Thursday, January 03, 2008

'Clinton ends Iowa campaign with display of political might'

Story from The Guardian.

Hillary Clinton wheeled out her fabled political machine last night, hoping the display would help power her to a strong finish in the Iowa caucuses. . . .

She was welcomed on stage by her husband and former president, Bill; his former secretary of state, Madeleine Albright; the former Nato supreme commander, General Wesley Clark; and Hollywood stars Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson. . . .

But despite the reliance on Clinton's familiar claims of experience, she was not above borrowing one of Obama's most popular themes: hope for genuine change in Washington.

"After seven years of the Bush administration there is a feeling in the land that somehow we can't solve all our problems, a sense of fatalism that has affected us," she said. "Well I don't believe that."

Clinton brought her closing arguments to an even wider audience last night with a two-minute advertisement that aired on every 6pm newscast across the state. . . .

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