Opinion: Quip of the day?

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts.

With the candidates -- and a multitude of their surrogates -- scurrying hither and yon today, perhaps this crack from Robert De Niro will get topped. But that will be a challenge.

De Niro, in what he billed as his first speech at a political event, was on hand to help whip up support for Barack Obama at a rally in East Rutherford, N.J. The famed actor’s role was to introduce Sen. Ted Kennedy, who in turn introduced Obama.

The Times’ Maria La Ganga also was there, and she reports that De Niro weighed in with his own thoughts about the ‘I’ve got more seasoning’ argument Hillary Clinton presses against her rival.

Said De Niro: “If this election were to be decided just on the quantity of experience, Dick Cheney would be our next president.”

Although De Niro delivered the line, it may have been inspired by this column a few weeks back by Nicholas Kristof.

-- Don Frederick