"We can talk all we want about freedom and opportunity, about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but what does all that mean to a mother or father who can't take a sick child to the doctor?"
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That is Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, via Boston Globe via No Looking Backwards, glibly blowing off the foundations of the country. But heck, it's for the children. I guess children never survived until she decided to care about them.
Is there a parent in America who "can't take a sick child to a doctor"? Show them to me, and we will have them arrested for neglect.
A snail fisking (red noses say it all) from our dead-tree files, we captioned this archival clipping of a New York Times photo series of Bubba, Hillary! and Newt on the two-for-the-price-of-one couple's second inauguration day in January of 1997.
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