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A TRUE LEADER DOES NOT NEED TO DEMAND OR FORCE PEOPLE TO BELIEVE IN HIS IDEAS AND OPINIONS. WHY DOES HILLARY ALWAYS INCLUDE THESE COMMANDING WORDS?New Approach? There is nothing new about evolution, global warming, etc. FORCE / DEMAND / MANDATORY / WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS WOMAN? A real leader does not force, demand, or make everything mandatory for God's sake!!! A real leader leads. His ideas are viable, believable, without hidden gain for himself. CLINTON KNOWS HER AGENDA IS REPUGNANT TO MOST AMERICANS, THUS, IT MUST BE FORCED, AND LAWS MAKING HER "NEW WAYS" PERMANENT AND UNCHAGEABLE IN FUTURE PRESIDENCIES. MY GOD PEOPLE RUN, RUN SWIFTLY TO CUT THIS TYRANT OFF BEFORE SHE CAN CHANGE OUR COUNTRY FOREVER.

"understanding the ups and downs of the presidency"

Hillary didn't have a clue as to what was going on inside the Oval office..., or did she?

I do not like this at all. Hillary's various plans are mostly about control. We can't make laws left and right about these things. She justs wants increased embryonic stem cell research to go hand in hand with lax abortion laws.

The key words that let you kow this is all about control with her is "scientific conclusions." well ,there is always a seed of doubt in science, isn't there? She just wants to mandate embryonic stem cell research and these little steps are her way of sneaking in her agenda.

It's Union for Pete's sake, they do not get to choose, teachers are pressured to vote Democratic. The Mafia lives on.

Sure Clinton will do all these things and raise taxes as she tries to do it, that cackling old hen needs to go back and get a real job, like a dog catcher.

Once again, Republicans and Hillary haters, complaining of any campaign proposals as a "tax and spend." So must better to "spend and not tax" for things like Iraq. Let's mortgage our children's future on the lives of today's youth, instead of spending tax dollars for things like scientific advancement, health care and education.
Make sense, Republican sense.

It seems every time Clinton talks, she's proposing even more spending. Either she's just pandering to a sickening level, or she plans to bankrupt this country.

You don't get scientific advancement and innovation by the government. Tax breaks for "scientists" or "scientific organizations" would be nice, though I'd prefer tax breaks for all.

I need to apologize for lack of proper grammar in my previous post. I guess I just went on a typing binge and didn't feel like going back and proofreading. Had to "get it off my chest" don't ya know.

Anybody but Hillary!

Excellent post you made. I'm like you, just approaching from a different angle (the other side of the aisle). I too am fed up with the sophomoric bickering our system has become. My circle of friends and colleagues contain about as diverse a group as you can imagine. I do some contract work for the UN in my speciality so the political conversations can be interesting to say the least.

Hillary will bring more of the same, but in larger doses. If you think squabbling over semantics is bad now, I can only see it getting worse during her presidency. She's been popping off at the mouth for so long now that if she does get in, folks from all walks of life will have her under a microscope. Most of them with the attitude of, "OK, you talked a great game sister, now let's see some action!"

The president holds incredible power and the lame excuses about "the other side" or "vast right wing conspiracy" or voting for before voting against, failing to read the FULL briefing aren't gonna cut it. Bush has been skewered during his time in office, and in many cases rightly so. The spending that has gone on in this administration sickens me. This war (the war part) was over on April 9, 2003, but failure to prepare for action after our military mopped the floor in Iraq has us where we sit today.

This being campaign season, candidates will make promises. All of the HillPraisers think she can get it done and give the "You go girl!" schpiel. I ain't buyin' it. This is the United not Utopian states of America.

All of these folks come out with their I'll be the education president or the health care president or the working man's president or the teacher's president or the science president. If I had 100 million dollars I could beat them all! I'd just say I'll be your everything president. It's so bogus. We need someone that will be the American president and not Kow-tow to every special interest group under the sun.

I like the guys that arent the big names because the special interest groups and lobbyists don't have enough dirt onthem to blackmail them and hold sway over them.

Sorry for the long post but I had to vent because it pains me to see the public hood-winked like this.

Have a great evening!

