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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I dont know who is responsible for this but I fear we have Hell to pay in 2008.
Is this the fault of the GOP chairman?
The selective memory of the press is alive and well. This is what they actually believe - that Bill Clinton was impeached for his affair. This article may as well have stated that Clinton was impeached "after the Oklahoma City bombing" or "after the Branch Davidians perished in Waco" because while those statements are factually true, the events have about as much to do with the impeachment as the affair itself.
Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury he committed in his deposition for the Paula Jones case. Why can't it be reported that way?
I don't know if this is an example of bias, but it certainly is an example of sloppy reporting.
ping!
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HILLARY CLINTON’s going worldwide =
“Rule-making for others,
...Rule-breaking for herself” *
*HILLARY’s lifetime M.O. as described by U.S. News & World Report Political Columnist MICHAEL BARONE-1999
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America is a miracle country. The greatest country the world has ever seen and I am very proud to be an American. I can only hope and pray that we never see such trash as the Clintons in the White House ever again.
Yeah, his “skills” and a check-book.
Isn’t that what all alley cats do...roam? Billy boy couldn’t be trained to the litter box.
DO NOT RESUSCITATE!!!!!!!!!!!
I WAS JOKING!
Imagine, an American ambassador with his zipper permanently unzipped. Old Bill no doubt has trouble being amorous especially with that Arkie witch Hildabeast. He is a wornout predator so all of the females overseas can sleep peacefully.
By the end of her term, he be down to stopping passing penguins to apologize.
Unfortunately, Hitlery isn’t kidding about this.
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