The cream is rising to the top

[randr]

Watching Senators Dodd and Biden so far this week has me seriously rethinking what direction I will go in this election.
The MSM front runners are appearing as eye candy while the real politicos are doing the nations business.

[ellacott]

1. This is proof that this election is not about experience

These two have the most experience and they get barely a mention in the MSM.

[Atman]

2. "Experience" is synonymous with "the Problem" at this point

Face it, things are as effed up in Washington as they've ever been. The American people are clamoring for change, not for a couple of the same old dudes they've been seeing on their idiot boxes for the last thirty years. I keep hearing Dodd saying how his vast experience makes him the one best able to bring about change...well, what the hell has been doing for the past thirty years?! How did things get so messed up if Dodd's been there looking out for us?

People want a clean sweep. That's why they're even considering guys like Huckabee and Ron Paul...because they've never heard of them! The democrats have served up another plate of warmed-over leftover, with the exception of Barack Obama, who they say isn't cooked enough. Bill Clinton came out of nowhere. His only previous job was AK Attorney General, he was not a career politician like the rest of the field is now. That's what people want. Most of us would elect our small town mayors or school board members to the Presidency over any of this current field in either party.

America is screaming for change, REAL change. Two Democratic dinosaurs don't exactly herald exciting new times ahead.

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[ellacott]

3. But the big debate in the media is change vs. experience

The polls do show that people want change. The biggest issue that is being used in the Clinton is her experience.

[WheelWalker]

5. Incompetency, not experience, is the problem at this point. Blame the voters,

particularly those who consider experience to be a "problem." You want to throw out the baby with the bath water. There is no doubt many in Congress, as well as Bush and his minions, are incompetent to govern. Biden and Dodd, however, are two of the few GOOD ones. I suggest you should stop being so glib and smug about the politics of incompetence.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

6. Consider the climate in DC the past 30 years

First you had Reagan f'ing everything up 100%. Then you had triangulating Clinton, and then you had the Gingrich congress takeover, and now of course the biggest walking disaster to ever hit the nation in charge.
It's no wonder all Dodd has to claim credit to is the family medical leave act and some unfortunately bad legislation favorable to the accouting industry, which he now agrees was bad.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. I am hoping one of them will be endorsed

by one of the smaller Iowa papers- like The Quad City Times, which endorsed Kerry in 2004.
It's the kind of thing that can really generate some instant positive press and buzz.

[Tesha]

7. You know, I appreciate what you're saying, but ever since...

You know, I appreciate what you're saying, but ever since
I saw Children of Men and heard "Running the World"
during the closing credits, I can never hear about "cream
rising to the top" without hearing Jarvis Cocker's biting
rebuttal.

In general (if maybe not in this specific case), Cocker
has it absolutely correct.

Tesha

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarvis_Cocker