by Rick Pearson
HAMMOND, Ind. — Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton paid her respects to the steel-making background of Northwest Indiana today, vowing to bring a modern rebirth to an industry that has seen regional job losses in the tens of thousands amid complaints about the dumping of foreign-made steel.
“I think it’s time we had a president who stood for a comeback for Northwest Indiana,” she told a crowd at the Hammond Civic Center. “I know a little bit about comebacks. I know what it’s like to be tied down and counted out. But I also know that there isn’t anything that will keep us down if we are determined to get up and fight on.”
When Clinton told the crowd that “there are some people who want us to stop this election,” they responded with boos. “I’ve got to tell you, I think it’s pretty exciting that Indiana is going to get to pick the next president of the United States.”
Clinton, on the first day of a two-day trip to Indiana, which has its primary on May 6, hit many of the same economic points that she used during her successful campaign in economically depressed Ohio on March 4. She repeated her call for tougher enforcement of trade agreements, despite questions about her initial support for the North American Free Trade Agreement, which was approved during her husband’s White House tenure and which she now wants to see amended to include more stringent labor and environmental standards.
Clinton noted that she had testified in favor of tariffs to try to halt the illegal dumping of steel. Contending the nation’s defense industry, including essential defense products, have increasingly become subject to outsourcing. She said she considered steel in the category of an essential defense product.
She also said one way to rebuild the steel and auto industries would be by finding new ways to make production energy efficient. Though not referring to challenger Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois by name, she noted that he voted for and she voted against an energy bill that she said contained $7.5 billion in subsidies to the oil industry.
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"FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION SPEAKS"
JOHN MCCAIN BROKE THE LAW!
JOHN MCCAIN BROKE THE LAW!
JOHN MCCAIN BROKE THE LAW!
GOP WINNER NOW DROPPING OUT! HILLARY CLINTON STANDS ALONE!
HEARDEE HEARDEE, GEORGE BUSH EXTENDS EXECUTIVE ORDER TO FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSIONER. NO CRIME COMMITTED. NO CRIME COMMITTED. NO CRIMES COMMITTED. SO WHAT IF HE OPTED ILLEGALLY.
BUSH EXTENDS EXECUTIVE ORDER TO FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSIONER. JOHN MCCAIN IS A "REPUBLICAN" NO REPUBLICANS WILL BE PROSESECUTED AS LONG AS HE IS STILL IN OFFICE AND PRESIDENT OF HIS UNITED STATES!
FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSIONER SHOCKED AND UNDER DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SURVEILLANCE AND WIRETAPPING TO ENSURE NO FEDERAL JUDGE IN ANY U.S. DISTRICT COURT HEARS SUCH REQUEST.
HEARDEE, HEARDEE, JOHN MCCAIN BREAKS FEC LAWS, BUT DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE NOT "ALLOWED" TO PROSECUTE.
SORRY SENATOR CLINTON
SORRY SENATOR OBAMA
NO JUSTICE FOR YOU!
Posted by: Roger Morris | March 28, 2008 5:16 PM
So I guess Hillary is assuming that the state of Indiana is stock full of Rambo fans?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDP_u2YDrFA
Posted by: Monica | March 28, 2008 5:29 PM
Does Hillary really believe Indiana will support a LIAR like her?
What an insult to the people of Indiana!
Mark J. Penn presents another unbelievable tale from Hillary Clinton: the sequel to Hillary ducks sniper fire in Tuzla, Bosnia
Coming to a superdelegate near you Summer 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBCmKkLdCuA&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/28/134518/720/978/486159
Nobel winner: "Hillary Clinton's 'silly' Irish peace claims"
By Toby Harnden in Washington
"Hillary Clinton had no direct role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and is a "wee bit silly" for exaggerating the part she played, according to Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former First Minister of the province".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/08/wuspols108.xml
Posted by: oops! | March 28, 2008 3:35 PM
Posted by: oops! | March 28, 2008 5:33 PM
Hillary repeats this same message and just simply changes the state name wherever she goes. Like a broken record, it's getting kinda old.
Posted by: Bob | March 28, 2008 5:52 PM
Alright Hillary. You finally have said something that I can support! The next President Oscar Robertson!
Posted by: Tom S | March 28, 2008 6:02 PM
Is she kiting words from Howard Dean now? I'd love to see her screaming "we're going on to Kentucky and Indiana Woowee!!!"
The Billary Machine is throwing things out of the Democratic National Hotel, playing the drunk rock star role. What a show!!! At the end of the day, they'll take their ball and go home, leave the party broke and watch 4 more years of Bush/McCain - that's ok, even after loaning herself the paltry sum of $5million, they can afford it.
Thank you kool-aid drinkers, 2 family ruler backers and 1990's rememberists.
Welcome to 4 more years of ever increasing costs and a dollar that doesn't go half as far as it used to. While you're sitting in your house with the lights off to save the money, you can still say you voted for the Billary Machine.
