Hillary Clinton talks up 'green-collar' jobs in convention speech
DENVER--During the primary campaign, Hillary Clinton lashed out at her rival, saying she was the only candidate with the right plan "to create 5 million new, green collar jobs." She dismissed Barack Obama thusly: "My opponent doesn't have much experience creating jobs at all."
Through his Web site, Obama responded that he had a better plan to create "5 million green collar jobs."
The long-running dispute between Hillary Clinton--shown on the convention floor on Tuesday--and Barack Obama's over who had the best plan to create "5 million green collar jobs" is officially over.
(Credit: CBS News)On Tuesday evening here at the Democratic convention, the Democrats' intra-party dispute over who had the best plan to create "5 million green collar jobs" officially ended. In a speech that extolled the virtues of working together to defeat Sen. John McCain, Clinton said her onetime rival from Illinois "is my candidate and he must be our president."
Joined by her husband, Bill Clinton, and daughter, Chelsea Clinton, the New York senator acquiesced on the green-jobs point. Obama will "transform our energy agenda by creating millions of green jobs and building a new, clean energy future," she acknowledged.
Except for Clinton loyalists, including some delegates who staged a rally in her support outside the Pepsi Center, this may put to rest the key question of who had the more efficacious plan--while not answering who came up with it first. The Obama campaign's "factcheck" site claims that "Obama advocated for green-collar jobs for years--and unveiled his plan a month before Clinton unveiled hers." (In an article titled "It's Not Easy Being Green-Collar," Forbes outlined this dispute.)
The issue of green jobs is likely to reappear again in the general election this fall, and Obama has some competition. McCain, the Republican candidate for president, also says he has a plan for green jobs, but doesn't seem to say how many millions of jobs he'll create: "Green jobs and green technology will be vital to our economic future. There is no reason that the U.S. should not be a leader in developing and deploying these new technologies."
Declan McCullagh, CNET News' chief political correspondent, chronicles the intersection of politics and technology. He has covered politics, technology, and Washington, D.C., for more than a decade, which has turned him into an iconoclast and a skeptic of anyone who says, "We oughta have a new federal law against this." E-mail Declan. 
Of course if all you have is a manifesto then that's not exactly a patentable invention. Even so, you should publish it rather than keeping it a secret and criticizing something (fixed angle cells) without providing an alternative.
He has no Agenda, he answers no hard question,, He got Biden to give him more credibility ,,, Obama Stole the Presidential Seal ,,to call his own, I guess he thought he is Hitler for a second,
Now as we are speaking Obama is changing the stage,,,at the convention center, to a ROMAN THEME,
Now Barack Obama THinks he is Julius Caesar or worst He think he is the 2nd Coming of Christ,,,
The Ego on Barack Obama is getting worst and worst,, and its Barack Obama who wont let this go...
Soon He going to have some try to knight him, go for a dictator ship, what is next with Barack Obama,
- by jamesliam September 10, 2008 7:19 AM PDT
- At the Federal level, all this "green collar" rhetoric is nothing more than.... rhetoric. No subsidies, no grants, no nothing. It's nice to see some of the localities banding together though -- there's a green collar grant proposal in Chicago to place and train displaced workers at the Chicago Green Exchange, for example. I hope the new president follows suit.
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