Letters to the Editor
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Clinton CYnicism
A Major Platform Win. Namely, healthcare. Hillary needs to be able to make the case that her campaign had a substantive impact on the race. The best way to do that is to get to write the party's healthcare plank in the platform. If Obama folds on the mandate issue, Hillary walks away with a policy win. Plus, this would please John and Elizabeth Edwards. Choosing Elizabeth to write the healthcare plank of the platform could appease both camps."
-- I am a long time Clinton supporter and I am basically of the belief now that Clintons don't care a bit about the issues and never have. I think the conservatives were basically right about them all along in this respect. I thought both the gas tax position and the saber-rattling about Iran showed a breathtaking level of calculated cynicism on their part (the first time this occurred to me was the Lewinsky Cruise Missle Attack on Iraq but i let this pass at the time. Now I think my instincts were right and it really was called a distraction). I honestly think the Clintons are "Liberals" only because they have packaged themselves as such. I think,constitutionally, they were just as capable of being conservatives if they had seen a reason to adopt this package instead at the time they embarked on their political careers.
Matt