Former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) discussed the narrowing the gap between the rich and poor in his campaign stop at Bennett College in Greensboro, N.C. last week.
"We have to do something to narrow this gap that exists in America between the wealthy and everybody else," Edwards said, "The middle class is struggling in America today. Every single day, just struggling to get buy and that's before you even get to the 37 million Americans who live in poverty every day. It is not ok in the wealthiest nation in the planet to have 37 million of our own people who wake up every day worried about feeding and clothing their children. We're better than this. The United States of America is better than this."
In this campaign video, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) says he is continuing to fight to end the war in Iraq.
"I'm working very hard to stop this war in Iraq," the presidential hopeful says, "To try to make sure Congress understand it has the power to cut off the funds to end the war now."
Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) new campaign video, released Wednesday, describes his experiences as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
His story is told by men McCain served with in the war. "He was incredibly wounded," fellow POW Paul Galanti says, "just horrible injuries when he was captured."
"The only reason why I'm hear today," McCain says at the end of the video, "is because I believe that a higher being has a mission for me in my life."
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) discussed legislation she has introduced to provide health care to all children in her Hillcast Wednesday.
The Children's Health First Act, Clinton said, would remedy the problem of the 9 million children that have no health coverage. "Health care is something that I've fought for my entire life. And I think you all know that I have the scars to prove it, " the presidential hopeful said. "I've worked for quality, affordable health care for everyone.
"When I'm President we will have universal health care coverage in our country so that every American has the quality health care they deserve," she added.
In his recent campaign video, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) addresses his support of the President's surge of troops in Iraq.
"When you take a position which you know, at least in the short term, cannot be popular with your constituents or other Americans but you know is right, that's courage," he says.
Additionally, in a clip from one of his campaign speeches spliced into the campaign spot, he states, "We're Americans and we'll never surrender."
This 1989 video of former Gov. Rudy Giuliani (R-N.Y.), posted yesterday on YouTube, is now making its way around political blogs. In it, Giuliani says public funding should be made available for poor women to have abortions.
The video brings to light the difficulties Giuliani may face in capturing the Republican nomination given his support of abortion, gay rights and gun control.
Gov. Mitt Romney condemned Cuban leader Fidel Castro and said the United States needs to rebuild its relationship with Latin America.
"We must never again ignore Latin America," Romney said. "...Since the end of the Cold War and since the terror of Sept. 11, America has been so preoccupied with other regions that we seem to have forgotten our friends in our own hemisphere."
The 2008 Republican presidential candidate gave the speech on Friday to the GOP Miami-Dade chapter in Florida.
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) Friday proposed the enactment of a new GI Bill of rights in response to recent discoveries of shortcomings in VA health care. Clinton accused the Bush administration of indifference and said she wants to restore the original GI Bill's "basic bargain" of help and care for servicemembers.
Find Clinton's remarks in her campaign video below.
We at EMILY’s List, where history is made, were thrilled to honor Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) yesterday at our Women in Power luncheon. We were so proud to be joined by EMILY's List women Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and the next President of the United States, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.). We were delighted to share the stage with and help introduce these remarkable women.Stepping onto that stage to greet a sea of faces, male and female, of every age and color—the diverse faces of EMILY’s List—reminded us that though we celebrate the dramatic firsts of women like Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton, they don’t happen on their own.
Our successes are the result of hundreds of thousands of little firsts. A child decides to raise her hand in class for the first time and discovers it’s okay to be both smart and a girl. A woman decides to write a letter to the editor because she’s mad as hell and not going to stay silent anymore and who cares what the neighbors think. A mother decides that if she runs for school board, maybe then her kids could finally start getting the quality education that all American children deserve. A teenager decides to get up early and vote before class because even if it makes only a tiny difference, that difference is hers to make.
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Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), on a 2008 presidential campaign stop in Iowa, told his audience that he's going to be "straight up" with Americans about the genocide in Sudan.
"The next president of the United States is not going to have a chance for on the job training like this last one..." Biden said. "I warn you, if I am your president, I will do more than talk about Darfur."
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