Thread: Hillary waffles while security suffers

A little something to help temporarily take your mind off of Bush. :P

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Hillary waffles while security suffers


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"Clinton is reliably flexible. What she personally believes seems to depend largely on the audience."

By KATHLEEN PARKER

The conventional wisdom is that Sen. Hillary Clinton has moved right, becoming hawkish on war, socially centrist and tough on immigration as she prepares for a presidential bid in 2008. No, wait, the conventional wisdom is that Clinton has always been a social moderate and is just reiterating positions she's always held. No, scratch that. The conventional wisdom is that Clinton is a socialist ideologue who secretly hates the military and wants to create a nanny state through universal health care and government-run day care.
Which of these is true principally depends on which you want to be true, as one can find some evidence for all. Clinton is, if nothing else, reliably flexible. What she personally believes seems to depend largely on the audience.

That's both the beauty and the problem of Clinton. She's whatever she needs to be to advance the only agenda to which she is unwaveringly loyal: the power of Hillary Clinton. And like all politicians, she benefits from the Uzi-style news cycle that numbs Americans into sensory exhaustion and glazed-eye passivity. Who can remember the last thing anybody said?

Illegal immigration, one of the issues Clinton glommed onto after Sept. 11, is a case in point. If you caught Clinton's WABC Radio interview back in February 2003, you heard her say that she is "you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants."

This quote has been resurrected repeatedly to demonstrate Clinton's shift to the right, especially as a direct comparison to President George W. Bush, who seems more interested in schmoozing Mexican President Vicente Fox and, like Clinton, attracting Hispanic voters than in taking seriously the problem of sealing our porous borders.

How bad is it? The day of the London bombings, while the world was riveted on body counts, the Texas Border Sheriffs' Coalition was meeting in Del Rio, Texas, where those living closest to the problem described plausible and sickening doomsday scenarios. With 6,000 to 7,000 trucks daily crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, we are extremely vulnerable to a deadly attack, they warned.

Of greatest concern among illegals are non-Mexicans. Typically, Mexicans are returned home while non-Mexicans are taken to U.S. detention centers, where limited space means most are released and ordered to return for detention hearings.

To date, some 1 million non-Mexicans have entered the U.S. through Mexico, of which about 700,000 have disappeared, according to a report in the Dallas Morning News. No one knows how many might be terrorists, though rough estimates are that about 70,000 of those non-Mexicans are Saudis between the ages of 18 and 34. Ponder that as you abhor racial profiling and replenish your stores of duct tape.

Now, if you were Sen. Hillary Clinton and were, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants, you might do everything in your considerable power to tighten our borders. Instead, one week after the London bombings, Clinton voted against amendments to the Department of Homeland Security spending bill that would have paid for more border agents and more detention beds in fiscal 2006.

More telling than a particular vote may be Clinton's mid-July speech to the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic human rights organization. Speaking to thunderous applause, Clinton mentioned nary a word about immigration and all but launched into a hat dance while pushing every hot button near and dear to Hispanic (and especially Mexican) hearts.

But if you're serious about national security, then you're serious about illegal immigration. And if you're serious about illegal immigration, then you don't reward illegal immigrants with expensive promises while failing to make good on pledges to keep illegal aliens out. If Clinton is serious about being president, she'd better make up her mind.

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