Clinton Sees Lessons in Past Failure

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Associated Press

By BETH FOUHY

WASHINGTON (AP) - Thirteen years after presiding over the biggest policy debacle of her husband's presidency, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday her experience with failure makes her the one who can succeed in providing universal health coverage.


Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Clinton, speaks at the Service Employees International Union Political Action Conference in Washington, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

"If you don't learn from your mistakes, you stop growing," Clinton said in an interview with The Associated Press, insisting that Americans should trust her leadership on health care and other issues as she seeks a return to the White House in her own right.

The former first lady told the AP that her seven years in the Senate had taught her valuable lessons about the need for negotiation and compromise.

"I think I know what to do and what not to do," Clinton said.

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[sandnsea]

1. I don't know who she learned from

Mandates and tax credits won't get her any votes.

[MessiahRp]

2. I agree..

The lesson I think she supposedly "learned" is to not come up with a government program that helps anybody and rather stick to the corporate HMOs that are causing the mess because they contribue to her and her enemies.

Any policy continuing the governance over our country's healthcare by greedy corporate HMOs is a failure and needs to be dismissed quickly as a joke.

Rp

[ryanmuegge]

6. Only the haves need support and aid from the federal government, don't you know?

Everyone else needs that free market they love to talk about so much.

[saracat]

3. I agree too!

[depakid]

4. Irony impairment doesn't seem to be a disorder limited to Republicans

Then again- in many respects, Hillary and her husband are Republicans- of the Rockefeller variety.

[Kolesar]

7. Goldwater...eom

[Donnachaidh]

5. she learned to take with BOTH hands from the insurance companies

and HMO's. Yeah, she sure learned something. Wonder if Bill is her bag boy at these fundraisers? :sarcasm:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. "biggest policy debacle of her husband's presidency"?

Someone please refresh my memory.


My recollection is that people were so bent out of shape by the fact that a First Lady could do something beyond hosting tea parties, that they dismissed her presentation without even pretending to consider it. I remember that she had harsh words (truth is harsh) for insurance and pharmaceutical companies. It was not the most diplomatic way to get things done; but I don't think I'd call it a debacle.

[dkofos]

9. She didn't learn what Universal Health Care is.

[Orsino]

11. If she's not ready to oversee it as senator...

...I don't think I should vote for her to advocate it as president.

Universal health care will require direct oversight by elected representatives. No fair abdicating that responsibility by signing us over to the insurance companies.

[Mojorabbit]

10. I think people

are ready now for universal single payer health care but they weren't back then. I saw a poll of one of the news shows that showed this. Then is not now.