Hillary Clinton Thanks Obama For Executive Action On Immigration

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton listens to questions from Lissa Muscatine, proprietor of the Politics and Prose bookstore during a discussion on the empowerment of women and girls at the Ford Foundat... Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton listens to questions from Lissa Muscatine, proprietor of the Politics and Prose bookstore during a discussion on the empowerment of women and girls at the Ford Foundation, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, in New York. The discussion was part of a two-day conference assessing the progress of women's empowerment since a similar conference took place in Beijing in 1995.(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) MORE LESS
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President Barack Obama got a boost from Hillary Clinton on Thursday night, moments after announcing his executive actions to curb deportations for young people and parents of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents.

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  1. I agree with her on this one, and for that matter on many of her stated positions. But I don’t trust her one bit, I think she’d say pretty much anything to get elected. The really sad part is that she’ll probably be the nominee and I’ll still have to vote for her over any of the contenders the Republicans have floated so far. Ugh.

  2. Avatar for agio agio says:

    He just handed her a huge issue to run on, especially now that Congress will almost certainly do nothing about immigration, and the GOP candidate will almost certainly be forced to declare that he will undo this EO.

  3. Agreed. And that’s precisely why her immediate and incontestable statement of support for the EO is important–staking out the high ground for the '16 pro/anti immigration battles. This is strategically and philosophically encouraging.

  4. Avatar for kiku kiku says:

    I would have preferred her to say that this issue has her full support.

  5. Meh. I’m no fan of Hillary (see above) but it didn’t come across as arrogant to me, and the casual tone is just how things are done on Twitter.

    [Edit: I guess you edited your comment before I finished writing my reply].

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