Finally……word has come from the “Ivory Tower”…….
The raging battle for the last year or so in climate change and the environment has been the debate on the Keystone XL pipeline…..us Left leaning people have been against this stupidity from the start….even Bernie has been an outspoken opponent of this lunatic plan…..
The one silent Nellie has been Hillary Clinton….maybe it was because she was part of Obama’s team or maybe something else….anyway she has come out swinging after a long silence….
Take a step back from the general election, but take two steps forward toward the Democratic primary. That seems to be the strategy behind Hillary Clinton’s announcement yesterday that she opposed the Keystone XL pipeline, writes Philip Bump for the Washington Post, asserting that Clinton may have purposely timed her anti-pipeline statements to lure liberal Democrats who’ve been more amenable to competitor Bernie Sanders, per CNN/ORC polling—even if those Dems may not be the ones to push her over the top in November 2016. “The politics explain themselves,” Bump writes. “Clinton is now willing to make her November case slightly more difficult if she can make her spring fight easier.”
According to a Gallup poll cited by the Post, while only 67% of moderate and conservative Democrats believe global warming is caused by human activity, a more substantial number—81%—of liberal Democrats think that’s the case. And because of environmental concerns swirling around the pipeline, it may make political sense for Clinton to bring that up now to pull liberal Democrats in—even though polls from late last year and earlier this year show that support among Americans overall for the Keystone project is strong, Bump notes. And Sanders knows what’s the what, he adds, welcoming her to the opposition party yesterday in a tweet. “Clinton is late to the party on Keystone, but she’s clearly interested in being where the party is,” Bump writes. Click for his full column
Personally it sounds like a personal political prop…..she knew she had to make some sort of statement in opposition if she is to win the nomination…..and viola! We have her thoughts on Keystone.
I wish I could believe her……do you?
I think she has her finger in the wind testing the currents.
She had to say something bernie was getting ahead of her…..she is a corporate candidate….Keystone will be a done deal if she gets elected….
Nothing like a little “Trust” in the electoral mix is there? I love the implications of “Trust Me.”
They are all toads…my grandfather would not stay in the same room with a preacher or a politician…..
At least she chose the right side…meanwhile conservatives can’t believe that the pope believes in climate change…
She chose the only side she could if she wants to be elected…..I have carefully avoided any thing on the dude in the white dress….
I like the guy…he seems to back Republicans into a corner…”must appear religious….but…can’t….believe….climate change!!”… (boom – heads exploding).
He is better than the fascist that was there last…
She’s one smart politician and knows how the game is played. She’s been around and experienced enough to keep her head on straight. Not saying at this time I would vote for her.
Knowing when to talk and when to listen is what a good politician does….