Ready To Lead, Just Don’t Use First Lady Time As A Qualifier

6:16 pm EST March 19th, 2008 | News | 3 Comments

The White House records apparently back up the point I and others have been making. It is resume inflation for Sen. Clinton to claim that her years as first lady qualify her to be commander-in-chief. She’s had eight mostly good years in the senate. Use that.

Hillary Clinton’s daily schedules show that her formal policy role in the presidency of her husband, Bill Clinton, shrunk once Congress shelved the health- care plan she helped craft in the administration’s first two years.

The 11,046 pages of daily schedules released by the Clinton Presidential Library show that her days became filled with the more traditional, ceremonial events attended by first ladies instead of policy meetings after Congress in 1994 killed her plan to guarantee every American access to health insurance.

ALSO: First lady records show Clinton promoted NAFTA

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3 Responses to “Ready To Lead, Just Don’t Use First Lady Time As A Qualifier”

  1. Steve LaBonne says:
    March 19, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    Oh, it gets better. The records also show her headlining at NAFTA-promoting events. Labor 527s supporting Obama need to get busy with ads on that in PA.

  2. Robster says:
    March 19, 2008 at 9:26 pm

    Fuck yeah.

    I’m sure there will be some interesting stuff on her relationship with Vince Foster, too. It’s time for a 527 to hit her and her followers HARD.

  3. Wellstone says:
    March 20, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    Fuck Yeah, and you’ll get torched in return. Vince Foster?? You MUST be a Limbaugh dittohead.

    Hillary Clinton has more cred than Obama as C-in-C any day of the week.

    Her record of support and follow-through for the NY boys in the 10th Mountain Division, a special-purpose corps based out of Fort Drum which has seen incredible overuse and underrecognition from Republicans (Just today, news is McCain will not co-sponsor Jim Webb’s new GI Bill) is enough for them to adopt her and dedicate themselves to her.

    I’ll let Jack Keane, then-Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, speak for her:

    http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1229103-7,00.html

    “…There are other unlikely places where she has won friends and admirers. When Hillary was first elected, General John Keane, then Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, sought an audience, hoping to acquaint the new Senator with some of the Army’s priorities in her state, including West Point and the perpetually deployed 10th Mountain Division, based at Fort Drum. It didn’t entirely surprise him that it took three months to get on her schedule or that, once he did, her staff called his twice to remind him that she couldn’t spare more than 15 minutes.

    When he finally got in to see her, however, the meeting did not go as he had expected. For starters, it lasted 45 minutes. “She committed immediately to West Point and the 10th Mountain Division, with follow-up on-site visits,” he says. “But it was her enormous depth of knowledge about the military and her sincerity about our people which surprised and disarmed me.” As First Lady, Hillary told Keane, she had traveled the globe and had often been able to see parts of the world that security prevented her husband from visiting but where the U.S. Army was always present. “She had an extraordinary grasp of our military culture, our soldiers, our families and what it was like for them,” Keane marvels..”