That is the truth.

Which one of these pathetic corporate shills do you want to lead us in war?

That is the only choice they give you.

Her record shows that she proved that she can deliver hope, change, and unity:

"(CBS) Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential potential has been a topic of discussion among her peers since the '60s, CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes reports.

"I have 35 years of experience," she says on the campaign trail.

That would take us back to 1973, the year she graduated from Yale Law School and went to work for the Children's Defense Fund, interviewing juvenile offenders and dropouts.

Over the next few years she moved from one success to the next: Serving as a staff lawyer on the House Judiciary Committee as it considered impeaching President Nixon during Watergate; teaching criminal law at the University of Arkansas; heading the Legal Services Corporation, which represented the poor, after first being appointed to the board by President Carter.

In 1979, the year her husband became Governor of Arkansas, Hillary Rodham who raised eyebrows by declining to take his name, became the first female partner at the prestigious Rose Law Firm in Little Rock.

"Because there were so few women and particularly so few young women involved in traditional male venues, clearly her mere presence probably turned some people off," said Jay Barth, an associate professor of political science at Hendrix College.

Arkansas' first lady decided to take a shot at reforming the state's abysmal education system.

"I really believe that our young students need as much personal attention as they can get," Clinton said at the time.

It was a tough sell, involving the largest tax increase in the state's history and testing for teachers.

"Hillary went out into the state. She held public hearings I think in all 75 counties and she very effectively disarmed her critics," said Political Science Professor Hal Bass of Ouachita Baptist University."

[continued in part 2 - just a supporter]

From me - just a supporter.

She has actually already proven she can deliver hope, change and unity.

From CBS: "For the Record" on Hillary continued:

Her grassroots victory would go down as one of Bill Clinton's most significant gubernatorial accomplishments.

It prompted her husband to hand her an even larger policy initiative as soon as he won the White House - health care reform.

"Now is our chance to beat the historical odds and give the American people the health security they need and deserve," Clinton said at the time.

Defeated, but not deterred, Clinton set her sights on more manageable goals, like creating the State Children's Health Care Program and increasing vaccination rates.

Still, behind the scenes she had the last word on so many issues, staffers had a nickname for her: "The Supreme Court."

It was her idea to tap Janet Reno for attorney general … and Madeleine Albright for secretary of state.

Her position on NAFTA has become a point of contention in job-strapped Ohio.

Publicly, she supported it in those early days. But within White House walls …

"She had grave reservations about NAFTA - was probably against it," said Reporter and biographer Carl Bernstein.

Clinton has cited her extensive travel - 80 trips as First Lady - as part of her foreign policy experience. She promoted microfinance in Latin America, peace in Bosnia and, famously, human rights in China.

..For the most part she functioned as more of a Goodwill Ambassador.

But instead of retreating from public life, she decided to run for office herself.

"I want to be the next senator from New York!" Clinton said.

Like Sen. Obama, she faced a relatively weak Republican opponent. Unlike Obama, she shunned the spotlight her first few years in office.

"She went into the Senate not as a show horse but as a work horse," said former Hillary Clinton press secretary Lisa Caputo.

Learning the Senate power structure, landing a coveted spot on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and reaching out to former Republican foes.

She teamed with Bill First on modernizing medical record - and with Tom DeLay on foster care. She teamed with Lindsay Graham, who had led the impeachment effort against her husband, on benefits for veterans. She worked with Newt Gingrich on health care policy.

"We were agreeing with each other so much, I think people were thinking: 'the end is near!'" Clinton said about her collaboration with Gingrich.

"The most fascinating thing about Clinton in the Senate was to hear the conservative Republicans that had gone back home and often advanced their own political careers by using Hillary as the great whipping person," said Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, "going around saying privately and for some of them publicly, 'wow what a nice person and what a terrific colleague.'"

But all of her efforts to bridge the gap with the right were seen by some on the left as burning bridges with her base.

Her vote to authorize the Iraq War in 2002 still haunts Clinton on the campaign trail.

She said at the time: "We say to him use these powers wisely and as a last resort!"

She has won over her adopted state, cruising to reelection in 2006.

Last year, she steered more money to her state than only a handful of senators - $342 million worth of infrastructure projects, defense contracts and other earmarks.

"Her record in the Senate has been one of finding allies in strange places, and after a period of building confidence then using her celebrity not to take credit for everything but to get leverage," Ornstein said."

It's a shame to see your posts on Hillary come so late when most of the readers have moved on.

There's a big difference between those who were "present" for the Clinton years and those who weren't. It was something to see what they had to go through, given what they tried to accomplish. She has more credibility on heath care than anybody else times ten. It was a daunting initiative at the time and the best she gets for it from the new kids on the block is that it failed--and of course that is almost all one hears in the media.

It is also worth noting that during those years the US stayed out of war--and when we did go to war the cause was just. That says more than a thousand promises in my book.

It's been a rotten deal. Let's face it. It wasn't her fault either that her husband had a problem that has now been laid on her doorstep by the moralists who care more what their preachers say than whether they live or die because they have health coverage.

The poor suckers don't know it's okay to put their own interests first. The ridicule she's received from the new generation doesn't say much about them either. They're smart but many don't know shit and make no bones about taking her to task for it.

And worse than that, worse than all of it, is that she's been left in the lurch by many of the same women who had to go through the same thing, and now are using her as their scapegoat for what went wrong in their so-called "revolution."

It begs a lot of questions Deeper Truth, but knowing there are a few who get it is some consolation.