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A Question for Hillary Clinton: What Accomplishments?

Throughout your campaign, Senator, you’ve been citing your record as proof that you’re “ready to lead on day one.”  But the two biggest examples of your executive leadership — your healthcare reform initiative in the early 90’s and your current campaign — are hardly confidence inspiring.  Your push to nationalize healthcare was a disaster; you were so secretive and belligerent that even your own party turned against you and the effort collapsed. Your failure was so spectacular that it ended your “two-for-the-price-of-one” presidency and derailed healthcare reform for decades. The second example of your leadership is your campaign, a portrait of chaos and — backroom deals notwithstanding — another failure. So the question is, Senator, when have you ever demonstrated you can lead any large enterprise, much less our federal government? If you’re promising to run our country the way you ran your healthcare reform effort or the way you’re running your campaign, no thanks.