Posted by: karl | March 28, 2008 6:29 PM
Go away Hillary! You are going to destroy the Democratic Party. Nuff said!
Posted by: larry (Oregon) | March 28, 2008 6:45 PM
Thus far:
"Iowa will determine who will be our next president."
"I left my name on the ballot because the Michigan vote doesn't mean anything."
"Super Tuesday will determine the next president."
"It's all about Texas and Ohio."
"It's all about Ohio."
"This race comes down to Pennsylvania."
"Whoever wins the popular vote . . ."
"The popular vote means nothing. It's the electoral vote."
"Well, the superdelegates will just have to look at momentum."
"We'll take it all the way to the convention for a credentials committee fight."
"I know nothing about that letter from the big money Democratic donors to Speaker Pelosi."
"We knew a letter was being sent, but not what was in it."
"Dodging bullets, I barely managed to get into the car."
"I misspoke."
"From Ireland to Albania to China to the sCHIP Program, I have been directly involved in negotiations that have tipped the balance in favor of world peace and children's healthcare."
"Well, maybe not literally tipped the balance, but I was geographically close to many of those events."
"Okay, so I wasn't involved at all. I'm human, okay?"
SO, WHAT'S NEXT?
Posted by: Scotty | March 28, 2008 6:59 PM
Through this long primary process- Hillary is emerging as a strong fighter with a clear vision of how to get things done. This race is closer than the pundits think.
When you look at the three candidates left standing- Hillary is in the middle with Obama to the left of her and McCain to the right--very appealing to moderate Democrats and moderate Republicans.
Posted by: Evelyn | March 28, 2008 7:10 PM
"I know what it’s like to be tied down and counted out."
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
This is Hillary's problem. She's trying to compare her situation as a second term United States Senator running for the presidency to someone who is facing economic hardship.
IT'S NOT THE SAME!
If you lose, Hillary, you'll go back to the corridors of the U.S. Senate. That's a nice consolation prize. The people in Indiana will have to continue to struggle with the post-NAFTA blues.
Posted by: Bud McFarlin | March 28, 2008 7:20 PM
Racism means voting for a person because of his or her race and generally for no other reason. That is the very thing that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. hated and campaigned against. Yet what is happening -- and what are the long reaching effects going to be...this is just beginning.
Posted by: Terik Ororke | March 28, 2008 7:22 PM
HILLARY CLINTON IS COMPLETELEY DIVORCED FROM REALITY!
ABC"s Jake Tapper reported on an unnamed Democratic Party official saying that it"s not a question of *if* Clinton can somehow secure the nomination. The question is -- what will she have to do in order to achieve it? The official"s answer: She will have to "break his back," to destroy Obama and make him completely unacceptable. "Her securing the nomination is certainly possible - but it will require exercising the 'Tonya Harding option.'" the official said. Read full story here - http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/03/dnc-official-cl.html).
As the Clinton campaign spins Obama as actually being the reprehensibly negative player in this competition, and the media swallowing and regurgitating the most incendiary non-issues, I fear for the future of Obama"s campaign, of the Democratic party, and the United States. I"m afraid we can"t take another two months of the destructive Clinton ambition machine. Please contact the Democratic National Committee (http://www.democrats.org/page/s/contactissues) and let the party leaders no that we can"t waste any more time; the train is nearing the bridge that"s out, and it takes a lot to stop that kind of fateful momentum. Superdelegates must decide *now*, not in August, to swing behind the best candidate in our generation so that the Democratic Party can look forward to the general election in November and beyond.
Take off "the pads" Bill, and "SADDLE UP". You're going to need to to get the straight jacket ready, fire up the padded bus, and take your wife and daughter home.
Posted by: Martha Davidson | March 28, 2008 7:38 PM
I love how she makes these proclamations. Hillary I hate to break it to you but many of us avoid Indiana like the plague!!!
Posted by: Logic Prisoner | March 28, 2008 8:02 PM
Indiana is a strange version of an up=south state. Talk about an anti-woman outside the home state.
No wonder Obama and his sexist wife will win there.
No wonder he's picking Casey (anti=choice puppet needed to get Santorum out of PA senate seat) for Veep--and Casey will lose even the primary in PA.
Shame on obama and all connected with him.
Shame on all the anti Hilary men and women in journalism--all the LAZY chicago jouranalists going'national' via a continued Obama campaign that will END when the Rezko crap comes out.
and it will.
But Hilary won't be broken before it does.
Bet on it.
Posted by: geraldinetoo | March 28, 2008 8:17 PM
...until May 7th, when Indiana won't be worth a bucket of warm spit to the Clintons, and it's many defects of process or voters will have been made manifest.
Posted by: Deborah | March 28, 2008 11:08 PM
But Hilary won't be broken before it does.
Bet on it.
Posted by: geraldinetoo | March 28, 2008 8:17 PM
I'll take that bet!
OBAMA 08!!!
Posted by: Monica | March 28, 2008 11:12 PM
Shame on all the anti Hilary men and women in journalism--all the LAZY chicago jouranalists going'national' via a continued Obama campaign that will END when the Rezko crap comes out.
and it will.
