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Abortion
Hillary Clinton: Lift ban on stem cell research to cure devastating diseases.
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Budget & Economy
Hillary Clinton: Balanced budget replaced with rising costs & falling wages.
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Corporations
Dennis Kucinich: Break up monopolies in agriculture, in utilities, in oil.
Hillary Clinton: Enough with corporate welfare; enough with golden parachutes.
Hillary Clinton: Close lobbyists' revolving door; end no-bid contracts.
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Education
Hillary Clinton: Establish right to education from pre-school thru college.
Barack Obama: Pay teachers more money & treat them like professionals.
John Edwards: College for Everyone: tuition paid, for 10 hrs/week work.
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Energy & Oil
Dennis Kucinich: Twin threats of global warring and global warming.
Barack Obama: Cap-and-trade carbon emissions; raise CAFE standard.
Bill Richardson: Bush won't follow the Kyoto treaty, but my state does.
Bill Richardson: Buying carbon offsets not enough; sacrifice for common good.
John Edwards: 80% greenhouse emissions reductions by the year 2050.
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Environment
John Edwards: Victims in New Orlean's Ninth Ward were "shaming of America".
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Families & Children
Dennis Kucinich: Teach principles of compassion to reduce domestic violence.
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Foreign Policy
Dennis Kucinich: Reject war as an instrument of foreign policy.
Bill Richardson: Talking to your enemies can produce results, like N. Korea.
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Government Reform
Dennis Kucinich: Introduced impeachment resolution to make Cheney accountable.
Hillary Clinton: Create a public service academy, like military academy.
Hillary Clinton: Count Every Vote Act: end voting discrimination by race.
Barack Obama: Half of us don't vote; time for taking it back.
Mike Gravel: Congress is Constitutionally more powerful than President.
Mike Gravel: Congress is Constitutionally more powerful than President.
Mike Gravel: People protest because they cannot participate in power.
Mike Gravel: People protest because they cannot participate in power.
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Health Care
Barack Obama: Health plan cuts typical family's premium by $2,500 a year.
John Edwards: Mental health parity: treat it just like physical health.
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Homeland Security
Hillary Clinton: Administration secrecy shreds the Constitution.
Barack Obama: Close Guantanamo and restore the right of habeas corpus.
John Edwards: Close Guantanamo; end torture; comply with Geneva.
John Edwards: President is not above law; no spying on Americans.
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Immigration
Dennis Kucinich: Stop blaming immigrants for our system of slave labor.
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Jobs
Dennis Kucinich: Works Green Administration: WGA creates green jobs, like WPA.
Hillary Clinton: Stand up for unions; organize for fair wages.
Barack Obama: Make the minimum wage a living wage.
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Principles & Values
Hillary Clinton: New progressive vision for the 21st century.
Barack Obama: A "hopemonger", having seen the power of hope.
Mike Gravel: GOP lost in 2006 because they were lousy; Dems must earn '08.
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War & Peace
Dennis Kucinich: Path to peace runs right through Jerusalem.
Hillary Clinton: Deauthorize Iraq war, and don't grant new war authority.
Bill Richardson: Long road ahead is hauntingly similar to 1968.
Bill Richardson: No troops left behind at bases; green zone; or for training.
John Edwards: 2006 elections were mandate to Congress to end the war.
Mike Gravel: 2006 election was about Bush's war; so end it.
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Welfare & Poverty
John Edwards: A million new Section 8 vouchers; let poor move freely.
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