Posted on 04/03/2008 8:51:56 AM PDT by knuthom
It almost always comes when the audience least expects it: the moment Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton brings a roaring crowd to a hush with a heart-rending anecdote.
"I remember listening to a story about a young woman in a small town along the Ohio River, in Meigs County, who worked in a pizza parlor," the Democratic presidential candidate said during a stop in Cleveland, beginning a particularly grim tale.
"She got pregnant, she started having problems. There's no hospital left in Meigs County, so she had to go to a neighboring county. She showed up, and the hospital said, 'You know, you've got to give us $100 before we can see you.' She didn't have $100," Clinton said.
"So the young woman went back home," she continued. "The next time she went back, she was in an ambulance. It turned out she lost the baby. She was airlifted to Columbus."
She paused before concluding: "And after heroic efforts at the medical center, she died." The audience, as always, gasped.
The story has become a staple of Clinton's stump speech, a prime example of how, in a campaign year in which lofty phrases have taken center stage, she has rejected sweeping oratory -- "just words," as her campaign likes to accuse Democratic rival Barack Obama of offering -- in favor of a dramatic speaking style all her own.
In hushed tones, sometimes with palpable sadness in her voice, Clinton tells dark, difficult anecdotes picked up on the campaign trail.
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If the situation with this person was so unusual or a notable failure of the health care system, how come there are no news accounts or comments from local officials like Ohio governor Strickland (who follows her around like a poodle).
Reminds me of Al Gore pitching yarns in the 2000 race and Clinton spinning more yarns.
Something like a pregnancy may have complicated a pre-existing condition and there is no info on what she or her fiance were doing to maintain her health and her pregnancy.
Whatever she died of, the story about the hospital turning her away is NOT the WHOLE story!
Thanks for the news clip. Your point about a PH manager without any health coverage on top of the fact that a pregnant woman was supposedly refused treatment doesn't pass the smell test.
Your clip also reveals her son was born in an Athens hospital and that the father was "Tony Hutton" and yet her fiance's name is "Chester."
Clink on underline link above or cut and paste the following: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/us/politics/05woman.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=login
WOW!!! And Bryon Holman is a LIAR also!! Do ANY Democrats tell the TRUTH??
Thanks for including me in this response. That’s what I thought - Hillary picked up on a rumor, didn’t check it out and used that story over and over again.
Hmmmmm.....Thank God for the internet and those tenacious sould, like you, who are willing to pursue the truth.
I suppose that it’s not so passingly strange that Hillary used this story, unchecked - a story that could have been readily checked. Shameful.
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