More Political Speak

Listening to the Iowa caucus results, I was struck by Clinton's twin messages: I have experience, and I represent change. Hearing them in the same sentence got me thinking. Experience is the formal expression of knowing how to do things as they have been done, and change means knowing how to do things differently. If choosing a president was all about experience, then nothing would ever change. Maybe she means knowledge, but then there is no advantage to one person over another, so long as the candidate has learned something about the topic.