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[bidenista]

Cape Cod Times: Hillary Clinton

...Many people are sensing that this is one of those pivotal years in this country when the torch is passed to a new generation. But Democrats should guard against a vague longing for a new morning in civic life. It's just not possible to turn a page and be rid of 16 years of political acrimony, disgraceful misbehavior, lying, assorted policy failures, gridlock (except for bridges to nowhere), attack and natural disaster on our own soil. No, past is prologue. We must work through it.

There is another path to change. It involves diligence, experience, playing through pain. That is Clinton's history. That's why she deserves her party's endorsement.

Take health care, her signature effort as first lady, a defeat that nevertheless raised all the important issues. Her position should be the Democratic Party's position: mandatory universal coverage through simplified private and public plans that follow the model already used by federal employees. Portable plans, not tied to one job.

Obama's plan is more tepid, leaving much to voluntary, job-based coverage. It does not make the necessary leap to universal care.

Both Clinton and Obama pledge to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, but Clinton's view would be shaped by being a player all along. Votes that seemed right at the time can't be simply undone....

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080129/OPINION/801290322

[jillan]

1. I think they summed up how many of us feel. n/t

[jasmine621]

2. Great endorsement. very substantive...not full of platitudes and pie in

the sky.

[MADem]

3. Health care is an issue out that way.

Wonder who they'll pick tomorrow, on the GOP side--I would laugh like hell if it ain't MITT. After he ruined the Sagamore Rotary, they HATE him!!!

What a big finish!

Senator Clinton has endured humiliation and contempt on a Shakespearean scale. Yet she is still standing, still committed to the civic goals she first set for herself at Wellesley. That should tell Democrats something about the inner strength she would bring to the job.

[merbex]

4. Not really a surprise - I think they even endorsed Nixon over Kennedy

[Cameron27]

5. Great endorsement !

Cape Cod, love it. :loveya:

[suston96]

6. That's my home town newspaper which I checked this morning and didn't see it.

...That's what I get for just checking only the Obituary section - (to see if my name is on there .........)

For people who don't know, Cape Cod has been the summer home for the Kennedys for many years. When I was young I worked in jobs that took me to the famous Kennedy Compound where I often saw the Kennedys and children, and once even the patriarch and matriarch of the clan - Joe and Rose Kennedy (I was actually in their bedrooms servicing their TVs).

I watched as the RFK kids grew up through the years and was heart broken at the tragedies that happened to that family and the other Kennedys.

Oh, last item: On November 22, 1963, I was working at the Cape Cod (Standard) Times at the moment of the shooting in Dallas. I rushed with others to the newswire room and stood there in front of one machine and waited......and then went off someplace and cried.

[Tactical Progressive]

7. A serious endorsement.

Marthas Vineyard resident's airy rhetoric about 'feeling hope for a new generation of Americans' appears not to have even impressed their neighbors.

The Kennedys may have political weight, but their message didn't.

Just more vague 'hope is good' frivolousness.

[Captain Hilts]

8. I liked that it was positive about both candidates. Nicely done. nt