Clinton experience myth

While the Hill likes to trumpet her experience, I'd like to ask... What experience?

She was first lady for eight years, does that mean Laura Bush is qualified to be president?

Oh Gordon, it's her senate experience that makes her qualified.

Seven years in the senate, OK, I'll give you that, what committee did/does she chair? For that matter what legislation did/has she sponsored? What issue is she so committed to that she ushered it through the house and senate and got the president to sign because of public pressure?

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Nothing, nada zero

Say what you want about Al Gore, but at least we know what we're going to get with the guy.

For cryin' out loud, she wasn't even a managing partner at her law firm.

Debra Saunders echoes my sentiments.

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Hillary Clinton has been in the U.S. Senate for seven years. Before that, she spent eight years as first lady -- and she did more than pick out the drapes. Mrs. C had a role in many Clinton initiatives, including as chair of her husband's failed health care reform task force.

Still, her most valuable political skill was to neutralize her husband's "bimbo eruptions." In 1992, she appeared with her husband on "60 Minutes" as he admitted to straying in his marriage, but denied having an affair with singer Gennifer Flowers -- a false denial, it turns out. In 1998, Hillary Clinton blamed the Monica Lewinsky story on a "vast right-wing conspiracy."

Somehow those 15 years have expanded like dog years into "35 years fighting for what I believe in." That is, Clinton's political years include her 15 years as a corporate lawyer, her three years as a law school professor, as well as her tenure as first lady of Arkansas.

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