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Hillary Plants Questions

November 10th, 2007 at 05:29am Mark Noonan

The FEC complaint is still working its way through the bureaucracy, but we’ve got yet another example of the fundamental dishonesty of Hillary Clinton:

The Iowa caucuses are known for their “living-room chats” where ordinary Iowans can meet candidates face-to-face and talk about what interests voters. When candidates have larger events or make major policy speeches, the crowds are bigger, but there is often still an opportunity for questions. But under the pressures of major media coverage, with polls narrowing in Iowa, campaigns can potentially control questions and coverage by planning questions ahead of time.

While no campaigns admit to this practice, at a recent Hillary Clinton campaign event in Newton, Iowa, some of the questions posed to the New York Senator were planned in advance, planting some audience members in the crowd.

I’m sure its happened before, I’m sure it will happen again - but Hillary, especially, is the candidate who is unwilling to get into an unexpected situation. She has a script, and she wants to stick to it. This is different from message discipline necessary to a successful campaign - this is attempting to manipulate the voters into supporting a candidate. She doesn’t want to win the White House, she wants to obtain it - as it if were her right to be President.

In the illegal fundraising and in tactics like planting questions, Hillary is clearly showing that there is pretty much nothing she won’t do to ensure the White House falls to her. Why? I don’t know - but people who want power that badly are the very people who must be kept furthest from it.