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Autumn in Chappaqua With Hillary

Submitted by Michael S., Nov 7, 2006 08:38

Sir,

I think you need to check your facts. Mrs. Clinton's attempts to 'reform' health care fell not on the rocks of her husband's daliances, but on the brutal shores of bad political ideas. She had assembled a star studded advisory committee and instead of listening to their advice, gave THEM direction as to what she wanted to present.

It was a plan that was not supported by a populist movement. It was not a plan that favored medical professionals. It was also not endorsed by the very community she had brought in to advise her. It was HER idea of what would make a radical and great change in healthcare reform and she foolishly assumed that her husband's success and popularity would allow it to get passed.

To me it is symbolic of what is the current failing of the Democratic Party. Lead by effete intellectuals, the top Dems continue to believe that their superior education and intellectual standing makes them qualified to be arbiters of the right things to be done.

Maybe it was an educational event for her. Unfortunately, as you point out, her current home base has been overrun by liberals fleeing The City and taking over the suburban, formerly conservative dominated, politics. Rather than use her mixed base of old and new suburban voters, she will probably surround herself with displaced similar minded people believing that these sycophants that are but a mirror to herself, are the America she needs for victory.

We shall see,
MES
New MIlford, CT

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