COLUMN: 07-25-2007

The charges that Senator Hillary Clinton is making against Senator Barack Obama as being naive and inexperienced requires a look back at Senator Clinton's own history. After doing some law work on her own, including participating in the Watergate hearings, she married then-Arkansas Attorney General Bill Clinton. At that point, she took a back seat and went along for the ride as he became Governor of Arkansas and then President of the United States. Rather than actually showing any kind of spine and taking action as he repeatedly betrayed his marital fidelity, she simply stayed with him for her own benefit. She was probably worried about fading into political obscurity and so it made sense for her to put up with all of his bad behavior to continue to ride his coattails. After 8 years in the White House (and more infidelity), she used her long ride to jump into politics in the most cowardly way possible: rather than running to represent people who actually live somewhere near her (either in Arkansas or Illinois), she moved to New York to run as the extreme liberal that showed herself to be as First Lady. To claim this long history of tagging along and running for office where it was politically expedient as political experience while challenging the experience of Senator Obama, who actually worked his own way through the political ranks, is the perfect example of her lack of integrity.