She has been in those smoke- filled rooms and is playing to win and plans to embrace whatever medium available– She has learned well from the PR consultants out there.

So far, for game plan, I give her “A” for strategy.

You see what I’m asking - I’m not asking if she meant to just get publicity or not. Of course she did, and she probably also meant to get some sensible ideas. The question is whether her celebrity creates a pandering or does something else to the “conversation” which skews it too much to be politically practicable.

We say “if she gets a sensible idea from Yahoo Answers, then wasn’t it worth it?” But policy isn’t really about ideas. We all know why universal coverage is and isn’t feasible. The question is whether we’re ready to make the compromises needed to instantiate it, or whether we would be best - for the health of our polity more than our economy - leaving well-enough alone. The purpose of conversation is not to talk to her campaign, perhaps, but to each other, and not just to “debate,” either.

This comment, of course, will be utterly neglected, because I don’t understand politics in the way everyone on the Internet does, I have realized.