As expected, Hillary uses the first chance she gets to tout her 35 years of experience, though she is immediately confronted with the comparisons between Obama and JFK, comparisons made by none other than Ted Kennedy in his endorsement of Obama. Hillary quickly brings up her own endorsement by three of the Kennedy clan, and deftly changes the historical allusions to Kennedy by bringing up the humbling and historic experience of being a woman alongside an African American vying for the Democratic nomination to the presidency.