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April 21, 2008 10:59 AM

Clinton Shows Confidence at Campaign Rally

By
Fernando Suarez
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Hillary Clinton
(CBS)
From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:

SCRANTON, PA. - Hillary Clinton's first campaign stop on the eve of the Pennsylvania primary was to Scranton, the town where her father was born and raised, a town she says she has visited for years and a place Clinton claims helped shape her values.

Clinton's speech was short and to the point at an event that felt more like a victory rally. The rambunctious crowd oftentimes cut into Clinton's remarks with chants of "One more day to victory!" or "Madame President!"

Clinton told the crowd "I know you don't need another speech, you're already convinced. I know that you understand why you are working so hard because it's not about me, it's about us. Because we have to do this together, and you know that I will never forget, I will never forget the people here."

Two new polls show Clinton with sizeable leads over her opponent Barack Obama, and in an interview this morning on a local radio show Obama said "I'm not predicting a win." But with the nomination at stake, Clinton is not taking any chances here. She told supporters that she needs them to turn out to vote and she encouraged them to volunteer to take voters to the polls, even make phone calls on her behalf.

Clinton ended her speech saying, "Some people say yes we can, but that doesn't mean we will. I believe we will if we have the right leadership! If you stand for me, I will go to the White House and fight for you every single day!"

Clinton is scheduled to hit major media markets today to maximize her efforts at reaching voters. She is also expected to attend two rallies with her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

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by txgrouch2004 April 23, 2008 12:15 AM EDT
HILLARY LIED to influence the outcome of an election JUST LIKE NIXON DID.

Her "under fire" remark was a lie intended to sway voters, just like Nixon''s Watergate lies.

Hillary should be forced out of the race.
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by craigh9 April 21, 2008 5:52 PM EDT
COME ON PENNSYLVANNIA - YOU CAN DO IT! YOU CAN DO WHAT''S BEST FOR THE PARTY, GIVING IT TIME TO COME TOGETHER AND THEN ATTACK THE REPUBLICANS AS A UNITED GROUP - VOTE FOR OBAMA, IF HE WINS - ITS OVER, OTHERWISE WE LOSE 2 MORE WEEKS OF HELAING TIME
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by intheshade-2009 April 21, 2008 5:51 PM EDT
Kenbomc: In answer to the point you raise:

Hillary Clinton is the founder and chairman of the Senate India Caucus. One of her biggest donors, Sant Singh Chatwal, cited that Clinton''s India Caucus has vowed to raise $5 million dollars for her from companies that outsource American Jobs to India.

Sound familiar, $5 million, India raises $5 million for Hillary, Hillary loans $5 million to her primary campaign. Doe%u2019s that mean the India Caucus provided $5 for Hillary%u2019s primary campaign? If so it was a bad investment.

In the February 2005 issue of The India Review / On a recent trip to India, Senator Clinton laid to rest India%u2019s fears that outsourcing American jobs would end. On that trip Senator Clinton said, %u201COUTSOURCING of AMERICAN Jobs will continue%u201D, and they have.

The people of Pennsylvania have supported Clinton and she has outsourced their jobs. The people of Pennsylvania vote for her and she rewards India. Somebody is being conned. She diverts our attention with little hissy fits about trivia that doesn''t matter while her husband Bill and manager Penn are carrying bags of money out the back door.
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by rjudy3 April 21, 2008 5:41 PM EDT
President Clinton, hmm, has a nice ring to it! President Obama, hmm, sounds like President of Ethiopia or Chad, or some other muslim nation, definitly NOT American.
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by javalation April 21, 2008 5:13 PM EDT
Hillary''s approach reminds me of Bernard Hopkin''s strategy against Joe Calzaghe, going for the head butt, holding Joe''s right arm, then crying foul when a glove brushed his crotch while he was holding his opponents head down. Bernie threw fewer, landed fewer, wasn''t the aggressor yet whined that he was robbed when the judges ruled that Calzaghe had won. I expect no less from Hill
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by jonswift2 April 21, 2008 4:06 PM EDT
Just in case any PA voter who was excited by Obama''''s less than major association with Bill Ayers is now bored, or remains livid that Obama''''s church honored Louis Farrakhan, and is appalled at the advocacy of racial division of Jeremiah Wright, might want take the time to see yet another blatant example of how this pattern of praising evil people continues. In this case it is key Clinton supporter, and your governor, Ed Rendell, praising Minister Farrakhan at length and quite strongly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXum_
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You gotta love gotcha politics.
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by bhagwandeol April 21, 2008 3:47 PM EDT
this election tomorrow will put scratches on the ugly copper potmr. obama whose nickle plating has has already worn out.
empty rhetoric can only take you so far. mr. obamais shamelessly using reverse racism to his advantage.HILLARY IS THE BEST CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT DURING THESE TROUBLED TIMES.
bhagwan deol los angeles
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by kenbomc April 21, 2008 3:47 PM EDT
greenfun at 12:10 PM : Apr 21, 2008;

You do not have much of an argument when Hillary is fighting for free trade with Columbia at the same time Bill is on Columbia''s payroll right now to lobby for them -to send more PA jobs over there.
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by gaiaschild-2009 April 21, 2008 3:12 PM EDT
Hi Y''all - You know how football teams watch each other''s plays and adopt moves that work? This is what Clinton''s campaign has been doing, watching Obama to see what it is that people like. Then rehearsing the Senator from New York so she can behave like him. Glory be, she''s doing better. No more smug, set jaw, and boring pronouncements. No, no, now she''s strutting around the stage waving her hands and preaching inspiration. Amazing. Yesterday Bill Clinton repeated the "kitchen sink" comment from Barack''s mouth to my ears. Copycats and thieves. Let''s don''t give them the White House again.
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by greenfun April 21, 2008 3:10 PM EDT
Hmmmmm
Regarding the North American Free Trade Agreement, Obama recently boasted, "I don''t think NAFTA has been good for Americans, and I never have." Yet, Calvin Woodward reviewed Obama''s record on NAFTA in a February 26, 2008 Associated Press article and found that comment to be misleading: "In his 2004 Senate campaign, Obama said the US should pursue more deals such as NAFTA, and argued more broadly that his opponent''s call for tariffs would spark a trade war. AP reported then that the Illinois senator had spoken of enormous benefits having accrued to his state from NAFTA, while adding that he also called for more aggressive trade protections for US workers."

Putting aside campaign rhetoric, when actually given an opportunity to protect workers from unfair trade agreements, Obama cast the deciding vote against an amendment to a September 2005 Commerce Appropriations Bill, proposed by North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan, that would have prohibited US trade negotiators from weakening US laws that provide safeguards from unfair foreign trade practices. The bill would have been a vital tool to combat the outsourcing of jobs to foreign workers and would have ended a common corporate practice known as "pole-vaulting" over regulations, which allows companies doing foreign business to avoid "right to organize," "minimum wage," and other worker protections.
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