Hillary Clinton Continues Negative Campaign

[Dr Ron]

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Hillary Clinton Continues Negative Campaign

May 9th, 2008 by Ron Chusid

There’s been speculation now that pretty much everyone realizes that the race is over and Obama has won the nomination that Hillary Clinton would at least drop the negative campaigning if she remained in the race. Clinton sure has proven those who believed that to be wrong. She launched another negative and misleading attack against Obama today:

You’ve got to have a seamless health care system which covers every single person. My plan does, my opponent’s doesn’t…. How can anyone run to be the Democratic nominee and not have a universal health care plan?

Let’s see. Obama’s plan includes everyone except those who voluntarily do not want to be included. That’s called choice–what Democrats support on issues such as abortion and should support on private economic matters. As for running for the Democratic nominee, Obama’s plan is more universal than John Kerry’s plan in 2004. It is also more universal than the plans of John Edwards, Howard Dean, and pretty much all the other candidates other than Dennis Kucinich.

I have a better question. How can anyone run to be the Democratic nominee and not have opposed the Iraq war before it began? Anyone who made this big a blunder on the biggest foreign policy decision in many years has no business running to be president, at least as a Democrat. (Note I’m stipulating before the war began. I forgave John Kerry for voting for the IWR as he made it clear at the time of the vote that he did not consider it a vote to go to war, and he came out against the war well before it started. Hillary Clinton has also used John Kerry’s arguments except it doesn’t count when she didn’t make them until well after the war started and it was the politically safe position to take.)