Schumer’s still for Hillary, but….
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- January
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Sen. Charles Schumer, during his day-long visit to the Lower Hudson Valley, met with the editorial board of The Journal News and shared his thoughts about the ongoing race for president.
New York’s senior senator made it clear he’s still behind Hillary Clinton’s candidacy but he also offered some praise for Barack Obama.
“I think they’re both good,” Schumer said. “I was good friends with Barack in the Senate. I was one of his two or three best friends and if Hillary were not in the race, I’d be for him right now – would have been from the beginning. But I’m for Hillary because I think that she has the experience. I also think her experience will help her be a really good president.
Schumer described Clinton as “careful, thoughtful, measured and has a lot of experience.” He also said her experience will help her when the Republicans starting “hitting her with the two-by-fours.”
Obama, according to Schumer, is “new and fresh and bolder and doesn’t have as much as experience.” It’s good, Schumer added, to have “two archetypes” in the race.
On the Republican side, Schumer sees John McCain as the most likely candidate to win the nomination.
“But I find it very hard to believe that the American people are going to elect somebody who thinks we ought to stay in Iraq for a very long time,” Schumer said.
And Schumer predicted that 2008 would be a Democratic year all around, with the party picking up a “good number” of seats in the Senate.
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