I've been jostling with the Clinton faithful over at Taylor Marsh's place, and it's obviously getting more tense in the Clinton camp.  Frankly, I wish he had worded his statement a little differently, it clouded his overall point that growing up in another country, particularly a developing nation, can give you a bigger picture of America's role in the world.  

You gonna gang up on Barack now that he's a little bit up in the polls? Is your lapdog Richardson going to get into the action, too?

Well, DUH!!!

Of COURSE they are.

It's politics.

Duh.

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

Now Clinton even finds a way to disrespect 10 year olds, most of whom are actually surprisingly savvy.

Fear will keep the local systems in line. -Grand Moff Tarkin Survivor Left Blogistan

Kucinich. If not Kucinich, then Edwards. If not Edwards, then Obama. If not Obama, a Democrat.

HRC ha snuff to worry about.

The Democratic 2008 presidential race has tightened finds Reuters/Zogby poll

The 2008 Democratic presidential race has tightened, with Barack Obama gaining on front-runner Hillary Clinton six weeks before the first contest, according to a national Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday."This race is just beginning, let alone all over," pollster John Zogby said.

Clinton led Obama 38 percent to 27 percent in the new poll, a 10-point fall from her 46 percent to 25 percent lead last month. The drop followed a month of attacks on the New York senator from her rivals and a heavily criticized performance in a late-October debate.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

There's an interesting undercurrent here. As the MSM dragged itself onboard yesterday about Scotty's teaser paragraph implicating Bush and his insiders I couldn't help but think that the more the brushoff line that 'of course these people lie' is used, Hillary's insider presence for what 35 years, her harping on her experience, and now touting what sounds like insider arrogance slamming Obama may actually work in Obama's favor. Simply put her experience by presence is based on knowing how to work WITH the ones we're trying to get out. Obama is the one with experience working with people & countries who aren't colored by Bush's business as usual. Will the electorate eventually be so angry that they will see a hit on Bush and count it against insider Hillary? There's a whole lot of emotion out there which always wipes out logic.

No Hillary, you were outspent by the people not the Obama campaign.

Living overseas can grant you a great deal of perspective about you own country.  My experience in England lead me to love my country much more and in ways that I did not before, it also helps me to see our own flaws better and be passionate about trying to fix them.

I hope that Obama's formative experiences overseas have offered him a similar insight.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington- Obama
Philly for Obama

the primaries are entering the silly season. And, fueled by a blatant anti- hill media, her party appears to be losing their focus. If they can't get back on message they got problems!

Hillary's has been fully immersed in the Senate's crash course in American exceptionalism--Republican style.  Her experience consists of late night wonky discussions with Joe Lieberman, the review of stovepiped intelligence Cheney choose to share with her, and of course her personal closed-door sessions with the Israeli lobby.  Plus, she has quietly enabled every Republican excess and followed them down the path to hell.  

Newsflash to Hillary.  The public, and especially Democrats, don't want a right-wing war hawk.  And if you haven't looked in the mirror lately--that's you babe.

Frankly, at this point, I would be thrilled with a candidate that had the foreign policy experience of a recent college graduate.  You know, a kid that's taken a few history classes and read someone like Chomsky and who has traveled Europe and hung out in pubs listening to foreign views of America's policies.  We would be much better off with someone like him rather than someone that's been blowing the likes of Joe Lieberman and Dick Cheney in the Senate the last few years (they really like me!).

The real problem with her argument is that she took the example to represent the whole: that living in another country was the SUM TOTAL of his experience. This her typical intellectual dishonesty, which she obviously cannot hold in check. Her dishonesty will lose the general election if she gets that far.

Viva Presidente Ezequiel - Aquí no hay quien viva!

I would say Barak Obama inevitably has a different view of the world because of his general background. Of course his childhood years in other countries have left their mark on him. She's just a good, old, tight white affluent suburbanite and it shows in her every move and expression. Nothing wrong with that, but Obama necessarily would have, let's way, more and deeper sympathy for and from the wider world, in and outside the U.S.A.

Hillary actually said this?

``I think we need a president with more experience than that, someone the rest of the world knows, looks up to and has confidence in.''

A few more like this and I am actually going to cave in and get cable.