…she and McCain will “bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign” but Obama “will bring a speech he gave in 2002.”
Obama’s bringing a “lifetime of experience” to the campaign, as well – it’s just experience that is different than Clinton or McCain.
I would think, as sick and tired as so many of us are of the cronyism, back-room dealing, and underhanded “say one thing do another”-ism that is rampant in DC, that her touting her “lifetime of experience” could be spun against her. Both she and McCain have a lifetime of “Business as usual,” and “Status Quo.”
Bully for them.

This is truly an amazing campaign. I wonder if Hillary is thinking in terms of being McCain’s running mate?
Of course I know that is absurd, but it could be that she has decided that if she is not going to be President she is going to do her damndest to make sure that Obama isn’t either.

meh – BINGO. that’s why this is an election about change, and why obama draws the crowds that both mcsame and clinton can only dream of.
seems funny to me that the more michele and others think that obama is being pulled down, the more he’s lifted up by his grassroots supporters. he raked in a record $55M last month. but, it’s not just the total amount that the other candidates should be worried about… it’s the number of $20 donors.
and then there’s this:

52 percent call themselves Democrats, up from 45 percent in an AP-Ipsos survey in mid-December. Thirty-five percent say they are Republicans, about the same as December’s 37 percent.

even with the back and forth between clinton and obama, these indicators are amazing. people have not so quickly forgotten tom delay, the plame leak, katrina bungle, and all of the backroom, secret policies of bush, cheney, rove and cronies.

michele and charles – yes, kooky, nuts and absurd. but you at least had the sense to know so.

i forgot to quote and link the above reference.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080306/ap_on_el_pr/bush_congress_ap_poll

Hillary puts the national security issue front and foremost because it is where McCain will build strength. If a candidate can mute the strength of that card by showing (s)he has the support of the military and the experience to stand toe-to-toe with McCain then it will not be a strong card. Obama, if he really wants to avoid that vulnerability will need to become very well informed, and very quickly. Otherwise McCain will make mincemeat out of him in the debates, and nobody will hear him above the fears that the Republicans will pander to in their ads.
McCain as President does have some potential to salvage respect for the U.S., through somethings he will do very quickly. Guantanamo will end very quickly on his watch, and he has the ultimate moral card to play to insure it, he was a tortured prisoner.
There is a real risk for the Democrats in Obama vs McCain. A lot of the soft centre will be swayed to move towards McCain, not merely out of national security fears, but in the need for competence over charisma, substance over rhetoric.
The irony is I have been a lifelong Democratic voter, and this is the first election in which I may vote Republican. Yes, and it has nothing to do with race. I could care less about that. What I care about is competence, and the fact that McCain would end abusive human rights practices, improve our situation abroad, and restore pride in the country, at home and abroad. Hillary I would vote for, but in the absence of more substance, on Obama I may very well pass.

What I care about is competence, and the fact that McCain would end abusive human rights practices, improve our situation abroad, and restore pride in the country, at home and abroad.
I’mmore concerned about the fact that MCCain will continue the business as usual, corporate rulership of the nation, expading the wealth and power of the few at the expense of the least of us.
youtube.com/watch?v=gI7WwY4a9ro

Yes, I am ready for a woman president – but not THAT woman.
Hillary is dividing and denigrating the Democratic party. SHE IS saying “If I don’t win, I’ll see that Obama doesn’t win.” Isn’t anyone but me aware of how mean-spirited, conniving, dishonest and unethical the Clintons are – their past is evident of that? Yes, Bill balanced the budget; but they had Whitewatergate, travelgate, filegate, jenniferflowersgate, paulajonesgate, monicagate – and other “gates” the public refuses to look up in their record. Since Hillary’s election to the New York Senate, their is the ongoing “celebrity solicitation gate”, the Paul gate (their are being sued now). They are both frauds that have, for the most part, managed to skate above the law.
Maybe if Hillary had not been so busy “running the country” during Bill’s presidency, perhaps she could have kept him in better check.
I am 70+ years old, and if Hillary wins the Democratic nomination, I will vote for a Republican president for the first time in my life.
A little of Hillary has gone toooo far with me.

If we were the kooks, nuts and the fringe, Bush would not have been elected in 2004.
And see, Charlotte agrees with me and she isn’t even a rightwing nut.
And see, meh, McCain will pick up more support than you realize.

one person’s opinion led you to conclude that “mccain will pick up more support than you realize?” get real, michele.
by the way, albert, you might want to take take note that mccain seems to think that it’s ok that the cia use torture, even though our military cannot.