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Just as the prologue gives a sense of the story to be told, the campaign foretells the term in office. Superdelegates need to think hard about a Clinton administration:
Clinton Campaigning - on being Commander-in-Chief, March 2008:
"I think it’s imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold. I’ve done that. Certainly, Sen. McCain has done that and you’ll have to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy."
Clinton Presiding - on the Middle East, Feb. 2009:
"While many of us have skimmed the first page of a National Intelligence Estimate, few can skim with self-assurance like Senator Lugar and I can. You have to ask yourself why Joe Biden feels the need to read the whole report on Iran. Can we afford to wait on people who never feel they know enough to act?"
Clinton Presiding - on Health Care: June, 2009
Complimenting former Senator and newly-minted insurance lobbyist Bill Frist:
"To play a constructive role in our health care debate, you have to understand the doctor-patient relationship from the inside. Bill Frist, as a surgeon, knows the doctor's point of view. And I've been a patient in waiting rooms, clinics AND hospitals. What experience does Sen. Kennedy bring to the table on health care?"
Clinton Presiding - on Domestic Spying: Sept. 2009
"We've taken a bipartisan approach to the question of Total Information Awareness. No one knows how to run a domestic spy program like Adm. Poindexter, who ran TIA for the previous administration. And no one knows what it's like to be under the microscope of vast right-wing conspiracy like I do. Russ Feingold has never even seen a Total Information dossier, so I don't know how he can criticize the Poindexter appointment."
Clinton Presiding - during the "Government Shutdown of 2010
Drawing on the example of Bill's fight with Newt Gingrich 12 years earlier, Clinton dares Democratic Speaker Pelosi to resist her 'centrist' budget:
"Representative Boehner has some great suggestions for cuts, and I think Nancy Pelosi should get together with him to get me a compromise budget I can sign so we can get this government back up and running."
Clinton Presiding - on the Credit Bailout: Jan. 2011
Populists of the left are offering you the smoke and mirrors of 'helping people pay their mortgages', but the real solution is to help the investment banks, so they can keep offering credit to the big mortgage brokerages, who put up the money for investors, who can buy up all these foreclosed properties. The Chairman of the Banking Committee, Chris Dodd, can't understand the importance of this sort of thing, never having had the experience of seeing an investment in a lucrative savings & loan wiped out, and then being rescued by the Feds. John McCain has that kind of experience."
Clinton Presiding - on Food-Industry Regulation, July 2012
"I've seen how regulation can hurt a company like Tyson's chicken processing, and how deregulation can help. Deregulation sure helped Tyson's stock when I opened a trading account Chicago Board of Trade, at the very time my husband was governor in Tyson's home state of Arkansas. I parlayed $1,000 into $6,000 overnight, and $100,000 in ten months. Unless you bring that kind of perspective, I don't think you can recognize the necessary balance between the interests of shareholders in making money and those of eaters who want healthy food. Congresswoman Schakowsky, from a district filled with eaters, only understands one side of this question."
The Clintons have given this classic campaign & governance strategy a clinical-sounding name -- "triangulation". In its results for the Democratic party, a more common word fits better -- "slow strangulation".
Superdelegates, pretend it's 2013, and ask yourself, was I better off with President Hillary Clinton, or should I have voted for Barack Obama. You are the very people whose policy goals will be triang-, or rather strangulated.
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