USA: U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton kicks off her presidential campaign in New Hampshire

U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton kicks off her presidential campaign in New Hampshire - getting a good half-hour jump in the news cycle on Senator Barack Obama's campaign kick-off speech in Illinois. U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton kicked off her presidential campaign in the economically struggling city of Berlin, New Hampshire Saturday (February 10). In her first trip to the state in ten years, Clinton talked to a town hall audience of about 300 people about health care, jobs and alternative energy. But Iraq was the main topic in this city. Clinton's vote for military force in 2002 drew some heat when one of the audience members asked if she would admit that her vote on Iraq was a mistake. "Well I have said, and I will repeat it, that knowing what I know now, I never would have voted for it. But I also (applause), I mean obviously you have to weigh everything as you make your decision. I have taken responsibility for my vote. The mistakes were made by this president who misled this country and this congress into a war that should not have been waged," Senator Clinton responded. Clinton also addressed healthcare and the problems of the 47 million Americans without insurance. She said, "If you look at international factors, the American health care system doesn't produce the best results." This was Clinton's first visit to New Hampshire since 1996, when she campaigned there as first lady for her husband's re-election campaign. Clinton is headed to another town hall meeting in New Hampshire on Saturday and plans to attend house parties in Manchester and Nashua on Sunday, along with another town hall meeting.

ITN Source | February 11, 2007

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