Clinton: Create Public Service Academy

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Associated Press

By PAGE IVEY

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told college Democrats on Saturday she would create a national academy to train public servants.


Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., shakes hands with delegates after speaking at the National Convention of College Democrats, Saturday, July 28, 2007, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

"I'm going to be asking a new generation to serve," she said. "I think just like our military academies, we need to give a totally all-paid education to young men and women who will serve their country in a public service position."

An older woman carrying a sign that said "She doesn't care, all she wants is the power" yelled at Clinton while the New York senator was speaking in a ballroom on the University of South Carolina campus. Students attending the College Democrats of America convention shouted down the woman down and pushed her from the room.

"One of the things I love about politics, you never know what the day will bring," Clinton said.


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[Dogmudgeon]

1. That's a good idea

I hope the rest of the candidates can get behind public service and propose their own versions of what needs to be done.

--p!

[Desertrose]

2. Actually in Kucinich's Dept of Peace.....

Similar but a bit different that the Clinton idea......

Dept of Peace

What the Bill Does

•Summary

The Department of Peace legislation calls for:
• A Secretary of Peace, who will advise the president on peacebuilding needs, strategies, and tactics for use domestically and internationally.
• The creation of a Peace Academy, a sister organization to our military service academies, which will build a world-class faculty of peacebuilding experts. They will analyze peacebuilding strategies at the highest level, advise other branches of government, and facilitate the training of peacebuilders for domestic and international service.
• Funding to create and expand proven domestic peacebuilding programs in our communities, such as mediation trainings for police, firefighters, and other emergency services personnel; alternative dispute resolution techniques, peer mediation and nonviolent communication programs in public schools, etc.
• Providing ways to meaningfully prevent conditions of conflict before violence erupts.
• The institutional platform necessary to successfully apply American genius to dramatically alleviate our national and global epidemic of violence.

Peace
DR

:hi:--p

[rodeodance]

4. I hope her;s or some similar plan takes shape.

[ShortnFiery]

3. That's a horrible idea! Like the NAZI Youth Groups? NO F**KING WAY!!! nt

[mustang]

5. I love both Clinton's advocacy for public service

It's inspiring.