Current funding for scientific research in the USA ~ $30B/yr

Proposed budget for FY08 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ~ $190B/yr

Someone please explain to me how funding scientific research is tax and spend liberalism but blowing six times the amount to have my friends dismembered in Iraq and Afghanistan is fiscally responsible conservatism.

Also, here's a link to the Army's 'locate a recruiter' page

http://www.goarmy.com/contact/find_a_recruiter.jsp?hmref=cs

talk is cheap. If you support the war go fight it. If you're not willing to fight in the war shut your trap or work to end it so that other people won't have to fight it for you.

"To answer your question, she's served as a US Senator, like Obama.

In addition, it was pretty obvious that she was actively involved in her husband's presidency. She probably understands the up's and down's of the presidency better than anyone else running.

I lean towards Obama myself. I think he's more ethical and less tied to corporate America. But you asked about Hillary's experience, so there you have it."

David, thank you for answering and in doing so you have informed me that clinton does not have more experience than Obama.. Counting her being in the white house as "understanding the ups and downs of the presidency" is absurd. Can you elaborate on the ups and downs? Thats the problem with clinton supporters (not to say you are one), but they give answers that do not answer the question. What ups and downs could she handle better than Obama?? And anyone else who wants to respond, please feel free. Thanks.

Elizabeth from Lincoln, Nebraska:

This "Republican Hate Machine" is actually a liberal, anti-war democrat. Take a look at my response to David in Texas if you'd like further explanation.

It's funny, your post makes my argument about the divisiveness of Hillary Clinton better than I ever could have. Aren't you tired of it?

David in Dallas:

It was my post and I am a life long democrat. I am tired of divisive politics and I want to stand behind a leader of strong character who will unite our country.

If you spend anytime here at all, you can tell that Hillary Clinton is not this person. You may love her and I respect that, but she brings out hate in people.

I am a liberal democrat who is willing to believe in a candidate who will reach across the aisle and work for the common good of all of us, not just one party. I don't want any more fights with the "right winged machine".

I volunteer for a campaign of another democratic candidate and my activities give me the opportunity to speak with republicans who feel the same way I do about this. I have come to believe in the adage, "that which unites us is truly stronger than what divides us". I want them to have a chance to have their voice heard. There is too much at stake in our country to remain divided as we have been for many years.

There are no tricks here. We live in a democracy and we can switch parties if we want. I have no hidden agenda.

Hillary is the on candidate that is going to do everything for everybody! How can anyone be so down on her. I know she meant well when she voted on Kyl-Liebermen, and when she voted on Iraq in 2002. Who doesn't want all of this free stuff? 5,000 bucks for kids, not an expenditure, an investment. Universal healthcare, keeps the workers healthier so they can produce more goods and contribute to a more robust GNP. Want to go to the moon, she make that part of the White House travel office when she revamps it yet again. Down in the dumps, she'll tell a joke a let loose with that charming belly laugh (it is contagious and cures many ills) part of lowering healthcare costs is for all of us to start laughing like she does, we'll all be better off. You should really laugh when someone is asking you a question, the next time a cop stops you and says...do you know how fast you were going? Just let loose with a bigold laugh! No doubt he'll see how ridiculous his question was, laugh with you and let you go after all have a good time.

Yeah!!! Hillary is going to get us to the moon again! Who cares! Unless I can take a vacation to Jupiter or we need to go land a crew on a giant astroid to blow it up then quit wasting money on space. The Dems will lose again because as they are always loud to complain and want change it just seems that they can never seem to get to the polls and vote on the day of the election. Then they will act surprised and complain for another four years.

It's time to officially declare "Man Made Global Warming" the zealous religion that it is.

That way, we can get it banned from schools and the government.

OH NO PAT!!!! WHere on Earth would WE be without our precious IPODS! get a clue.

Yes! We need a President who respects and supports science! I don't know if Hillary is my choice yet, but I definitely like her stance on this. We don't need another President that brushes off science like our current one does.

Dark side, first of all "In God We Trust" is a phrase that not one of the Founders ever used. It was a 1950s invention to make the Soviets look bad for their atheist ways. The Soviets were bad people because they killed million (exactly like the Christian Right version... the Nazis), not because of their lack of religion.

