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Ohio Democratic Party State Dinner:
Guest Speaker, Senator Hillary Clinton
I was there, and had a front row table...2-tables down from Senator Clinton, who sat with Sherrod Brown, Governor Strickland and wives as was another most special favorite of mine ...Senator John Glenn!!!!!!!!!! with wife Anne.
It was soooooooooo Great! Senator Clinton is the ONE!
ttp://www.dispatch.com/dispatch/content/local_news/stories/2007/05/13/dems13.ART_ART_05-13-07_B1_8F6N274.html
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Appearing last night in a state on the pathway to the presidency, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told a huge throng of Democrats that Americans' craving for change will lead the party back into the White House.
Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, lambasted the policies of President Bush, saying that voters next year will show that they're "ready to end this government by the few, of the few and for the few" in order to "get back to a balance in our country." The country, Clinton said, can no longer tolerate inaction on universal health care and other priorities.
"For six long years, our families and our middle class have been invisible to this president," Clinton said. "It's like he just looks through them. ... When we take back the White House, you will no longer be invisible to the president of the United States." Clinton criticized Bush for vetoing a bill to set a timetable for bringing home U.S. troops from Iraq.
"Let me be clear," she said. "If this president won't end this war during his time in office, when I am president, I will."
More than 3,200 Democrats in the Celeste Center at the state fairgrounds cheered wildly for Clinton, exuberantly signaling that the long-downtrodden Ohio faithful were happy to be back from the political wilderness after ending the Republicans' 12-year state government reign last year.
"Tonight feels different, doesn't it?" state Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern said, having noted that the event netted about $550,000 for the party.
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