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Excerpts from Books by and about 2008 candidates
Sen. Joe Biden
Promises to Keep
Sen. Sam Brownback
From Power to Purpose
Sen. Hillary Clinton
Living History
Pres. Bill Clinton
My Life
Sen. Chris Dodd
Letters from Nuremberg
Sen. John Edwards
Ending Poverty in America
Mayor Rudy Giuliani
Leadership
Sen. Mike Gravel
Citizen Power
Gov. Mike Huckabee
From Hope to Higher Ground
Amb. Alan Keyes
Our Character, Our Future
Rep. Dennis Kucinich
A Prayer for America
Sen. John McCain
Why Courage Matters
Sen. Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope
Rep. Ron Paul
A Foreign Policy of Freedom
Gov. Bill Richardson
Between Worlds
Gov. Mitt Romney
Turnaround
Rep. Tom Tancredo
Mortal Danger
Sen. Fred Thompson
Government at the Brink

(click a book cover for excerpts and a review or other books by or about the presidency from Amazon.com)

2007 AFL-CIO Democratic primary forum, August 8, 2007


Corporations
   Hillary Clinton: Stop bankruptcies to get rid of pension responsibilities.
Education
   Hillary Clinton: Total change in No Child Left Behind.
Energy & Oil
   Chris Dodd: 80% reduction in CO2 by the year 2080.
   Chris Dodd: Tax polluters & invest funds in alternative tech.
   Hillary Clinton: Invest in alternative energy; jobs that won't be outsourced.
Environment
   Hillary Clinton: Support green-collar job training.
   Hillary Clinton: Put someone in charge of Katrina recovery who actually cares.
Foreign Policy
   Barack Obama: My critics engineered our biggest foreign policy disaster.
   Barack Obama: China is a competitor, but not an enemy.
   Bill Richardson: Be tougher on China; it's a strategic competitor.
   Chris Dodd: Pakistan's dictator is only thing preventing fundamentalism.
   Chris Dodd: China is a competitor, but getting close to adversary.
   Dennis Kucinich: My most favored nation is America; no MFN for China.
   Hillary Clinton: Our fiscal responsibility undercuts Chinese power over us.
   Joe Biden: China holds the mortgage on our house, to pay for war.
   John Edwards: We need country-of-origin labeling for China trade safety.
Free Trade
   Barack Obama: People don't want cheaper T-shirts if it costs their job.
   Barack Obama: Amend NAFTA to add labor agreements.
   Bill Richardson: Enforce labor & environmental standards & job safety.
   Chris Dodd: Include labor, environmental & health in trade deals.
   Dennis Kucinich: Manufacturing policy: trade based on workers right.
   Dennis Kucinich: Base trade on worker rights, human rights & environment.
   Hillary Clinton: Smart, pro-American trade: NAFTA has hurt workers.
   Hillary Clinton: No fast-track authority for this president.
   Hillary Clinton: Better approach: real trade adjustment assistance.
   Joe Biden: President's job is to create jobs, not to export jobs.
   John Edwards: NAFTA is perfect example of bigger need for change.
   John Edwards: FactCheck: NAFTA did not cost US a million jobs.
Government Reform
   Barack Obama: No "bundled" money from federal-registered lobbyists.
   Barack Obama: Campaigns last too long & cost too much.
   Chris Dodd: Creation of DHS was not a good idea; it's far too large.
   Hillary Clinton: End no-bid contracts, end revolving door in government.
   Joe Biden: Would consider a Republican for head of DHS or Pentagon.
   Joe Biden: Pledges to stop no-bid contracts.
   John Edwards: Money from trial lawyers OK because they don't push policy.
   John Edwards: Public campaign finance would reduce length of campaigns.
   John Edwards: Democrats should say no to all insider lobbyist money.
Health Care
   Joe Biden: Start with catastrophic insurance and insuring all kids.
Homeland Security
   Barack Obama: We are no safer now than we were after 9/11.
   Bill Richardson: Focus on international terrorism & fissionable material.
   Chris Dodd: Star Wars program is wrong priority for 21st century.
   Chris Dodd: We're not safer than after 9/11; we're still vulnerable.
Immigration
   Barack Obama: Pathway to citizenship, but people have to earn it.
   Barack Obama: Let's be a nation of laws AND a nation of immigrants.
Jobs
   Dennis Kucinich: Restore right to organize; to collective bargain; to strike.
   Joe Biden: Implement current recommendations on job safety.
   John Edwards: Treat CEO pensions exactly as we treat every other worker.
   Barack Obama: Chicago's Soldier Field stadium construction created jobs.
   Chris Dodd: Ban the outsourcing of jobs.
   Joe Biden: FactCheck: His AFL-CIO rating of 85% is not best of all Dems.
   Mike Gravel: Claims 100% rating with AFL-CIO for full legislative career.
Principles & Values
   Hillary Clinton: Bring your brooms & vacuum cleaners; we got to clean up DC.
   Joe Biden: Next president has no margin of error, post-Bush.
   Hillary Clinton: If you want a winner to take on right wing, I'm your girl.
   John Edwards: Don't change one group of insiders for different insiders.
Social Security
   Hillary Clinton: Make sure nobody ever tries to privatize Social Security.
Technology
   Chris Dodd: Each $1B invested in infrastructure creates 40,000 jobs.
   Hillary Clinton: Infrastructure investment creates jobs AND improves security.
   Bill Richardson: Partner on rail & smart growth; no privatized toll roads.
   Dennis Kucinich: Create a federal bank of infrastructure modernization.
   Joe Biden: Proposed $980M for tunnel repair; others have dropped ball.
War & Peace
   Barack Obama: Get al Qaeda hiding in hills between Afghanistan & Pakistan.
   Barack Obama: Military action in Pakistan if we have actionable intel.
   Barack Obama: No good options in Iraq--just bad options & worse options.
   Bill Richardson: Withdrawing from Iraq lets real peace & reconciliation begin.
   Chris Dodd: Any unilateral military action in Pakistan is a mistake.
   Dennis Kucinich: Use $97 billion of Iraq funding to bring troops home.
   Dennis Kucinich: November 2006 election meant Dems promised to exit Iraq.
   Hillary Clinton: Strategizing about Pakistan destabilizes a nuclear power.
   Hillary Clinton: Redeploy responsibly, with regional diplomatic effort.
   Joe Biden: It's already US policy to go into Pakistan to get al Qaeda.
   Joe Biden: Bush has lied for 7 years; tell truth on Iraq.
   Barack Obama: FactCheck: Yes, Obama said invade Pakistan to get al Qaeda.


The above quotations are from 2007 AFL-CIO Democratic primary forum, August 8, 2007.

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