Mercadia: That was pretty vitriolic and personal (let's see, ignorant, simple-minded, exercrable, perpetuating ignorance, afraid to look at yourself...). It mirrors the vitriol from the Clinton campaign over the past five days.

Beyond that, based on your verbiage, it looks like your primary source was Wikipedia (State Children's Health Insurance Plan). The open-source Wikipedia overview of SCHIP does attribute the plan to Hillary Clinton, largely based on an article by Beth Fouley written in December 2007, in the midst of a campaign. Her article relies heavilly on Gene Sperling. Gene Sperling is Chief Economic Advisor to the Hillary Clinton campaign. Others say that she helped enormously - and that may be to her credit, but it does not substantiate your claims that SCHIPs was her brain child or legislation.

Your research also leaves out a pretty important fact: that SCHIPs became crucial because millions of American children lost health care coverage on August 22, 1996 - when Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which left millions of children without healthcare - and led Peter Edelman, the husband of Hillary Clinton's truly fearless mentor, Marion Wright Edelman, to quit his job with the Clinton Adminstration in disgust. Where was Hillary then?

This issue leads to another question which concerns me - am I being asked to support a candidate for the presidency or a co-presidency? Yesterday Bill Clinton actually said "If you will vote for me.." I don't want a co-presidency. And I do not believe that the majority of American's want that either.

I think both Democratic candidates have positions which are worlds away from George Bush in regard to healthcare. One has had her chance to reform healthcare in America and it was not only a dismal failure - it cost countless lives. I'm ready to for a new candidate who has demonstrated that he can reach across party lines - and judging from the past week, run a decent campaign. I don't think that makes me ignorant, simple minded or execrable (nor does it make the millions of Americans who have voted for Obama in caucuses and primaries ignorant, simple-minded, or execrable). I think it simply means that we do not support the same candidate.