In a statement reminiscent of what her husband, ex-President Clinton wrought throughout the 1990s, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has made a significant turnabout in her stance pertaining to a key aspect of the raging immigration debate.
Responding to polls showing that a strong majority of Americans support building a wall across the U.S.-Mexican border, 2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton announced Saturday that she backs a border wall plan that would include both physical barriers and a “smart fence.”
“A physical structure is obviously important,” Mrs. Clinton told the New York Daily News. “A wall in certain areas would be appropriate.” (emphasis added)
“Obviously,” your humble pundit must laugh at such a statement from Senator Clinton for she would have everyone believe that this, or a similar stance is what she has fought for all along. Yet, if one will observe the first emphasized phrase of the excerpt from NewsMax.com - “Responding to polls” - one ascertains all they would need to know regarding the principles of this Clinton. This is what is so disturbing about Senator Clinton, her addiction to polling data and her efficacious desire for popularity. Democrats are accustomed to such precarious posturing and shifting, but as a conservative, with steadfast principles, your humble pundit finds such “nimbleness” unnerving.
As much as I am encouraged by this statement, I cannot help but reconcile this “obvious” need for a “smart fence” with one where she invoked her “obvious” knowledge of biblical tenets,
Last month, Clinton condemned a House plan that racheted up penalties against illegals and included the construction of a border fence, saying it would “criminalize even Jesus himself.”
And, therein lies what unnerves conservatives such as your humble pundit. Can the American people infer that Senator Clinton would “criminalize even Jesus himself” if she was merely “responding to polls?”
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