Clinton's experience claim under scrutiny

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Source: Chicago Tribune

Pressed in a CNN interview this week for specific examples of foreign policy experience that has prepared her for an international crisis, Clinton claimed that she "helped to bring peace" to Northern Ireland and negotiated with Macedonia to open up its border to refugees from Kosovo. She also cited "standing up" to the Chinese government on women's rights and a one-day visit she made to Bosnia following the Dayton peace accords.

Earlier in the campaign, she and her husband claimed that she had advocated on behalf of a U.S. military intervention in Rwanda to stop the genocide there.

But her involvement in the Northern Ireland peace process was primarily to encourage activism among women's groups there, a contribution that the lead U.S. negotiator described as "helpful" but that an Irish historian who has written extensively about the conflict dismissed as "ancillary" to the peace process.

The Macedonian government opened its border to refugees the day before Clinton arrived to meet with government leaders. And her mission to Bosnia was a one-day visit in which she was accompanied by performers Sheryl Crow and Sinbad, as well as her daughter, Chelsea, according to the commanding general who hosted her.



Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-experiencemar07,1,2875944.story

[EFerrari]

1. I've heard that she also split the atom

but that may just be a rumor.

[CubicleGuy]

3. When you lie on your resume...

... you usually don't end up getting the job.

[EFerrari]

6. People count on not getting caught.

That's much harder to pull off now with the tubes and all.

Welcome to DU, CubicleGuy.

[Kittycat]

15. What I've found most interesting in this...

Most of the time, if they were just honest up front, they would have kept their jobs. I can't tell you how many termination packets I've processed during my years corporate america. The worst part about that, is that they usually gave up a job for the new one. By the time the back ground checks returned, we would find that they lied on something like their college education for a job that didn't even require a degree. Before I left, we had to implement a rule that employees couldn't even be offered a packet without background clearance, which took 2-3weeks.

[rosetta627]

10. She's even unprepared for the job interview

So unprofessional.

[sonias]

8. he he he

:rofl:

Good one!

Sonia

[EFerrari]

11. Hiya, Sonia.

:)

[Brundle_Fly]

12. Sinbad split the atom

but she was there.

[still_one]

2. Is experience more important than judgement? /nt

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4. Her judgment is easy to scrutinize, and it doesn't seem so good.

[nbcouch]

13. What experience?

Apparently Hillary actually was in charge, not Bill, while the two of them were in the White House. It seems her experience during those years enabled her to cross the "commander-in-chief threshold," so I can only conclude that it was Hillary who had her finger on the button the whole time.

Seriously, if being First Lady prepares you so well for the Presidency, why isn't Laura Bush running?

If we discount her "service" during those eight years, then we're left with seven years as Senator from a state where Alvin or any of the various Chipmunks could run as Dems and get elected. That's the ONLY elected office she's held. Obama is still on his first term in the US Senate, but he served with distinction (over 800 bills sponsored) for eight years in the Illinois Senate. Before that he worked as a civil rights attorney and taught Constitutional law, and before that he was a community organizer in Chicago working to improve the quality of life in poor neighborhoods. Hillary's got nothing on Barack when it comes to experience.

McCain arguably has a great deal more experience than either of them, but of course he has no principles, which pretty well negates the experience advantage.

[heliarc]

17. No it isn't more important

which is precisely why Obama is just as good or better a candidate than Hillary

[speedoo]

5. "Nobel winner: Hillary Clinton's "silly" Irish Peace Claims ..."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3215410

[swag]

Thanks. Just saw that.

Give a yell when you get out here, by the way.

[swag]

7. Thanks. Just saw that.

Give a yell when you get out here, by the way.

[speedoo]

9. This summer for sure.

June most likely.

Thanks, I look forward to meeting you.

[mcollier]

14. Vote for a leader

not someone you have to watch your own back around.... We need someone we can trust....

Vote for Obama....

Thanks...

[zytime]

16. This has driven me crazy for the entire campaign.

How she got off billing herself as the candidate of experience when sharing the stage with Biden, Dodd, Richardson and Kucinich is beyond me. No one in the press ever called her on this, and other candidates had their hands tied in the early primary love-in that was the dem race. This story should have been all over the place from the start, but instead the press gave her a free pass and perpetuated the idea that she was the most experienced of the Democratic field. There are other ways of bringing attention to a long and distinguished work history without overstatement.

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18. Sinbad for President

Apparently he has more foreign policy experience than Barack. :eyes:

[moondust]

19. She's a pathological liar/exaggerator.

She never passes up an opportunity to overstate, overreach, and pad her resume with hot air.