Jamie Lee Curtis: Clinton's experience 'trumps' everything

[riversedge]

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Source: The Des Moines Register


Jamie Lee Curtis: Clinton's experience 'trumps' everything
Morgan Gstalter, [e-mail] 2:07 p.m. CST January 24, 2016



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Actress Jamie Lee Curtis touted Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her experience at a gathering in Waukee Sunday afternoon.

“Remember the term ‘merit-based?'” Curtis said, discussing Clinton’s political experience as former senator, First Lady and Secretary of State. “When you get something because you’ve earned it? Hillary Clinton is the merit-based candidate in this election.”

She later added, “Experience will trump everything” that was met with applause at the obvious dig at Republican presidential candidate and businessman Donald Trump...................................

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar also addressed the crowd .....................

"No one tells a little kid that they can't be President of the United States," Klobuchar said. "That's the kind of rhetoric coming from the other side, and that's the kind of kind of rhetoric that Iowa can defeat.".............................

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.@HillaryClinton "tough as nails when she needs to be, but we’ve found her to be warm, funny & without the arrogance displayed by so many"


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HILLARY CLINTON

Without question, the 68-year-old Clinton possesses a breadth of experiences in public life unmatched by her Democratic opponents. In the "arena" at the fulcrum of national and international events since the '90s, Clinton requires no on-the-job training. She understands issues and knows leaders, both domestic and foreign, and appreciates the processes and peculiarities of the federal government from the perspective of both the legislative and executive branches.

From children to families to health care to human rights, including women's rights, to marriage equality, Clinton champions issues and positions true to traditional Democratic principles. She bolsters her domestic credentials with foreign policy experience as America's chief diplomat.

Overall, we view her positions as closer to the political center than, certainly, the "democratic socialism" advocated by her most-formidable opponent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose "revolution" of a dramatic increase in the size of government and spending is far too revolutionary for our taste and, we believe, for the taste of most Americans.

Do not diminish, we might add, the value to her candidacy of having husband Bill, a popular former president, as an adviser and campaigner.

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For today, though, we believe Clinton remains the strongest choice for Democrats within their field of presidential candidates...............................



Des Moines Register Endorsement: @HillaryClinton "has needed knowledge, experience" http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/editorials/endorsement/2016/01/23/des-moines-register-caucus-endorsement-hillary-clinton/79240238/ …

[pnwmom]

1. Thanks!

[ViseGrip]

2. Hillary used bad judgment while on the job. wall street to iraq war. her experience tells us

we have a better shot with Bernie Sanders. History tells us this.

[highprincipleswork]

9. I agree. Bad judgment on her part & our experience with her experience on Wall St to the Iraq War

clearly tells me that we are better off with Bernie.

Then there is always this, regarding her experience with POC.

http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/hillary-clinton-not-second-coming-harriet-tubman

[roguevalley]

56. she's merit based? if she wasn't married to bill she would be another unknown lawyer working for a

Corporation. She was in the room from the start. Bernie wasn't. Who is merit based here?

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

70. Yeah, she earned it! What a crock. And since when is being First Lady experience?

Oh, right... she knows where all the bathrooms are.

[PatrynXX]

15. Somehow I think Bernie has alot more experience

if one wants to go there smh. like what if I disagree with her experience

[Helen Borg]

21. Despite that experience...

She made those bad calls... And this is a nice interpretation of the events...

[ViseGrip]

3. PS. Why is opinion in the Latest Breaking News forum???

[cstanleytech]

8. Agreed, its clearly been posted in the wrong forum. nt

[riversedge]

11. It is news bout a National Dem Candidate.

[cannabis_flower]

18. It is opinion

It should be in Good Reads or General Discussion: Primaries.

[cstanleytech]

26. If this was a major politician who's support the candidate has won

I would probably agree but that is not the case here thus it falls into the opinion category which isn't allowed assuming of course that LBN rules are still being enforced.

[riversedge]

28. It is listed under the NEWs category of the Des Moines Register

[cstanleytech]

46. Immaterial, LBN rules are clear about opinion pieces not being allowed in LBN regardless

of news source.

[riversedge]

51. It is NOT an opinion-the DMR is telling us wht happened and who said what at a campaign

event in Iowa.

