I agree with Walter Shapiro, this is pretty brilliant ad-writing. Hillary's new advertisement, currently on the air in New Hampshire, focuses on her health care plan, and summarizes 1994 by saying, "she changed our thinking when she introduced universal health care to America.."
Right, she made us hate her. But this is quite smart: It contextualizes her plan as the culmination of years of work, coming within an unbroken arc of Clinton fighting for health reform. At the least, it tries to define her narrative before anyone else can do it for her, and rather run from 1994, or admit to mistakes, attempts to recast that battle as a positive experience, even a character strength Anyway, heres the ad:
