Letters to the Editor
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experience
HRC's "35 years of experience" claim doesn't hold water. She has only held elected office for 7 years, so I presume she is counting everything since law school as experience. If that is the case, then the only difference in the two candidates' experience is the difference in their ages.
HRC has 7 years of legislatiive experience. Obama has 1O. HRC was first lady for 8 years, and her experience during that time is outlined in the memo in this post. Prior to that she was a lawyer. Obama taught constitutuonal law for 11 years (the sort of expertise we need right now), he was a lawyer, and a community organizer.
As the memo points out, Obama has more foreign policy experience than either Bill Clinton or Reagan did when they took office.
The "Obama is inexperienced while HRC has 35 years" myth is just an empty talking point and I hope this memo finally puts it to rest. 8 years living in the WH is not a prerequisite for the presidency. That's because we have term limits...nobody starts the job with experience being president.
And if you remember what the climate was like in 2002, you realize that standing up against the war was a dangerous thing to do back then, polotically. It took guts to do that, even in a speech. I respect him for it.