Democracy Now!: Clinton Campaign's Corporate & GOP Ties

[zekretzpy]

This reporter Ari Berman is one of the "VULCANS" within society!

[ihouvanje]

Thank you for posting. The truth is so hard to find.

[bklynsam]

Hillary Clinton will tell you what you want to hear. Her 'position' depends on who she's talking to at the time, and whatever will be politically useful to Hillary Clinton alone. If she is the Democratic nominee, it will be the only way the Dems will lose the White House in '09.

[Danielegrl]

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Children's Defense Fund's Marian Wright Edelman Calls

on Congress &

Bush

Administration to Help the Country's Nine Million

Children Without

Health

Insurance

[Danielegrl]

She used to be the head of the board of the Children's

Defense Fund, of

the organization that you founded. But you were

extremely critical of

the

Clintons.

[Danielegrl]

I mean, when President Clinton signed off on the, well, so-called welfare reform bill, you said, "His signature on this pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to hurt children." So what are your hopes right now for these Democrats? And what are your thoughts about Hillary Rodham Clinton?

[Danielegrl]

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Well, you know, Hillary Clinton

is an old

friend,

but they are not friends in politics. We have to build

a constituency,

and

you don't -- and we profoundly disagreed with the

forms of the welfare

reform bill, and we said so.

[Danielegrl]

We were for welfare reform, I am for welfare reform, but we need good jobs, we need adequate work incentives, we need minimum wage to be decent wage and livable wage, we need healthcare, we need transportation, we need to invest preventively in all of our children to prevent them ever having to be on welfare.

[Danielegrl]

And yet, you know, many years after that, when many people are pronouncing welfare reform a great success, you know, we've got growing child poverty, we have more children in poverty and in extreme poverty over the last six years than we had earlier in the year. When an economy is down, and the real test of welfare reform is what happens to the poor when the economy is not booming.

[Danielegrl]

Well, the poor are suffering, the gap

between rich and

poor widening. We have what I consider one of -- a

growing national

catastrophe of what we call the cradle-to-prison

pipeline.

[Danielegrl]

A black boy today has a one-in-three chance of going to prison in his lifetime, a black girl a one-in-seventeen chance. A Latino boy who's born in 2001 has a one-in-six chance of going to prison. We are seeing more and more children go into our child welfare systems, go dropping out of school, going into juvenile justice detention facilities.

[Danielegrl]

THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT TOP

AMY GOODMAN: Marian Wright Edelman, we just heard

Hillary Rodham

Clinton.

She used to be the head of the board of the Children's

Defense Fund, of

the organization that you founded

[Danielegrl]

Oh yea thats right Bill Clinton passed the 1994 crime

bill that removed

pell grants for prisoners

On September 13, 1994, Bill Clinton signed the final

version of the

crime

bill into law.

$9.8 billion earmarked for construction of more

prisons

[monicasuetannehill]

fight.t.e. - what about John Edwards?

[FightTheElite]

John Edwards is also CFR, just like Hillary, Obama and all the republican frontrunners too.

[monicasuetannehill]

had never heard of CFR, looked into it. pretty omnious sounding.

[kronostitanos]

I saw this piece yesterday and wasn't surprised at all by this. Bill did/does pretty much the same thing. If only people would realize democrats and republicans are the same. There needs to be a true opposition party in this country!

[FightTheElite]

US politics is a one party system. The CFR has two parties, the people have none.

Vote Ron Paul for president in 2008! Get back to the Constitution.

[Strutinan]

Are we talking about the same Ron Paul that, while in the senate, sponsored bills for: expanding oilogarchies, removing federal funding from public health programs, and letting people carry guns into schools?

Screw Ron Paul, vote Mike Gravel!

[FightTheElite]

It's the Ron Paul who respects the Constitution.

It's tragic that that is considered radical nowadays.

By the way... "expanding oilogarchies"... which fool told you that? Ron Paul is the one candidate that is not backed by big business.

[Strutinan]

The PNAC constitution maybe, but NOT the Consitution that has the "annoying bill of rights" attached to it.

Ron Paul told me that, when he sponsored a bill to expand and give tax breaks to oil companies. Repeatedly.

Take a look at RP's financing report...its mostly corporate donations, just like the OTHER rethugs.

[monicasuetannehill]

what about john edwards?

[swarminD]

what about him?

[antibaptist]

i wasn't talking to you, swarm.