From O'Reily Last Night

[Herb Schaffler]

Said O'Reilly: "You're going to raise taxes on the wealthy. That's income redistribution. You know what that is. And income redistribution is why some conservatives don't like you. It's because it takes from the wealthy and you give the less afluent - that's socialism - that has a socialist component ..."



"No it isn't" said Hillary who recoiled from the S word like a vampire confronted with a cross. "Was Teddy Roosevelt a socialist?" she asked. When O'Reilly said "somewhat," she added that, "Teddy Roosevelt was a great American. Our country works better when we're all in it together.”



On her $110 billion-a-year health care plan, O'Reilly, citing California's $8 billion health care deficit and New York's $5 billion health care deficit, asked "Are you going to tell me President Hillary Clinton is going to A) run this efficiently and B) not bankrupt the country when California and New York are already bankrupt?"



In reply, Mrs. Clinton simply side-stepped defending the ruinous fiscal cost of her plan by merely touting its alleged benefits, warning that "if we don't get to universal health care we will continue to bleed money." She also warned health care companies that she will regulate them.



When O'Reilly asked Hillary if she is a more polarizing personality than Obama Mrs. Clinton did not disagree, deftly avoiding the reasons for her reputation as being untrustworthy and blaming her bad image solely on issues.



Hillary said, "I've been around a long time. I bear a lot of the scars of the ideological and the political battles. I stand up for what I believe in. My point is that I've been doing that for 15 years so the people who disagree with me - it's fair, that's our system – they take shots at me."


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I was glad O'Reily asked her tough questions. I was afraid he was going to give her a platform in which to help her in her race against Obama.

[nohil-billy]

I didn't see the interview but I heard that she did rather well, da*n it. I think Obama's and Howard Dean's appearance on Fox News Sunday and Hillary's appearance on The O'Reilly Factor underscores the Democratic Party's new found understanding that they need to reach out and connect with the viewers of the nations #1 cable news channel. The far left groups are yowling!!!

Great vampire comparison Herb.