Sen.
Clinton is Swiss cheese with logic
holes
Bradley Zint
This column will hit two big topics of our day: the female frontrunner presidential
candidate and illegal immigration.
I’m not a big fan of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. It’s not that I
don’t like the Democratic Party, liberalism, New York or women.
Some of the Democrats are OK, liberalism makes some good points, even though
I’ve never been to New York, I bet it’s a nice place and although
a bit insane, at times women are great.
I just don’t like Clinton too much. She’s too good a politician,
and as such becomes a barrier too blurry in my opinion between good, evil and
the truth.
She says what the people want to hear in whatever situation she is in to grab
the most votes possible. In this manner, she reminds me of former presidential
candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. He made the mistake of trying to grasp all
sides without ever actually picking one.
He was a confusing guy to follow, thus earning the name “flip-flopper” from
his critics. I wanted to believe him, to think he might be an acceptable candidate
to replace “Dubya.” But by the end of the 2004 presidential pampaign
I found myself listening less to Kerry’s words and noticing, more and more,
that his face was melting.
But getting back to Clinton, we all know why she’s trying to place herself
as a centrist — to reside in the mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. someday.
I don’t blame her. The lawn is nice.
Who is she really trying to fool? People on and off Capitol Hill know Clinton
is ruthless and most of all, liberal. She’s not a centrist and never has
been. She’s a liberal and that’s just fine. If she ran on that ticket,
as a successful liberal woman in a position of power, I think she would have
a better chance in the primaries than trying to obscure a liberal voting past
everyone knows about. Otherwise she just looks like an ineffective liar trying
to grab votes.
And there is that blurry barrier. Is she a good person, or is she an evil one,
bent on White House domination? Where is the truth with Hillary?
This leads me to the second topic: illegal immigration. According to the New
York Daily News, the New York senator is flip-flopping faster than pages of a
book in a hurricane.
The paper said, “Taking her hardest line yet against illegal immigrants,
Sen. Hillary Clinton told the Daily News she wants U.S. borders secured with
a wall ... Clinton’s proposal — which came just weeks after she blasted
Republican crackdowns on illegal immigrants as un-Christian — raised the
ire of activists. But she tempered her remarks by saying that, while she supports
a barrier to stem new illegal immigrants, she favors a legalization process for
the 11 million undocumented aliens already here.”
Huh? Which side is this lady on?
She’s trying to take both sides of this polarizing issue. Build a wall
to keep those people out, but let the ones who are already here stay in. Call
the Republicans anti-Christian for enforcing immigration law but then side with
them and their American Great Wall of China.
Please, Clinton, pick a side. You’re looking more ridiculous with your
obvious contradictions in logic than a stance toward one-sidedness.
Bradley Zint is a junior journalism and political science major and
the opinion editor of the Daily Forty-Niner.
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