In Memphis, Clinton Calls for Cabinet Post on Poverty

NY Times ^ | 4/5/08 | ELISABETH BUMILLER and JOHN M. BRODER

[melt]

MEMPHIS — Hillary Rodham Clinton called for a cabinet-level poverty czar and John McCain said he was wrong to vote a quarter century ago against a federal holiday in memory of Martin Luther King Jr. as both presidential candidates converged here on Friday for the 40th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination.

Sen. John McCain spoke at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the site where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed 40 years ago. From the Memphis church where King delivered his last sermon on the evening before he was gunned down by James Earl Ray, Mrs. Clinton gave her support to an idea long advocated by the King family, a cabinet position that she said would be “solely and fully devoted to ending poverty as we know it, that will focus the attention of our nation on this issue and never let it go.”

Mrs. Clinton added: “No more excuses, no more whining, but instead a concerted effort.”

[melt]

Earning $42,000 a day, Hillary & her IRS "Poverty Czar" will really feeeeeeel for the "little guy"...

[cajungirl]

THe job has John Edwards’s name on it.

[RichInOC]

Sorry. SecTreas is already in charge of creating poverty.

[A_Former_Democrat]

I believe there was a declared “War on Poverty” that goes back to King’s days.

40+ years later, there’s still “poverty.” Didn’t work then, won’t work now.

[gorush]

As Rush inquired, “who will be the Secretary of Surrender?”

[JoanneSD]

What happened to the war on poverty, that has been going on for years... guess we lost that war...

[Bean Counter]

[Yankee]

The “sainted” King family has a long night ahead wiping Hillary’s lipstick off their behinds.

[engrpat]

We have already had a war on proverty and sadly proverty won.

[Bryan24]

Well, we’ve spent about $5,000,000,000,000+ on poverty since 1965. The poverty rate remains relatively unchanged.

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

[elkfersupper]

Maybe we should have cabinet secretaries and staff to deal with obesity, junk food, the tobacco scourge, the propensity for young girls to be videotaped flashing their tasty body parts on Spring break, and people dressing up as pirates on Halloween as well.

AAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!

[Lizavetta]

Well, we’ve spent about $5,000,000,000,000+ on poverty since 1965. The poverty rate remains relatively unchanged.

It's a quagmire! Pull out now!

[harpo11]

Oh isn't she just brilliant, another socialist dufus sitting around cleaning their fingernails and dusting the seat of their chair with the butt draining the U.S. Treasury on another program to keep Washington bureaudemocrats in office.

What's the latest price tag for all of her brilliancy, when she can't even pay her own bills for medical premiums for her campaign staff. The only calls she will get at 3:00 a.m. is from the bill collectors.

[paul51]

Hillary Rodham Clinton called for a cabinet-level poverty czar

If the gov't keeps taxing us and pissing our money away, we will need one.

[donna]

Poverty comes from children born out of wedlock and from illegal aliens.

[Bender2]

Re: Clinton Calls for Cabinet Post on Poverty

Hell, I thought she'd want... an Anti-Sniper Cabinet Level Department!

[appeal2]

I’m sure this Poverty Czar will do for poverty what the education secretary has done for our schools and the energy secretary has done for energy production.

[Dilbert56]

A "Cabinet Post"! Did you say that? Wonderful

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

If it was Jimmuh Carter, he would call for a cabinet post for a Department of Malaise.

Same difference.

[Cobra64]

I have to ask. What is it with that robot thing you keep posting?