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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton spoofed her reputation for caution and slow adoption of liberal positions during a cameo on Saturday Night Live.

Clinton gamely played a bartender named Val alongside cast member Kate McKinnon, who regularly plays Clinton on the show. McKinnon plays the character as comicallystrident and fiercely ambitious.

Imjust an ordinary citizen who thinks the Keystone pipeline willdestroyour environment, Clinton deadpanned.

McKinnon, playing Clinton as a downtrodden candidate, noted that the position on Keystone was a long time coming.

Later in Saturdaysskit Clinton, as Val, praised the candidates support for gay marriage.

I could have supported it earlier, McKinnon, playing the candidate, said ruefully.

Fair point, Clinton said.

In both instances, Clinton adopted positions popular among the liberal Democratic base but did so later than other candidates, opening her to criticism that she is overly scripted and poll-conscious.

McKinnon, playing Clinton, told the bartender she is easy to talk to and cool.

Thats the first time Ive ever heard that, Clinton, playing thebartender, replied.

I wishyou could be president, McKinnon said.

Me too, said Clinton.

Anne Gearan is a national politics correspondent for The Washington Post.

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