Clinton's "35 Years Of Change" Debunked

by Chris Jones on February 4, 2008 · 0 comments

McClatchy has an interesting article this morning which calls into question Hillary Clinton’s claim that she’s been a “do-gooder” for 35 years.

To hear Hillary Clinton talk, she’s spent her entire career putting her Yale Law School degree to work for the common good.

She routinely tells voters that she’s “been working to bring positive change to people’s lives for 35 years.” She told a voter in New Hampshire: “I’ve spent so much of my life in the nonprofit sector.” Speaking in South Carolina, Bill Clinton said his wife “could have taken a job with a firm … Instead she went to work with Marian Wright Edelman at the Children’s Defense Fund.”

The overall portrait is of a lifelong, selfless do-gooder. The whole story is more complicated — and less flattering…

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