PrintSeptember 10, 2010
Hillary Clinton's Campaign for '12 Is Underway
Hillary's campaign for the Democrat nomination for president in 2012 began last June 8, when, during an interview with an Ecuadorean television reporter, she announced the Department of Justice's plan to bring a lawsuit against Arizona's immigration act.The conventional wisdom among news outlets back then was that while speaking off-script, she prematurely "let the cat out of the bag" -- so wrote the Huffington Post. The episode was widely packaged and sold as an in-the-moment slip. Now, recall who took the heat after Hillary spoke: Attorney General Eric Holder, who admitted not having yet read the Arizona bill, and Barack Obama. Meanwhile, the Secretary of State told a political secret offshore, and no one took public umbrage with her faux pas. On the contrary, it yielded cheese for the Cheshire cat as Arizona Governor Jan Brewer went ballistic against the Obama administration. Let's assume, for the moment, that Hillary's announcement was planned. And that it...(Read Full Article)
