Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Hillary wants to curtail free speech

James Taranto reports today that Mrs. Clinton plans to spend $2.5 Billion dollars on her campaign, which is considerably more than Barack Obama and Mitt Romney spent on their campaigns combined. Taranto also writes,
Now, in a bitter foretaste of life in “a President Hillary Clinton world,” Mrs. Clinton is urging an amendment to the Constitution to do away with the right to criticize her.

...Mrs. Clinton’s most outrageous hypocrisy, however, rests in her call to amend the Constitution to curtail free speech. This has been a popular position on the left since Citizens United. As we noted in September, by that time all but a handful of Senate Democrats had signed on as co-sponsors of a resolution to propose an amendment for near-total repeal of the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech. In this regard, as in much else, Mrs. Clinton is a follower, not a leader.
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