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http://www.hillaryclinton.com/video/16.aspx
In this “Hillcast”, Hillary briefly talks about her passion for children’s healthcare. She feels strongly that every child should have access to healthcare. In order to accomplish this, she introduces her Children’s Health First Act.
Hillary Clinton is proposing a plan to make quality affordable healthcare available to every single child in America.
As first lady in the White House, Hillary helped to start the State Children’s Healthcare Insurance program. This program provided health insurance for over 6 million kids across the country. She has continued to fight for this in the US Senate.
The plan that she proposes, expands “S-Chip” so that middle class families can buy into the plan. Middle class families need a hand.
Lastly, Hillary claims that when she is president, she will have universal healthcare available for
America.
My comments:
This is all nice and good, but how does she plan on doing this? I love Hillary Clinton, and I definitely think she is a competent woman, but in this “Hillcast”, she does not have a list of things she will do to make this happen. In the previous casts, she has a set list of items that she will do in order to accomplish her task. Her other plans had a clear cut method to get America to the goal that she wants to attain. I do not see that same plan here.
Also, I am not sure if I was hearing this correctly, but what is “S-Chip?” I am guessing S-chip is a plan that is affordable for all families to pay into and then everyone gets equal coverage.
I would like to think that Hillary really does have a clear cut plan for Universal Healthcare, and maybe since her plan has already worked in the White House, she does not feel it is necessary to give us the steps of the plan.
It was a big day in the world of Hillary Clinton today. She held a town hall meeting in Iowa’s capital, Des Moines, and stated that if elected she would create a universal health care system. Also announced today – former Iowa governor, Tom Vilsack who backed out of the race last month due to a lack of funds, gave his official endorsement for Clinton.
With all the good news in Iowa, Senator Clinton has also raised the most amount of money in one week – $10 million. The old record was held by John Edwards in 2004. Man, she’s on a roll!
In related fundraising news, John McCain recently announced that he would not meet expectations by the first deadline for money raising, March 31st. McCain has only held four events since his announcement to join the race, but plans to have an additional 40 scheduled between now and May.
The breaking news on the blogosphere is that John Edwards is going to suspend his campaign, and may drop out of the 2008 Presidential race. Edwards and his wife are planning a 12:00 noon press conference to discuss the latest developments. Yesterday, Edwards canceled a campaign event to accompany his wife on a doctor’s visit. Mrs. Edwards was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, around the time of the presidential election.
This is shaping up to be a sad story. And what makes it worse is that someone who isn’t so consumed by power and politics that he may be willing to drop out of a presidential race to be with his wife…now that’s someone who I wouldn’t mind seeing in office…
Update 1: The campaign will go on, despite a recurrence of Edward’s wife cancer. (I guess I take back what I just said?)
Update 2: Ben Smith, the author of the initial blog who has a source close to the Edwards campaign, has since apologized for stating that his campaign was to be suspended…See, don’t blame me, blame him!
2008 Central spotted that Chris Dodd just opened his campaign office in the state’s capital of Des Moines. I thought it would also be fun to plot the addresses of the other candidates who have offices in this fair city – looks like Barack and Edwards are quite close to one another. Hmmmmmm….
All the Dems are in Des Moines while the Reps are more spread out – hey G, one’s in Ames! How about you go check out the offices and report back. We want to hear all the dirty secrets, right now I’m picturing Primary Colors. Who didn’t love John Travolta as Bill Clinton?
I just stumbled upon the Fantasy Politics blog and they feature a Fantasy Politics Game for the 2008 election – excellent. How it works is that you pick four candidates (for some reason I choose Wesley Clark, I know, I don’t know why either) and you accumulate points every time your candidate does well in a poll or shows up on important events, gives important speeches, etc. Although after just looking around for a little, I haven’t seen all that many details on how the point system works, but we shall see.
Kindof feels like if you pick Clinton, Obama, Giuilani, and McCain you should be in pretty good shape. But of course I’m picking a few first seats and an underdog (who doesn’t love an underdog story), very similar to my NCAA bracket (hmmmm, can someone remind me again why I picked Virginia Tech?).
If you sign up – let me know what username you’re under and we can compete. Let the games begin! 
On Monday MySpace announced a new portal featuring all the candidate’s MySpace page. We already established that the candidates have MySpace pages, but now the Fox owned organization wants to help make an impact on the slow to move 18-24 year old demographic.
“MySpace hopes to play a ‘powerful role’ in the 2008 elections, CEO Chris DeWolfe said in a statement. The site plans to give users easy-to-use information in a format they can relate to, he said.”
I think getting young voters active and interested is key for the electoral process to prosper. You think the MySpace will help start to get people interested in politics? I sure hope so.
If you answered “No” to the above question, then it looks like you won’t be voting for John McCain in 2008, who recently had the following exchange with a reporter on his “Straight Talk Express”, somewhere in northern Iowa:
Q: “So no contraception, no counseling on contraception. Just abstinence. Do you think contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV?”
Mr. McCain: (Long pause) “You’ve stumped me.”
Q: “I mean, I think you’d probably agree it probably does help stop it?”
Mr. McCain: (Laughs) “Are we on the Straight Talk express? I’m not informed enough on it. Let me find out. You know, I’m sure I’ve taken a position on it on the past. I have to find out what my position was. Brian, would you find out what my position is on contraception – I’m sure I’m opposed to government spending on it, I’m sure I support the president’s policies on it.”
To be fair, the initial question was, “Should U.S. taxpayer money go to places like Africa to fund contraception to prevent AIDS?”, and I would have believed that McCain’s initial uncertainty was understandable (if not sincere). But when a follow-up question was asked about whether he supported the president’s abstinence-only education policy in schools (Mr. McCain: (Long pause) “Ahhh. I think I support the president’s policy.”), it seemed clear to me that McCain was more interested in pandering to the religious right (no sex before marriage, or else!) than in giving an honest answer to a simple question.
