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Kirsten Gillibrand's pledge to serve full Senate term lasts less than 24 hours hotair.com U.S. Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand said Friday she isn’t prepared to make a decision now on whether to run for president. “I definitely think about how I can help New Yorkers and how I can be successful in getting more things done in Washington,” Gillibrand said. “But, aspiring to a higher office is a very big decision. That’s why I’m not prepared to make it right now.” Because why? “I can think about it later,” Gillibrand said during a meeting Friday with editors and reporters at The Buffalo News. When pressed for an explanation of the obvious lie she put out during the debate, Gillibrand fell back on the excuse used by so many former Senators. “I’m really running for Senate,” Gillibrand said. “I’m focused on my Senate race, and it’s important to serve in the Senate for New York, and there’s a lot of work still to be done in the Senate.” Was Gillibrand simply assuming that nobody would notice a Senate race debate where she’s leading her opponent by a two to one margin? Or is she just so jaded in terms of American politics that she believes she can casually lie at the drop of a hat and nobody will care? The latter may be a safe assumption, actually. This is still New York, after all, and the Senator is a beloved “rising star” of the liberal, progressive base, despite her lengthy previous history of being a conservative Democrat. A clear example of what would, in days gone by, have been seen as a complete failure in a test of character will now be shrugged off by a Democratic voter base who wouldn’t vote for her Republican opponent if Gillibrand personally came over and spit on their homes. But should we really be surprised? As I pointed out in the previous article, Kirsten Gillibrand has a well-documented history of changing her policy views as rapidly as required to advance her political appetites. She lies as casually as most people doodle on a sketchpad. The fact that she stood at a lectern, pledged to serve out her full term and then changed her story the following day probably won’t cause her to lose any sleep or impact her prospects in the upcoming election. Since she knows she won’t be held accountable, why worry about a little thing like the truth?