Posted on 04/21/2007 5:56:10 PM PDT by Bluestateredman
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Clinton Says Husband Would Be Ambassador Saturday, April 21st, 2007 at 4:56pm EST
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MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa
Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that if she is elected president, she would make her husband a roaming ambassador to the world, using his skills to repair the nation's tattered image abroad.
"I can't think of a better cheerleader for America than Bill Clinton, can you?" the Democratic senator from New York asked a crowd jammed into a junior high school gymnasium. "He has said he would do anything I asked him to do. I would put him to work."
Clinton spoke at a town hall-style meeting Saturday where she took questions from about 200 people. When asked what role the former president would play in her administration, she left no doubt it would be an important one.
"I'm very lucky that my husband has been so experienced in all of these areas," said Clinton, who pointed to the diplomatic assignments her husband has carried out since leaving office, such as raising money for tsunami victims.
Although former president Clinton was impeached after an affair with a White House intern, he remains a very popular figure in much of the world and is considered an effective diplomat.
That's precisely what America needs in the wake of a war in Iraq that's left America isolated and hated throughout much of the world, Hillary Clinton said.
"I believe in using former presidents, particularly what my husband has done, to really get people around the world feeling better about our country," she said. "We're going to need that. Right now they're rooting against us and they need to root for us."
The former president can also be a political asset to his wife's campaign. While his image with the electorate is mixed, he remains immensely popular among Democrats.
When it was announced last year that he would be the main speaker at the Iowa Democratic Party's largest annual fundraiser, the event sold out overnight.
On Saturday, Hillary Clinton chatted with activists in Marshalltown and mingled at a coffee shop in Newton before raising money for Rep. Leonard Boswell.
She was scheduled to visit Dubuque on Sunday.
In Marshalltown, she was pressed on immigration issues in a city where a raid at a local meatpacking plant led to the detention of nearly 100 workers. Clinton called for more assistance for cities with significant numbers of undocumented workers.
"You've got to have more help for communities when you have a lot of undocumented workers because they have costs associated with that and they don't set immigration policy," Clinton said.
She also said any immigration reform must be tougher on businesses that hire illegal immigrants.
She said nothing will affect the issue until leaders of countries, such as Mexico, improve the economic lives for millions living in poverty.
Clinton also said she would raise taxes for the wealthy, who she said "aren't paying their fair share." She also praised the economic policies of her husband that brought budget surpluses.
"We need to get back to fiscal responsibility," she said.
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Yeah probably ambassor to hooker of the world
That is one way to get rid of him .
I believe it. She would send Bill around the world to let the world’s leaders know she will sell out the USA for enough money deposited to certain numbered bank accounts in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands
LOL...now, its coming out...her policy ideas don’t hold water so now this.
Please-——I’m trying to eat here!
It cost us in the neighborhood of a Billion Dollars to send this scumbag and his sycophants in the media around the world in the 90’s for their never-ending champagne and cocaine cotillions.
If the Clintons want to party, let THEM pay for it!!!!
A world tour of bribe taking and treason mongering.
“...she would make her husband a roaming ambassador to the world, using his skills to repair the nation’s tattered image abroad....”
Who in the he!! does she think she’s talking to???
Sick.
Ambassador to Canada?
Im not LOL. If this woman wins I guarrantee the first 100 days of her administration will be spent in conservative websites taking names of the posters.
No matter what her politics may be.
That herpes laced coke head does not deserve her.
If the Republicans don't find and put forth a candidate who can win (and I haven't seen one yet), this is what we're facing.
“roaming ambassador to the world...”
In other words, just don’t come back to the US while I’m President.
To Americans who are presently hearing unopposed propaganda from her party via Reid & Pelosi. While many Americans knew who Daschle and Lott were and Pelosi and Hastert a record number now cannot name the senate minority leader or the republican in Congress but they know Pelosi and Reid.
This is a hint for what's coming in 2008 unfortunately.
Yes i am familiar with how Clintoon goon squads work too, they take names then send the IRS to repeatedly audit...happened to lots of conservative folks here in NH years ago.
Headline = Dear Lord...give me strength
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