>Don't you see the distinction between what one has done him/herself and what people they know have done or said?
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>The "no resume" and "inexperieced" labels have stuck with a lot of voters but again I disagree. 10 years of legislative experience (in a big state, not a lightly populated remote one) is far from no experience.

Remoteness is in the eye of the beholder. Would you believe that all those remote Balkan issues were very local to me?