Sen. Clinton was asked today about her campaign planting at least one audience question at a Grinnell College rally last week. “Well it was news to me. And neither I nor my campaign approve of that. And it will certainly not be tolerated,” she said at an appearance in Waterloo, IA. A video is here.
But here's the problem. If you go back to the original report on this, in the Grinnell College newspaper, it says not only that a Clinton aide suggested the question on global warming to a student, but that the same aide signalled to Sen. Clinton herself to call on that student. The Scarlet & Black, on its interview with student Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff: "She also noted that staffers prompted Clinton to call on her and another who had been approached before the event..."
The Clinton campaign, while confirming the story, has refused to confirm that Clinton was signalled. In fact, they've denied that she knew the question was a plant. And given that we still don't know whether Clinton is for or against licensing illegal immigrants, we'll almost certainly never find out why she called on Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff even though she had no idea that her staff had chosen Gallo-Chasanoff as a plant.
But still: Was it really just a coincidence? Is Clinton psychic? Did the aide who planted the question tell Clinton that the student was a friend and ask Hillary to call on her just to look cool? What?
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Hillary Clinton is a professional liar.
Like a business, she examines the cost/benefit of her statements and says whatever gives her the benefit. Truth is not attractive. She will say what she needs to in ordr to get into office because she has a score to settle: with her husband, with republicans, and with her self. There is no way to know exactly what Hillary will do when she is in office because everything she says is done not with the focus of intent, but with blinding ambition. This is why she walks both sides of the fence on so many issues.
And I thought Bill was teflon. By comparison to Hillary, he is super glue! "It was news to me." When was it news to her??? It started at least in 1999. "You know everything I know." Beside being totally nonresponsive, how did she know what the questioner knew? If Wolf Blitzer folds under Clinton pressure on Thursday, he doesn't have a hair on his chinney-chin-chin. If Joe Biden steps up to the plate and nails her lying highness to the wall, he will get my vote. Otherwise I will throw it away on Ron Paul (or maybe Peter Paul).