Is Dick Morris getting soft on Hillary Clinton?
Morris, who has written copiously on the threat the senator poses to the republic since he fell out with Bill Clinton in the 90s, had nothing but praise for the former first lady (and Al Gore) for turning up the heat on President Bush on global warming.
Morris, who thinks Democrats are doing a good job capitalizing on rising gas prices, was downright smitten by HRC's May National Press Club speech, in which she called for a one-half reduction in foreign oil use by 2025.
"Hillary Clinton, quite simply, gave the speech Bush should have given," Morris wrote in the Hill newspaper. "There was no ideological reason why she should have preempted the president in speaking out… but Bush's passivity and knee-jerk reluctance to think beyond oil surrendered the battlefield, and the two Democrats occupied the vacant land. Now the Democrats have the high ground and Bush is looking up into their guns."
Maybe Morris will join the National League of Conservation Voters and Assemblyman Tom DiNapoli (D-Great Neck) when they endorse Clinton tommorrow in Port Washington Saturday.
Glenn Thrush