Originally Posted by sidney

This type of question was asked when a first time senator from Massachusetts was running against the incumbent Vice-President, who had also been a Senator from California and a Washington insider....

John F. Kennedy still defeated Richard Nixon and became one of the storied presidents of all time.

These were the kind of questions were also thrown around when a relatively unknown Governor of Arkansas, from a broken home, with rumors of infidelity, entered the race for president against an incumbent, war winning President, who was formerly the head of the CIA and was vice-president for 8 years, making him part of the white house for 12 years.

Bill Clinton still defeated George Bush and went on to be one of the great president we have ever had...

The memory of the voter is so short...

I say all this to actually point out that Obama is more like Clinton, than Hilary is. Some of us see it. Although Hilary on her own is an amazing impressive woman of wonderful qualification, a part of us love her because of Bill...