If I may be so bold as to take up a diary slot to draw attention to a Time Magazine article about Hillary Clinton. For those who only read the front page of DailyKos (who does that anyway?? the Diaries are where it's at on the dailykos), one might wonder what Sen. Hillary Clinton's been up to since the convention.
http://www.time.com/...
The summary:
Clinton put that star power to full use this fall, campaigning at more than 200 rallies and fund raisers for upwards of 80 candidates across the country.
I think that speaks for itself. Who knew?
So how does Clinton view her role in the party going forward?
Already it appears that Clinton may use her own experience in the White House to try to nudge Obama to keep his many promises. A larger-than-expected deficit forced her husband to delay some of his priorities in 1993, a decision that greatly upset Hillary Clinton and her allies at the time. While there are already those who are arguing that Obama's ambitious and expensive health-care-reform effort will have to wait until the economy is in better shape, Clinton disagrees. "I'm going to make the case that it's important to move simultaneously on several fronts. I know how difficult that is. But a new President has a honeymoon period," she said. "I hope that we're going to really make progress on health care right off the bat with a new Congress. There are a lot of different ways of doing that." One campaign is over for Clinton, but another has just begun.
Sen. Hillary Clinton speaks for me and even though she lost, she lost with 18 million supporters standing behind her, so I know President Elect Barack Obama will listen to her and do whatever it takes on the Issue of Health Care.