| Courting Black voters
And we need to be fed,'' she said. The former first lady has tried to remain above the fray most of the week after an unusually rancorous debate Monday in which she and Obama traded barbs. She has criticized President Bush on the stump and rarely mentioned her top rival, leaving Bill Clinton to challenge the Illinois senator more directly. But she has gotten in her digs occasionally. Friday's came as she praised Rangel while implicitly criticizing Obama for being overeager. ''He serves as chair of the most important committee in the United States Congress,'' Clinton said of Rangel. ''He didn't get there by leapfrogging. He got there by lots of hard work.'' While she was courting black voters, Bill Clinton was pitching her candidacy to a crowd of about 200 people Friday in Spartanburg.
Nader Throws Support to Edwards, Blasts Clinton
As Clinton campaigned through a snowstorm in southeast Iowa, pledging to "bring about the changes we need," Nader accused the Democratic senator from New York of using empty rhetoric. "[Clinton] has not led the way against the avalanche of military contracting, corporate crime, fraud and abuse," he said. "We want to inform the people of Iowa about Hillary Clinton because all the focus is on, do they have the experience and do they have the personal charisma, and can they cross the aisle" Nader said. "The issue is corporate power and who controls our political system and it's not who has experience for six years or two years," he said, alluding to an ongoing debate over experience between Clinton and freshman Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). "She has experience in the Senate, and what that experience has meant is going soft on cracking down on corporate crime, fraud, and abuse, soft on cutting tens of millions in corporate subsidies," he continued.
The gravesite of Sheila and Paul Wellstone at Lakewood Cemetery.
28TH & HENNEPIN Plans to incorporate the Walker Library and the Isles Allina Medical Clinic into an expanded YWCA community center near 28th Street and Hennepin Avenue are dead for now. The idea, which the YWCA has discussed for about a year, proved to be too complicated to allow the center to continue providing services during construction. It would have had to shut down for a couple years, forcing its members to go elsewhere. "While there was deep political support for this and neighborhood support, we determined it was too much of an operational challenge," said real estate consultant Caren Dewar, who worked with the YWCA to evaluate development possibilities. Karen Sterk, director of health and fitness at Full Article .
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