Slick Hillary

It finally happened. Hillary Clinton revealed herself as the duplicitous shrew she is. In Tuesday night's Democratic presidential debate in Philadelphia, Hillary contradicted herself over the issue of providing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants in New York State, apparently expressing support for New York governor Eliot Spitzer's proposal before coming out against it. Then she handled the issue of her documents from her husband's presidency and whether or not they should remain sealed before 2012 with the same grace as one might handle a medicine ball covered in petroleum jelly. Hillary was evasive, slippery, and not entirely on the level. Just like her husband.

Sure enough, everyone took advantage of Hillary's demeanor. One would think that it would help Barack Obama, John Edwards, and the like with voters by showing them as candidates of conviction willing to take on the front-runner, but the Clinton campaign is already spinning their comebacks as an unfair piling on by the others, and some pundits have suggested that this will help Hillary with female voters because they might not like the idea of men attacking her integrity like that.

However, if they hadn't gone for the jugular, they would have been seen as weak candidates and not good enough to take the fight to the Republican nominee the general election. A perfect Catch-22.

If Hillary still gets the nomination . . . well, to quote many a racist New York policeman, it's Giuliani time.