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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It appears to me she's had some coaching with her voice and laugh; she sounded girlish today.
Uh, Ms Clinton, how did he do that? You know, 'misuse the authority' that you gave him? Can you please name the acts of misuse that you are talking about? Unless you can be specific about what 'misuse' GW Bush used, I would suggest that you apologize to him and in the future, please think before you open your mouth!!!
BTW, did your husband really rape Ms Broadderick as she accused him of doing? You never did address that question?
This country is going down hill. Can't we get some decent, intelligent people to run for President?
"the former first lady said she thought Americans were ready for a woman in the Oval Office."
Her husband surely was ready for a woman in the Oval Office, and it wasn't his wife.
"The way she talks you'd think the Presidency was Hillary's by divine right ..."
That is precisely what she believes.
I agree. Let's see if I can get Hillary to join me ina chorus of, "Run, Condi, run!"
Yeah. Right.
Man, I hate this woman..
If you check, she has a penis.
God save us from this evil woman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfZ_gXCHaMw
Hear Hillary sing the National Anthem.
She has only been through a thousand national events....the Smartest Woman In The World doesn't know the lyrics....
"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."
Gosh didn't her husband already have a women in the oval office? LOL. Amen.
The adulterer in chief speaks.
"Just melt Hillary down and you'll reveal / a lump of lead as cold as steel / Here, where a woman's heart should be."
Sure things...just as soon as one that is qualified announces I'll be willing to vote for her.
Harold Hill:
"Ladies and gentlemen, either you are closing your eyes to a situation you do not wish to acknowledge, or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated by the presence of Hillary in your community!"
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