"It is in very poor taste and an insult to the memory of a great man like Ted Kennedy that she would attempt to steal the glory and accomplishments right from the man's grave. "

It's who they are, what they do.

At the time the bill was introduced so she name would not have been on the bill. She made a presentation in Congress to have health insurance and they could not get it through congress. She then went with getting insurance for the children. Yes, Ted Kennedy worked very hard on getting this through congress and was not here for the final ACA, but he left his mark on this bill also.

So that means she can take credit for something that other people, primarily Ted Kennedy, worked their ass off to achieve? She gives herself a The Lion's share of the credit, literally.

Agenda list, had been tried by other presidents and failed, failed in Clintons administration but he tried. If you go back and read my post again you will find I gave credit to Ted Kennedy on SChip and he work for ACA also. Hillary did make the presentation to Congress. It was known as Hillarycare.

It doesn't change the fact that she has repeatedly taken credit for SCHIP when that credit is not her's to take.

Yet another oddity of politics (like the close friendship between Scalia and Ginsburg).

See: http://www.politico.com/story/2009/08/the-ted-kennedy-i-knew-026482

It is in very poor taste and an insult to the memory of a great man like Ted Kennedy that she would attempt to steal the glory and accomplishments right from the man's grave. "

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Kennedy said he patterned the SCHIP plan on a similar program Massachusetts had approved in 1996. Kennedy's account was backed up by two Bay State healthcare advocates who met with Kennedy in Boston to discuss the possibility of taking the idea nationwide: Dr. Barry Zuckerman, director of pediatrics at Boston Medical Center, and John McDonough, then a Democratic state legislator and now the executive director of Health Care for All, a healthcare advocacy group.

Kennedy said he patterned the SCHIP plan on a similar program Massachusetts had approved in 1996. Kennedy's account was backed up by two Bay State healthcare advocates who met with Kennedy in Boston to discuss the possibility of taking the idea nationwide: Dr. Barry Zuckerman, director of pediatrics at Boston Medical Center, and John McDonough, then a Democratic state legislator and now the executive director of Health Care for All, a healthcare advocacy group.

McDonough, a Democrat who has not endorsed a presidential candidate, also said it was Kennedy who developed the SCHIP idea after that meeting. "I don't recall any signs of Mrs. Clinton's engagement," McDonough said. "I'm sure she was behind the scenes, engaged in lobbying, but it is demonstrably not the case" that she was driving the effort, he said.

After meeting Zuckerman and McDonough, Kennedy sought out Hatch, and the two worked on the bill together, offering it as an amendment to a budget resolution. But President Clinton - much to the surprise and anger of Kennedy - lobbied Democratic lawmakers to oppose the Hatch-Kennedy amendment, the lawmakers and staff members said.



Me? I'd say Kennedy and Waxman have more credibility.

from a Democratic President but now won't vote for him or is this a different Orrin Hatch?

And she takes credit for HIS bill.