On Obama:
"You know he's a very smart guy. I can't speak for me. But I know for me that it was a learning experience. I worked very hard. I'm sure he's working very hard too. I've watched seven presidents, and I've watched presidents who have come to office who haven't thought through some of the areas that they've never worked in, for example foreign policy. I watched several presidents come in and they're smart as the devil and they get here and unless you already know when you get here exactly what your foreign policy is, it's awful hard to hit the ground running and not to make serious mistakes the first couple of years. I'm not saying that senator Obama is where I was [when elected to the senate at age 29]. I was younger than he was when he got to the Senate. But I do think, I acknowledge that experience is not the issue, it's whether your experience has been good or bad. Somebody with 34 years of bad experience isn't perfectly qualified to be president, someone with 34 years of good experience that makes a big difference. So, again, I know it's kind of difficult to master, it's kind of difficult to feel sure-footed in a lot of areas that you haven't spent a long of time dealing with."
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