Sort of. There were two parts to this question when it came up at the YouTube debate: (1) would you, as president, negotiate with Iran personally and (2) would you do so without preconditions? The Messiah, being a light unto all nations, said yes to both. The Glacier, being the weaselly pragmatist Krauthammer pegged her as this morning, said “not in my first year” to the first question and addressed the second by saying she’d use “high-level presidential envoys” to test the waters first. Does that mean preconditions? Hard to say — which is the whole point. Vagueness is your friend when you don’t want to be pinned down too tightly to any position. And lucky thing, because wouldn’t you know it, now she’s decided she wouldn’t demand any preconditions either:
[A]sked about it Thursday by a voter, the New York senator said twice that she, too, would negotiate with Iran “with no conditions.”
“I would engage in negotiations with Iran, with no conditions, because we don’t really understand how Iran works. We think we do, from the outside, but I think that is misleading,” she said at an apple orchard.
Why this sudden lurch to the left on Iran? Read this post and you’ll see. She’s just making a little amends here to the paranoid pains in the ass of the liberal base.
I leave you with two worthwhile odds and ends. First, go compare the two versions of the AP story that Ben Smith found and see how quickly they clean up those ledes when Hillary’s people get them on the line. Then read Dan Riehl, who catches the Clinton camp doing something all too appropriate on this day of the Goracle’s coronation: namely, recycling.
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