Posted on 01/27/2007 4:34:32 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Clinton in Iowa: "About time" for woman president
By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent2 hours, 11 minutes ago
Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton drew big crowds and loud cheers on Saturday during her first visit to Iowa as a presidential contender, defending her votes on Iraq and saying it was "about time" for a woman president.
In the state that holds the first contest in the 2008 presidential nomination battle, the former first lady said she thought Americans were ready for a woman in the Oval Office.
"It's about time, if not past time, we had a woman president," she told an enthusiastic and overflow crowd of 1,500 Iowa Democrats jammed into a high school gymnasium in Des Moines.
While some might wonder whether U.S. voters will elect a woman, she said, "I don't think we'll know until we try, and I'm going to try."
Earlier, at a meeting with state Democratic Party officials, she was asked about her 2002 vote to authorize the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. The New York senator, now a war critic, has been criticized for being slow to turn against the conflict and for her hesitance to renounce her vote.
"I've taken responsibility for my vote, but there are no do-overs in life. I wish there were. I acted on the best judgment I had at the time," she said. "The president took my vote and others' votes and basically misused the authority we gave him."
The trip was Clinton's first to Iowa since November 2003, when she hosted the state Democratic Party's annual fund-raising dinner featuring the candidates battling for the 2004 presidential nomination.
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Feminism reveals its face again: "It's all about me."
Well what a surprise.
Gack!!!
Maybe....but just not her.
"I've taken responsibility for my vote, but there are no do-overs in life. I wish there were. I acted on the best judgment I had at the time," she said. "The president took my vote and others' votes and basically misused the authority we gave him."
WTF???????
Blaming someone else.....typical beatchhhhh
we already had a woman in the oval office - HER.
and what did it brings us? her and her husband's stewardship of this nation's intelligence and defense apparatus for 8 years, led to 9-11 just 7 months after they left office.
...we did have a woman in the oval office, and thanks to your slug of a husband, we changed the carpet
Oh so typical hilly; pointing the finger of blame elsewhere. What a witch.
"I've taken responsibility for my vote, but there are no do-overs in life. I wish there were. I acted on the best judgment I had at the time," she said. "The president took my vote and others' votes and basically misused the authority we gave him."
What a heaping stinking pile of crap, just like her.
I saw her saying that people have told her that they wouldn't vote for a woman. It was clearly theatrical BS meant to insinuate that not voting for her makes you a chauvinist.
I can now look forward to hearing my husband mutter C*&^ (rhymes with stunt)everytime Hillary appears on television.
And based on what we are already seeing in Iowa, she will be on television all the freaking time from here til election day...
Woe is us....
Sorry Dinah.
I don't use that word for hillary, but pretty much EVERYTIME I think of Cindy Sheehan.
But I understand what he is going through.
"About Time for a Woman President"????
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No, it is not time for a Marxist, power-mad President that just happens to be a woman?...
God, what a reprehensible reprobate SOW. A total Marxist nut job.
God, what a reprehensible reprobate SOW. A total Marxist nut job.
Bears repeating lmao.
Ah, isn't that exactly what George Bush did, Hillary?
How about your husband, Missy?
"I saw her saying that people have told her that they wouldn't vote for a woman. It was clearly theatrical BS meant to insinuate that not voting for her makes you a chauvinist."
I will be very proud to be a chauvinistic woman! I refused to watch her on TV today as it makes me ill to look at her!
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