Madelyn Hoffman

November 29, 2007 - 8:12am

With contrasting war story, Corzine stands by Clinton

Gov. Jon Corzine endorses Hillary Clinton for President last April: Getty Images PhotoGov. Jon Corzine endorses Hillary Clinton for President last April: Getty Images Photo
Although presidential favorite Sen. Hillary Clinton is waging a dead-heat dogfight with Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John Edwards in Iowa, Gov. Jon Corzine today said he’s confident that the establishment candidate will prevail, and refuses to criticize her initial thumbs up vote on the Iraq War.

"She’s very credible, and she was very responsible in the way she took her position," said the governor, who last spring stood on the steps of City Hall in Elizabeth with a cavalcade of Jersey politicians behind him, and embraced Clinton as his presidential choice.

The early endorsement dismayed anti-war Democrats who believe Clinton rolled over in the face of post 9-11 political pressure when she voted to give President George W. Bush the authority to go to War in Iraq. Among the other Democratic presidential contenders, senators Chris Dodd, Joseph Biden and former Sen. John Edwards also gave the nod to Bush.

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August 27, 2007 - 1:02pm

Anti-War movement persists on streets of Newark

Larry Hamm isn’t depressed.

He looked out from atop a stage in Newark’s Lincoln Park Saturday and saw hundreds of people representing groups from around the state joined in protest of the Iraq War.

Hamm, who leads the People’s Organization for Progress in Newark, has been on this march against the war from the beginning, and has withstood the criticism that without a draft and in an era of ringtones and ipods there is no traction for an effective anti-war movement.

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