Hillary Wades in On Pastor
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I was about to give the Clinton campaign credit for not piling on in the whole “Should Obama dump his pastor” kerfuffle. Then Hillary’s team lets her put an easily fact-checked lie into her stump speech and she then decides it’s time to wade in because she was “just responding to a question”.
Uh huh. Because pols never, ever avoid a question they don’t want to answer. I’m sure it has nothing to do with a deflection strategy on the whole Bosnia issue. I want to give her the benefit of the doubt and say she misremembered the first time, that happens. But then her team let it into a stump speech and didn’t bother to factcheck the story. That’s the real problem here. Why would they put that into the stump speech without knowing whether it was true? You would think that the Clinton campaign people would have this whole running for President thing down but they prove time and time again that they simply have no clue.
As far as the whole pastor thing, I don’t much care. I disagree with a lot of what my minister says as well. I wouldn’t want you to hold me to his politics anymore than I would hold you to yours. It’s not as silly as the whole Geraldine Ferraro incident (who should know about being used to make a point) but anything passes as news in this 24 hours a day news cycle where gotcha politics rules.
Oh well, only seven more months until the 2012 election cycle starts…