It is a little depressing when our leaders start looking to Yahoo Answers.  According to Joshua Porter, Senator Clinton posted the following question to Yahoo Answers:

“Based on your own family’s experience, what do you think we should do to improve health care in America?”

Joshua is positive indicating, “Clinton is actually asking the American people what they think, rather than assuming or generalizing from the party she’s a part of.”

Turns out there are over 35,000 answers in just two days with various responses including:

Allen - “We should recall ALL the loans made to foreign countries,and use the money for health care,poverty etc.”

Zero Cool - “The biggest problem we’ve faced is the fact that it’s barely affordable. Cost for healthcare needs to be reduced in some way.”

McGill - “KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF IT! My state goverment has totally screwed up our automobile insurance. Health insurance in their hands would be a tragedy. I don’t want your “help”.”

Did Hillary’s people have a plan for the responses she would get?  Jumping into the “social media” craze is actually a good idea for politicians, but make sure you have a plan before jumping in.  Interestingly Yahoo notes,

“Yahoo! Answers Staff note: Yahoo! Answers is a forum for people from all over the world to engage with one another and to find information on topics that interest them. This is not an endorsement. We are not siding with any candidate or party — in general or for the 2008 US elections. We’re hopeful that people from all perspectives will realize the great insights that the Answers community can have, and will turn to us for future discussions.”