As many of you know by now, I admire Hillary Clinton greatly. She is truely an inspiring human being.
So, I follow her campaign. I check news sites. I read blogs obsessively. So I thought, well, why not share? Like, you know, put up links to stories, videos, snippets, blogs posts and anything else that I think people may like to read.
There are lots of goodies over the leaf. Follow me!
So here I go. Starting with this video of Hillary with reporters on her campaign plane when she is asked about last week's SNL sketch (courtesy of Katiebird at The Confluence, aka goldberry.) Watch:
And of course, no roundup of today is complete without Jack Nicholson's brilliant, hysterically funny video:
On the more serious side, CBS did a profile of two candidates. They had a piece on Hillary and her life: For The Record: Hillary Clinton. This is a great video and explains what Hillary means by "35 years of experience" (7:54).
"I have 35 years of experience," she says on the campaign trail.
That would take us back to 1973, the year she graduated from Yale Law School and went to work for the Children's Defense Fund, interviewing juvenile offenders and dropouts.
Over the next few years she moved from one success to the next: Serving as a staff lawyer on the House Judiciary Committee as it considered impeaching President Nixon during Watergate; teaching criminal law at the University of Arkansas; heading the Legal Services Corporation, which represented the poor, after first being appointed to the board by President Carter.
And:
Arkansas' first lady decided to take a shot at reforming the state's abysmal education system.
"I really believe that our young students need as much personal attention as they can get," Clinton said at the time.
It was a tough sell, involving the largest tax increase in the state's history and testing for teachers.
"Hillary went out into the state. She held public hearings I think in all 75 counties and she very effectively disarmed her critics," said Political Science Professor Hal Bass of Ouachita Baptist University.
Her grassroots victory would go down as one of Bill Clinton's most significant gubernatorial accomplishments.
CBS video
What have blogs been up to?
Is Obama continuing what Dean started? Big Tent Democrat over at TalkLeft has A few things to say about that.
Since I know all of you are dying to read about healthcare and get another point of view, here is a guest piece over at Taylor Marsh: Obama's Poor Judgment on Healthcare.
Speaking of Taylor Marsh, yesterday's post on 100 Reasons to Support Hillary is still good.
I give a shout to The Left Coaster, since almost everything they post is good. See here, and here.
Finally, is Hillary going to appear on Saturday Night Live tonight? CNN has this tease:
Live from New York, it's Hillary Clinton?
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Update: CBS video is now embedded.
(Aside note: the author is a Canadian who should know better, but cannot cure him/herself of addiction to American News. The author frequently has pulled his/her hair out in frustration when seeing the treatment that competent, intelligent, caring candidates such as Al Gore and Hillary Clinton have received in the hands of American media.)