[snooper2]

69. Hillary is dreamy!

LOL....

[Spitfire of ATJ]

53. I thought it was flame bait.

[forest444]

4. With all due repect to Ms. Curtis, on that rationale we should have elected this guy in 2008:

[stuffmatters]

13. And given Bush 1 a second term over her husband?

Pretty reactionary talking point.

[forest444]

19. Exactly. "Experience"

is the first word out of the mouth of all losing incumbent candidates, or if he (or she) is the more entrenched one.

To be fair, I certainly don't blame her for using that as talking point. Unfortunately for her though, her experience is public office happens to be a liability as far as most of the crucial independent block of voters is concerned.

And for a lot of Democrats too, frankly.

[Helen Borg]

22. Yep, Bush Senior had a ton of experience

No question about it.

[forest444]

45. And who knows. In some parallel universe,

he could actually run on having managed the JFK assassination, Air America and Barry Seal, Ollie North's "Enterprise," and the Omaha Boys Club affair, and win.

Best of all, he wouldn't need Willie Horton!

[rpannier]

43. From 2009-11 I thought we had elected Palin President

She got more air time and was quoted in the media far more often than the President, the Vice-President, the Senate majority and minority leader and the house leadership (both parties) and Mc Cain combined.

Pretty much sums up both Sarah and the media

[murielm99]

5. K&R!

[Gore1FL]

6. Is the LBN that Jamie Lee Curtis discovered proof that 25< 8? Otherwise it's not LBN. n/t

[Iliyah]

7. K & R

Ms. Curtis expect to be thrown under the crowed bus.

[SamKnause]

10. She lacks good judgement which makes her experience null and void.

She changes her positions on the issues like she changes her pant suits.

This makes her untrustworthy.

She has great difficulty telling the truth.

This makes her a liability.


FEEL THE BERN

[hopemountain]

12. grooaannn.

anything associating hillary with the hrumpty dumpty:

[liberalnarb]

14. "Her Experience 'Trumps' Everything."? Well, on that front

[reACTIONary]

24. LOL, being secretary of stste doesnt coumt? Experience . ...

... Includes more than "elective" experience. And administrative / executive experience is much more important than legislative experience to the office of the presidency .

Of course, bernie does have some executive experience . He was the mayor of that town in wherever it is. Not as significant as MO'M - mayor of Baltimore and governer of md.

[liberalnarb]

25. When did I say Sec Of State didn't count?

Curtis said that her experience 'trumps' everything. So I was saying that if it was experience we're talking about then Bernie has it.

[reACTIONary]

36. Go back and look at the "meme" you posted....

..... it qualifies "experience" by limiting it to " elective" experience. That then discounts experience in appointed positions such as secretary of state or advising the house judiciary committee during the Watergate inquires. This is one of those deceptive madison Avenue techniques for misleading promotion.

[liberalnarb]

37. I realize what it said. But by Curtis' guidlines

Bernie is more qualified. And it's ELECTED not elective

[reACTIONary]

64. If you realized that its...

.... a simple munded and deliberate distortion you shouldn't have elective to post it.

[orpupilofnature57]

32. TRUTH

[Beacool]

38. And after all those years only 7 of his bills passed?

Two of them naming post offices. Hillary has far more executive experience than Sanders. I would think that having been SOS tops his Congressional experience.

[roguevalley]

57. that is her record and sos is not more. it's less by its very nature. sos has no autonomy.

[pandr32]

16. Excellent

Jamie Lee Curtis is an advocate for children and children's hospitals. She has written numerous children's books, and has also done a play that re-enacted the federal trial that overturned Prop 8, called "8". Her film and television career has made her enormously popular.
Curtis is a decent person and a very intelligent one at that. She has endorsed Hillary Clinton because she has concluded that HC deserves it... the "merit-based" candidate.

[orpupilofnature57]

31. Sorry, to many demerits to forget .

[DesertRat]

17. Love it!

[reACTIONary]

20. Go Hillary! K&R!

[YOHABLO]

23. Celebrity endorsements don't mean SHITE! Don't insult our intelligence folks.

[reACTIONary]

29. The reasoning she gives for her endorsement . ....

.... is sound. Maybe you should address the actual endorsement rather than dismissing the endorser simply for being a celebrity .

