Breaking: Hillary Clinton takes a stand against Keystone XL pipeline. (HILLARY GROUP)
After spending more than two years twisting herself in rhetorical pretzels to avoid giving a straight answer on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, Hillary Clinton’s long nightmare is finally over.
Clinton made good on the promise she delivered last week to finally take a public position on the pipeline “soon, ”on whose fate the Obama administration has dragged its feet deciding.
“I oppose it,” Clinton said in response to a question on the pipeline while campaigning in Iowa Tuesday. “I oppose it because I don’t think, I don’t think it’s in the best interest of what we need to do to combat climate change.”
Clinton said the pipeline was “a distraction for the work we have to do to combat climate change” and said we need to “move beyond” the issue. “I thought this would be decided by now. And therefore, I could tell you whether I agreed or I disagreed. But it hasn’t been decided, and I feel now I’ve got a responsibility to you and other voters who ask me about this,” she added....
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against Hillary around here. 
I am glad Hillary finally spoke out on this.
Hillary's Keystone pivot draws greens' cheers
But Republicans mock her for waiting until D.C. was 'distracted' with the pope's visit.
By Elana Schor and Annie Karni
09/22/15, 04:42 PM EDT
Updated 09/22/15, 09:08 PM EDT
Hillary Clinton's left turn on the Keystone XL oil pipeline won her heaps of praise Tuesday from the same climate activists who had spent five years denouncing her silence on the most divisive environmental controversy of Barack Obama's presidency.
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