"It Takes a Village" Becomes "We'll Take the Whole Village"

Watching as presidential candidates (declared and undeclared) whirl and spin, jerk and jump, trying to mark out and then massage their positions on immigration, especially illegal immigration, is a terrific spectator sport matched only by following tennis volleys at Wimbledon, albeit the political watching holds greater risk of whiplash.

Most recently, candidate Hillary Clinton reversed previously espoused, purportedly deeply held, convictions about the unacceptability of amnesty and declared that, if anything, she'd do more than Barack Obama has done, leading even the New York Times to ask how that could be, and White House Press Secretary Josh Ernest to say he didn't know.

Most people know Clinton as a former first lady, former senator, and former secretary of state (as well as a failed former presidential contender). Some also remember her as author of that awesome earth-mother tome It Takes a Village, whose title was allegedly taken from an African saying, having to do with how many people it takes to rear a child.

Clinton's eureka moment came in Las Vegas where she made a number of stops, including one in which she met some "Dreamers" — youth who have benefited from one of the president's "executive action" programs now under appellate review in the federal courts.

Her thinking apparently went something like this: "So ... Barack's left me with a situation in which he's temporarily pardoned about a half a million kids who aren't going to be deported, leaving the next president to clean up the mess. Well I'm not gonna get stuck with that all by myself when I take the Oval Office, and Bill just hates to babysit. Better to bring the whole damned village over here!"