Posted on 10/31/2007 7:47:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A day after she appeared to struggle to give her views on the subject, Hillary Rodham Clinton offered support today for Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s effort to award New York driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, as her campaign sought to contain potentially damaging fallout from what her own supporters saw as a tense and listless debate performance.
Mrs. Clinton’s statement affirming her support of Mr. Spitzer in his office came less than a day after she offered a muddled and hesitant position on the bill, prompting a round of denunciations by her opponents. It signaled the extent to which her advisers viewed that moment as the biggest misstep she made in the debate, and one with long-term potential to undermine her candidacy.
“Senator Clinton supports governors like Governor Spitzer who believe they need such a measure to deal with the crisis caused by this administration’s failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform,’” her campaign said.
Mrs. Clinton’s aides said her statement was intended to signal that she broadly supported Mr. Spitzer’s goal of awarding driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. Mr. Spitzer initially proposed a blanket program of awarding full-fledged driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants; in the face of sharp opposition from the Legislature, he backed off and presented a two-tier program system of awarding licenses to illegal immigrants.
Mrs. Clinton’s advisers said that she had not studied either plan, and was not specifically endorsing either of them.
Still, the wording of the statement was murkier than what many of her opponents have said in either supporting or opposing Mr. Spitzer’s initiatives. Among those opposing it were Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut; Senator Barack Obama of Illinois supported it.(continued)
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I hope you are right.
“Hey now baby, get into my big black car.
Hey now baby, get into my big black car.
I want to just show you what my politics are.
Im a political man and I practice what I preach.
Im a political man and I practice what I preach.
So dont deny me baby, not while youre in my reach.
I support the left, though Im leaning, leaning to the right.
I support the left, though Im leaning to the right.
But Im just not there when its coming to a fight.
Hey now baby, get into my big black car.
Hey now baby, get into my big black car.
I want to just show you what my politics are.”
Cream
Pray for W and Our Troops
Maybe for dog catcher of Nasau County.
Smartest woman in the world ... hah!
“Senator Clinton supports governors like Governor Spitzer who believe they need such a measure to deal with the crisis caused by this administration’s failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform,’” her campaign said.
She isn't saying she's supporting the plan, but rather supporting the governor. Parsing further, she is only supporting governors LIKE Spitzer.
The statement is filled with weasel words. After all, she is a Clinton.
She has to move left through the primaries, then move right after the coronation ceremony. She just isn’t as skillful as bill was.
When someone like Barrack Obama says of course they support illegals, people think, maybe he’s naive, but he believes what he says. He’s kind to dogs and strangers and visitors to our shores. When she says it, they say, she’s just covering her *ss.
Clumsy.
I don’t know if I’d say she’s toast, but she certainly handed the GOP a present—if the GOP cares to accept it.
I hope you are right!
Great thing is, most voters are too "stupid" to understand all that and will think that she wants illegals to have a drivers license. And they will pull the lever for Fred Thompson!
Uh.... can somebody help me out here?
Didn't the Bush Administration do everything in its power to get this abominable "comprehensive immigration reform" passed? And wasn't it killed in the Democrat-controlled Congress because the Democrat leaders couldn't fashion an acceptable bill that provided real border security? Was Hillary Clinton out of town that week?? Or is her campaign as goofy and out of touch as she apparently is?
Thank you to anybody who can help with this.
Such a hot-button issue in NY for two months and she had not studied it? As a Senator 'representing' NY? Somehow this strains credulity.
If there is any "gotcha" in this, its that Hillary is so out of touch with reality and so into her own narcissistic ambition that she has no clue whatsoever how to be POTUS ... and the country sees it now, even the Dems!
a day after she offered a muddled and hesitant position on the bill..
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lol
she gurgled and chirped her way thru that one ,, here’s to many more debates like that one.
Mrs. Clinton’s advisers said that she had not studied either plan, and was not specifically endorsing either of them.
Gee Wally, I can’t wait till Hillary studies war maps, channels Eleanor and addresses the nation.
I tremble for the future of the U.S.A.
To my comrades, past and present, Semper Fi.
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