Senator Clinton: Bill and I Are Different: He's "bigger-than-life," "a force of nature"

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NYT/AP: Sen. Clinton: Bill and I Are Different
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 20, 2007

NEW YORK (AP) -- A second President Clinton might occupy a little less space than the first. Asked how her governing style might differ from her husband's, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton noted Wednesday that the former president has ''a bigger-than-life presence.'' ''He's like a force of nature. ... I don't even pretend to be that. That's not who I am,'' she said of Bill Clinton.

Saying the ''cumbersome'' rules of the nation's capital often prevent radical shifts, the Democratic presidential candidate painted herself as a measured politician pragmatically focused on accomplishing change bit by bit. ''I'm somebody who just gets up every day and tries to push that decision a little bit further every single day,'' she said.

The senator spoke Wednesday evening at Manhattan's Town Hall, where she answered questions posed by former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack in front of an audience of hundreds of donors. Onlookers paid at least $50 to attend the question-and-answer fundraiser, which also featured retired Gen. Wesley Clark....

Sitting for the nearly hourlong question-and-answer session, Clinton spoke about her health care plan, her position on the Iraq war and her desire to give the U.S. a more active role in ending the four-year conflict in Sudan's Darfur region. She also praised the individualized attention many students receive at New York City's smaller schools and cautioned against overemphasizing standardized testing, saying, ''I don't think we want to turn our children into walking tests.''

Clinton also got the crowd laughing at the expense of the current administration, referring to Vice President Dick Cheney as ''Darth Vader'' and telling listeners, ''It will be refreshing, I think, to have a president who will actually utter the words 'global warming.'''

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Clinton-On-Clinton.html

[Apollo11]

1. As if saying the words "global warming" will be enough ...

But the League of Conservation Voters says that John Edwards has the best plan of any Presidential Candidate to address the issue of global warming.