But Hilary won't be broken before it does.
Bet on it.
Posted by: geraldinetoo | March 28, 2008 8:17 PM
Quit yer crying. Baby. p.s. tell Hillary to keep her head down from all that sniper fire.
Posted by: Anton Chigurh | March 29, 2008 5:46 AM
"Hoosiers run the world..."
Ghost of Kurt Vonnegut
Posted by: Kurt Vonnegut | March 29, 2008 10:34 AM
The same Hillary who campaigned for the passage of NAFTA in the 90s on behalf of her husband who was engaged in other pursuits at the time...or was it pant suits? No, it was a dark blue dress.
Posted by: Dora | March 29, 2008 12:59 PM
I don't believe that preaching victimization rhetoric from the pulpit empowers the black population. Just the reverse in fact. Yes, slavery happened and we should never forget it.
But it's just not helpful to keep telling people they are victims if you want them to be able to get ahead.
So why is it done? What is the purpose of victimization rhetoric? Who does it serve?
Posted by: mar | March 29, 2008 1:19 PM
To Quote above:
Thus far:
"Iowa will determine who will be our next president."
"I left my name on the ballot because the Michigan vote doesn't mean anything."
"Super Tuesday will determine the next president."
"It's all about Texas and Ohio."
"It's all about Ohio."
"This race comes down to Pennsylvania."
"Whoever wins the popular vote . . ."
"The popular vote means nothing. It's the electoral vote."
"Well, the superdelegates will just have to look at momentum."
"We'll take it all the way to the convention for a credentials committee fight."
"I know nothing about that letter from the big money Democratic donors to Speaker Pelosi."
"We knew a letter was being sent, but not what was in it."
"Dodging bullets, I barely managed to get into the car."
"I misspoke."
"From Ireland to Albania to China to the sCHIP Program, I have been directly involved in negotiations that have tipped the balance in favor of world peace and children's healthcare."
"Well, maybe not literally tipped the balance, but I was geographically close to many of those events."
"Okay, so I wasn't involved at all. I'm human, okay?"
SO, WHAT'S NEXT?
Posted by: David | March 29, 2008 5:12 PM
mar,
Re. vicimization rhetoric;
Ask the right wing Christian movement. They all think they are the victims in America.
Posted by: C.Morris | March 29, 2008 9:29 PM
Has anyone ever been fired from their job for attending a political rally? The candidate was late and then so was I getting back to work. Result, terminated immediately. Guess I chose the wrong candidate in their eyes.
Posted by: RosieRoxie | April 3, 2008 3:08 PM
Hillary Clinton Rocks.
She is soooo awesome.
Why don't you see that she is diplomatic and wise. She is the breath of fresh air that America needs. I want to see a nut cracker made for all of the mail canidates.
Posted by: kiel | April 23, 2008 1:13 AM
IT'S TIME AMERICA:
It's time for everyone to face the truth. Barack Obama has no real chance of winning the national election in November at this time. His crushing defeat in Pennsylvania makes that fact crystal clear. His best, and only real chance of winning in November is on a ticket with Hillary Clinton as her VP.
Hillary Clinton seemed almost somber at her victory speech. As if part of her was hoping Obama could have defeated her. And proved he had some chance of winning against the republican attack machine, and their unlimited money, and resources. In all honesty. I felt some of that too.
But it is absolutely essential that the democrats take back the Whitehouse in November. America, and the American people are in a very desperate condition now. And the whole World has been doing all that they can to help keep us propped up.
Hillary Clinton say's that the heat, and decisions in the Whitehouse are much tougher than the ones on the campaign trail. But I think Mr. Obama faces a test of whether he has what it takes to be a commander and chief by facing the difficult facts, and the truth before him. And by doing what is best for the American people by dropping out of the race, and offering his whole hearted assistance to Hillary Clinton to help her take back the Whitehouse for the American people, and the World.
Mr. Obama is a great speaker. And I am confident he can explain to the American people the need, and wisdom of such a personal sacrifice for them. It should be clear to everyone by now that Hillary Clinton is fighting her heart out for the American people. She has known for a long time that Mr. Obama can not win this November. You have to remember that the Clinton's have won the Whitehouse twice before. They know what it takes.
If Mr. Obama fails his test of commander and chief we can only hope that Hillary Clinton can continue her heroic fight for the American people. And that she prevails. She will need all the continual support and help we can give her. She may fight like a superhuman. But she is only human.
Sen. Hillary Clinton: "You know, more people have now voted for me than have voted for my opponent. In fact, I now have more votes than anybody has ever had in a primary contest for a nomination. And it's also clear that we've got nine more important contests to go."
Sincerely
Jacksmith... Working Class :-)
Posted by: jacksmith | April 26, 2008 3:59 PM
Look at what the Clinton staffers really think about Indiana:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-MzByUHIzw
Posted by: wks1x9 | May 1, 2008 11:36 PM