2:00pm - March 12th, 2008
Hillary Clinton kicked off six weeks of political attention for Philadelphia with a rally yesterday evening at Temple University.
Before a cheering crowd of 3,000 to 4,000 supporters Hillary delivered a campaign speech that was decidedly short on mentions of her chief rival, Barack Obama, but big on populist promises to help the working class.
In addition to promises to provide health care and make college more affordable, she laid out a plan for a "Strategic Energy Fund" which would invest in green technologies.
"You've heard of blue collar jobs, you've heard of white collar jobs," she said, "we can create at least 5 million green collar jobs."
Another popular topic with the crowd was the rising price of oil.
"Let's investigate the oil companies and the oil producing countries because I don't think this is on the level," Clinton said, "You will not see me as the president of the United States holding hands with the Saudis, I'm going to hold them accountable!"
Pennsylvania is the last big state to vote with a primary is on April 22nd. With no other democratic contests between then and now, Pennsylvania voters can expect to get a lot of attention from the candidates.
Michelle Obama is expected to be the next to visit the area, going to Villanova University for a public event this Thursday at 5pm.
