He was not speaking over the weekend about high policy issues like bailouts or war, instead taking every chance to burnish his image as the experienced senator who get things done.
People could sense it, even when the young, faster, less experienced Senators carried the play to the older, slower, more championship-tested Devils in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals tonight in the Corel Center.
But younger lawmakers say they are being inspired to assert themselves, spurred in some respects by the success of President-elect Barack Obama, a first-term senator who this year battered the seniority system on his way to the White House, leapfrogging more experienced senators of both parties along the way.
While watching the groundswell of political activism within the ranks of these children of the unraveling, suddenly the notion that so many of them would passionately support an experienced and wizened veteran senator instead of youthful vigor as the embodiment of their hopes and dreams, doesn't seem as incongruous as it did prior to the simple act of experiencing this song and video.
But why might Mr Kirchner yield to his wife, a senator and an experienced politician in her own right?Opponents say that his government is losing credibility.
Mr. Obama called Mr. Farrakhan an anti-Semite and denounced his support, but was pressed to go further by his rival, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, an experienced hand at Democratic politics who herself has been on the defensive with Jewish voters after an encounter in 2000 with Suha Arafat, the wife of the Palestinian leader.
He did, however, become the second most powerful leader in the land when a neophyte presidential nominee named Barack Obama decided to go for an experienced partner and picked the senator from Delaware to be his running mate.
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, is an experienced, serious and smart man.
In Washington, an experienced liberal reporter (Meryl Streep) goes head to head with an eager young senator (Tom Cruise), who is backing a new military push in Afghanistan.
He is an experienced player.
