Posted on 06/12/2014 5:54:32 PM PDT by mandaladon
Hillary Clinton had a tense exchange with an NPR host in an interview airing Thursday over whether she made “a calculus” against publicly supporting gay marriage before endorsing it last year.
It’s the first time Clinton, a potential candidate for president in 2016, has been extensively questioned about her support for gay marriage. She did not back it in her 2008 presidential campaign but she issued support for it by video in 2013, weeks after leaving the State Department.
Her support came after President Barack Obama, shoved toward it publicly by Vice President Joe Biden, backed gay marriage in the middle of the 2012 presidential race.
NPR’s Terry Gross was interviewing Clinton about her newly released memoir, “Hard Choices.” She repeatedly asked the former secretary of state whether her opinion on gay marriage had changed, or whether the political dynamics had shifted enough that she could express her opinion.
“I have to say, I think you are being very persistent, but you are playing with my words and playing with what is such an important issue,” Clinton said.
“I’m just trying to clarify so I can understand …” Gross said.
“No, I don’t think you are trying to clarify,” Clinton snapped back. “I think you’re trying to say I used to be opposed and now I’m in favor and I did it for political reasons, and that’s just flat wrong. So let me just state what I feel like you are implying and repudiate it. I have a strong record, I have a great commitment to this issue, and I am proud of what I’ve done and the progress we’re making.”
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She will get really testy if she is forced to come out as a lesbian.
**I am proud of what I’ve done and the progress we’re making.”**
Who is ‘we’, Madam Hillary?
I wonder if that bit of history has even crossed the minds of the usual suspects in the usual Lib outlets when they write their copy for HRC.
I hear she got two testes with her gender reassaignment surgery.
Tin ear Hillary! is at it again. She was dead broke when she left the White House, now she botches a question on the Liberal cause of the decade.
The more Hillary opens her big mouth, the more beatable she appears.
...............Doesn't she look wonderful?
...because in her HEART, she knows it is wrong.
As do most.
For liberal politicians never do anything for political reasons! Oh no!
Put some ice on it, Terry.
If she can’t handle a softball question like this without getting testy, she hasn’t the necessary executive skills to be mayor of Chappaqua
...........Sometimes she feels like a nut sometimes she is.
Having troubles in interviews with Diane Sawyer and Terry Gross? Hillary was looking for media adoration. What happened?
She and Terry Gross make quite the set of testes.
Hillary truly is ageing before our eyes...She has put on at least 20 pounds since leaving the SOS position. Her pant suits will soon be known as pant tents. I don’t think she will run for POTUS because of her health. It is just a matter of time...
I wonder if she’s got “gay” eyes for Huma Huma.
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