Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be in Dallas later this afternoon at an event with Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. The two are sitting for a moderated discussion about their careers at the Women's Museum.
Hours ahead of the event, the difference between security at Clinton's presidential campaign stops and today's event is striking. Security here is very tight. The area has been checked by bomb-sniffing dogs. Police are staked out at entrances. Reporters were required to arrive three hours early and are now under lockdown until the event is over.
Compare that to the primary events Clinton held in North Texas last year. At a rally in the Fort Worth Stockyards, police began by making attendees pass through metal detectors. When Clinton was minutes away from stepping on the stage and thousands of people were still waiting to get through security, TSA workers abruptly stopped the screenings and let everyone else pass through.
President Barack Obama had similar security issues at a rally he attended at Reunion Arena in Dallas.
Of course, today's sold-out fundraiser for the Women's Museum is expected to attract less than 500 people, a far easier event to secure than a campaign event where thousands show up.
-Aman Batheja
Funny how as soon as Obama's media honeymoon ended Hillary's started. Maybe she can tell stories about being sniped at in Bosnia or how she was instrumental in bringing peace to Ireland. Then KBH can get up there and tell us how she supported gun rights by voting for the Brady Bill gun ban and supported her constituents by voting for the bailout while they begged her not to. Get someone in there that's a real success and is respectable like Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann.
Posted by: JR | March 27, 2009 at 01:53 PM
Let push for politics as a non-career vocation, serve 6 years maximum and out, let someone else discharge their public duty by bringing their enthusiasm and fresh ideas.
Posted by: Allen Jue | March 28, 2009 at 01:13 PM
Hilary supports prohibition. If only she could visit with old Ben Franklin about the definition of insanity.
Considering the oppression, the atrocious carnage and official lawlessness triggered by the new prohibition; the worst public policy since slavery is a gory, blood-spattered scandal, a volatile disgrace more explosive than sex in the oval office!
Take away the main tool servants of tyranny, gun control freaks and racists
use these days to extend their agenda, the
new prohibition. Please write you Legislators.
http://oversight.house.gov/contact/
Posted by: Colleen McCool | March 29, 2009 at 11:11 AM