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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Why Did Hillary Clinton Choose Tuesday?

I have wondered aloud for the past couple of days the following questions:

1. Why did Hillary Clinton wait in conspicuous silence for so long and suddenly decide to speak out on the Wright issue when asked a question about it by a rightwing paper that once repeatedly ran story after story accusing her of killing Vince Foster?

She said this in the interview:

You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.

As noted on CNN:

Clinton's comments on Wright came almost a week after Obama delivered a speech on race and politics in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Some Hillary Clinton supporters on various blogs have repeated her statement that the reason she addressed the issue is:

I was asked what I would do, and I answered the question.

This leads me to my next point/question:

2. If she was simply "answer[ing] the question" posed to her, (a) why did she explicitly and purposefully deflect a nearly identical question from a mainstream Pennsylvania newspaper the day before, and (b) why did she hold a press conference right after the interview to explicitly and purposefully expand on the Wright comments she made in the previous interview?

Here is the question-and-answer from her interview with the Philadelphia Daily News editorial board:

Question: "In your opinion, should Rev. Wright's controversial remarks and Sen. Obama's relationship with him, are those relevant to his fitness to serve as President?"

Clinton's Answer: "I think that's up to voters to decide. I mean voters have to draw their own conclusions about that like we do about everything we do."

Question: "What do you think?"

Clinton's Answer: "I'm going to leave that up to voters."

Here are her statements during the press conference that she held in Greensburg, Pennsylvania later on Tuesday:

I think given all we have heard and seen, he would not have been my pastor.


This leads me the final, ultimate question:

3. Given that Hillary Clinton waited an entire week to comment on the Wright controversy and deflected a variety of questions on the topic in the meanwhile, did the Clinton campaign purposefully intend to revive the Wright controversy by answering a question on the topic posed to her by a rightwing newspaper that previously accused her of killing Vince Foster?

What do you think?

Posted by Metavirus at 3/27/2008 04:58:00 PM  

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2 comments:

helm20 said...

To deflict from her outragous LIE about being attacked by sniper fire when she was in Bosnia.

March 28, 2008 at 4:41 PM  
helm20 said...

He was shot in the back twice wasn't he? Then it was labeled a suicide. What about the other crimes in Arkansas/

March 28, 2008 at 4:44 PM  

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