Clinton defends wife on licenses

AP on Yahoo ^ | 11/05/07 | Ryan Nakashima - ap

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LAS VEGAS - Former President Clinton on Monday compared Republican criticism of his wife's position on driver's license for illegal immigrants to the ads that helped sink John Kerry's White House hopes in 2004.

"I had the feeling that at the end of that last debate we were about to get into cutesy land again," Clinton told some 3,000 members of the American Postal Worker's Union at a convention.

At the end of a televised Democratic presidential debate last week, Hillary Rodham Clinton hedged on whether she supported a plan by her home state governor, New York's Eliot Spitzer, to issue licenses to illegal immigrants.

Republicans — and her rivals for the Democratic nomination — quickly criticized her answer, accusing her of trying to have it both ways.

But Bill Clinton said the issue is too complicated for sound bites.

"It's fine for Hillary and all the other Democrats to discuss Governor Spitzer's plan. But not in 30 seconds — yes, no, raise your hand," he said.

The former president told the union members not to let the Republican attacks distract them from the important issues of health care and education reform.

He compared the driver's license dustup to television ads during the 2004 presidential campaign that questioned Kerry's patriotism, and campaign commercials in 2002 suggesting that former Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga., who lost three limbs in Vietnam, was soft on terrorism.

Clinton urged the union members to vote Democratic for president no matter who the party nominates.

"So do I hope you vote for my wife? You bet I do. It'd be good for America, and good for the world. But, more than that I came here to tell you today, don't you dare let them take this election away from you. This belongs to you."

Clinton also was to speak later Monday at a rally for his wife at the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy.

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Former President Bill Clinton acknowledges the cheering crowd before his speech at the American Postal Worker's annual conference in Las Vegas, Monday, Nov. 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

[NormsRevenge]

What’s better than Hillary stepping in “it”?

Bubba doing the same. ;-)

[JennysCool]

cutesy land ???

[JennysCool]

some 3,000 members of the American Postal Worker's Union

Wonder how many were there because they "had to be or else"?

[Brad’s Gramma]

Boy Howdy.....that man looks......ill.

[Diogenesis]

"I did not have sex with that candidate."

[NormsRevenge]

The middle pic is a “Damn, I almost got back in the WH. Damn.” or maybe it’s just me. ;-)

[NormsRevenge]

cutesy land ???

I hear ya. beats me what the heck he meant, unless that she was almost home scot free too. ;-)

[Brad’s Gramma]

"I did not have sex with that candidate."

And this is The First Time I'm NOT lying!!!!

[Brad from Tennessee]

Of those who had to be there I imagine some felt like “going postal.”

[Enchante]

"I came here to tell you today, don't you dare let them take this election away from you. This belongs to you."

Absolutely amazing (though not surprising) to think about the assumptions and beliefs underlying this preposterous statement. The Sinkmeister speaks to a national union of public workers and can safely assume that (1) they are in the tank for the Demagogues, and (2) it is reasonable to refer to a national election in a democracy as something for which the outcome 'belongs' to the Demagogues, and (3) the asinine swipe at "don't let them take this election away from you" -- a constant meme of the vicious Demagogues, as though it were the Republicans and not the Demagogues who specialize in vote fraud, corrupt urban machines, etc. The fact that the MSM allows all the leading Demagogues to jet around the country spouting this kind of b.s. without the slightest challenge or question is a good measure of the extent to which virtually all of the MSM is an arm of the Demagogues.

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Michelle St. John, left, and Michael Hendrickson, both of Glen Falls, N.Y., wear 'Bill Clinton for First Lady' T-shirts as they listen to former President Bill Clinton at the American Postal Workers annual conference in Las Vegas, Monday, Nov. 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

[Brad from Tennessee]

Republicans aren’t the only ones criticizing Hillary:

http://johnedwards.com/watch/politics-of-parsing/

[Brad’s Gramma]

BWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JennysCool]

I think that's pretty much it. When Bill or Hill are asked to define just exactly what they mean by some questioner, that's "getting cutesy" on the questioner's part.

Not surprisingly, "geting cutesy" sounds like a Mob term.

[NormsRevenge]

If somebody put bill on a tshirt like that in a blue inaugural dress, they’d make a bundle. ;-)

[NormsRevenge]

Silk Pony is turning it on down the back stretch..

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The former president told the union members not to let the Republican attacks distract them from the important issues of health care and education reform.

The former President told the union members "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain....."

[tina07]

Billy trying to clean up another Hitlery mess? pathetic at best.

[Maynerd]

Clinton looks like crap. I wonder about his health. An untimely death in October would garner mucho sympatico votes for the evil one.

Then again Clinton would likely go out with a bang - Nelson Rockefeller style.