Clinton On Palin: People Shouldn’t Vote For Her Just Because She’s a Woman
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said today that voters would be remiss if they voted for the McCain-Palin ticket because they like having a woman on the ticket.
She said she’s held more than 40 events for the Obama campaign to spread his message of change.
“I make the case as strongly as I can that our country must have new leadership,” she said after attending a firefighters’ memorial event in Albany. (Shown left with Gov. Paterson.)
“The McCain-Palin ticket does not offer that. They offer more of the same failed policies,” she said. “So I think that there are people who are excited by the fact that the Republicans have a woman on the ticket. I think that’s a legitimate reason to be excited.
“The Democrats did it in 1984, Republicans got around to doing it in 2008. And there’s reason for people to see that as a real milestone.
“But that’s not a reason to vote for the McCain-Palin ticket. You have to ask yourself, who is going to be better for you and your family? And in New York it’s not even close. We will have such a better future if we have Democratic leadership back in the White House.”
Clinton was in town to also endorse Democratic congressional candidate Paul Tonko in the 21st District race and to attend an announcement of plans by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to build a new facility in the Albany area—which includes $1.2 billion in government aid.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
