I feel Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's pain

Kudos to The Bee for its article, "Critics: Clintons plans a sham," (Nov. 27, Page A-6). A Pulitzer Prize- winner if ever there was one. The story is a stunning summing up of the estimated costs for all of the programs Hillary Clinton has promised to various groups. The numbers prove that she cannot possibly deliver on all of the spending she has promised. Bill Clinton will go down in history as a brilliant politician, not such a hot leader but a political genius. His advice and help to his wife is well above her political skills to tell people what they want to hear but keep it vague enough to evade the bean counters.

Bill Clinton's famous "I feel your pain" was a wonderful fuzzy promise that help was on the way. Hillary, on the other hand, has made it specific and, as usual, the devil is in the details. Those details paint a picture of promises that cannot be kept. When you take from Peter to pay Paul, you can count on Paul. But when you bankrupt Peter and still cannot deliver all the promises to Paul, things will head south for both. Hillary, I feel your pain.

BILL WOOD

Oakdale

This story was originally published December 5, 2007 at 3:32 AM with the headline "I feel Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's pain."