June 20, 2007
Posted: 10:25 AM ET

Clinton spoke at the Take Back America conference Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to win over her party's liberal activists, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday accused President Bush of disregarding the Constitution and promised to bring a new progressive vision to the White House.

Bush's government has "a stunning record of secrecy and corruption, of cronyism run amok," she said in one of the more partisan speeches of her campaign. "It is everything our founders were afraid of, everything our Constitution was designed to prevent."

Clinton returned to the Take Back America conference where she was booed last year for opposing a set date for pulling U.S. troops from Iraq. This time, she said she is working to deauthorize the war.

Her comments on Iraq at the end of her 30-minute speech drew heckles, but she also won applause for promising to get out of Iraq and for embracing liberal positions on domestic issues such as health care, worker rights, education and stem cell research.

Related: Where Clinton stands on the issues

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MaryJo Bruce Surprise, Ariz   June 20th, 2007 3:57 pm ET

We keep hearing from the Democrats,
" We have a plan, we have a plan for health care, we have a plan for education. They have so many plans and no one knows what they are. Except one thing for sure, they have a plan to raise our taxes to pay for all their plans. And thats a plan

Dal, Valdosta,GA   June 20th, 2007 1:48 pm ET

I am an Airman in the US Air Force. I do not care for Hillary at all. As a woman, I feel that she is very intelligent snd well spoken however, lacks the ability to choose a side and stick with it.Her campaign strategy is similar to Holding a blade of grass in the air and which ever way the wind blew, it would follow." This does not describe a leader; No matter how many people you buy. She also does not support our military personnel. She stated that she believes that we are paid too much but I would love to see her in Iraq for 1 day let alone a year. I will not support her because I am person who believes in this country regardless of the day of the week.

Adam, Nashville, Tenn.   June 20th, 2007 1:28 pm ET

Can cnn be any more obvious that it is a biased. What happened to people reporting the news instead of creating it.

josh embry, austin, tx   June 20th, 2007 12:14 pm ET

All this pop and bubble gum Mrs. Clinton is spewing is beginning to make me sick.

DMW, Roeland Park, KS   June 20th, 2007 12:01 pm ET

We love Hillary and feels she does a great job!!!!!

DJ, Los Angeles   June 20th, 2007 11:11 am ET

Yet again Clinton avoid any substance on the issues and just talks abou the usual canned big picture agendas.

No real plan or specific proposal to address the issues.

Even on Iraq, she tries to have it both ways.

K.G. Columbia SC   June 20th, 2007 10:55 am ET

Hillary speech was dry, lame and out of touch to me personally with that activist group and reality. At the end of the day she voted and supoorted that war without thinking of the final outcome or any outcome and to serve as President you look at everything from a good and bad spectrum. Barack ROCKED the crowd, just go watch the video!!!

Thatliberal, tampa   June 20th, 2007 10:49 am ET

Dont forget to mention she was Booed again, and the only people that cheered for her were the her campaign people that got in for free.

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