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Posted at 12:19am on Apr. 12, 2008 It Is To Laugh

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

No wonder the Clintons are losing. And it appears that lots of people are piling on. Quelle surprise. Throughout this campaign, the Clintons have handed their critics a sword. No reason for those critics not to twist it:

Hillary Clinton used her trademark laugh Thursday to deflect a question about the $800,000 her husband earned in 2005 giving speeches for a Bogota-based group that supports the Colombia free trade agreement — the same trade deal she currently opposes.

Asked by CNN if those earnings represented a conflict of interest given that she has dipped into her family's pocketbook to pay campaign bills, Clinton threw up her hands and laughed loudly for several seconds.

"How many angels dance on the head of the pin?," she responded, continuing to giggle. "I have really, uh, nothing to … I mean, how do you answer that?"

How indeed? Other than to note that the Clintons have gotten rich off of the Colombia-U.S. trade deal while Hillary Clinton works to ensure that the deal does not pass and American businesses won't be able to have access to Colombian markets?

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