"We're just riding the horse."-
Obama Campaign

Now, wait just a minute! Hold onto your horses, Baby Boomers. We may be moving up in years, but isn’t 60 the new 40 and therefore 40 the new 20? So, what’s with this young colt with the long legs, Barack Obama, 46, trying to tell us it’s time to put that old hag-NOT, Hillary Clinton, 60, and the rest of us boomers out to pasture?

Horse feathers!

I don’t know about you, but I’m just getting steady on my legs, as I’m sure is true of Hillary Clinton. And frankly, I’m not ready to be put down! Not by Barack Obama who would like to put a halt-(h)er on the past with his concept that change means throwing the BABY-boomers out with the bath water.

This coming from that green, un-vet-ed politician, the writer of this horse opera, whose storyline  is: change can only come from the inexperienced. Having ridden a few green horses of my own I can tell you personally that you ride them at your peril. They are easily spooked, unreliable, and untrustworthy. There’s a reason why they’re called “green. “

In last week’s ABC-Facebook-WMUR Debate, it was Governor Bill Richardson who rode to the baby boomers rescue when he eloquently took on the subject of experience. “Look, what we need is change, there’s no question,” the highly-experienced New Mexico Governor offered. “But you know - whatever happened to experience? Is experience kind of a leper? What is wrong with having years in [government]? We want to change this country, but you have to know how to do it, and there’s nothing wrong with experience. We need somebody who has been tested.”

The tenderfoot, Obama, went on whinnying  those horse-dung-full of hope and change slogans, and I wished that I could jump on that stage with my trusty crop and whip that little colt with my age-earned horse sense. But alas, all I could do was to reach for my box of sugar corn flakes and eat like a horse my frustration at America’s penchant for burying its nose in the horse-bucket of Unreason.

Sunday morning on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, those “old” warhorse journalists Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts picked up on Governor Richardson’s eloquence - and my frustration - voicing their own disgust at Obama’s assault on experience. Neigh! Finally, there are two journalists who actually have taken the horse-blinders off their eyes.

I was thinking that many of the youth who voted for Barack Obama in the Iowa Carcasses last week weren’t born when Ronald Reagan, then 73, was in the position of having to justify his age when running against Walter Mondale, 56.  In one of the great political lines of all time Reagan ended the argument over age: “I’m not going to exploit for political purposes my opponents youth and inexperience,” quipped Reagan.

Hillary Clinton, as Reagan had, needs some good comedy writers on her team. Or I can tell you Obama is the odds-on-favorite to win this nomination with all HIS youth and INEXPERIENCE.  I’m not horsing around. You can bet on it. Neigggggggggggggggggggghhhh!

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