A paraphrased transcript

The blogger at a blog named Stupid is a Five Letter Word writes

...you've already heard this exchange between the lovely Hillary and the equally lovely Terry Gross of NPR. If you can't bear to listen to it again, I completely understand. If you haven't heard it, but still aren't keen on listening to Hillary get her bitch on when asked a direct question, then let me offer you a paraphrased transcript.

Ms. Gross was asking Hillary about her stance on gay marriage, noting that Hillary at one time, was against it; even her husband, Bill Clinton, signed into law the DOMA. So what gives? Were you for it then, but given the political climate, couldn't SAY that? Or are you still against it, but given the political climate, can't say that now?

Which is it, Hill, old girl?

I have graciously paraphrased her response:

"I was against gay marriage without ever being against it because if I was against it in the past, then my new support for it would be seen as politically motivated and my high-minded expansive view of human rights is never politically motivated, but always a reflection of the purest of motives, so when I was against it, I was never really against it even though I didn't change my mind because the political winds changed...I was never against it when I was, but I wasn't lying then either."

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

You're welcome.

Hillary lied?

Dick Morris was a top political adviser to Bill Clinton, and met bi-weekly with Hillary Clinton during the Clinton presidency. He writes today that Hillary Clinton's comments to Rachel Maddow about why President Clinton supported the Defense of Marriage Act were an outright lie.

On MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, Hillary Clinton said that it was the threat of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage that led Bill to sign the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

This statement is totally untrue. I was there, and there was never any discussion of a constitutional amendment on the subject.

Read more here.