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Oct 22, 2007 01:16 AM by Stefan Beck
If anything, this off-loading humanizes Hillary: No truly cold and calculating politician would make such an egregious blunder in an age when Ellen DeGeneres can cry her eyes out on TV because a pet adoption agency took away someone else’s puppy. When I was in Greece this summer, an otherwise perfectly sane American girl was moved to tears by the way Greeks treat diseased and aggressive stray dogs. She even considered moving there, a country where the urban homeless make these guys look like dandies from some futuristic welfare state, to start an animal charity.
In other words, there’s plenty to criticize about Hillary Clinton, but the case of the missing Socks might end up saying a lot less about her than it does about the disoriented priorities of some of our electorate.
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