Public speaker Hillary Clinton, who rose to prominence this year after writing an entire book about "Hard Choices" (2.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon), has yet to make a choice about where she stands on the controversial issue of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Clinton has been dodging the issue for months, usually by insisting she can’t take a position because she worked on the issue as secretary of state. But her refusal to take a firm position has become increasingly ridiculous.
On Monday, for example, Clinton attended a New York City fundraiser for Senator Mary Landrieu (D., La.), one of the most outspoken supporters of the pipeline; hours later, Clinton was the "featured speaker" at a dinner/fundraiser hosted by the League of Conservation Voters, a group that strongly opposes the pipeline.
Before Clinton spoke, the group’s president had vowed to "kill that pipeline." However, during her speech, which was heavy on environmental alarmism, Clinton didn’t mention Keystone at all.
Meanwhile, Clinton’s position on another controversial issue on the left—fracking—is sufficiently noncommittal as to not really qualify as a position. In fact, when it comes to fracking, she has been repeating, more or less verbatim, a paragraph from her book, "Hard Choices."