Sen Clinton is saying that she is not the one who merely promises change, she is the one who has brought change.

What change has she effected when she has been in or out of office?

She also speaks of having taken on the drug companies. When did she do this and with what result?Is this a reference to the time when her husband entrusted her with a plan to reform health care? Was she a success?

Of course, if the people are fed up with present conditions, the emphasis on "change" is an effective tactic. It does seem that the ability to bring about actual change would require a degree of knowledge and/or experience - which neither Barack nor Hillary can legitimately boast of. If that were the case either Chris Dodd or Joe Biden might have been better candidates.

Certainly, on the subject of universal health care, Hillary has had a great deal of study and research undertaken during her husbands administration. I certainly wouldn't fault her on its not having succeeded, because it met with a billion dollar campaign of fear and obfuscation on the part of the insurance and other vested interests. The fact that we rank seventeenth in the world according to the WHO rankings can be at least partly attributed to our preference for "inspirational sound-bites" over actual thinking and investigation. Both candidates promise health care reform; I'm inclined to put more faith in the one who at least has devoted a lot of time and thought to the problem, rather than the one who advocates a less coercive program which would allow the "opt-out" kiss of death which leaves millions to the charity of the majority. If France, Canada, the UK, Italy, Germany, etc. can come up with a much better health care system, is it too much to ask, "Why can't we borrow some working ideas from our friends?"