Thomas Jefferson was called an atheist by his detractors when he ran for President in 1800, as if his putting faith in science rather than religion would make him a bad President. He won anyway, two terms.

I show enthusiasm for the light of science here, and you call me a "dancing monkey". A typical response from a typical Republican... if you can't understand science or scientists, call it names.

Because that's all you know how to do. Put your faith in someone or something else, because you aren't intelligent enough to think for yourself... and then disparage everyone who does think for themselves and embraces science, because you can't stand anyone expanding their mind beyond your own self-imposed limits.

To have a president who repsects science and innovation again would be a miracle; half my family works in military science technologies and were actually cut or downsized to divert Pentagon funds to military operations in Iraq.

Also a President who believes in global warming, evolution and the belief Americans need it in order to compete in this global economy.

COMMON SENSE..NONE..as of yet. That's because these holier than thou Republicans won't permit it. You have common sense?

I am not interested in Hilary

Stem cell research should be a priority. This administration keeps forgetting is represents all Americans not just themselves.

Someone commented on wasted money for NASA??? What about wasted money..and live..is Iraq? I'd rather my tax $s be spent moving forward in science and space exploration that what is currently going to in the Middle East. Maybe we should get to vote on where we want our tax $ to go (or not to go). Bet that would be interesting.

I am a chemist and to some extent I agree with her. Science needs to be funded more extensively. It is more important then many other issues because it is tied to advancement in many other areas, history, art, philosophy all are tied to advancement in science. In our culture we have lost the lust to learn and this is the best way to get it back. The space program needs funding and so does scientific discovery and so does cancer, though it is funded better then many other scientific avenues currently. However, Hilary is discussing this only to get elected and i very much doubt a grand change will occur in funding once she takes office.

Lastly, to Common Sense who said" Laurinda. NAME ONE DISEASE STEM CELLS Bone marrow transplants, a widely used and very good cancer treatment, utilizes stem cells as the treatment base. I admit this is one of the only examples and the versatility of this treatment option is unknown, mostly because it is not allowed to be researched. Let us not criticize the unknown possibilities due to ignorance.

SHE IS THE ONE,NEXT PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATE IN AMERICA.

'Santa Claus' Clinton will give everything to everybody to get elected. If she is elected she's going to retract a lot of what she's saying, because she will be working on her reelection campaign starting January 2009.

It will be a welcome respite to have a smart, articulate President in the Whitehouse instead of this moron we have there now. Bush has treated science with displeasure and distain.
WAY TO GO "NEXT" PRESIDENT HILLARY R. CLINTON

To dark side of the funny farm:

I'm not entirely sure what you're driving at, but I don't know if the slogan "In God We Trust" is a "true" American value.

That slogan didn't exist until the Civil War (when it was first put on coins) and then it didn't become the official motto until 1956 and started appearing on paper money the following year. I sort of doubt the founding fathers would have endorsed such a religious expression.

WAKE UP, L.A.:

First, please don't USE CAPITALS when posting to blogs. It suggests you're a newbie.

To answer your question, she's served as a US Senator, like Obama.

In addition, it was pretty obvious that she was actively involved in her husband's presidency. She probably understands the up's and down's of the presidency better than anyone else running.

I lean towards Obama myself. I think he's more ethical and less tied to corporate America. But you asked about Hillary's experience, so there you have it.

Oh my God! Hillary is sooo smart! She wants to make science important! I'm going to give her my vote, and my car, my house, and my pay check!

... everything she said is a generic democratic science platform... just for the record.

One more double-hitter.
She is on top of every issue that matter, and science matters a lot.

CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT HILLARY'S EXPERIENCE IS WITHOUT MENTIONING FIRST LADY OF THE ARKANSAS OR OF THE U.S.?? LAST I CHECKED, THAT WAS NOT EXPERIENCE VITAL TO THE PRESIDENCY..I SEE WHY BARACK IS WINNING IN POLLS AMONG COLLEGE EDUCATED PEOPLE.. WE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES.. HILLARY SUPPORTERS LISTEN TO THE PROPAGANDA AND EMPTY RHETORICAL CATCH PHRASES THAT THE MEDIA AND HER CAMPAIGN SPIN... THIS COUNTRY WAS DUMB ENOUGH TO ELECT THE MORON IN OFFICE TWICE.. LET'S WISEN UP AND NOT WASTE OUR VOTES ON ANOTHER PERSON WHO WILL NOT MAKE THE NECESSARY CHANGES AND COMMITMENT TO AND FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE..

