Hillary Clinton likes to tout her experience and to point to Barack
Obama's perceived lack of experience as a key reason that she would be
a better President of the United States. However, when we closely look
at the inept way in which the Clinton presidential campaign has been
run, we may conclude that in some instances, experience is highly
overrated. 



Hillary was the presumptive Democratic nominee.  No one in the
Democratic Party could touch her.  So what does Hillary do at the first
sign of trouble, she panicked. After her lost in Iowa, she acted
irrationally when she quickly pull the plug on her planned strategy or
the lack there of. This was a terrible decision.



The direction her campaign went from there was even more troubling.  In
the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, "[The Clinton Campaign] started
doing some nasty things."  In fact the things were so nasty and
insulting that they alienated her majority support amongst Black voters
who subsequently abandoned her in disgust. The result was Obama
victories by wide margins than would not have occurred otherwise. 
Another terrible Clinton miscalculation.



When her expected winning margin of White and Latino voters didn't
materialize, Hillary dismissed Patti Solis Doyle, her Latina campaign
manager.  Somebody had to take the fall for the dysfunctional strategy
or again its lack there of.  The move disenfranchised some of her base
Latino support.  Whatever happened to winning and losing as a team? 
Again, this was another example of bad decision making.



Now in fairness to Hillary, she didn't make all of the bad decisions by
herself, but it was her exercise of judgment that must her team in
place. So she is responsible for the results.



On the other hand, Obama, the "inexperienced" candidate, had done a
superb job of running his campaign.  He has exercised outstanding
judgment.  And when Obama was behind, he didn't panic.



So is it judgment or experience, merit or tenure? Most companies will
say that when they look to promote individuals, merit is a more
important factor than tenure. 



Ater an objective evaluation of the job performances of Hillary and
Barack in running their presidential campaigns, a fair question is who
is more deserving of being entrusted with executing the duties of the
President of the United States?