When it comes to the workplace, I can't think of a husband-and-wife team that I know personally where I would substitute one spouse for the other. No matter how close the couple are, actually being in the workplace is different, a lot different, from talking about it over dinner. It is true that I know nobody like the Clintons, but I find it hard to believe that her being the spouse of the president has actually given her more experience in actually running the country than Obama.

One experience both Clintons seem not to have is that of admitting an error. I don't think this is a good trait in people who want to be leaders. The only program of the Clinton administration that I know Ms Clinton led was the healthcare initiative. That was a fiasco that I would not want on my resume. And she was older and presumably more experienced then than Obama is now.

She has also had the experience of not reading background material about Iraq before she voted to grant Bush the power to invade. Nor does she seem to have learned much over the years; witness her vote to name the Iranian Guards as a terrorist force.

Of course, her experience in the White House is captured in part by documents to be stored in the Clinton Library. Why is she preventing access to many of these documents which should convey the depth of her experience helping run the country?

If Obama does not get the nomination, this country will never get out of its current funk. Lord forbid that our choice should be McCain or Clinton. It will probably be time to throw in the towel and move - except that the dollar is in such poor shape overseas. GRR.