Brand new YouTube Video: Barack Praised Hillary.

Take a look. It uses a very pro-Hillary quote
Barack made in a New Yorker interview in November, 2006 - before he decided to run for President.

Eight years as first lady counts because she visited 82 foreign countries, and contrary to what her opponent would like you to believe, she did more than have tea with foreign officials' wives. Some of the highlights of her foreign poslicy experience are listed here.

As for national security:

And Clinton had failed to mention what may be her most important qualification for the job, a knowledge of national-security issues unmatched in the Democratic field. Yes, several other Dems--Biden, Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson--can match her on foreign policy, but Clinton's years on the Armed Services Committee have been well spent. I once asked a well-known general if there were any Democrats running for President who understood the way military leaders think, and he said, "You mean, aside from Hillary?"

she also has national security and foreign policy experience from her years on the senate armed services committee and in the WH.  check out joe wilson's piece at HuffPo if you want to hear about Hillary's foreign policy experience in Africa, or John Hume who wrote about how Hillary "played a positive role for over a decade in helping to bring peace in Northern Ireland."  How about the stand that she took in China, "human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights" and the intense pressure that she faced and pushed back on behind the scenes to make the Chinese understand that her resolve would not end and that they had to make changes.  Hillary has real foreign policy experience with regard to Kosovo. She played a key role in getting President Clinton to recognize that the u.s. had to intervene to stop ethnic cleansing. her role was pivotal in the words of bill clinton, madeleine albright, wes clark, and richard holbrooke.  You can also find numerous articles by both israelis and palestinians that praise Hillary's efforts regarding Israel-Palestine issues.

i could go on and on, the woman has 35 years of experience.  joshua lev at CNN today did a "fact check" in response to an email questioning the relevance of Hillary's 35 yrs of experience and came back with:  "she's got it, and she can claim it" while citing a lot of work he did at factcheck.org.

sorry for the lengthy post, but i just get so tired of people questioning Hillary's experience.  If you want to vote for Obama, then go ahead, just don't say that her argument regarding experience is "idiotic."

That is what persuaded me to switch from Obama to begin with to Hillary.

After years of know-nothing-Bush I wanted someone in power that had enought interest and smarts to really study issues and get the work done.

I have had enough of platitudes to last me a lifetime -- I do not need someone to inspire me -- I have my pastor for that --

That is all I did to understand how HRC has worked her lifetime to improve the life of Americans, and particularly children.  Everything Obama has done, HRC has done ten times.

Here are two independent links:

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2044.html