Republican fund-raisers everywhere just got a big boost.
In a videotaped message, Clinton invites voters to begin a dialogue with her on the major issues - health care, Social Security and Medicare, and the war in Iraq. "I'm not just starting a campaign, though, I'm beginning a conversation with you, with America," she said. "Let's talk. Let's chat. The conversation in Washington has been just a little one-sided lately, don't you think?"
Okay, Hil, let's chat. On healthcare your plan a few years back for nationwide universal care died on the Senate floor, but a version of it was implemented in Tennessee - where it was a fiscal disaster that damaged the state's budget and also damaged the state's healthcare infrastructure as it forced many hospitals to close, reducing the people's access to healthcare. The state still hasn't recovered from HillaryCare.
On Social Security, well, what's your plan? The system's going to go broke if you don't raise the retirement age or reduce benefits - or go to some sort of private-sector system the way Chile did - but your party has never been willing to do any of those.
On the war, well, you voted for it but now you're against it and want to handcuff the president and the military by capping the number of troops that can be deployed to Iraq. I don't recall Congress telling President Roosevelt the maximum number of troops he could use in WW2, but I wasn't born then so my memory ain't all that great. If there is historical precedent for Congress limiting the number of troops that the Commander in Chief can use in a war, please tell me all about it, you know, when we "chat."
But before we chat, perhaps you ought to get on up to New Hampshire, where the latest pollls show you're trailing Obama, and then on out to Iowa, where you're in third behind Obama AND John Edwards...
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