Hillary Clinton, who had rushed to New Hampshire amid Friday's hostage standoff at a campaign office there, drew sustained boos at the end of her turn fielding questions from the Heartland Presidential Forum, held in Des Moines by a coalition of liberal activist groups to launch a national "Campaign for Community Values." The subject was immigration. Scores of pro-immigrant activists, mostly Hispanics but Irish and Asian Americans as well, were already primed to give Ms. Clinton a hard time, given their resentment that she came out against drivers licenses for illegal immigrants in a recent Democratic debate...
Fortunately for Ms. Clinton's Iowa hopes, the hecklers were from Chicago. The questioner, an Irish-American, specifically asked her to condemn remarks attributed to Chicago Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who was quoted in the past as urging fellow House Democrats to steer clear of the hot-button illegal immigration issue. Ms. Clinton, in her answer, dodged any mention of Mr. Emanuel, formerly a top aide in Bill Clinton's White House, and instead reaffirmed her support for a comprehensive immigration-law overhaul...
Several Chicagoans said afterward it was her ignoring of the part of the question about Mr. Emanuel, along with their vexation about her drivers license position, that sparked the booing. Before that, Ms. Clinton had gotten applause for her pitch for universal health care.
Wall Street Journal
