After Obama win, Clinton warns of "false hopes"

[Genevieve]

Source: REUTERS

By Claudia Parsons Fri Jan 4, 1:46 PM ET
NASHUA, New Hampshire (Reuters) - New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, reeling from defeat in Iowa at the hands of Barack Obama, urged Democratic voters on Friday not to build up "false hopes" by choosing an inexperienced presidential candidate.

In Iowa, which kicked off the process of choosing the next U.S. president with its caucuses on Thursday, the former first lady finished a disappointing third, nine percentage points behind Obama and narrowly behind former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.

"This is a new day, this is a new state," Clinton told reporters after arriving in the New England state. Despite her loss, she said she would continue to contrast her resume with Obama's comparative youth and inexperience.

"We can't have false hopes. We've got to have a person who can walk into that Oval office on day one and start doing the hard work that it takes to deliver change," she said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080104/pl_nm/usa_politics_clinton_dc

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i personally like Edwards first, then Obama.

[billbuckhead]

1. Obama has by far the thinnest resume of all the remaining candidates

How can he promise all these hopeful things when he has done very little except to beat Alan Keyes.

[Genevieve]

2. True. nt

[Divine Discontent]

5. I'm positive ANYONE on DU could have beaten Keyes

but beyond that, Obama did win... IN IOWA. I prefer John, obviously, and I believe he is much more equipped to deal with this disastrous situation we have in this country and HE has been behind fighting for eliminating hunger, being for the workers, and Jesse Jackson said Edwards was the ONLY candidate from both parties who was paying attention the African-American constituency.

GO JOHN!!!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

11. More legislative experience than the two he beat in Iowa.

:shrug:

Hillary 7
Edwards 6
Obama 11

It's a strawman.

[stillcool]

13. the same way Hillary...

Edwards, Biden, Dodd, Kucinich, and Richardson can.

[taylor egv420106]

26. What allegedly happened

In just a few more senatorial years that makes HRC significantly more experienced?

NOTHING.

[indimuse]

3. Well it is "false hope"..

when you tout a policy being "universal" and IT'S NOT!...



buyer beware... :evilgrin:

[Kittycat]

4. This really makes her look little and petty.

Desperate times call for desperate measures? I think not. I wished she had a little grace and tact.

[Danger Mouse]

23. 'look'?

[paulk]

27. well, you see, she's running for President

She wants to win!

Imagine that!

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But, she's a woman, you know - I guess she should just keep her mouth shut.

[doc03]

6. Wasn't "Hope" what Bill Clinton ran on? He wasn't

any more qualified than Obama. Oh, I "hope" Hillary doesn't get the nomination.

[wisteria]

7. Yeah, Bush ran as the candidate of change and a compassionate

conservative, a uniter not a divider and look how well that has turned out. Obama for all of his likability, is not right for our country right now. We don't need Mr. photo-op, we need hands on, with experience. I will not use my one vote to help get him elected President. This country matter more to me than a Democratic ticket that offers us a charmer with style but no substance.

[doc03]

10. And just who is that that is so experienced?

[Genevieve]

8. I want Edwards...nt

[tularetom]

9. I've yet to hear what change she proposes to deliver

Nobody believes she's gonna change anything and when she makes statements like this it makes her look like just another politician.

Besides what is all this "experience" she claims to have? Obama has been an elected official longer than she has. Six years as a senator is the only experience she can rightfully claim.

And if she has any hope at all of winning the nomination and the general election she needs to tell Bubba to take a fuckin hike right now. His ego is getting in the way of her campaign big time. Besides every time I see him now all I can think is this is the guy who shut down the Iran contra investigation and allowed daddy bush to get off scot free. No wonder the two of them seem to be so buddy buddy these days.

[humbled_opinion]

12. Poor Hillary...

Now she has to try and scare everybody regarding Obama... what a loser... This is no different than the Repukes saying to vote for a Democratic candidate means that cannot handle any potential terrorist attacks.... no difference at all...:scared:

[ingac70]

14. Being a President's wife and a few years in Senate....

is suppose to be massive amounts of experience?

If experience was what really mattered to voters, Richardson, Biden and Dodd we be at the top of the heap instead of her, Obama and Edwards.

[Truth2Tell]

15. So other people's hopes

are false? Really?

What an arrogant, condescending, ignorant, stupid, elitist, self absorbed, insulting, asinine, twisted, manipulative, underhanded, self righteous, pitiful, ill-informed, presumptuous, nasty and bitchy thing to say.

[kimsterdemster]

18. really? n/t

[OKthatsIT]

16. If Hillary or Edwards lose...watch out

Edwards belongs to the CFR..the think tank that bringing US down. So, he's a hypocrite. Hillary is NWO/Bilderberg pick... and f**k that.

[ckramer]

17. Inexperienced candidate is better than incorrect candidate

"Inexperienced" is not important because experience can be gained as long as one is traveling on the right path.

[Danger Mouse]

19. Cover up, Hillary, your overwhelming arrogance is showing.

[DissedByBush]

20. Oh Hillary, your stripes are showing

I really hope voters see this for what it is. She attacks even in defeat.

What's her executive experience? Chair of the Legal Services Corporation.

What's Obama's? Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago.

What's her legislative experience? 6 years.

What's Obama's? 7 state, 3 federal, total 10 years.

What's her education? Major in political science, thesis on a community organizer (remember, the one where she went Bush-like and had it suppressed?), JD from Yale.

What's Obama's? Major in political science concentrating on international relations, JD from Harvard, magna cum laude.


Looks like Obama wins on all of the above, plus he was a lecturer on constitutional law for nine years. I'd say intricately knowing the Constitution is important for a president (we see that with Bush, who keeps asking where the pictures are so he can understand it).

Sure, Hillary knows the layout of the White House and how the staff manages it, but I wouldn't credit that as any necessary experience for being our chief executive.

[Qutzupalotl]

21. Good analysis, thanks! eom

:thumbsup:

[Danger Mouse]

22. She should keep it up. I might end up liking Obama at this rate.

[tabasco]

24. This type of stuff is why her campaign will disintegrate.

The Clintons are now part of the royal elite and think they can tell Americans what to think.

The arrogance is shocking.

[fshrink]

25. Hopes are always false.

They are projection into the future. And building a campaign on a supposed weakness of the opponent is not a good strategy because it is only defensive. Unfortunately for her, that's now the only possibility left by her vapid, vague and rubbery program.

[panzerfaust]

28. It ain't you babe

"We've got to have a person who can walk into that Oval office on day one and start doing the hard work that it takes to deliver change"