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Iowa Clinton Supporters 'Kick Her Tires'
September 03, 2007 4:22 PM
ABC News' Kate Snow and Eloise Harper Report: Standing on a make-shift stage on the back of a flat bed truck in Sioux City, Iowa, Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., kicked off Labor Day speaking to a crowd organized by union workers at a picnic.
She was joined by her husband, and reminded the crowd of about 2000 that she has fought for union workers for 35 years and she will fight for them if she gets to the White House. "You can't rebuild the American middle class if you don't rebuild the American labor movement," she told the crowd.
She also made it clear to this audience that she won't make it to the White House without their support, underlining that "the road to the White House goes right through Sioux City."
Clinton mentioned how the voters of Iowa get to "kick her tires" and "see whether or not [she] will collapse" in the Iowa voting process, which she compared to a union.
"Voters from Iowa are sort of like a voters union in a way kind of what a consumers union does for us for products," she said. "The consumers union has got a lot of people who test out all of the products. You know they kick the tires. They make sure the baby chair won't collapse. Well that's what you do in these caucuses, you kind of kick my tires, see whether or not I'll collapse."
Clinton touched on the new campaign speech she unveiled Sunday in Concord, NH, touting the need for change and experience in the next president of the United States.
Rival Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., hit hard at Clinton from New Hampshire, stating, "I may not have the experience Washington likes, but I have the experience America needs right now."
Clinton took some swipes at Obama: "you just don't do [change] by hoping it happens, you need the experience to make it happen."
Overlooking the Missouri River, bordered by South Dakota and Nebraska, both Clintons were cheered on by the crowd. After the event Senator Clinton stepped off the truck to greet a 93-year-old woman who had traveled from South Dakota. Asked if it the country was ready for a woman president, she interrupted and said, "It's about time."
September 3, 2007 in Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (8)
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Be against Obama doesn't helping her......she creating people hate her .
Posted by: Bertrand | Sep 3, 2007 4:56:01 PM
Bertrand, what in the hell are you trying to say? I don't understand what you mean!
Posted by: La Chatte | Sep 3, 2007 5:18:07 PM
There is that word again experience. If you listen to the Senator from NY you would think she had it, let's examine her record. Americans need to remember the chaos we went through in the 90's, not so long ago. The lies the scandals,the ask don't tell strategy, the failed health care plant, the children program that was abandon,the travelgate scandal,the forgein policy debacles, the holier than thou bible carrying leader. Most of all they need to remember the famous statement "I am not some stand by your man" person, nor I am some stay at home cookie cooking mom". Also let's not forget everything that went wrong blame it on a Republican conspiracy. I am one "Democrat" who will not take the bait we have had enough of the Clinton's,they need to move on.
Posted by: murl41 | Sep 3, 2007 8:45:56 PM
Did you know? Bill Clinton is really good friends with George Bush Senior, Did you know George Bush senior served 4 years in office, then Bill Clinton for 8, then George W. Bush for 8. Did you know if Hillary wins and serves 2 terms for 8 more years it will be a total of 28 years of the Bush and Clinton administration. Then after 8 years of Clinton it could be Jeb Bush that runs for office after that. It is time for a change.There is many connections between the Bush's and Clintons. Do your research. We are tired of the lies, the political Bull ####, the new age Adolph Hitler era. It is time for a change, lets us end this political nightmare. Change is all this country needs. CHANGE!
Posted by: Cory | Sep 4, 2007 9:34:34 AM
Mrs. Clinton's speech was an excellent
view point of experience vs the rest of
the field .. Her point by point of offering new ideas and standing firm on
the social ones such as social security
and medicare ..and explaining the bad
and ineffective tax breaks for the rich,
borrowing monies from China to pay for
the wars .. All expenditures should be
paid from a balanced budget..including
the costs of war ..
Posted by: Stan Klecha | Sep 4, 2007 11:32:25 AM
The voters of Iowa shouldn't kick Hillary's Tires; for making tired or tyred analogies!
