Hillary Clinton: 'Can't Wait' To Debate Republicans

Knoxville, Ia. - Acting as if she had already left her Democratic rivals in the dust, Hillary Clinton turned her sights on the Republican presidential candidates this morning during an Iowa campaign event.

"I cannot wait to get on the stage to debate the Republican nominee as we make the case for change, and they argue for the status quo. To them, it's leave no Bush economic policy behind," she said at a campaign rally in a school gymnasium in Knoxville, a town located about 50 miles southeast of Des Moines.

Clinton said her husband inherited "a lot of economic problems" but left office with a surplus of more than $5 million. Today, the country faces a deficit of over $9 million, she said.

There's a pattern, she said. "It takes a Clinton to clean up after a Bush," she said.

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