Posted on 08/28/2008 1:10:48 PM PDT by ricks_place
DENVER — On the day of Barack Obama’s big night, Republicans continued to use the divisive Democratic primary to attack the newly crowned Democratic nominee as too inexperienced to be president.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty repeatedly said during a Denver press conference that the Illinois senator did not have the experience, substance or accomplishments to be president. Then the GOP vice presidential contender let other Democrats make that argument in a video that compiled the best attacks on Obama’s experience from the contentious Democratic primary.
There was Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) saying that while she and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) would bring lifetimes of experience, Obama “would bring a speech that he gave in 2002.” She was preceded by Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.), who is now Obama’s running mate. He stood by his comments in 2007 that Obama was not ready to be president.
Former President Clinton also appears in the video questioning Obama’s experience, as does Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.).
Biden and both Clintons this week have taken pains to say they believe Obama is ready to be president. The former president said Republicans tried the same tricks on him in 1992.
But Pawlenty said Clinton has much more experience than Obama because of his years as Arkansas’s governor. He and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) also argued that tightening polls show that more Americans are questioning Obama’s experience.
The video also includes an interview given by Obama in November 2004, shortly after his election to the Senate. Pawlenty and Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl (R) told reporters the comments show Obama himself questioning his experience to be president, but the comments could also be read as Obama merely downplaying the chance he would seek the office.
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Democrat Obama hammered by Obama; Says Obama is not ready to be President! Double Ouch!
The McCain ads have been unusually good for Pub Pap. The RNC usually runs bland ads but not this year. Time to hit the lefties at all angles and ole John appears to be doing that. Would be interesting if the VP selection slipped out tonight and garnered some attention even from the Messiah’s Olympian coronation? McCain should run more than one ad on the Big 3 as well as MSNBC against Obama tonight and make Keith O the hater gag!
The McCain ads have been unusually good for Pub Pap. The RNC usually runs bland ads but not this year. Time to hit the lefties at all angles and ole John appears to be doing that. Would be interesting if the VP selection slipped out tonight and garnered some attention even from the Messiah’s Olympian coronation? McCain should run more than one ad on the Big 3 as well as MSNBC against Obama tonight and make Keith O the hater gag!
This is part of the 1-2 minutes of Clinton's speech I listened to while commuting. And as Pawlenty alludes to later in this article; are people really that ignorant that they can't see that as ill-prepared as Clinton was for the presidency, Obama's lack of any real experience makes Clinton a stellar candidate by comparison.
oh the humanity
lolol what whining
I’ll be quite pleased if obambi gets the same 43% of the vote that slick willie got
How about the lack of experience Clinton had before he got elected was evident for everyone to see after he left office?
Yeah, I got to admit, McCains ads have been responsive, hard hitting and effective. He’s got Obama playing defense.
Agreed!
Clinton had 12 years as Governor under his belt. Sure, it was a two-bit state, but compared to Obama, he’d been there and done that.
The Dems try to lie but they can fool too many people.
“The Dems try to lie but they can fool too many people.”
Actually meant to say: The Dems try to lie but they *CANT* fool too many people.
Maybe they can after all ... we shall see on election day!
The Obne is is trouble...
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