It has been debated over and over exactly what experience Hillary really had as First Lady. The chief one of course would be her heading up Health Care Reform. Of course, nothing was reformed, so what level of experience does this count as? The next thing that is discussed is her time as director of the Children's Defense Fund. Now I will be the first to admit that I do not know exactly what she did during her time there, but I would expect that she would have taken her experience gleaned from there and taken it to the White House and been a staunch advocate for Children.
That is why is is very disconcerting to me to read the interview of the Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund.
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AMY GOODMAN: Marian Wright Edelman, we just heard Hillary Rodham Clinton. She used to be the head of the board of the Children's Defense Fund, of the organization that you founded. But you were extremely critical of the Clintons. I mean, when President Clinton signed off on the, well, so-called welfare reform bill, you said, “His signature on this pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to hurt children.” So what are your hopes right now for these Democrats? And what are your thoughts about Hillary Rodham Clinton?
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Well, you know, Hillary Clinton is an old friend, but they are not friends in politics. We have to build a constituency, and you don’t -- and we profoundly disagreed with the forms of the welfare reform bill, and we said so. We were for welfare reform, I am for welfare reform, but we need good jobs, we need adequate work incentives, we need minimum wage to be decent wage and livable wage, we need healthcare, we need transportation, we need to invest preventively in all of our children to prevent them ever having to be on welfare.
For the sake of looking tough on "welfare queens," Bill and Hillary (and they were indeed a team) sacrificed the well-being of millions, forced single mothers into underpaid, underinsured work and added further strain to many families.
Please take the time to read the entire interview and judge for yourself.
Update: Changed title to reflect commenter suggestion.