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   From: DIELIBERALSCUM@LIBSHATEAMERICA.COM1   
      
   Hillary Clinton is positioning herself to the right of President Bush on   
   immigration, in preparation for a 2008 presidential run:   
      
     Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is staking out a position on illegal   
   immigration that is more conservative than President Bush, a strategy that   
   supporters and detractors alike see as a way for the New York Democrat to   
   shake the "liberal" label and appeal to traditionally Republican states.   
     In an interview last month on Fox News, Mrs. Clinton said she does not   
   "think that we have protected our borders or our ports or provided our first   
   responders with the resources they need, so we can do more and we can do   
   better."   
      
     In an interview on WABC radio, she said: "I am, you know, adamantly   
   against illegal immigrants."   
      
     Unlike many pro-business Republicans, Mrs. Clinton also has castigated   
   Americans for hiring illegal aliens.   
      
      
   It's interesting that she apparently doesn't believe that going conservative   
   on immigration will hurt her among Democratic primary voters--another   
   indication that immigration reform is a bipartisan issue. Looking toward the   
   general election, assuming Hillary were to win the nomination, her opponent,   
   obviously, won't be President Bush. So being to his right on immigration is   
   of limited relevance.   
      
   As we've said before, a large majority of Americans wants immigration   
   reform. The main reason we haven't seen it so far is that both parties have   
   been willing to ignore the will of the majority. Once that monopoly is   
   broken--again, assuming Hillary is the nominee--it's hard to imagine that   
   the Republican candidate won't likewise take a more conservative position on   
   immigratiion. Which could, perhaps, lead to real reform at last.   
      
   One more thought: Hillary's relatively conservative stand on immigration is   
   part and parcel of her relatively conservative view (for a Democrat) of the   
   war on terror. She is betting, I think, that in 2008 security will be as   
   pivotal an issue with voters as it is now. If the Bush administration is as   
   successful over the next four years in preventing terrorist attacks as it   
   has been for the last three, that may or may not prove to be true.   
      
      
   --   
   "I guess I am to the point that I am thinking that if all 150,000 Americans   
   over there die, then we deserve it for the horrible crimes we have committed   
   against the Iraqi people. "   
      
       -- Gary Dorman, Proud America-Hating liberal Democrat   
   garydorman8618@sbcglobal.net   
      
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