August 14, 2007

Ah, democracy. Old Glory. Hot dogs, balloons, and parades. Wet kisses lingering on the faces of helpless infants. And now... "Walk A Day In My Shoes."

You just can't make this kind of stuff up. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday spent two hours "shadowing" a nurse---Michelle Estrada, chosen, of course, at random---in a ward at a hospital in Henderson, Nevada. According to USA Today, "Nurses often have five or six patients per shift, but Estrada on Monday had only four patients to accomodate the newspaper reporters, television crew, and Secret Service agents that followed Clinton."

So once again, Hillary's involvement, so very representative of government, leaves some patients out in the cold. Or are other nurses required to pick up the slack? Did Hillary, or anyone, walk in their shoes?

That question answers itself. The "Walk A Day In My Shoes" gambit is sponsored by the Service Employees International Union, which has announced that "presidential candidates must participate in the program to be considered for an endorsement from the union." So forget the patients or the nurses or any of the little people; it's when the union says "jump" that Nurse Hillary begins to do her dance.

Posted by Benjamin Zycher at August 14, 2007 02:15 PM

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