A few more thoughts on Hillary…

Sen. Hillary Clinton has some version of this several times on the campaign trail, “Now I think you will be able to imagine many things Sen. McCain will be able to say. He has never been the president. He will put forth his experience. I will put forth my experience. Sen. Obama will put forth a speech he made in 2002.”

Clinton’s first point here in simple.  She is trying to place Obama in the inexperienced corner by saying that experience matters. But, as Time Magazine points out, if experience alone matters, “then second-term presidencies should be more successful than first-term.”  Let’s take a look at those.  In his second term, Bush hasn’t been has the Iraq War looming over his head, the NSA wiretaps, Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.  Clinton’s Monica, Reagan’s Iran Contra Affair, Nixon’s Watergate, and Eisenhower’s Suez Canal all happened during their second terms.  After each President should have been “experienced” enough to avoid these mistakes.  Mistakes happen.  They will happen to a President Hillary Clinton, a President Barack Obama or a President John McCain.

Clinton’s second point is more cryptic.   Here is another example of her message, “I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.”  I get the feeling, Hillary would rather McCain win if she doesn’t win the nomination.  Don’t you also the feeling that Hillary feels she deserves the nomination despite Obama’s delegate lead and popular vote lead?