I saw this noted on Sister Toldjahs Blog, and honestly, that is the best I can do to summarize it.

Apparently the facts were wrong, making it a lie, except that the essence was correct making it Clintonian truth.  Kinda. I can’t sort it out really.  And really, it doesn’t matter.

What this boils down to is Clinton heard a sob story and ran with it.

That’s what politicians do.  They latch on to a story they figure can be sympathetic, and they tell ti over and over to make their point.

What made this such a gross debacle is that Clinton didn’t bother to have her staff do a bitty little thing called fact checking.  So the family got run through the wringer, as did the hospital, all so she can make a few points.

Here is the real truth.  She doesn’t care about this woman or her family, except where it intersects her desire to get votes.  She doesn’t care about you or me and our lives except where we can be manipulated to cede her more power, fame and wealth.

She doesn’t care about the truth, the facts or the reality of the problem, just how she can use it.

But who cares?  The facts don’t matter, just the feel.

Feel free to parse through this list of links.  It is by no means comprehensive…maybe you can find the truth.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/04/07/clinton_told_true_tale_of_woe.html

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/president/17364564.html

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/is-hillarys-muc.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/us/politics/05woman.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

http://www.thepost.ohiou.edu/Articles/News/2008/04/08/23659/

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=428768

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Hillary seems to be channeling John Edwards on this one.

Back in September, he wanted to require preventive care whether you want it or not, and now she has come out saying she would support garnishing your wages and making enrollment mandatory.

Apparently, Socialism is not an option…

Clinton health plan may mean tapping pay

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing to garnish the wages of workers who refuse to buy health insurance to achieve coverage for all Americans.

The New York senator has criticized presidential rival Barack Obama for pushing a health plan that would not require universal coverage. Clinton has not always specified the enforcement measures she would embrace, but when pressed on ABC’’s “This Week,” she said: “I think there are a number of mechanisms” that are possible, including “going after people’s wages, automatic enrollment.”

Clinton said such measures would apply only to workers who can afford health coverage but refuse to buy it, which puts undue pressure on hospitals and emergency rooms. With her proposals for subsidies, she said, “it will be affordable for everyone.”

She will certainly not win any happy followers on the right with that one, but even some on the left are chafing:

Hillary’s Garnish Talk: Has She Finally Cooked Her Own Goose?

Hang around US politics long enough, and you swear you see everything. Right here on this very forum as of late, I have seen Hillary Clinton’s supporters, now driven into a losing momentum frenzy by the closeness of the race, devolve to spewing hate at MoveOn.org, DailyKos, Ted Kennedy, Oprah, and hundreds of others who had the audacity to support her opponent. I’ve even seen racist commentary when Stevie Wonder stepped up as an Obama fan. But, you rarely see a candidate put their foot in their mouth so theatrically, and right before a Super Tuesday, like Senator Clinton has in regards of her intention to garnish peoples’ wages if they don’t buy into her health plan.

I found this to be interesting.   Rush raises some very good points.

  Meanwhile the infamous letter is up for auction on Ebay, bids up over 2 Million.

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STA via Sister Toldjah brings this story:

The lefties and the media piled on when Bush used his veto pen on this one. They tried to drop the absolute moral authority bomb on it big time. Looks like a little backfire is on the horizon.

Kim Priestap does a great summary and roundup on this.

On September 29th, 12 year old Graeme Frost of Maryland got to do the Democrats’ radio address, in which he told his story of how he and his sister were seriously injured in a car accident, and if it hadn’t been for SCHIP, they wouldn’t be here today. So who is this 12 year old? The Baltimore Sun did a story on the family, in which it stated the family couldn’t get health insurance through their work. But the article left out quite a few important, and interesting, bits of information, which Freeper, icwhatudo, managed to find while googling:

First, Mr. Halsey Frost, Graeme’s father, owns his own woodworking design studio, Frostworks, so his claim that he can’t get health insurance through work is shockingly deceptive. He chooses not to get health care for his family. Second, Graeme and his sister Gemma attend the very exclusive Park School, which has a tuition of $20,000 a year, per child. Third, they live in a 3,000+ square foot home in a neighborhood with smaller homes that are selling for at least $400,000.

Yet, hardworking taxpayers who sacrifice many things such as expensive private schools and expensive houses in order to buy their own health care for their families are supposed to subsidize this family’s health insurance premiums.

The implication is fairly simple.  The family used SCHIP because they chose to.

Obviously the family was chosen for their absolute moral authority value, no real shock.  There is a real possibility of course that despite the mounting evidence of their relative prosperity that Health Insurance may have been to expensive.  I cannot say for sure.