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Dem '08ers Make Cases to City Officials
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ABC News' Paul Fidalgo Reports: Three Democratic presidential hopefuls adopted different approaches while speaking Tuesday to a conference of the National League of Cities in Washington, D.C.. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., emphasized issues of local concern while speaking to the audience of municipal officials. Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., by contrast, spoke more broadly about the implications of the Iraq war on American cities.
Clinton touted the success of the Community Oriented Policing Systems program (COPS) enacted during her husband’s administration, and promised to double its current budget.
"As funding for the COPS program has gone down, crime has gone up," said Clinton. "By boosting funding for community policing we can put more cops on the beat and make our communities safer."
Dodd emphasized his chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, telling the crowd, "we intend to put the 'Urban' back into that committee's title."
Dodd advocated for increased investment in local communities, security, and infrastructure. "For too long, it seems to me, the needs of our cities and towns have been ignored by the United States Congress," said Dodd, who declared, "I'm hear to tell you. . .that those days are over."
Rather than focus on local issues, Biden held up the Iraq war as the greatest impediment to dealing with "the problems of the world and the problems of our neighborhoods."
"I'm the only person in either party that's laid out a specific political solution," said an impassioned Biden, who reiterated his plan for a loose Iraqi federation to give the warring parties "breathing room," and compared his plan to the war in the Balkans where he said, "the self-sustaining cycle of sectarian violence from Vlad the Impaler to Milosevic has ended" due to a similar plan where "we gave each of the parties breathing room and their own space."
Biden also expressed concern that his son, serving in the National Guard, may be sent to Iraq, and said, "I need to be concerned, that depending on how we leave, we're not put in a position where I send back my grandson or my granddaughter."
March 13, 2007 in Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (1)
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The only guy in the "scene" who would make a worse president than Guiliani, is this big-talker Biden.
He is the ultimate career politician: talks your ears off, shakes your hand, and then stabs you in the back, all the while facing the cameras and flashing his politicians smile for all the world to see.
Posted by: georgembush | Mar 13, 2007 5:40:14 PM
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