Questions I'd love to see for Hillary:

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1. As President, what do you intend to do in order to reverse the damaging affect that NAFTA, signed into law by your husband, has done to our economy, labor, and the environment?

2. As President, what do you intend to do in order to reverse the damaging affect that the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, signed into law by your husband, has wrought upon our economy by consolidating power of the insurance, banking, and lending corporations?

3. As President, what do you intend to do in order to reverse the damaging affect that your husband has done to people's lives by overseeing and administration that imprisoned record amounts of marijuana users and went after Doctors who prescribe it? And along these same lines, how do you feel about re-legalizing industrial hemp?

4. As President, what do you intend to do in order to reverse the damaging affect that the Telecommunications Act of 1996, signed into law by your husband, has had on media ownership diversity and thus free speech?


I won't hold my breath.

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[mondo joe]

1. That would be great. I'd love to see the voter's response to that.

Especially among women age 50 and over.

[protect our future]

2. Excellent questions!

[Avalux]

3. Those questions will never be asked, unfortunately.

She has chosen to count Bill's presidency as part of her experience, so those questions certainly are valid. As long as the Clintons can keep the focus on Obama and keep him on the defensive, Hillary will never have t answer tough questions. The GE is another story, however.....

[OHdem10]

4. In two debates, Hilary stated Nafta had been a dissappointment

and had not worked out as it had hoped. Moratorium on Trade Agreements
while she studies how to improve them.
(Andrea Mitchell- Hilary was not for Nafta when it was passed.)Could
this be one of the reasons A. Greenspan considers her a liberal.

Any question is fair game as long as other candidates recive
equally challenging questions.

[calmblueocean]

5. You really need to read the NYT interview about her economic policy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/us/politics/21clinton.html?ex=1358658000&en=bac25bbc50564f4d&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

It's the first thing I've read that actually made me like Hillary.

She has a very different approach (according to this interview) than Bill did to managing the economy. Here's a few relevant quotes:

“If you go back and look at our history, we were most successful when we had that balance between an effective, vigorous government and a dynamic, appropriately regulated market,” Mrs. Clinton said. “And we have systematically diminished the role and the responsibility of our government, and we have watched our market become imbalanced.”

She added: “I want to get back to the appropriate balance of power between government and the market.”

and

Although the two Clintons share similar views on a wide range of economic issues, she has long been more skeptical about the benefits of freer trade and other aspects of a free-market economy. While he peppered his 1992 campaign speeches with both populism and calls for personal responsibility, including welfare reform, she talks less about irresponsibility among individuals and more about irresponsibility in corporate America and the government.

...

“It’s shocking that there is such a continuing political pressure to lower tax rates on the wealthy, when so much of what we look back on now with nostalgia and pride,” she said, referring to the decades immediately after World War II, “was at a time when those who were well off were paying a significantly higher percentage of their income.”

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6. "Generalities" don't cut it anymore...sorry

I want detailed answers to my questions.

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[calmblueocean]

8. Did you read the article? There's sa lot more there than I quoted.

Obviously, it doesn't answer all your questions, but it does indicate a substantially different direction from Bill Clinton, and one that emphasized a more "self-contained" domestic economy, with outlines of specific policies.

I'm not a Hillary supporter, either, but it's a good piece.

[SHRED]

9. I'll check it out...thanks

[SHRED]

13. OK...I read it

I am concerned with the very real possibility that what little populist leanings she proclaims now will get overridden by her campaign donors' influence later.

If she is elected it is incumbent on all of us to put the pressure on.
This is obviously true no matter who gets elected.

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[calmblueocean]

14. I'm with you on that.

I don't know how genuine her claims are, and we all have good reason to suspect that maybe she's just saying something she thinks people want to hear right now. But at least for now, she's saying some of the right things, IMO. She definitely needs to be watched, though.

[mod mom]

7. You'll probably be tased for daring to question the reaganizing of Bill's record.

[mondo joe]

10. To the contrary, as an HRC supporter I would be thrilled to see her gone after on

Bill's record. Especially in a debate.

[mod mom]

11. You do realize that although Bill's policies created a short term positive they are now

partially responsible for our abysmal economy. NAFTA outsourcing creating a huge windfall for the investor class while cutting well paying jobs for the middle class. His support of the Telecom Act of '96 played right into the GOP's hands with consolidation into a few entities controlling practically everything. His support of banking mergers helped create the atmosphere fro the current mortgage crisis.

Reaganizing Bill's record maybe good for the Clintons, but it's bas for this country and it's need for truth about what has occurred.

[mondo joe]

12. I realize that questions are fair, and I realize Hillary can and should respond if asked.

But I also recognize that these attacks are always good for HRC's vote margin.

So anyone who wishes to take this route has my full support.

And let the voters decide.