Yesterday, Bill Clinton set out HRC's policy goals and plan of action at a speech broadcast on C-SPAN from Missouri Valley High School in Iowa:
Hillary will:
- Use our military forces only as a last resort
- Restore America's leadership in science & technology (hijacked by reseachers with political agendas like stem cell research & global warming)
- Develop a comprehensive energy policy -- the only way we can succeed is if we create new jobs in this sector
- Rebuild the middle class -- special interests have too much power, as illustrated by Medicare's inability to negotiate drug prices, and spending billions on no-bid contracts.
- Enforce labor & trade laws. We can't tell China, Japan, Korea and oil exporting countries to clean up their act on defective toys amd other products when they're our #1 banker.
- Education plan: Universal pre-K, access for HS grads to have vocational training, ditch No Child Left Behind. Replace by looking at schools that succeed in excellence, and modeling that behavior.
- Energy/jobs: Create energy trust fund, and repeal oil company tax cuts. Accelerate hospitals/factories becoming green.
- Healthcare -- cover everyone, bring costs in line, and invest in wellness.
- President Bush and his advisors threatened to take away signing bonuses to disabled vets who were unable to fulfill their military duty. Hillary made sure they were restored.
- It only takes 41 members of the Senate to shoot things down. It's important to work with Republicans to get the job done. Hillary has done that.
- Six million more low income kids now have health care because of Hillary's leadership on SCHIP.
Highlight for me was how HRC has responded to "failure" by dusting herself off and getting back into the arena. Bill also sprinkled in wonderful stories about Arkansas politics to drive home the points.The final story he tells about running into a NYFD guy who was moonlighting as a golf caddie was a tearjerker, as he explained what HRC had done to protect NYFD workers from asbestos, PCB and other harmful materials they were breathing in their rescue efforts. "She fought for us, and some of us would have died if it wasn't for Hillary."
Bill's closing line: "This country needs the best leadership it can get.... Hillary will make a MAGNIFICIENT President. Please help her! And God bless you."Check out the entire broadcast on CSPAN.
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http://connect.hillaryclinton.com/blog/Knowvoxs-Blog/400030427
2 comments:
Hillary is the best candidate, a remarkable woman and a great role model for working women. She has raised Chelsea well and I agree with the President that this country needs a great leader and Hillary is the one
usha
Hillary was very Presidential, self-assured, and knowledgable tonight at the Nevada Debate! I was already in her camp, but now I really know that I want to become an activist for her campaign here in southwestern Virginia, a fairly conservative section of the country.
dennis
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