Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Clinton vows to help struggling middle class

Sen. Hillary Clinton promised Iowans on Saturday that if they pick her to be the next U.S. president, she will push "to begin to set the scales, the balances, straight" in an American society that she says has lost sight of its struggling middle class.

Under the Republican administration of President George W. Bush, many ordinary Americans have become invisible to their government, Clinton told a crowd of more than 100 people crowded into a Newton coffee shop. Single mothers who need health care, struggling war veterans and others all have gone unnoticed, she said.

"They don't see America," Clinton said of the Republicans. "They have some kind of blinders on."
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