Rob: I'm
going to ask you a couple of more basic questions. How old are you? What's your
marital status? What's your career history?
Jill: Okay,
so I am married. I'm 62 years old. I've been married, for I think, it's 31
years now. I have two kids who are grown and out of the house and I did my
training to be a doctor and I have worked as a medical doctor in internal
medicine, sort of general medicine for adults and I became increasingly
interested in the drivers outside of the clinic and I got tired of delivering
pills to people and then sending them back out to the very things that were
making them sick. So, for the past many years, I began to pull back from
clinical practice. I was in, about--well, it was a part-time clinical practice
until about five or six years when I transitioned entirely to the world of policy.
I have co-authored several books about the intersection of health, the
environment and public policy. Those can be found on my website in the bio
section of my website.
Rob: Now
Mitt Romney might ask you, "Have you ever run a business?"
Jill: You
know what, I could ask him, "Have you ever run a democratic movement?" And
while I have not run a business, I don't think government is a business. I
think government is democracy and I think our businesses flourish when we have
a healthy democracy that creates the conditions for business flourishing. I
don't think businesses have flourished over the past many years when Wall
Street has been running the economy. And I think bringing business in, in my
state in Massachusetts, we have had businessmen running the show here for a
long time and it is certainly driving our economy into the ground as well in the
same way the U.S. economy is.
Rob: Are
you suggesting that George W. Bush, a businessman did not bring a wealth of
skills that helped the economy?
Jill: Exactly.
/ Isn't that the case in point? Yes, right.
Rob: You've
discussed issues here. But what skills do you bring to the presidency?
Jill: What
I bring to the presidency is an understanding of how to inform and empower and
engage everyday people to move our democracy forward in such a way that we
create jobs, create a healthy community and a sustainable future and that is
the work that I have been doing over the course of decades, with a variety of
groups, largely non-profits but also businesses and just everyday citizens
engaging people in the political process in there communities and at the state
level and some extent at the national level as well. So that we actually use
the tools of democracy to create jobs, to create a sustainable economy and
green jobs that also protect our health at the community level as well.
Next Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
5
5
3
