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Saturday, July 12, 2008 --- 39 days ago http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/12/1196955.aspx
| From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli PHILADELPHIA -- Former President Bill Clinton journeyed to the "center of wonkdom" this afternoon, as he spoke to current and former governors about the challenges America faces and potential solutions to them -- with climate change among the most pressing. Invoking the founding fathers’ idea that the states were meant to be “laboratories for democracy,” Clinton also spoke of how governors tend to have greater capacity to move “beyond party to policy” and work simply to “close the gap between what is and what ought to be.” “I used to tell people that I loved going to the Governors Association, because it was a center of wonkdom,” Clinton said in his keynote address to the National Governors Association meeting here. “On occasion when I was the governor of Arkansas, we would be the first state to do something. But I was always just a little prouder if we were the second state to do something, because it meant that the founders’ idea was being honored.” Clinton referred to presidential politics only in passing, at one point saying he was “really proud” that the Democratic Party's “surviving candidates where an African American and a woman.” Later, while discussing immigration reform, he said he was “very encouraged by what has been said by the apparent nominees of both parties.” Clinton was on hand through the auspices of his presidential foundation, and therefore was prohibited from delving too deeply int ... |
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