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How typical. Another Republican who wants to cheat the system and undermine the rights of people to make their voices heard–the very foundation of Democracy!–by relying on loopholes and dirty legal tricks. I don't know why I'm surprised; these are the same people who would rather save $1,000 in annual taxes (that's less than $3 a day, folks!) than give free health care to our nation's children. "I don't care how much it would help you, I'm going to hoard my pennies!" is the battle cry of those whose votes can be bought by Republicans promising tax cuts. That and, “On to war—kill ‘em all!” and “Let’s kick out the immigrants!”

"Moral Majority", indeed!

The Moral Majority cares more about winning votes than giving to the less fortunate or other acts of charity, ethics, or morality. “The Religious Right”? Did Jesus teach that we should deny helping those less fortunate than us, that we should cheat to win, and that we should undermine the rights of those who disagree with us? Why no, he did not. If Jesus were alive today, he wouldn't support the Republicans, and my conscience doesn’t permit me to support them either.

PAT

We have had a flag on the moon for nearly 40 years. Go cry about China somehwhere else. What is so bad about China? They are more powerful than we are right now, so maybe we should treat them as equals instead of looking down upon everyone all the time. Its not like GW Bush has left us any room to talk about anything anymore. Good for China if their "welcome to the party" ship finally lands on the Moon. Thats called Progress. WE arent the only ones that need it. Why you assume the chinese would pull out our flag and declare the moon theirs is beyond me, but it sounds like someone has been watching too many "reefer maddness" movies.

My comments were removed by CNN for no reason:
This republican hate machine such as "anyone but Hillary" should rather push their efforts in showing american people as to how their candidates can put this country ahead in all scietific reasearch in this 21st century. Their leader Bush and most of his presidental hopefuls have taken this country to the bottom half of all industrial nations in the scietific reasearch calling global warming a hoax, stopping stean cell reaserch in the name of religion, banning evolution theory from the text books, intervening agencies such as FDA, EPA, Surgeon General's office by political appointies and on and on. These Hillary haters are so stuck in their beliefs that whatever programs she comes up with have to be criticized without any merits. These backward minded people hate her intelligence and smartness as they still have the stuck up ideas that women's roles are to please their husbands, bake cookies, and produce children.

I like your comments Elizabeth!
My advise to Hillary haters. Pack your bags and settle in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. You guys don't deserve to stay in the democratic country.

For those criticizing the amount of money spent on the space program, or that we have more important issues to deal with on earth, think about this: most if not all technological advances and many medical advances, came to fruition because of the space program. Technologies used for cell phones, computers, iPods, etc., were developed from research stemming from the space program. Same is true with various medical advances and technologies. So, next time you say, there's more important things to worry about than sending a man or woman to the moon or mars, remeber, but for our space program, you might not even be typing on that fancy computer of yours.

For some of you, it wouldn't matter if Hillary captured Bin Laden, brought our troops home safely, turned our defecit into a surplus once again (I belive that happened's before, LOL,) developed the cure for AIDS and the common cold, you would simply hate her. How sad? Why not post your reasons instead of calling her names and saying she needs to be put in a closet? Is this the mentality that is now the normal American? If so, I'm truly scared for this country. I'm voting for Hillary because I think she's the most qualified to run this country after the last eight years. Obama showed his inexperience stating he'd sit down with anyone in the first year of his presidency without a plan and format ahead of time. He's not ready and he won't beat the Republican nominee. His own book will be used against him by the Rebulican political machine. As for science, its time our candidates talk about all the issues, not just the war, health care and the economy. But for some of you, it will take a noose around this woman's neck before you are satisified. I'm going to make another contribution after reading these posts, so attack me all you want. Your lust for blood seems to drive your focus today.

My goodness, i'm already so tired of seeing and hearing this Hillary person. She so does whatever to get the vote! I simply can't imagine her and Bill back in the white house, i can only imagine more nightmares like i've had since Bush!

