March 19, 2008

Experience!


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I'm guessing this isn't the kind of scrutiny the Clinton campaign was hoping for when they released Hillary's schedules as First Lady:
Clinton says her years as first lady equip her to handle foreign policy and national security as president.

But the schedules show trips packed with plainly traditional activities for a first lady, along with some substance.

For example, in her January 1994 visit to Russia with her husband, her schedule is focused on events with other wives. She sat in on a birthing class at a hospital, toured a cathedral and joined prominent women in a lunch of blinis with caviar and salmon.

The Clinton campaign said the schedules are merely a guide and don't reflect all of her activities.

The papers show her tackling health care reform out of the gate in 1993, with a meeting three days after her husband's inauguration and many more as the year went on, before her effort ultimately failed.

She was also involved in helping her husband win congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a deal she now criticizes and says she would try to change.

Her White House policy role diminished markedly after the collapse of the health care initiative.
And unfortunately, the first half of the article highlights the fact that she was home a half dozen times while Bill was having his little fun with Monica Lewinsky. Ah, good times during the Clinton years.

Oh, and btw: Hillary voted for the war. How presidential of her.

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Just sayin'...

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