by George Will
"About one thing, Hillary Clinton is both clear and opaque: Jefferson is anachronistic. "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?" Well, OK, what does "all that" mean to someone stuck in congested traffic? Or annoyed by the price of cable television? What does Mrs. Clinton mean?
John Edwards' health care agenda involves un-Jeffersonian bossiness. "It requires," he says, "that everybody get preventive care. If you are going to be in the system, you can't choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years." In an ad running in Iowa, Edwards brandishes his mailed fist at Congress, to which he vows to say: "If you don't pass universal health care by July of 2009, in six months, I'm going to use my power as president to take your health care away from you."
What power would that be? What power enables presidents to "take" health care from people who have it by statute? This is the Democrats' riposte to the grandiosity of the current president's notion of executive prerogatives?"
But of course Hillary Clinton would poke fun at Thomas Jefferson. To her, the Constitution is just an old rag with big words that are really really hard to understand. And why WOULDN'T Edwards flat out lie? He's a lawyer. Thats what they go to school to learn how to do.
When you have absolutely, positively, nothing to offer then just make stuff up. Worked just fine for Bill Clinton, and for 8 years no less. Treat your constituency like children asking are we there yet.
Soon, kids. Trust me.
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