Clinton: "demonize those blocking legislation!"

[atal]

In his recent book The New American Story, Bill Bradley describes a weekend retreat back in 1993 where President & Mrs. Clinton explained to Democratic senators how they would get their new health care reform legislation passed. One senator asked what their strategy would be if the legislation hadn’t passed by the July 4 recess. “You don’t understand,” Mrs. Clinton relied. “We will demonize those who are blocking this legislation, and it will pass.”


http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/tik0803/frontpage/phenom


Old habits die hard.

[anonymous171]

1. And thus, Hillary failed. Hard.

She only knows how to attack.

[atal]

3. She's a fighter with few diplomatic skills

[L0oniX]

2. Ah so she is controlling the demons now.

:evilgrin: :evilfrown:

[Recursion]

4. What can one say, but...

...fail.

[City Lights]

5. "It will pass" reminds me of her "It will be me" moment with Katie Couric.

Mrs. Clinton, you are the one who doesn't understand. You'll understand soon enough though.

[noiretextatique]

6. i don't know the code language

so i don't understand your point.

[cbayer]

7. That is a great article and I hope that people here will read it.

It should be noted that the material you are quoting in your OP comes from a response to the article and not the article itself.

The article both supports and criticizes both candidates. Fascinating read.

One last thought. The people she was talking about demonizing are the insurance companies, etc. who she knew would try to block her plan. They were successful. They are the same companies that we, as progressive democrats, demonize routinely. Well, we used to. Now, at DU, we seem to focus all of our demonizing on one of our candidates. Pity.