Clinton Aims to Restore Public Trust in Government

ElizabethDC

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Clinton Aims to Restore Public Trust in Government

Clinton Aims to Restore Public Trust in Government
Senator Characterizes Bush Administration as Callous, Incompetent

By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 13, 2007; 3:00 PM

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) today condemned the Bush administration as callous and incompetent managers of the public trust as she outlined a broad agenda she said was designed to restore public confidence and turn government into a partner of working families.

"Despite their rhetoric, for the past six years, we've had an administration that doesn't believe in less government or smaller government or better government," she said in remarks prepared for delivery. "They simply have contempt for government. Though they lead it, they look down on it, they disparage it, they belittle it at every turn."

More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/13/AR2007041301323.html

And more info from her website: http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/realplan/

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Tellurian

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Fri Apr-13-07 04:43 PM
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1. Restoring confidence in a dysfunctional government..

more from link:

"Because this administration doesn't respect our government, they run it poorly and it fails our people," she said in her prepared remarks. "Then they point to government's failures to prove it's not worthy of respect."

The core of Clinton's speech was a list of 10 proposals that she said would lead to smart, effective government.

'One of the largest involved the federal budget. She said she would return Washington to a pay-as-you-go principle, noting that she would not support additional spending or bigger tax cuts "unless we can afford it." She also called for greater transparency in how public money is spent and increased efforts to reduce corporate subsidies."

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wyldwolf

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Sun Apr-15-07 07:14 AM
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2. excellent

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w4rma

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Sun Apr-15-07 07:24 AM
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3. She avoids explaining her own positions on most things, but she says she wants "open government".

Edited on Sun Apr-15-07 07:24 AM by w4rma

Contradictory.

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Sun Apr-15-07 07:30 AM
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4. She is always willing to take a stand on issues if the polls are overwhelming on that issue

As if calling for "open government" is a bold stand. It is more generic, empty rhetoric. What is her plan for Iraq, health care, poverty, education, etc.? Go to Hillaryclinton.com and see for yourself. Click on her issues page. ;)

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w4rma

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Sun Apr-15-07 10:00 AM
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5. Of course, she has no "issues" page. Why take a position on anything when she is running on the

Edited on Sun Apr-15-07 10:23 AM by w4rma

coattails of her successful husband and the imaginations of people who want to relive the Clinton Presidency. Why specify any plans to do anything to help the economic situation for regular Americans when her main priority are her former other board members of Wal-mart. The Clintons sure took good care of them. Why apologize for supporting the Iraq War when she has always supported it and still does, just not the management of it.

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blm

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Sun Apr-15-07 10:30 AM
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6. Open government, my ass. Is she going to open books that Bill Clinton WOULDN'T

Edited on Sun Apr-15-07 10:32 AM by blm

open and make available while he was smoothing Poppy Bush's legacy?

Come on Hillary - be a patriot instead of another coverup Democrat abetting BushInc. Open the books that Bill helped to close on IranContra, Iraqgate, BCCI and CIA drugrunning.

Make this promise, then keep it, and many of us would love you for it and this nation and world would have a greater chance to move past the real crimes of the BFEE.

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