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New Hampshire Union Leader: Clinton's 'Experience:' Exactly What Is It?

Editorial

December 30, 2007

Sen. Hillary Clinton expects New Hampshire voters to believe her when she says she was a member of her husband's "White House team" who played an integral role in shaping policy during his eight years as President. Well, we'd like some proof, Mrs. Clinton.

"I was a member of the White House team that was involved with trying to make a lot of changes . . . I think that people who are running for President should lay out for Americans their record, their experiences, their qualifications, their vision, their plan, and their understanding of how to make it all happen, and that's what I'm doing," Clinton told Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi during a recent stop in Manchester.

A candidate with White House experience who really believes that would let voters examine the records from the period during which she claims she was such a vital part of "the White House team." But Mrs. Clinton's actions show that she does not believe what she says.

Her husband is keeping secret many of those records -- 2,600 pages worth, a National Archives official told The New York Sun. The Clintons have claimed that the National Archives won't release the records, but the Archives official in charge says Bill Clinton has not authorized their release. …

Because she has made her "experience" her primary qualification for the presidency, the people deserve to see exactly what experience she really has. … That history is blackened out, and she is keeping it that way. Why?

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Sen. Barack Obama is right when he says Mrs. Clinton is simultaneously laying claim to her husband's successes as President while keeping the public in the dark about just how much credit she really deserves.

That's not going to work, Mrs. Clinton.

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