Hillary Clinton in her “big economic speech” earlier this week:
So we need a president who can restore our confidence, a president who is ready to confront complex economic problems with comprehensive solutions, a president who will act at the first signs of trouble, working with experts to identify the problem, with agencies to adapt regulations, with Congress to pass necessary legislation, working to prevent crises rather than just reacting too little too late. We need a president who is ready on day one to be Commander-in-Chief of our economy.
I can see Gene one the ground, flopping like an epileptic and foaming at the mouth.

Clinton as executive

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According to The Politico, just-filed financial reports show that “Hillary Rodham Clinton ended January with $7.6 million in debt—not including the $5 million personal loan she gave to her campaign in the run-up to the critical Super Tuesday elections.” Meanwhile, Barack Obama managed to raise $37 million in January and spend only $31 million. The New York Times characterizes Clinton’s spending as profligate:

Nearly $100,000 went for party platters and groceries before the Iowa caucuses, even though the partying mood evaporated quickly. Rooms at the Bellagio luxury hotel in Las Vegas consumed more than $25,000; the Four Seasons, another $5,000. And top consultants collected about $5 million in January, a month of crucial expenses and tough fund-raising.

Also, the Clinton campaign recently had a top management shake-up. Campaign Manager Patti Solis-Doyle was fired, some say, because she kept from Clinton the true state of the campaign’s finances after the loss in Iowa. And we’ve seen how Bill Clinton has mucked things up as well. The Obama campaign staff, by contrast, has been disciplined and focused.

So, with all that in mind, I’d just like to point out that the only executive experience either of these two candidates has ever had has been running their campaigns. I think this says more about Clinton than Obama, but quite revealing nonetheless.

Feb 22, 2008 | 1 Comment | Tags: , ,

From Hillary Clinton’s concession speech yesterday: “You know, I wrote a book some years ago called ‘It Takes a Village to Raise a Child,’ and in it I have a chapter that I titled ‘Every Child Needs a Champion.’ Well, I think that the American people need a president who is their champion, and that is what I intend to be.” Thanks, mom.

Richardson the anti-Hillary?

The “most dangerous” Dem presidential candidate could be Bill Richardson, Ed Morrissey points out in the Examiner today. If experience is what you’re looking for, Morrissey says, Richardson’s your man: congressman, U.N. ambassador, energy secretary, and governor — and apparently more than competent at each stint. The way I see it, Hillary, like Al Gore, can’t keep up a warm, unrobotic schtick for a whole year, and Obama is a newcomer to national, hardball politics and could have a Dean moment of some kind. Richardson, to me, looks like the anti-Hillary everyone was hoping Mark Warner would be.

Jan 23, 2007 | Comments Off | Tags: , ,

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