[Beacool]

40. Unless it's Killer Mike and the handful of other celebrities who endorsed Sanders.

Right?

[rpannier]

42. Do you feel that way across the board then?

When celebrities endorse Sanders do you take the same tact?
Why would an endorsement from a politician rank higher than a celebrity?
Many politicians I've met are dumber than sand
What kinds of endorsements have meaning for you?

on note: I agree in principle. I couldn't care less if Killer Mike endorsed Sanders or not. Don't care about Jamie Lee Curtis either.

[lunamagica]

27. Read this

Post #16

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141324035#post16

[orpupilofnature57]

30. Sorry Jamie I love ya, but Clinton's experience involves scumbags like Trump . It's not a

card game or legacy Building blocks, it's our future .

[passiveporcupine]

33. She has a lot of experience, all right

At raising money, and that is how the system works now.

But we want to change that.

And in that regard, it's Bernie who has the chops and the experience in fighting against money in politics. He's been trying to do that his whole political life.

[roguevalley]

59. don't forget the love fest with kissinger

[glinda]

34. I used to really like her but her last couple of

appearances on shows....she seemed a little out of it. I do not know her health issues or personal issues but the impression I used to have of her changed. Sort of sad really.....

[Beacool]

35. Nice!!!

Thank you, Jamie!!

[Geronimoe]

39. Cheney had alot more experience than Clinton has now

so experience without good judgement is dangerous.

[trillion]

41. Go Wall Street! more war more war! No Single Payer! - go HILLARY!

Actually no.

Break up the too big to fail banks and corporations, put the corporate crooks in jail, end the wars, give us single payer, put Bernie in.

Everything - whether its climate change or the minimum wages, gets nullified if Clinton gets in - simply because of her super pac backers.

[MisterP]

44. that's not Curtis, that's Lindsay Lohan in her body!

[Deny and Shred]

47. Thers a fine line between stupid and clever (eom)

[Scruffy1]

48. James Buchanan might have been the most experienced Presidential candidate of all time.

He is generally rated among the worst presidents ever. He had served in the Pennsylvania legislature, the US House of Representatives, the US Senate, was a Secretary of State under Knox, and was also a foreign minister. While the situation might not be identical as the run up to the Civil War, there are many similarities between then and now. We have a deeply divided country and the same old politics that got us here is not going to get us out. It's time to cut from the old and move on, otherwise it will just get worse.

[baldguy]

49. Just another corporatist DINO 1%er

[jberryhill]

50. She was mispunctuated - Clinton's experience? Trump's everything!

[grasswire]

52. WHO??

Oh. An aging Hollywood celeb.

I can't help but wonder who she might influence. LOL

[Kalidurga]

54. Some of us don't like Hillary because of her experience.

Besides, even if she has more experience Obama proved it's not everything.

[Jake2413]

55. Lets not forget

hubby Bill signed the repeal of Glass-Steigle......

[TipTok]

58. Maybe if she has some experience with ethics....

... that would be a stronger case.

[alphafemale]

60. I always judge my opinions on what B Movie actresses think. nt

[Odin2005]

61. "Experience" has become an establishment buzzword.

[jalan48]

63. Definitely the First Lady gig.

[840high]

65. Experience without good judgement is nothing.

[Kall]

66. I'm sure there's some tortured explanation for how her D-NY Senate position was merit-based

as opposed to being the result of being married to Bill, but it's not a tortured explanation I have any interest in hearing.

[Donkees]

67. Activia spokesperson + http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511007210

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511007210

[Vinca]

68. Being cocky will not win the day.

Trump went after Jeb first and Jeb is now at 1% in Iowa. Then he went after Carson. Then Cruz and Rubio. The Donald can lay claim to one thing: the greatest political annihilator ever. Which brings me to what I heard this morning, when he was talking about Hillary and saying he looked forward to running against her "assuming she's not in jail." There you go. That's the attack.

[riversedge]

71. Not surprised you like vile RW talking points Bye

[Vinca]

72. I don't like the right wing talking points.

I'm just telling you what the talking point is going to be. Hillary people seem to live in a fantasy land that doesn't include the nightmare awaiting us if she is the nominee.