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Clinton talk touches on work and family
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By JIM DEVINE
Union Leader Correspondent
Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007
SALEM – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton received expected and unexpected endorsements during her campaign stop at Salem High School last night.
Supporters had lined up an hour before the senator from New York appeared on a gymnasium stage to speak to more than 500 people.
State Executive Councilor Beverly Hollingworth gave her endorsement while introducing Clinton. Hollingworth noted that her granddaughter was a little disappointed that she would not be the nation's first woman President when she was old enough.
"Tell your granddaughter there'll hopefully be more," Clinton replied once getting the microphone.
Speaking with a theme of helping parents balance work and family, Clinton pushed her health-care plan while recommending a revision in the tax code to keep jobs in the United States and ending the Iraq War.
Twice, Clinton referred to Al Gore, whom some want to run for President: once to congratulate him for winning the Nobel Peace Prize and once saying he made a campaign promise in 2000 to put the Social Security trust fund in a "locked box." Clinton said she would work to balance budgets to prevent any threats to the fund, which some watchdogs caution could run out of money before 2050 unless corrective steps are taken.
"We have a long-term challenge, but not a crisis," she said. "We lost 14 years because we went from surplus to deficit."
An unexpected announcement from former ABC News anchorwoman Carole Simpson came during a question-and-answer segment. Simpson, who left broadcasting to teach at Emerson College in Boston, stood up among the crowd and said she was no longer bound by the tenets of professional journalism to remain objective in telling all sides of a story. She was at the meeting with some of her students.
"It's very freeing now that I'm not a journalist and I can speak my mind," she said to the former first lady.
Simpson said she had dreamed that there would be woman president in her lifetime.
"I think you are the woman, and I think this is the time," she said.
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YOUR COMMENTS
Why would parent's need more time with their families, when so many families are being torn apart by Child Protective Service's, thank's to the Adoption Promotion Act drawn up by Bill and Hillary? If they weren't the Clinton's, their daughter would have been taken because of Bill's indiscetion's. After all, these indiscretion's weren't in their daughter's best interest. The Clinton's staff raised their daughter, not them.
Don't ever forget Hillary's word's,"It takes a village to raise a child." Not true. We do not need our Government raising our children. It's time to take back our Government and our Constitutional right's. Just because parent's aren't rich, does not mean they can't raise their own families.
- Dot, Nashua
Breyer, You and many others live in a fantasy world. What Mrs Clinton did that was so wrong was staying with an adulterer. This in itself is just plain wrong. We are the company we keep.
- Mary, Epping., NH
I don't understand your comment EM. What did Hillary do that was so wrong? She and her husband raised an intelligent, successful daughter. They're a happy couple who went through some tough times, but stuck together in the end. Were they perfect? No, but what couple is? Why do you feel like you need to trash a woman's family and her aspirations just because her marriage wasn't perfect? Unless you are a Stepford wife, I don't think you should be throwing stones like that.
- Breyer S., Manchester, NH
Bill you are essentially blaming Hillary for Bill's indiscretions. That kind of thinking is scary.
- Tim, Milford
Sorry, Katie, EM's question is right to the point. Hillary Clinton's candidacy for Senate in NY made no sense, and her candidacy for President would be a joke, except for the fact that her husband was president. If she can't control the acts of the one person who give reason to her candidacy, how is she ever going to succeed as president?
Is our democracy so weak that we need to keep turning to relatives of former leaders for leadership? Look where that got us with George W. Bush. Do we really want Hillary Clinton, another relative of little accomplishments and lesser ability, as President just because she has the same name as a former president?
- Bill, Mont Vernon
You are so right, EM, I fully agree with you. Those who can: DO. Those who can't: TEACH. In this case, Promise things that cannot be delivered. They had their chance and they did not deliver, for if they had they wouldn't be preaching it all over again and blaming Bush. Those who believe them now are just being naive and foolish. Vote for whom you want, but why pretend it is all real.
- Robert, Concord, NH
EM: Probably because her husband is an adult and is responsible for her own actions, and if you read the article, you'd know that she's talking about changes that would permit more time for parents to care for their children.
- Katie, Manchester
How can Hillary talk with a straight face about family and beliefs when she cant even keep her own husband (Bill) in line with what she speaks of???/ And I'm not even a Republican??????????????
- EM, Manchester
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