Former first daughter prefers Hillary
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Would Hillary Rodham Clinton be a better president than her husband, Bill?
Posed that question Friday, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton laughed at first
- and then came up with an answer.
"His question is, 'Do I think my mother will be a better president than my father,'" Clinton, 28, told the crowd at Lehigh Valley Hospital, where she had been discussing her mother's health care proposals.
"Well, again, I don't take anything for granted," she said, "but hopefully with Pennsylvania's help, she will be our next president, and yes, I do think she'll be a better president."
"I agree," former president Bill Clinton told a crowd at Asheville High School in North Carolina later Friday.
Asked about her daughter's comment at a news conference in Hammond, Ind., the former first lady smiled broadly and laughed.
"I have to talk to her before I answer that question," she said.
This is your life, John McCain
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The race is on to define John McCain.
The likely Republican nominee launched his first television ad of the general election campaign Friday, casting himself as a ready-to-lead wartime president in advance of a biographical tour to pivotal places in his life. Son of a military man, midshipman, Navy pilot, Vietnam POW, member of Congress for nearly three decades
- this is the resume of the 71-year-old McCain.
"In some ways, I'm well-known to the American people. In other ways, I'm not well-known," McCain told The Associated Press on Friday.
The Democratic Party - still lacking a nominee - and its supporters offer a starkly different portrait. In their view, McCain is a Washington insider, backer of an unpopular war in Iraq, hair-trigger quick on Iran and indifferent on the economic woes of average Americans. They cast McCain as four more years of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
"All he wants to do is continue on the George Bush failed policies of the past," says Democratic Sen. Barack Obama. His rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, talks about "a Bush/McCain Iraq policy" and argues that "we've had enough of a president who didn't know enough about economics."
Recent polls indicate that while McCain would run a competitive race against either Obama or Clinton, the Republican has work to do to boost voters' positive impressions of him.
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Obama praises previous President Bush.
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Sen. Barack Obama said Friday he would return the country to the more "traditional" foreign policy efforts of past presidents, such as George H.W. Bush, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.
