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# Down with experience of the status quo!
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/down-with-experience-of-the-status-quo/
- Published: 2008-01-20T18:01:17.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:39:07.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:31

**Anthony Barnett (London,** [**OK**](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**):** A brilliant column by [Nicholas Kristof](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/opinion/20kristof.html?ex=1201496400&en=f62ecfb9fdfed22d&ei=5070&emc=eta1&ref=opendemocracy.net) who has just returned to his space in the New york Times, on what's wrong with Hilary Clinton trading on her experience - and the comments that follow [on his blog](http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/your-comments-on-hillary-barack-experience/?ref=opendemocracy.net#comments) are also very revealing of US thinking that goes mostly unreported. It should make Brown's Labour advisers pause. It shows why trying to convince the electorate that you know how to run things may not go down too well - as it gives voters empirical grounds for concluding you are part of the problem.