Do you think America needs a HUGE Change { Please Read }?

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton said Saturday that voters "know something is wrong" in Washington and urged Democrats to create change in the November elections. "I have never seen the American people so serious," said Clinton. "I think I know why. People know things are out of whack. The rhythm of our public life and our common life in America has been disturbed."

The former president was the keynote speaker at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, the Iowa Democratic Party's biggest annual fundraising event. He drew more than 3,500 activists.

There is speculation that Clinton's wife, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, may seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. She has not been in Iowa during this election cycle, even though other candidates have already begun campaigning in the state that will open the presidential nominating season.

Bill Clinton joked about the speculation. "I am under no illusions as to why I'm here," he said. "You were so desperate for a Democrat with any name recognition at all who isn't running for president that you resorted to the chief caseworker to the junior senator from New York."

Clinton urged activists to focus on the midterm election.

"People are sick of partisanship, they are sick of gridlock and they are coming to us in droves," said Clinton. "People know something is wrong and they want to change."

Clinton called the Bush administration and the Republican-led Congress "unprecedentedly unaccountable" and said tax cuts for the rich have led to huge deficits.

"This is not class warfare," said Clinton. "I've been poor and I've been rich and I like rich better. I want to pay my share. I don't need another vacation home."

Both the White House and Congress are resistant to scrutiny from the outside, he said.

"In Iraq, which is famous for no-bid contracts, $9 billion has gone missing and there has been no serious congressional investigation," said Clinton. "There's never been a more secretive, unaccountable administration."

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SOLON, Iowa (AP) - Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards on Saturday bashed the Bush administration for "proactive stupidity" by sticking with a failed policy in Iraq and being unable to admit its mistakes.

He predicted the Iraq war and a wave of scandals in the Republican-run Congress will prompt voters to demand change in November.

"There is an underlying current that Democrats are in a strong position, for a lot of reasons," Edwards told The Associated Press. "Some of it is the scandals and corruption that people all across the country are seeing in Washington."

Edwards was spending the weekend in eastern Iowa raising money for Democratic legislative candidates.

He finished a surprising second in Iowa's leadoff precinct caucuses in the 2004 presidential election, and that propelled him to a spot on the ticket with eventual nominee John Kerry (website - news - bio) . Edwards has left little doubt he's interested in again seeking the party's nomination, and he's been among the most active of the potential candidates campaigning in Iowa.

Danny Diaz, a spokesman with the Republican National Committee, said Saturday that Edwards is a "failed presidential candidate and a rejected vice presidential candidate whose political attacks will be no more successful today than they were two years ago."

Edwards diverted from his campaign schedule to speak at a University of Iowa conference on poverty issues. "We should be for the eradication of poverty in America," he said. "In our party, we need to seize the moral high ground."

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

It needs it, and it is going to get it.

open4one · Answer

Yeah, we need a change, but not the kind of change the liberals envision. 

The people need to change to rekindle their devotion to Truth, which means to reject the bias and ignorance of the media.  The fact is that most reporters don't have a clue what they're looking at most of the time when the subjects are Law, Government, or anything Military, they just report what they think based on their own prejudices.  People need to check the facts more. 

We need to return to the Constitution, and stop wasting time and money on the UN.  If the US should take action someplace, all the UN does is delay the inevitable, making the ultimate action more difficult and expensive.  I'm not aware of a single problem they've ever even ameliorated, let alone solved.

certron_80 · Answer

Absolutely, America needs a huge change in electoral politics. The fundamentalism exhibited by the current Republicans on the federal level have pushed out almost all of the moderate Republicans that used to be in Congress and at the state levels, generally because the moderates weren't "tough enough" on overhyped threats, wouldn't back radical changes to existing programs, or wouldn't support the eroding of our Constitutionally-defined checks and balances on government.

The Democrats, not wanting to appear to be doing the "wrong" thing, gladly rolled over for it, either not voicing opposition or fully supporting regressive policies that are ruining this country and reducing our rights.

Questionable and unaccountable voting practices, secret government meetings on public domestic policy, suppression of free speech, media manipulation at home and abroad, invading the privacy of citizens with no government oversight, suspension of habeus corpus rights to anyone arbitrarily designated by the president or other official.. the list goes on and on. It is difficult to say they are working in our best interests many times.

This Administration is the most secretive in a very long time, perhaps in US history. There is no shortage of corruption, lies, and other misdeeds that could lead to an impeachment, under the Constitution. I readily admit that Bill Clinton wasn't a great president, but his impeachment was the result of a plan to disempower the top elected Democrat long before anyone had heard of Monica Lewinsky.

There is no doubt in my mind, America needs a huge change, but getting people elected outside the two established parties is almost impossible, at the local, state and federal levels, and anyone who is put forward by the two parties has had their policies already written for them. Change will be slow unless citizens become more politically active, on all sides of the issues.

Anonymous · Answer

democrat... moral? huh... that's kinda' funny... well... yeah... ummm... no.

should things change? Shouldn't they? I mean yeah, there's always room for improvment... but come on...

I just... Sometimes I hate... (And I do mean hate) the way people think... But other than that, things are fine... Change? A little sure... But I'm not seeing too many in the way of good here... So I think things are fine just the way they are...

Wow... I believe I was just rambling...

Anyway... Change? No Change? Words will always be words... and you still can't trust anyone. But go with what you feel... is right... 

??? whatever...

Faeldaz M · Answer

As long as we've got a majority of politicians of both major parties who think a strong government meddling in every facet of every citizen's lives is a good thing and that they should be able to force the same citizens to pay for the privilege, then gridlock is a good thing since it keeps them from getting as much meddling done.

Anonymous · Answer

We should re-elect Clinton. The Clinton years are the most peaceful years in American history . At least he invested and cared about us citizens .

Clinton(democrats) =peace and prosperity
Bush(republican=war+crime+
poverty+deceptions 


                         PICK ONE

leigland · Answer

That to shelter those Rights, Governments are instituted between adult men, deriving their basically Powers from the Consent of the ruled, that each and every time any form of authorities turns into damaging of those Ends, that's the right of the people to modify or to abolish it, and to institute new authorities, laying its starting up position on such concepts, and organizing its Powers in such form, as to them shall look maximum probable to result their protection and Happiness. Prudence, certainly, will dictate that Governments lengthy widely used might want to no longer get replaced for gentle and temporary motives; and hence all journey hath shewn, that Mankind are better disposed to struggle through, even as Evils are sufferable, than to authentic themselves through abolishing the varieties to which they're accustomed. yet even as a lengthy practice of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing forever a similar merchandise, evinces a layout to reduce them lower than absolute Despotism, that's their authentic, that's their responsibility, to throw off such authorities, and to grant new Guards for his or her destiny protection.

Anonymous · Answer

America does need a huge change but I have heard nothing from either party that would, in my opinion, have a positive affect on middle-class Americans!

Republicans represent the rich, big business & illegals
Democrats represent people on welfare & the illegals
NO ONE represents middle-class Americans

correrafan · Answer

Yes, but I am still undecided about a Clinton ticket.  Convince me, if you can...

Anonymous · Answer

LOL.......lordy this was funny.  Moral high ground?  LOL.....this from an impeached former President and an Ambulance Chaser. LOL..........The democrats get dumber by the day.

Yalerower · Answer

Im sorry but i won't read crap that includes clinton. America is great the way it is.

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