"No more whining, no more finger pointing. Let's get to work."

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“I believe we can create at least 5 million good green-collar jobs here in America,” Clinton said in an economic summit featuring politicians, business leaders and average voters, which Young attended Wednesday. “That’s the kind of vision we need.”

Clinton is spelling out an economic blueprint that features more than $10 billion in infrastructure investment, an end to tax breaks for companies that shift jobs overseas and a “pro-American trade agenda” that involves renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to make it more friendly to the American worker.

“I’ll be saying to Wall Street: You’ve had your president — now it’s time for a president for Main Street,” Clinton said.

Clinton wants a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures and a five-year freeze on subprime adjustable mortgage rates along with $30 billion in funding to help combat the housing crisis.



Hillary Clinton called herself a "fighter and a champion" yesterday and promised to help the common man with more jobs, affordable health care, and an end to the subprime mortgage crisis.

"When it comes to our economy, we can do a lot better, Mrs. Clinton declared.

The New York senator said she envisioned a "middle-class comeback."

"I believe we can create at least 5 million new jobs in America in the next 10 years," Mrs. Clinton said to about 1,000 supporters gathered at Zane State College.

Mrs. Clinton said government has to help jump-start and assist green technology companies with low-interest loans and stop the flood of American jobs to other countries.

"I believe in universal health care, no exceptions, no excuses," she said.

"What we have got to do to level the playing field is eliminate every single tax break people get for eliminating jobs," Mrs. Clinton said.

"We cannot continue to pay what we pay for health care and remain competitive," Mrs. Clinton said. "The average American family pays $1,200 a year."



The roundtable, with 15 panelists and an invitation only audience of 300, kicked off the Democratic candidate's two-day tour of Appalachian Ohio.

Mrs. Clinton promised to close tax loopholes that benefit companies moving jobs overseas, reinvest in the manufacturing sector, put a moratorium on home foreclosures, and create 5 million "green collar" jobs in the clean energy industry.

"I think we've got some great opportunities here. We hear a lot about the problems and they are serious, but I believe for every problem there is at least one solution," Mrs. Clinton said.

"We just have to start acting like Americans again, and roll up our sleeves and actually solve our problems. No more whining, no more finger pointing. Let's get to work."

[TwilightGardener]

1. Wow, she plagiarized Mike Huckabee, with the Main Street/Wall Street President thing.

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3. I thought Obama supporters were okay with the 'borrowing' of phrases.

[KittyWampus]

6. We are, but we're not okay with Hillary borrowing her husband's resume to pad her own.

[TwilightGardener]

7. Obama borrowed from a friend who often borrowed from him--he had permission.

I'm pretty sure Fuckabee didn't give Hillary permission to use his "I want to be the President of Main Street, not Wall Street" gimmick.

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8. and, you're asserting that the phrase originated with Huckabee, this year?

good luck with that.

[TwilightGardener]

14. I heard it from him last spring. Yep.

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18. That phrase has been around for years.

I've googled. Books and everything.

[NeedleCast]

2. No more whining, no more finger pointing. Let's get to work."

If that's the sort of campaign she had run all along, she would still be the front runner.

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4. I think you denigrate the excellent race Obama has run when you try and portray Clinton's as weak

I've never seen a Democratic primary race this close.

[NeedleCast]

10. You'd be wrong

To the contrary, I think Obama and his staff have run a brilliant campaign and it's hard to deny this is true considering where things stood four months ago. However, Hillary and staff, IMO, have run a poor campaign because - as has been pointed out repeatedly - they didn't expect there to BE a race this point.

More, I'm not trying to portray Hillary as weak. What I said in my statement was that if she had stuck to her message that was the title of your OP, she'd still be the front-runner and most likely the presumtive nominee at this point. Instead, I've seen no application of logic in her campaign. When something works, she moves away from it. When a particular tactic fails, she and her staff seem to embrace it and repeat it. Maybe I'm just a dumbass, but Hillary's position on several issues is more clouded to me now than it was four months ago and I think a lot of has to do with the fact that her campaign seems to have pretty much gotten stuck in the mud.

[JVS]

9. Shame on you NeedleCast! Shame on you for suggesting that!

;-)

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12. I know...I know

Thanks to DU I know that I have a lot to be ashamed about in my life. I'm a sexist, possibly a racist, ignorant and a cultist. I'm sure at any time the burden of the guilt I feel over this will become to much to bear and I'll be off to immolate myself.

;-)

[KittyWampus]

5. Clinton's the one that's been whining and finger pointing. How ironic.

[ginnyinWI]

19. people so often accuse others of what they're doing themselves.

They're super-sensitive when someone does it back to them, or if they imagine they have.

[RandomKoolzip]

11. So she wants to reach across the aisle, then?

That's how I heard that line. And if you continue to unpack it, it means Clinton's supporters have been disingenuous about their criticism of Obama's intimations of bipartisanship.

[JVS]

13. Oh come on. Do you seriously think she can reach accross the aisle after...

the 90s including her calling out the VRWC?

[RandomKoolzip]

15. Shit, at this point, she won't even be able to reach the tens of million of

Obama supporters on OUR side of the aisle, she's done so much to alienate them.

[JimGinPA]

16. She Looked Like An Idiot At The Debate Tuesday...

Promising all those new jobs in NY when she ran for the senate and then having it pointed out there was a net loss there. Now she's promising 5 million new jobs. Now she's saying "No more whining, no more finger pointing" after all that whining and finger pointing she did last weekend?

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20. by the standard you seem to be holding her to, no Democrat should be able to claim to be responsible

. . . in working to create jobs under this administration. That is, if you blame Democrats for the malfeasance of the republicans at the helm in the past decade.

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17. mispost

[Johnny__Motown]

21. If only she had some credibility on the issue. Russert called her out on her past job creating

promise.

She fell into the good old red meat of blaming the shrub. Dems love it but the fact still remains that she is happy to make job creation promises that are not kept.

No doubt she could blame congress as president, good thing she won't be our nominee

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22. It wasn't just the White House screwing the economy at the time, it was Guliani in her state.

Why do you blame the Democrats for Bush's economy?

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23. kick

:kick:

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24. kick