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Jen the Michigander


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What Would Hillary Have Done? (Minn. StarTribune 3/18/10)
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http://www.startribune.com/yourvoices/88501417.html

Although many people discount Hillary Clinton’s eight years as First Lady, that time in Washington, combined with eight years as a U.S. senator, provided her with more than four times the D.C. beltway experience than that of the first-term senator from Illinois. Given those experiences and the relationships that Clinton cultivated, had she assumed the presidency with the same majorities in Congress and the Senate that Obama enjoyed, it is likely that much more legislation would have been passed in the first year of a Hillary Clinton administration. Included in that legislation might have been health care reform that wouldn’t have left the nation black and blue from all of the posturing, bickering and verbal assaults we have endured over the past year.

Love her or hate her, there are few politicians as well versed on national health care as Hillary Clinton. She made mistakes in trying to implement a program in her husband’s first term as president. Undoubtedly, she learned from those mistakes. And she learned from her time in the Senate where she became known for her willingness to cross the aisle to negotiate and compromise with the other side. Windows of opportunity, as Obama now knows, open for a very brief period of time. Hillary Clinton would have seen 2009 as a historic moment to reform health care and her experience, political insights, intelligence and determination might have made all the difference.

Overall, this is a pretty good article. But this last part I didn't like and y'all don't need me to tell you why:

Additional experience will breed accomplishments for Obama as he continues in his first term. A second term could be bolstered, however, by having Hillary Clinton, not as his Secretary of State, but as his vice-president.

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Oh, what a lost opportunity!  What a huge opportunity cost to the country.

Jen, Thank you so much for that article. It is heart-healthy to read that after what has already been a very long week.

Good person there... Kevin Winge -- A native of Minnesota, Winge has lived in New York, Boston, and Cape Town, South Africa. He is the executive director of Open Arms of Minnesota, a non-profit organization that provides nutritious meals to people living with diseases. Read more about Kevin Winge.

And yes, I agree with you.. I just hope she takes off from that job in time for the only kid's wedding... and then runs for 2012. .. or 2016. 



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Get out the bucket.  I may puke.  "...Hillary as (HIS???) v.p."  Good heavens, are there that many delusional, idol worshipping, gimme-gimme-gimme-the-nanny-state people in this country?  Yes, until they find out they'll be slaves to the fascist dictator and his oligarch puppeteers.

Lazy ass Americans who don't do their homework, know their own history and expect "the government" to support them.  We the People hire the government--about dang time we remember that and kick these anti-American fascist/Marxists the hell out of our country.

America is the land of the government serving the individual, not the other way around.  Freedom--ya gotta fight for it, person by person.

Hillary wouldn't put up with all this sxxx--from Congress, from media, from fat cat corporate robber barons.  From anybody. 

 



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