"Despite disparagement from political rivals, we find she deserves ample credit for expanding

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children's health insurance."


"One of Clinton's signature claims has come under fire from political foes, quoted by the Boston Globe, who say she doesn't deserve credit for expanding federal health insurance for millions of children.

We review the record and conclude that she deserves plenty of credit, both for the passage of the SCHIP legislation and for pushing outreach efforts to translate the law into reality."

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"Kennedy, of course, is now backing Clinton's rival, Barack Obama, for the nomination. But last year, before that endorsement, he was quoted by the Associated Press as saying something quite different, which the Globe did not note in its story:

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Oct. 6, 2007: The children's health program wouldn't be in existence today if we didn't have Hillary pushing for it from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

In that same story, The AP's Beth Fouhy concluded, "While Kennedy is widely viewed as the driving force behind the program, by all accounts the former first lady's pressure was crucial." She quoted Nick Littlefield, who had been a senior health adviser to Kennedy, as saying, "we relied on her, worked with her and she was pivotal in encouraging the White House to do it."


http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/giving_hillary_credit_for_schip.html


As a long time Kennedy supporter, I am completely disgusted with him

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1. I posted it here--in gd-p. give a kick and REC

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5166100&mesg_id=5166100

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2. btw-thank

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3. All the booze Kennedy has consumed

all those years has affected his brain, me thinks.

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5. Ted is bitter about something--I have not figured it out.

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4. lol! The Obamabots remind me of freepers claiming that Al Gore

said he invented the internet.