By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--July 29, 2015
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Since Hillary Clinton wants your vote for the presidency, you might consider it reasonable that you'd want to know her position on all kinds of issues, including the Keystone XL pipeline. Well, she doesn't agree. And her reason for that is one of the most bizarre excuses we've heard from her so far - which is really saying something - for why she won't answer a question. Because, you see, she was involved with the issue as Secretary of State. That's why she won't tell you her position on it.Hillary Clinton on Tuesday declined to say whether she supported the Keystone XL pipeline expansion, telling a New Hampshire voter that if the matter is still undecided by the time she becomes president, she will give him an answer then. "I am not going to second guess (President Barack Obama) because I was in a position to set this in motion," Clinton said, referencing environmental reviews conducted by the State Department that began when she was secretary of state. "I want to wait and see what he and Secretary Kerry decide." She added, "If it is undecided when I become president, I will answer your question." The question came from Bruce Blodgett, a software developer from Amherst, New Hampshire, who told CNN he identifies as a Republican and supports building the pipeline, the 1,179-mile-long project that would move oil from Canada to refineries in the United States.So let me see if I have this straight. We're supposed to consider Hillary qualified for the presidency because she held certain positions, one of which was Secretary of State. But we're also supposed to accept that she will not reveal her positions on issues she worked on in those positions, because she worked on them in those positions. But don't worry. If Obama and Kerry continue the Keystone foot-dragging that Obama and Hillary started all the way through to the end of Obama's presidency (which they will), then Hillary will tell you her position on Keystone XL once she is safely sworn in and there's nothing you can do about it. I've got an alternate suggestion: We never make Hillary president, and as a result we never find out her position on the pipeline. I'll have no problem living with that. How about you?
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