Quote by Christopher Hitchens
One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that it conferred 'experience' on the despised and much-deceived wife. Well, the main 'experience' involved the comprehensive fouling-up of the nation's health-care arrangements, so as to make them considerably worse than they had been before and to create an opening for the worst-of-all-worlds option of the so-called HMO, combining as it did the maximum of capitalist gouging with the maximum of socialistic bureaucracy. This abysmal outcome, forgiven for no reason that I can perceive, was the individual responsibility of the woman who now seems to think it entitles her to the presidency.
Summary
In this quote, the author criticizes the idea that the joint tenure of the executive mansion (referring to the Clintons) was a positive thing because it provided the despised wife with valuable experience. The author argues that the main result of this experience was the mishandling of the nation's healthcare system, leading to worse arrangements and the creation of HMOs that combined capitalist exploitation with bureaucratic socialism. The author questions why this failure is overlooked and suggests that the responsibility for this outcome rests on the woman who now seeks to become president.
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