STAMFORD, Conn. --New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized Republicans' handling of the Iraq war and the federal budget while stumping Sunday for fellow Democrat Diane Farrell, who is trying to unseat U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays. | "We need her in Washington," Clinton said. "We need her common sense and independence." |
Clinton, who is running for re-election and is the leading Democratic presidential prospect for 2008, praised Farrell for her fiscal leadership in Westport. She said Farrell would ask tough questions of the Bush administration on the Iraq war, economic policies and what she called the squeeze on the middle class. "We need her in Washington," Clinton said during a news conference outside the fundraiser. "We need her common sense and independence."