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Politics | 10/07/2008 9:10 am

Hillary Clinton Says Obama, Dems Will Help 'Repair' America

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
© AP
There are a lot of things broken in America, so Hillary Clinton says she is doing everything she can to get Democrats into more leadership positions this election season.

Since July, the New York senator has raised more than $8 million for former primary rival Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, and she plans to crisscross the country for more cash. Former President Bill Clinton is also stumping for the Illinois senator.

"I am using every tool that I have to help Democrats win," Clinton told USA Today while fundraising at events for Obama and congressional Democratic candidates in Texas and California over the weekend. Later this month, the former First Lady will headline Obama fundraisers in Chicago, Philadelphia and Little Rock and 11 other events to raise money for congressional candidates and state Democratic parties.

Clinton is also doing more to get more Democratic women elected to the Senate. On Friday, she sent out an e-mail fundraising appeal for Louisiana incumbent Mary Landrieu and challengers Kay Hagan, who is running against GOP Sen. Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina, and former New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, who is in the middle of a repeat of her close 2002 race with GOP Sen. John Sununu.

Clinton is also pushing for voters to elect the 36 female candidates endorsed by EMILY’s List – the organization that finds and promotes women candidates to office.

"This year, more than ever, our country is depending on women voters to elect Democrats up and down the ticket," Clinton wrote in the EMILY’s List e-mail. "I have seen firsthand the power of women … Republicans, led by the McCain-Palin ticket, are spending millions, fighting hard to stay in power. They don’t believe women should earn equal pay for equal work. They don’t believe women should control their own reproductive decisions. They want to turn back the clock, when we need leaders who will move us forward."

Clinton didn’t say whether another White House run was in her future but rejected the idea that many of her supporters will defect and vote for McCain next month.

"The vast majority of people who voted for me will vote for Sen. Obama," she said. "They understand that … we desperately need a Democratic administration to take the reins of the economy and turn it around."

23 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

Ro H
GGA = Good God Almighty henceforth. It seems many of my posts these days start out like the above! It is because I tend to be a bit naive, and the outrageous, outright LIES of the RIGHT just knock me on the floor (metaphorically of course, for now anyway). I received an Email from an “online” friend, almost, maybe ? What? Someone who I thought had good character, good manners and so on. Well, the Email was one I could not finish reading! It was dreadful, all about the ways Obama has lied, is really a Muslim, (as if that makes him a terrorist, too!, and how he is working to destroy the fabric of our nation. It simply gave the same or similar information which we already have about others on the RIGHT - as those who have been or are still, in the White House - or closely associated with… My own naivete is that I ask over and over again, “How can these people lie, and get away with it?” Moreover, why don’t others (as in ‘right wing repubs) see through this methodology of; “…confuse with lies, bc the truth may hurt us.”
By Ro H on 10/07/2008 1:53 pm
Steve R
Sarah Palin makes me homesick for Hillary Clinton. Hillary knows what she stands for and what she wants to accomplish. Palin is just a hardline political predator trying to learn the playbook. There’s a debate I’d like to see. Hillary should be putting out TV ads.
By Steve R on 10/07/2008 5:00 pm
Camouflage The Famous Canadian Abstract Artist
If the Republicans win they’ll plunge us into unprecedented hardship and despair. There will be no job creation. Jobless people will resort to looting. Women will sell their bodies. Public schools will close their doors. Artists won’t get grants and won’t be able to get hard drugs. And bankrupt government will stop issuing pension to our senior citizens. Only Obama can create jobs and save environment! Sign at: http://www.frogirm.ca/asp/issue1.asp
mitzi morris
Palin is simply unfit to lead. As for McCain he presents nothing new,vital, or forward and his selection of Palin is so cynical and uncaring as to the future of this country that he is either an egomniac who believes he cannot die in office, and that Palin is just the anti-Hillary/Obama device to win. So to hell with the country or having any responsibility regarding her selection as VP running mate. Palin would be an extreme disaster. I do not believe Hillary should confront her. That would be stupid politics. Hillary is NOT on the ticket, and she should continue raising money and helping Democratic women get elected, and stump for Obama when he wants her to. That’s their deal. The only one to engage Palin was and is Biden. The only way to stop McCain and Palin from delivering us to more Hell is to vote for Obama.
By mitzi morris on 10/07/2008 7:55 pm
Ro H
It also occurred to me, Sarah Palin is provoking Racial epithets and “inciting a riot” or, riotous attitudes. With all the slurs and responses to her words strongly implying - even saying - Barack is a terrorist. Aren’t there laws against this kind of behavior, still? Or, have those laws been ignored because it is all in the spirit of political slams??? BS! It is downright hate filled! It is darn well slanderous!! It is all about “hatred” being spewed in the name of ———— There are laws against this kind of behavior, and words. Why aren’t Obama and his people jumping on this? Why do the Democrats continue to behave so honorably when the ‘enemy’ is behaving so vile and threatening?
By Ro H on 10/07/2008 8:02 pm
Wake Up and Hear  The Fear In your Childs Voice
Go Hillary!!! http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/opinion/08wed1.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&p…
Sherrie Crews
Sarah Palin is provoking Racial epithets and “inciting a riot” or, riotous attitudes.” By Ro Hansen on 10/07/2008 9:02 pm Exactly. How better to try and keep a black man from being elected? And yet supposedly intelligent, rational people support them. I’m not sure what that says about a huge number of Americans but I know it isn’t anything good.
By Sherrie Crews on 10/08/2008 12:49 pm
Donna Leach
Behavior!! Well that is the question of the day? Elections do bring out the best and the worst of us humans. Hillary and Bill Clinton have long been on the trail in the political force. Taking the heat from all sides. However, they also have shown us how to get through it with some grace and style. Sure it would be nice to have Hillary and Bill speak back to all the other people who demonstrate that they just DON’T GET IT. As well as the campaign for Obama/ Biden, but that is not going to solve the huge issues that we are facing in this country at this time. I admire the Democrats who are showing a winning face with a positive attitude, but we all need to keep turning the negative Republican rhetoric into the correct and positive choice of Obama for President. There is 18 days left to this campaign , so let’s make it great for the Obama/Biden ticket.
By Donna Leach on 10/17/2008 3:15 pm