KNOXVILLE, IOWA -- Spending a day following Hillary Clinton on
the campaign trail, I was not surprised to hear her quote
Franklin Roosevelt, any more than I've been surprised when she
has invoked other Democrats like Harry Truman and John F.
Kennedy. But when she began talking about the importance of
electing a president with experience, she brought to mind a very
different president.  In her speech here Monday, Clinton said
that "there is one job we can't afford on-the-job training for:
That is the job of our next president. That could be the
costliest job training in history." She went on: "We need a
president who understands the magnitude and complexity of the
challenges we face and has the strength and experience to
address them from day one..."  If I were Barack Obama or John
Edwards, I might have taken offense. But I might have taken even
greater offense if I were George H. W. Bush. In 1992, after he
lost his re-election bid, Bush probably never expected Bill
Clinton's wife would someday be running for