Posted by: eliXelx | Sep 4, 2007 3:41:50 PM
I'm a Democrat, and I'm not a fan of either Obama or Clinton. Reading these comments is frightening; I'm not a pretentious elitist, but who are these candidates' supporters? Perhaps you folks should learn to write a complete sentence in English that every English speaker with at least a high school diploma can understand. Tackle grammar next - if you want to make a compelling point, whatever it is, your chances of succeeding increase greatly in your audience can understand what you're trying to communicate.
Posted by: Education First | Sep 4, 2007 5:19:19 PM
The neoliberal Democrat dismantles the New Deal, and liberals follow
Class inequality predictably escalated during Reagan’s eight years and the four years of his Republican successor, George H.W. Bush. But Democratic President Bill Clinton, elected in 1992, hammered the nail in the coffin of the New Deal Coalition.
Clinton pledged to ”put people first” and end the misery caused by “12 years of trickle-down economics” while on the campaign trail in 1992. But Clinton was a new breed of Democrat, at the helm of a conservative Democratic Party faction that formed the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) in 1985 to break the Democratic Party’s identification with so-called “special interests”—organized labor, civil rights, and other traditionally liberal causes. Clinton sought to dismantle the New Deal, once and for all. As he assured BusinessWeek while campaigning, “I want to generate a lot of millionaires.”36
One of Clinton’s first accomplishments as president was the successful ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993. Deregulation and open markets were the watchwords of the Clinton administration, and protests from labor and environmentalists did not get in the way. “NAFTA established ‘free trade’ as the holy writ of the Clinton-Gore foreign economic strategy,” Lance Selfa noted in the International Socialist Review.37 Clinton went on to pursue other free trade initiatives—including the 1994 ratification of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the 2000 approval of “permanent normal trade relations” with China, further advancing the cause of unbridled corporate greed around the globe.
But welfare reform was Clinton’s domestic trump card, as he made good on his campaign pledge to “end welfare as we know it.” In 1994, he transformed AFDC into a temporary program requiring all able-bodied recipients to go to work after two years. In 1996, facing reelection, Clinton signed the Republican-sponsored Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, extinguishing the hallmark of the New Deal by relieving the government of any responsibility to care for the poor, limiting poor women and children to a five-year lifetime limit.
Clinton succeeded in shifting the political parameters of mainstream discourse, as the Democratic Party lurched rightward in the 1990s. Yet liberal organizations continued to support Clinton as he embraced a range of conservative domestic policies.
The feminist movement never protested against Clinton, even as he allowed the erosion of legal abortion and dismantled welfare for poor women and children. Most gay rights organizations maintained their loyalty even after Clinton signed the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, banning same-sex marriage. The collapse of liberalism as a force during the Clinton era allowed mainstream politics to shift rightward in the years before Bush took office in 2001. The Defense of Marriage Act paved the way for Bush’s more draconian proposal for a federal ban on gay marriage, while the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act made more palatable the more repressive Patriot Act passed after September 11, 2001.
Likewise, no significant antiwar movement materialized to protest Clinton’s so-called humanitarian invasions that paved the way for U.S. imperialism’s post 9-11 wars against Afghanistan and Iraq.
Liberalism was extinguished as a political force well before George W. Bush took office in 2001. The Democrats’ failure to offer an aggressive opposition to the corruption of the Bush administration enabled all of Bush’s post 9-11 policies.
Even after the voter rebellion of 2006 that swept Democrats back into the majority party in Congress, there is so far little indication that the party’s powerbrokers have plans to shift their neoliberal course.
In a November 30 interview on CNN, former (and possibly future) presidential candidate John Kerry called for a “bipartisan” solution when asked by news anchor Wolf Blitzer whether the Democrats would seek to obstruct Bush’s Iraq War policies, “I’d really prefer to see all of us come together and work with the president in a cooperative way if we can, to sort of have a good discussion about this. Let’s not get locked into positions that are just so intractable that we can’t advance American interests.”38
On the domestic front, Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank assured business interests soon after the November 7 election that swept his party to victory, “I’m a capitalist, and that means I’m for inequality…. But you reach a point where you get more inequality than is healthy, and I believe we’re at that point. What we want to do is to look at public policies that’ll get some bigger share of the increased wealth into wages, and in return you’ll see Democrats as internationalists.... I really urge the business community to join us.”39
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