Newsweek: How Hillary would govern

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20649206/site/newsweek/

Over the course of the summer, she watched her rivals for the Democratic nomination try again and again to define themselves as change and Clinton as the status quo. ("We're more interested in looking forward, not backward," Barack Obama told reporters. "And the American people feel the same way.") But she would not cede the change mantle, no matter how large her lead in national polls, not in an election where the voters were fed up and angry, not when Obama was saying "change" was what he was all about and John Edwards was running a tough populist bid. "The campaign was watching Obama and Edwards peddling this false choice of change versus experience," says someone close to the campaign who did not want to be identified discussing internal matters. "They realized, wow, this is a great opportunity to emphasize one of her strengths"—or, more precisely, it was an opportunity to argue that her years in the capital gave her the experience to make change happen. Triangulation, anyone?

And so through the month of August, Clinton's aides drafted new language that could expand the definition of change to include a woman who'd been in Washington, D.C., for 15 years. "You bring change by working within the system," Clinton finally declared on Labor Day weekend. "You can't pretend the system doesn't exist."

Hillary Clinton has always put great faith in The System. Hugh Rodham's dutiful daughter stayed up late finishing homework assignments and kept Barry Goldwater's "Conscience of a Conservative" on her bookshelf. While others in her generation were turning on, tuning in and dropping out, she was running for student-body president at Wellesley College and applying to law school at Yale. As a young First Lady charged with getting her husband's health-care plan through Congress, her attempts to circumvent The System nearly cost both Clintons their political lives. She found redemption in the Senate by keeping her head down and playing by the rules. If she wins her party's nomination, the right may once more portray her as a radical leftist agitator. But in truth, a President Hillary Clinton would essentially be the same person she's always been: a serious-minded striver. She can be self-righteous in a righteous cause—health care is the primary example of that unfortunate, and unproductive, tendency—but as the years have passed she has also demonstrated the capacity to learn from her mistakes. (Her health-care plan, which will be announced in the coming weeks, is expected to be bold but hardly radical.) Compared with 1993, Clinton tells NEWSWEEK, "I am much more experienced in dealing with my own government and understanding both its potential and its limitations." The System, in other words, is where the action is, where the real possibilities for change are, and that is where Clinton wants to be.

they didn't catch on to bush before hand or they don't know what Obama will do...gosh they must be good since they have only researched Hillary. Boo hiss.

on how each of the candidates would govern...

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rocknation

"But in truth, a President Hillary Clinton would essentially be the same person she's always been: a serious-minded striver...she has outperformed her rivals in almost every debate and has presided over a remarkably disciplined and effective presidential campaign."

I hope every candidate gets an article like this, otherwise it's favortism.

will have on her show?

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