After having previously assured voters that on the day she takes office oil prices will drop (as will the stock market, probably) Senator Clinton is now delivering assurances in Nevada that, among other things, she is completely convinced that children are our future:
Stroking the 4-year-old girl's head, Clinton said, "I feel so strongly that if we don't take care of our children, we don't take care of our future."
She also has it on good authority that we're heading into a recession:
"I think we're slipping toward a recession," she said. "A couple of people that I met on the street, they work in construction. They tell me it's slowed down."
Well, that clinches it for me.
Not yet done showering profundities upon the adoring crowd the "smartest woman in the world" pandered to her Latino admirers with a great analogy about the lending crisis:
Clinton said unscrupulous lending leads to bad mortgages, which lead to foreclosures, which lead to people with nowhere to go and vacant neighborhoods that can go rapidly downhill. "We treat these problems as if one is guacamole and one is chips, when ... they both go together," she said.
What foods would she have slipped into her comparison, we wonder, had she been speaking to a black audience? Fried chicken and watermelon?
Finally, in a climactic bit of drama she declared all women "legal":
A man shouted through an opening in the wall that his wife was illegal. "No woman is illegal," Clinton said, to cheers.
Goodness, what does that mean? Does it follow that female immigrants in this country without documentation can now get driver's licenses but males similarly situated cannot?
I guess it doesn't matter what it means; The crowd cheered, and for panderers that's what it's all about.
RLC