What Hillary Clinton Says And Her Voting Record Are Very Different
Hillary is running around the country trying to save her campaign and trying to appeal to voters as someone who will help in the area of education.
Teachers cheered Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton when she stepped before them last month at an elementary school in Waterloo, Iowa, and said she would “end” the No Child Left Behind Act because it was “just not working.”
She voted for the no child left behind act but now she is getting cheered for coming out against it? Anyone who is thinking of voting for Hillary Clinton should look at how she voted on these issues, not what she says while trying to salvage her campaign.
Mrs. Clinton is not the only presidential candidate who has found attacking the act, President Bush’s signature education law, to be a crowd pleaser — all the Democrats have taken pokes. Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico has said he wants to “scrap” the law. Senator Barack Obama has called for a “fundamental” overhaul. And John Edwards criticizes the law as emphasizing testing over teaching. “You don’t make a hog fatter by weighing it,” he said recently while campaigning in Iowa.
I think almost everyone with children in school agrees that no child left behind should be left behind. Another failure of the Bush Administration.
“There’s a grass-roots backlash against this law,” said Tad Devine, a strategist who worked for the past two Democratic presidential nominees. “And attacking it is a convenient way to communicate that you’re attacking President Bush.”
Yes, but supporting it and then backtracking on it shows you do not have a real position on education at all. Hillary Clinton voted for a lot of things that Bush wanted that she now is against as she tries to convince voters that she will change things. Her voting record does not support her verbal claims.