To David From Roanoke:

"Finally, a return to true American values"

Oh you mean like "in god we trust"

Its not even funny how unintelligent H. Clinton supporters are. You are just a bunch of catch-phrase dancing monkeys.

Providence:

Good to know FASHION IS ONE OF YOUR KEY TOPICS FOR DELEGATING THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD.

My only advice to you is don't belive everything you read. As far as I can tell, you've made the two most ignorant posts on this story.

Was she creative when she scrapped her failed healthcare plan when the Hubby had more important issues to tackle? Why couldn't she creatively make her perfect health care system work 10 years ago?

Was she sophisticated when she made low blow accusations against all of her competition, trying merely to cut them down with words, knowing they had a much stronger viewpoint on all the issues than she did, or did she go after their flawed policies? Her entire platform is based on misconception and misinformation. You are just "smart" enough to belive it.

Stylish-meaning her manor and clothing.

These are not qualities that determine good, useful leadership. What would make you think this matters? Rich people would say all the candidates have good style cause they are all paying 400 bucks for a haircut, and 300 bucks for a pantsuit. Money buys you style.

What knowledge of domestic and forgien policy does she have that we dont have? I know that she thinks America wants socialized healthcare, which is far from true. I know that she thinks she is smarter than everyone else, which is also a falicy.

I cannot even comment on what being "presidential" means. I assume that is a buzzword that you heard and think is important.

Her character will be the main focus of attacks against her in the coming months because it is so weak. What kind of moral character does a woman who is still in her marriage only to further her career in politics really have?

Cockyness is often mistaken for confidence as well.

I feel very strongly that you have no idea who you are supporting and simply directing me to Hillary Clinton's homepage, like it was really hard to find without you telling me, is going to help anything. I am very informed on her stances and on the issues and I will tell you with 100% certainty that what she wears out to the debates will not affect her candidacy whatsoever and should not effect your decesion on a candidate. She cannot win the election against Republicans, mainly because she essentially IS a republican.

I cannot tell you what to do, and finger point you to real information and relevant information, you just have to wise up and figure that out for yourself. I think you are making a dumb mistake supporting her for your misinformed, and superfiscial reasons.

"Not one single cure or even promising tests has come from fetal stem cell research, even after BILLIONS in private dollars. Lets not confuse drug company money with taxpayers money.

However, adult stem cell research is showing some promise and it is getting taxpayers dollars. Not taking another life to achieve its goals is an added bonus."

I like how you claim that it's somehow ok to proceed with research with adult stem cells, but for some arbitrary illogical reason it's not ok to study other groups of cells. Stem cells are cells. They are alive as much as your skin cells are alive. We could possibly take skin from your body and turn it into a living human, but that does not mean we have to treat every cell as it is a person because it does have the potential to be a person.

While stem cells show promise in curing a vast amount of diseases, there has not been a "single cure." What would the possible reason for this? 1) It takes a lot of research for any major scientific breakthrough for results 2) Fundamentalists are blocking needed funding for stem cells lines that can actually produce results. Adult stem cells are hard to work with and do not have the same capability as other stem cell lines. Yes, with billions of dollars and decades of research we could find out how to make adult stem cells act like other cells possibly, but we could possibly all be dead before that happens.

bukky-

I never claimed that Hillary wanted to put a man on Mars, your pro-Hillary defensive mind just implied that to yourself.

My post was meant to be sarcastic to the ENTIRE space program, as it is just a gigantic waste of money. How much does it cost to launch and land the space shuttle each time? What does each mission accomplish? What new advances have we made in the last 15 years? The "international space station"? Who cares how ants act in space? If we as taxpayers are going to continue to fund NASA, I would like to see something really revolutionary out of it. I take no political party stance on the space program, I take a financial stance.

Finally! With a majority of Republicans holding their hand up saying they beleive in Creationism (read – they live in the dark ages), it is truly refreshing to see a candidate stand up for reason, education, and scientific freedom. Wow. Of course, the Nascar Neaderthals will now want to burn her at the stake for being a witch.

Way to go Hillary! Going to your site to make another donation. Give the primitive savages pure hell!!! After all, they beleive in it!

I wonder if people post here just for the sake of posting?

