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Giuliani Plans Full-Page Ad Defending Petraeus
Rudy Giuliani hands an autographed baseball to a waitress at the OK Cafe in Atlanta.
(By Gregory Smith -- Associated Press)
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LONG-AWAITED POLICY
Clinton Is Set to Introduce Rest of Health-Care Plan
Sen. Hillary Clinton is planning to roll out the rest of her health-care plan on Monday in a speech in Des Moines, rounding out a policy proposal that has been in the works for months.
Clinton has given few clues as to how her policy will differ from those already introduced by Sen. Barack Obama and former senator John Edwards, though she has hinted that she will address questions about her approach to the lobbying industry -- attacked by her rivals as too weak. "I intend to dramatically rein in the influence of the insurance companies," she said during a forum hosted by Yahoo, Slate and the Huffington Post on Wednesday, "because frankly I think that they have worked to the detriment of our economy and our health-care system."
Clinton, whose unsuccessful attempt to overhaul the health-care system in the early 1990s led her to be criticized as a fan of "big government," has tried to turn the botched effort into a plus. She often says on the campaign trail that she at least has tried to fix health care and has "the scars to prove it."
But her opponents are gearing up to undercut her message by pointing out that her failure during her husband's administration ultimately set back the movement for health-care overhaul, and by arguing that she has done little to remedy it while in the Senate.
-- Anne E. Kornblut
UN-INTERACTIVE
In Online Debate, Mash-Ups Not Included
It was the online presidential debate mash-up that wasn't. At least not as of yesterday.
Viewers logging on to yesterday's online debate -- sponsored by the Huffington Post, Slate and Yahoo -- were supposed to be able to pick and choose videos of the Democratic candidates answering questions from Bill Maher and Charlie Rose. Not only that, they were then to create their own debate by "mashing up" the videos, remix-style.
But alas, it wasn't to be. Yahoo decided to not put the mash-up-able footage on its site for the time being, leaving visitors with nothing more than individual videos of candidates being asked standard questions (Iraq, education, health care) and giving standard answers.
But leave it to the irreverent Maher, the comedian and HBO talk show host, to add some attitude to the affair. Maher served as the wild card, and indeed he was. He asked Sen. Hillary Clinton: "Why should Americans vote for someone who can be fooled by George Bush?" He asked Sen. Chris Dodd: "Can you give me a good reason why . . . marijuana should be illegal?"
-- Jose Antonio Vargas
