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Article: HILLARY CLINTON HARDLY A LIBERAL ICON.(EDITORIAL)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- June 5, 2003
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Byline: JOHN NICHOLS
Hillary Clinton's status as a liberal icon has always been based on leaps of logic, as opposed to her record.
As the first lady, she actively supported Bill Clinton's anti-worker, anti-environment, anti-human rights trade policies, from the North American Free Trade Agreement to permanent most favored nation trading status for China. She defended the Clinton administration's draconian welfare reform schemes, which her old allies at the Children's Defense Fund correctly identified as the shredding of the social safety net for America's poorest children. And she took the lead in drafting a bureaucratic health care reform plan that rejected the ...