In January 1995 a dejected President Bill Clinton stood in front of the United States Congress and delivered his State of the Union address. President Clinton conceded: "Last year, we bit off more than we could chew. This year, let’s work together, step by step, to get something done."

President Clinton was speaking after a year of bruising political defeats that culminated in a sweeping Republican victory in the mid-term elections. His presidency was on the ropes. The reason: Hillary Clinton’s disastrous stewardship of the national healthcare proposal. Failing to heed advice or seek consensus Mrs. Clinton drove Bill Clinton’s grand plans for healthcare into a brick wall. The First Lady proved herself to be lacking in her major brush with policy during President Clinton’s tenure at the White House.

Reflecting on her role in the Clinton health care fiasco, Mrs. Clinton admitted in January of the following year that she had been "naive and dumb":

"I think I was naive and dumb, because my view was, ‘results speak for themselves,’ " she said. "I regret very much that the efforts on health care were badly misunderstood, taken out of context and used politically against the Administration. I take responsibility for that, and I’m very sorry for that."

Mrs. Clinton said she had thought she could reach an accommodation with the Republicans in Congress and had not sought strong political counsel. "I take responsibility for not understanding what was going on," she said. "There was a lack of politically savvy advice. No one had figured out the dynamics."

Mrs. Clinton also reflected on her image problem and her unpreparedness on day one:

Given her regret about the way she handled welfare and her own publicity, Mrs. Clinton was asked if she would have done things differently. "I would have done a lot of things differently, but I am confident I would have made different mistakes," she said. "There is no way in the world to figure out what it’s like to live here. There is so much about it no one ever tells you about. There are little things you never would have thought of. You have to start thinking about Christmas in April."

In 2008 Mrs. Clinton is now touting her experience as First Lady in the White House during the years her husband was running the country. However, other than her ceremonial duties she was entrusted by her husband to work on healthcare. She was woefully unprepared and failed miserably. She nearly sunk Bill Clinton’s presidency in the process.

She was most certainly not ready on Day One. Now Mrs. Clinton asks the voters to consider her experience as First Lady as a qualification for being elected President of the United States. The voters should do just that.