Hillary Clinton is keen to tell voters that she has experience - most of it as First Lady.
But it is a matter of fact that in the White House she did little except wifely duties, after being comprehensively shot down when she tried to reform health care.
She did not have access to the most sensitive documents, and so her experience is as great as that of Laura Bush or Bess Truman.
Either she is saying that she had a major impact on Bill Clinton, and therefore Americans will in effect be voting for a second co-Presidency, or she should stand on her own record.
Before the White House she never held public office - so her experience, given that she has denied that her husband will be a prominent voice in her administration, will amount to her inauspicious time in the Senate.
So which one is it?