Pres. Bush has neglected a lot of things while in office, it is tempting to say "there isn't anything more important than the war in terror" but the fact is that if we want to lead, then we must show the discipline to lead, we chose the war in Iraq, we commited only 160k troops when we needed more to get the job done and now we are using the same troops as a stop gap for the civil war that broke off in that country during our watch... but if that was the most important issue for this president, why is he still there with too few troops, no draft and just buying time for the next president to deal with the consequences? I believe we need someone of the vision and ideals of a Franklyn Roosevelt, he was able to move this country forward in a way that we fought WWII, we conquer the great depression and we manage to achieve higher levels of education, arts, athletics and science faster than any other country at that particular time... he made that possible through high ideals. I believe Hillary is that kind of person and will be that kind of President if elected.

"She will outline her scientific agenda before the Carnegie Institute on the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s successful launch of the Sputnik satellite."

How fitting... the Socialist Candidate, Hillary Clinton, announcing her huge tax-payer funded commitment to "science" on the anniversary of the (Communist ~ Socialist) Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik.

Hopefully the Republicans will remind Americans of the devastation socialism causes – on the anniversary date of the Soviet Union's collapse or the day the Berlin Wall crumbled.

Finally, a return to true American values. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were men of science who thought this nation should lead the world in scientific thought. We have gotten so far away from this national goal that we currently have a Christian fundamentalist in office who suppresses facts and reason at every turn to promote religion in place of science. Instead of questioning everything in a scientific inquiry, Bush wants us to question nothing and submit to the authority of a higher power, whether it is him or his God.

It's time to get back to our roots... to embrace science as our Founders did. Our United States must be "based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it." -Thomas Jefferson

Xenu

Hillary never said she wanted to put a man on Mars. Bush did, by 2010 i believe. You people hate for no reason and with no facts

As long as stem cell research is forbidden in America, the Chinese, Japanese, Europeans, and others will be developing the medicines and cures that we will have to import in future years. -Terry

Not one single cure or even promising tests has come from fetal stem cell research, even after BILLIONS in private dollars. Lets not confuse drug company money with taxpayers money.

However, adult stem cell research is showing some promise and it is getting taxpayers dollars. Not taking another life to achieve its goals is an added bonus.

What was that about listening to science?

We definitely need to focus more on science, but unless we have a clear plan on how to further explore space with detailed theories and proposals for attainable technology, we should be wary of how much we spend on the space program.

That being said, the future is certainly in science, and we could do well by spending a bit more time on it rather than blowing holes in the middle east all the time.

America has a long tradition of deliberate governmental ignorance of scientific facts. A couple of highlights are:
1. I think it was in the 1970's that the Georgia legislature passed a law declaring that "time had ceased to exist in Georgia" because they were late meeting a court or constitutionally mandated deadline (I forget which). Then one of the Legislators took a clock from the wall and placed it on the floor and stomped on it. Legislators then formed a line and each took turns stomping the clock to pieces.

2. The Kansas legislature passed a law changing the value of pi from 3.1416 to 3.0 to facilitate calculation for school children. This was in the 1920's I think.

3. And, we all know about the famous Scopes Monkey Trial in Tennessee.

The opposition to stem cell research as near as I can tell is that some people believe that the soul is placed by God in the fetus at the moment of conception. Therefore, destruction of even a one-celled fetus is murder, since it separates the soul from the body. How they know this I do not know.

As long as stem cell research is forbidden in America, the Chinese, Japanese, Europeans, and others will be developing the medicines and cures that we will have to import in future years.

My grandmother, God bless her soul, believed that it a particular verse in the Bible declared that space travel was forbidden by God. She predicted with great confidence that God would destroy the first moon rocket before it could land. When Neil Armstrong actually stepped onto the lunar surface, she declared that the entire thing was obviously being filmed in a movie studio since the rocket had not been destroyed. A scientist or a theologian she was not, but she was a wonderful grandmother and she cooked the best food you ever tasted.

