Bill: Health-care failure was my fault
Posted: Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:02 PM by Mark Murray
From NBC/NJ's Carrie DannGLENWOOD, IA -- During a stop here today, former President
Bill Clinton made the following comments:
-- The failure of his Administration's health-care plan was more his fault than
Hillary's.
-- There are countries, like Argentina, that have had female presidents. He added that he thinks his wife is going to win the general election by a large margin. Her gender, he said. will be a big asset, in part because a woman can balance things better.
-- Referring to the Swift Boat ads in 2004, he said that Republicans like to make Democrats look like cartoons.
*** Update *** Here's what Bill Clinton said exactly on health care: "She has taken the rap for some of the problems we had with health care the last time that were far more my fault than hers. Let's just face it. We couldn't raise money. This time, when you let the tax cuts for upper-income people expire, it'll create a pool of money that wasn't there last time. We told her she had to get to universal coverage and there would be no new money. She had to figure out how to do it. She also was very vulnerable to a Senate filibuster last time. Because they were on the 'just say no to Bill Clinton.'"
