Clinton 'absolutely positive' for Obama
Hillary Clinton gave one of her most forceful, impassioned endorsements of Barack Obama, telling activists today that she is "absolutely positive with every fiber of my being" that her one-time Democratic rival needs to be elected.
"I come today with a very clear, unequivocal message," she said at the 8th Annual Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee Luncheon in New York City. "We are facing extremely difficult times in New York and America. It will be challenging for our nation and our state to navigate through these unchartered waters. We will need leaders who will understand what it takes to reassert our economic stability, create new jobs while at the same time remembering those who are most likely to be left out and left behind.
“As a woman, as a lifelong advocate for women, children and families, as a New Yorker, as a senator and as an American, this is not even a close choice. This must be approached with the same level of commitment and intensity that we have ever seen by any campaign and by any citizen movement," she added, citing Obama's differences with Republican John McCain on abortion, equal pay, family leave, and healthcare.
She quoted her predecessor as first lady, "A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she’s in hot water."
"Well, the same is true for America," Clinton said. "We’re in hot water. But we will with the right leadership show strength and resolve. We will roll up our sleeves and get to work. But the only way we will find our way forward is by electing a President and Vice President who understand what’s at stake, who share the values that America represents here at home and around the world that will come with solutions that work."
“We need a fresh start, and the Obama-Biden Administration will provide that. America can rise again as we have before from the ashes of the Bushes. And get back on a confident and optimistic path into the future."
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This is the Hillary we know and love. Bravo!
yep, at what price? the failure of the democratic led congress and the fallout of the financial crisis? She still has the balls to call for more spending for healthcare? Sorry, there is a reason why she was rejected and still more reason's to reject Obama and his desire to spend, spend and more spending.
Senator Clinton is right. I am sure we we see her expertise used in an Obama-Biden administration. She has so much to offer America.
"needs to be elected"....
but WON'T be.
Hillary is pathetic.
Sad!
Way to go Hillary!
Obama/Biden '08
Oh how I miss Hillary! I am so glad she is campaigning for Obama. Hopefully he will find a very important position in his Administration like Supreme Court Justice.
Go Obama!
Great and so true
amen!
Finally Hillary comes out more positive. Let me tell you that she finally sees the writing on the wall if she doesn't. McCain/Palin ticket will go down like pile of dung and her star would burn out if she doesn't get on the bandwagon in earnest.
Oh well Hillary. You'll never see the inside of the White House if Obama is elected. No way you beat him in 2012 if he's the incumbent even though he'll have led us into a Depression with his tax and spend policies. And even if he waves the white flag of surrender and isolates the U.S. from the rest of the world and leads us into defeat against Islamic terrorism. And even if he leads an internal class and racial warfare with his army of Farrakhan supporters.
You have better luck being named to McCain's cabinet. McCain is someone who appreciates your talents and will reach across party lines to bring in the best and the brightest. Obama will bring in stooges, radicals, ultra left liberals, and anyone who gives him enough money.
President Clinton let over three trillion dollars surplus. Now the american economy is in trouble. Senator McCain has no plan for America. We, Americans, should show the world that we can rise again. We sould also show that we are not stupid as Bill Maher once said. Let's rise America. May God bless.
Now she comes out stongly for Obama!
Clinton has no other choice than to sound positive for Obama. If she doesn't, she will be villified by Democratic worshippers of Obama. She should pay the vendors to whom she owes millions, rather than raising 8 million for Obama's campaign. It is likely that Hillary is looking forward to running again, so no doubt she has to play her cards right. However, if Obama wins, at the end of 8 years, Hillary will be close to 70 years and Democrats will pass her over for a younger man or woman just as they did with Obama.
BRAVO Hillary! There is no choice... I'd agree 110%. McCain-Palin is sooooo wrong for this country it hurts to think about it.
Hillary -
Your husband also PROMISED not to raise taxes on anyone making over $200K and that got him elected.
Back when Mr. Clinton was campaigning for president in 1992, he made a pretty direct pitch: Raise taxes on people making more than $200,000, and use those revenues to fund tax relief for the "forgotten middle class."
In an October presidential debate, then-Gov. Clinton laid out the marginal-rate increase he wanted and some of his plans for the revenue that would be brought in. He followed with a pledge:
"Now, I'll tell you this," he said. "I will not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for these programs. If the money does not come in there to pay for these programs, we will cut other government spending, or we will slow down the phase-in of the programs."
Mr. Clinton, of course, won that election. And as the inauguration approached, he began backtracking from his promise. At a Jan. 14, 1993, press conference in New Hampshire, he claimed that it was the media that had played up a middle-class tax cut, not him. A month later, he announced his actual plan before a joint session of Congress.
On page one of the New York Times, the paper described the fate of the middle-class tax cut this way: "Families earning as little as $20,000 a year -- members of the 'forgotten middle class' whose taxes he promised during his campaign to cut -- will also be asked to send more dollars to Washington under the President's plan."
For the first two years of his first term -- when Democrats controlled Congress -- Mr. Clinton was a different president. With Democrats in control of Washington, the middle-class tax cut vanished, a massive tax hike was approved, and the political debate centered around HillaryCare.
Barring divine intervention, a President Obama would not have a Republican Congress to worry about. Instead, he would be working with a Democratic speaker of the House who loaded billions in pork onto a bill meant to fund our troops; with a Democratic Senate majority leader who promised to change the way Congress spent but fought earmark reform; and with committee leaders such as Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank, who did so much to bring us the financial implosion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
This country should be sick and tired of this liar. As a boomer woman I have no comprehension of how my peers could be so conned by this greedy, needy ego. Obama is her superior in so many, many ways. I really thought my peers had more common sense then to vote for vaginal politics. Sexism is not a reason to vote. It's an "ism" to end.
I marvel at the hate directed toward this woman who by every example has had the best interests of our country in mind. Where does this hate and anger come from ?
Seek out counselors or ministers or loved ones to help unleash your unfounded anger or it will destroy you and those around you. Thank God Hillary has the strength and fortitude to withstand these barbs. She will continue to serve and do good.
Some of the people that write on these blogs are really sad. They hate Hillary because they are so jealous of her and this is the only way they can vent. Believe me these type of comments do nothing but show the world just how stupid and sexist the USA really is. Hillary Clinton will be just fine. Its our country that seemingly that is having a problem even with the likes of Senator Barack and Gov. Palin on their respective tickets. I would not be able to explain this if I did know just how stupid the electorate is. After all we elected Bush twice. So there it is! Don't worry about Hillary we love her in New York!
Why don't you all get up and actually help someone/ do something for this country - rather than write blog entires and pontificate....
I believe that Obama will do better for this country than McCain/ Palin could ever do!! If you vote for McCain you are either stupid, racist, or in denile!!! GO OBAMA!!!!