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Human Events
What (Little)
You See of Hillary Clinton Is What You’ll Get If She Wins
Michael Barone
Friday Jul 10, 2015
It says something about Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign that it
was big news that she submitted herself to an interview with a cable
news journalist. It also says something that the journalist selected
for this honor, Brianna Keilar of CNN, was recently a guest at the
wedding of the director of grassroots engagement for the Clinton
campaign. Makes sense to hedge your risk.
To her credit, Keilar did ask some reasonably tough questions and even
some follow-ups, before concluding the interview with questions about
earth-shaking issues such as who should be on the $10 bill and who is
Saturday Night Live’s best Hillary Clinton imitatrix.
But, oddly for a former secretary of state, there was nothing on
foreign policy, despite the rise of the Islamic State in the Middle
East, the nuclear negotiations with Iran, the failed reset with Russia
and the Greek Euro crisis. Nothing on the Trans-Pacific trade deal,
which Clinton advocated in the first Obama term and is waffling on now.
As one might have expected from a candidate whose campaign keeps
reporters back behind a moving rope line (“horrible, horrible” optics,
says longtime Clinton adviser Paul Begala), Clinton didn’t provide much
in the way of answers.
Will she call for increased tax rates, like Bernie Sanders, who is
nipping at her heels in Iowa and New Hampshire polls? No answer. She
promised to set out later her policies, which “will actually work in
the short term, the medium term and the long term.”
On immigration, she’s still for a “comprehensive” reform that “includes
a path to citizenship.” But after the murder committed by an illegal
immigrant who has been deported five times then was turned loose in San
Francisco under its “sanctuary city” policy, Clinton did reverse her
2008 support of sanctuary cities and admitted that the city, where 83
percent of the population voted Obama in 2012, “made a mistake.”
About her private email system, she repeated the improbable tale she
told in the United Nations press conference in March — that there was
nothing wrong about having a private email system; nothing wrong about
deleting thousands of messages; people will eventually see the
(unsearchable, edited by staff) 55,000 pages she turned over; she has
never “had” a subpoena (actually she has)...
Read the rest of this article with video at Human Events
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