the worst in U.S. politics in far too many ways. That she gathers any support shows the desperation of some. Some that believe that times were oh so much better with a Clinton in the White House. Enough already of the Bush / Clinton then Bush ride. We don't need to repeat it. The Clintons had their chance to get things done for this country. If she really was a co-President as she tries to claim, then technicly she should be excluded from being a candidate for the same reason her husband can't run. She had her 8 years, that's the constitutional limit, time for someone else to take the job.
But, I'll certainly entertain defense of the woman even as I sneer at such defenses as pathetic justification for wanting to waste a vote on someone that will clearly lose in the general election.