Comments on: Hillary Clinton declares war on paperwork

By: michal

michal — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:40:33 +0000

Is anyone concerned about the millions in contributions that Billary is hiding on her tax return? Why hide it? Where is the transparency? If for some devastating reason she should be the nominee she won’t own the white house. Her global ‘contributors’ will run this country. And is anyone concerned about her memory. Remember the real estate deal? How many hundreds of times did she say “I don’t remember”…and with Bosnia and now the 10% spin whenm in fact she had 9.2% on Obama. Who by the way reduced her lead by more than 50%.

By: michal

michal — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:37:45 +0000

Can someone please explain to me why the media says Billary won by 10%? 9.2% to be exact; can’t even be rounded to 9.5%…it’s 9% if rounded - what’s with that. And why would that be considered a knockout when Obama reduced her lead by more than 50%? She’s had 10 years of the politio branding machine at work; the demographics on her side; 3 family serrogates; family ties to PA. The ‘win’ was reduced to single digits - what Obama was shooting for. Please tell me where the 10% comes from…is that another one of her spins?

By: Hillary Clinton declares war on paperwork

Hillary Clinton declares war on paperwork — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:20:26 +0000

[…] memeorandum wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptFAYETTEVILLE, NC - Say goodbye to the FAFSA form if Hillary Clinton is elected president. Reducing student loan paperwork may not qualify as a marquee issue like ending the Iraq war and establishing a universal health-care system. … […]

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:53:47 +0000

Hillary worked on getting healthcare passed for eight years and couldn’t do that. What makes me think she can pull this off?

By: David Rasmussen

David Rasmussen — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:03:45 +0000

As the writer generally does not write the headline, this is no big criticism, but I thought Obama said that for most people, those with simple tax returns, the federal government could send out the bill and the individual sign it if correct, rather than the individual do the tax calculations. This would be a nice paperwork reduction, no matter whose idea it is. Anyway, it is something to add to the paperwork reduction list.

By: Joy Deich

Joy Deich — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:56:44 +0000

I wouldn’t trust Hillary with any kid of war!

As to a “war on paperwork” she has a habit of “losing”

important records! Also getting rid of records and

paperwork (travel office).

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:26:03 +0000

I also am more than a little preturbed by that no one is calling the Obama campaign for double speak and their OWN constant use of smear tactics that they accuse the Clinton campaign of using (by applying convoluted spin to the most innocuous of Clinton statements).

I’m glad this editorial finally appeared! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con tent/article/2008/04/24/AR2008042402976_ pf.html

By: Rena

Rena — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:14:47 +0000

I take issue with the statement “They go to college to party. They have the money to pay their way out of trouble…” I’m a 30 year old white woman who has spent hundreds of hours in 4 states volunteering for Obama, and I got into college with a homeless father and a mother who didn’t make enough to have to pay taxes. I filled out all the forms myself, and I took on enough loans that I still have about 20 years of payments before I’m through.

Obama supporters are not all useless rich kids who don’t have to pull their own weight. I have met people from all backgrounds who support this historic campaign.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:04:45 +0000

I know the internet can be hard to navigate sometimes so I’m taking the liberty of posting what can be found regarding this issue in less than 1 minute by searching for Obama and FAFSA and looking for links to Obama’s site. (If you need even more help, search the document for FAFSA). Hope this information from a relatively poor (when taking into account outstanding student loans), multiple degree, working class person who agrees that if you can’t fill out a FAFSA then college isn’t for you, helps. (If you can’t spend less than 1 hour filling out a few pages of forms, why do you deserve up to thousands of dollars of tax payer’s money that took then a lot longer than 1 hour to make and have the government take from them?)
The only thing that should be noted about this whole dilemma is that Hilary is only proposing this idea now because she’s not getting the support she wants from college students so now she’s trying to appeal to them. If she really cared and thought this was a good idea she would have proposed this idea, or even better and original ones that actually would make a difference, sooner.

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/pdf/Co llegeAffordabilityFactSheet.pdf

By: David

David — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:07:16 +0000

I, too, downloaded both candidates position papers to my desktop 6 months ago. I did it to compare one with the other, and also to see if positions changed during the campaign. Obama’s positions on this have been there from the beginning, the clintons arrived this AM.