That’s right, the former Wal-Mart board member is going to stick it to the corporations.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) trashed an array of corporate interests in an economic speech in Ohio Thursday, vowing that as president she would go after oil, credit-card, insurance, pharmaceutical, investment and loan firms.

Delivering a major economic address ahead of the Buckeye State’s crucial March 4 primary, Clinton also slammed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as a lightweight, declaring: “My opponent gives speeches, I offer solutions.”

“My opponent says that he’ll take on the special interests,” she said in her prepared remarks. “Well, he told people he stood up to the nuclear industry and passed a bill against them. But he actually let the nuclear industry water down his bill — the bill never actually passed.”

So let me get this straight.  Hillary is going to punish the people who sell me the gasoline I need for my car?  The people who make the medicine I take to stay healthy?  Not to mention the people who handle my retirement accounts?

Why would I want those things?  Why would any American want them?  What are these companies doing that is so wrong?  I know, I know...they make lots of money, and for some people that’s a sin.  But even so, each of those industries provides me with goods and services that I need.  Hillary’s attack on them would undoubtedly make those goods and services more expensive and more complicated to procure.

Hillary’s rhetoric here is reminiscent of a by-gone age.  I know it’s still fashionable in leftist circles (and even certain marginal rightist circles) to castigate “big business” for all the world’s evils, but in today’s modern economy where the vast majority of Americans are invested in these corporations I just don’t see it resonating much past the political activists.