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Hillary's math

She likes to point out she has more experience than Obama. "I don’t think, based on my 35 years in fighting for what I believe in, anybody seriously believes I am going to be influenced by a lobbyist or a particular interest group." Thirty-five years. Let's see. Wife of a two-term governor, wife of a two-term President. Some time in a law firm with squishy billing and ethics. Time fighting for the civil rights of the Black Panthers; time working as an intern for an American Communist. Since 2001 she's been a senator from New York, having moved her residency there in order to run. As a member of the Armed Forces committee, she's had the inside track on the build up to the war and voted for it, confirming the information on WMD. But even if I add in PTA, baking cookies, church committees and the time she was a Republican (which could count as fighting for what you believe in for millions), I just can't come up with 35 years.

However, in listening to an interview with an author who has written about how the U.S. has failed to take the Iran threat seriously, the author ran through all the presidents who have ignored the growing problem, saying, ". . .not Jimmy Carter, not President Reagan, not the Bushes, and not the Clintons." Was that a slip or did he see those 8 years as a co-presidency?