Clinton Helps Kick off Retiree Alliance Conference

Source: AFL-CIO Blog

by Seth Michaels, Sep 4, 2007

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) was the featured guest at the opening session today of the annual legislative conference of the Alliance for Retired Americans. She praised the members of the 3-million-member grassroots organization for their record of activism and said she will need their help, if elected president, to pass an ambitious agenda.

Clinton told the crowd:

I want to be a president who sets big goals. I want to restore America’s leadership in the world. I want to rebuild the middle class. I want to reform government and get back to the old-fashioned idea of appointing qualified people who will do the job we hired them to do. I want to restore a future for our children.

Clinton compared her agenda with that of the current administration. She drew heavily on her campaign theme of paying attention to the most vulnerable members of our society who have been, in her words, “invisible” in the Bush agenda.

People and their problems aren’t invisible to me.…I’ll bring you with me into the Oval Office.

Read more: http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/09/04/clinton-helps-kick-off-alliance-conference/

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