Large, loud crowd hails Clinton at San Jose rally
VALLEY INNOVATORS KEY TO U.S. FUTURE, SHE SAYSMercury News
02/02/2008 01:37:18 AM
Taking a cue from her chief rival in a bid to become the Democrats' presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton told a loud and enthusiastic rally of 4,000 in San Jose on Friday evening that she too represents a new future for America.
Without uttering the name of Barack Obama, who campaigns on looking to the future and not the past, Clinton said: "The future has been invented right here, in San Jose, in Silicon Valley and California. So let's begin again to show the world and prove to ourselves that we're the innovators, we're the inventors, we're the people who understand the future is what America is about."
Four days before Tuesday's high-stakes California primary, she appeared in the tent annex of the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. About 2,000 people had RSVP'd to the rally, but San Jose Fire Department officials said the head count was more than 4,000. Many had waited since 3:30 p.m. to hear Clinton speak for about a half hour.
The crowd responded often with near-deafening cheers as the senator from New York delivered her stump speech.
The audience included hundreds of local union members representing, among others, painters, bricklayers, letter carriers and the United Farm Workers.
"We will make this economy work again for hardworking middle-class families," she told the crowd. "We will begin to put people back to work and we will give ourselves the kind of boost that comes with investing in the future with green-collar jobs in clean and renewable energies."
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