#5. She changes positions when it’s politically expedient
Hillary Clinton stated in 2000, “I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.” Clinton retained this position during her 2008 campaign and until 2013, when she said that gay Americans are “full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship, that includes marriage.” While it’s understandable that Clinton could have had a change of heart, it is not the first time that she has changed her position when political winds have shifted. She favored the Cuban embargo in 2000, before opposing it in 2014, and voted for the Iraq War in 2002 before campaigning against it (and refusing to admit her vote) in 2008. In one particularly memorable moment in a 2007 debate, she spoke in favor of giving driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants, changed her position 2 minutes later, and then changed her position back the next day.