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I guess I'll just have to keep writing this. I actually don't remember if North Korea was one of the countries brought up in the YouTube debate, but Senator Clinton did NOT say that she WOULDN'T meet with the leaders referenced. She said that she wouldn't PROMISE to meet with those leaders without first sending high-level diplomats to ascertain their intentions.
Would Ahmadinejad come to talk about whatever limited issues are actually in his purview, or simply to assure the United States once again that there are no homosexuals in his country?
Since FOREVER, leaders have had their diplomats do advance work to set agendas and agree on negotiating frameworks before sitting down to talk with their opposite numbers. Adopting this practice does not make Sen. Clinton "Bush-lite"; it makes her smart and prepared. Far from estranging North Korea, it would make any negotiations that she undertook with them more likely to succeed.

Providence RI:

What exactly is Stylist? Did you mean stylish?

I wonder what you really meant by Knowledgable, ARTICULATE, and sophisticated.

I'm just glad you didn't try to toss INTELLIGENT in there.

Amazing. Couldn't ask for a more qualified, inteligent person for president.

Laurinda. NAME ONE DISEASE STEM CELLS HAVE CURED.

Why is she talking about this right now? Are there not more important things to talk about? Perhaps why another healthcare bill was not able to go through? Maybe comment on the Korean Penninsula's recent peace talks. Oh wait, she wouldn't speak to Kim Jung Ill in the first year of her presidency cause she is uber smart and worldly and stuff. Guess we can astrange South Korea while we're at it.

Hillary is "the Brain" we need to lead our country- She is articulate, innovative, talented, knowledgeable, sophisticated, and stylist. She has it all.

What a refreshing change of pace a president that embraces science would be, rather than fearing or demonizing it for the sake of scoring cheap political points or advancing a personal religious agenda.

Yeah Hillary!!! Stem cell research. That is the number one way to cure diseases. I've been waiting for my Dems to get in so this can happen. For all of us animal lovers out there, this will cut down on animal research, which is so cruel and basically useless. THANYOU HILLARY

A new poll out today <a href="http://www.campaigndiaries.com/2007/10/morning-polls-clinton-slowly-but-surely.html"from Florida shows Clinton leading all three major GOPers.

Sounds like more democrat tax and spend policies to me.

The Russians once tried to make science support politics; google LYSENKOISM if you want to see how that came out. Truth can't be hidden. If we suppress knowledge, it will be discovered and used by other countries. Truth and knowledge can be dangerous, but it's an apple Mankind ate a long time ago; safer for us to know the truth.

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It will take two or three presidential terms to repair the damage that the Bush administration has caused to scientific endeavor in this country. This would be a good start.

Yeah, lets listen to the scientists.
Umm.. scientist that agree with my interpretation’s that is..

Yeah.., those scientists. It doesn't matter that scientist have been continually proving other scientific wrong for centuries, my scientists are always right, trust me..

Mrs Clinton will promise a high priority on anything and everything to get elected. It always all about her and "power".

Guess she wants to be the first President-In-Space....she'd one-up John Glenn...she should just stick to her broom-stick.

Guess she's interested in lots of things after all....like maybe being the first President-In-Space....that would certainly show John Glenn up, wouldn't it?

Thats right, spend more taxpayer money on things like space exploration. Unless NASA can get some sort of hyperdrive or warp drive working for deep space exploration, and external solar system travel (yes, my inner nerd is showing), then space exploration is just a waste of money. Why go to Mars, the human race cant survive there. Lets make science fiction science fact!

Hillary bashers should not resort to their usual knee-jerking responses because regardless of what you feel about her personally, she's right about this. We need to focus more on real science to advance us technologically. We've lost the public will in terms of the space race. How do you feel about the idea that China will beat us back to the moon in 2017? We're currently on a schedule to get us there no earlier than 2020. They're going to be there 2017. How would you feel watching the Chinese flag planted on the moon before we can get back there? Heck, how would you feel if they pulled our's out of the ground there, and declared the Moon an extension of the PRC? Also, she's correct in her implicit criticism of the current administration's head in the sand mentality of scientific predictions concerning climate change, as EPA was told by Bush to fudge the numbers in this area to keep us from doing the hard things that must be done. The same applies to the prospect of stem cell research. The Bush administration is stifeling public scientists in this regard too and many other areas. So, again, no matter your personal feelings about Hillary, this is one policy pronouncement you will have a hard time trying to criticize!