Hillary Clinton Talks About Her Goals for America at Auraria Campus in Denver, Colorado

On October 23^rd, 2007, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke at Auraria Campus. Students and professors from all three colleges (Community College of Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver, and University of Colorado at Denver) attended.

Hillary Clinton, a champion for the rights of women and children, started her speech by talking about the need for change. "If you are ready for a change," she announced, "then, I am ready to lead."

Hillary Clinton talked about her four big goals for the country if she is elected President. One, to restore the trust of the world in the leadership of the United States; two, to rebuild the middle class; three, to reform our government; and four, to ensure the future of our children.

Speaking of the war in Iraq, she said that the military did the job that we sent them to do. It is now time to leave, she said for "We are not referees." It is now time for Iraq to do their job, so that our soldiers can come home.

Turning her attention to the domestic front, she said that "The economy needs to work for everyone." As it now stands, the economy is only working for some people, and the rest of the people are in danger of becoming invisible, if they are not already invisible.

She believes that the way to create good jobs, and to rebuild the middle class, is to invest in renewable energy. The highway to the new economy is renewable energy; it will not wreck the economy as the current administration has argued. Her plan to fund this project (50 billion dollars) will probably be met with a lot of opposition, for it involves eliminating tax subsidies for the oil companies.

"We can all be more efficient [energy-wise]," she declared. Green energy will create millions of new jobs with good pay, she believes.

On the subject of education, she supports the concept of universal pre-kindergarten, and better educational funding. Especially interesting to the crowd, which was composed of college students, was the idea of more affordable tuition and more Pell Grants. The older students, myself included, cheered the idea of bigger tax credits for those paying for college.