This diary is about the irresponsible statements made by Hillary Clinton on this 23rd Day of May, 2008. I’m not going to link to the statements. BooMan has done a sufficient job laying it out. I simply want to comment on the seriousness of what she has said.
As a trial lawyer, one of the cardinal rules I have been taught about a jury presentation is that it is most effective to lead a jury right up to the point of making a decision. But to pause on the door step. To let them take the last stride themselves. People want to make their own decisions. It makes their positions more firm. They become committed to the idea, because it is their own. Given that Mrs. Hillary Clinton and I were both educated in American Law schools in the same quarter century, I am almost certain she has come across, and probably internalized this rule.
