Hillary Clinton won’t take a position on Keystone pipeline
Hillary Clinton is the acknowledged front runner to be the Democratic candidate for President in 2016.
Meanwhile, the Republicans are staunchly in favour and are attacking Clinton for her silence. She’s already said it’s inappropriate for her to comment since “she had a hand in the initial discussions about the Canada-to-U.S. pipeline project”.
She’s gambling that voters’ outrage over her failure to answer a direct question is less damaging than the fallout would be if she had revealed her stance, as the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza wrote.
Blodgett said that part of running for president is that candidates have to to give answers to questions. “We know that the experience is well worth whatever price she may pay politically”. “I was there”.
Fortunately for Clinton, she likely won’t have to keep dodging the pipeline forever.
The former Maryland governor said Clinton’s “closeness to Wall Street is well-known and genuinely held”. Her party is divided over the Alberta-to-Texas pipeline and she’s standing right over that fault line between her party’s activist grassroots and public opinion. “She does not”.
Polls have frequently shown that, among Americans with an opinion on the project, a majority support it. But Hillary Clinton isn’t just vying for centrist voters.
In exchange for the postponement, Gowdy said, State would send the committee approximately 5,000 pages of staff emails on Wednesday, slightly more than the number handed over in the spring. But it comes as Clinton is trying to stake a claim as a bold thinker on environmental matters, particularly climate change.
“To me, politics is not hard”. She is an NPR contributor and has contributed to USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Politico and more, and has myriad television and radio credits as a commentator.
That lack of hope is probably appropriate, Sands said. “I vote with working people“.
“We’ve come a long way from my days going door-to-door for the Children’s Defense Fund and earning $16,450 as a young law professor in Arkansas – and we owe it to the opportunities America provides”, Clinton said in the statement.
“As president would you sign a bill, yes or no please, of allowing the Keystone XL Pipeline?”, Bruce Blodgett a software architect from Amherst asked Clinton.
“No other presidential candidate was secretary of state when this process started, and I put together a very thorough deliberative, evidence based process to evaluate the environmental impact and other considerations of Keystone”.
Her rival Jeb Bush criticized her, in a possible foreshadowing of the 2016 presidential campaign: “The president has to make lots of tough calls”, Bush tweeted after the latest Clinton non-answer. She met Hillary that day and advised her that in New Hampshire, “we do not do spouses well”.