Hillary Fights off a Republican Blogger


August 9th, 2007

This just in from tonight:

Kiara Ashanti a freelance writer and Republican blogger asked Senator Hillary Clinton “why she was ’still insisting’ on bringing British- and Canada-style ’socialized medicine’ to the United States, asserting that such forms of universal care would hurt the black community.

According to the NY Times

“Oh man, I can’t answer that in 30 seconds, that was a string of misrepresentations,” Mrs. Clinton, a Democratic presidential candidate, told the gathering of more than 1,000 black reporters, editors, and other journalists.

“I have never advocated socialized medicine, and I hope all the journalists hear that,” she said. “That has been a right-wing attack on me for 15 years.”

Mr. Ashanti interrupted her with persistent criticism of government-run health care; Mrs. Clinton challenged him at one, asking if he thought Medicare was socialized medicine, and he indicated that he did.

“You are in a small minority of America, because Medicare has literally saved the lives and saved the resources of countless generations of Americans,” she said.

That is, she added, “if you’re interested in being educated instead of being rhetorical.”

It was a snap! moment that garnered Mrs. Clinton her biggest applause and cheers of the 40-minute forum.

Sounds like a lot of fun!



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