At the end of a debate last week, Hillary Clinton hedged on whether she supported a plan by her home state governor, 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.
Good observation!!
That’s wrong, soundbite-boy. She didn’t hedge. Learn how to read.
It’s the opinion of pundits that Spitzer may have unwittingly turned the light on immigration making it a campaign issue when it hadn’t been one. Or…perhaps it wasn’t unwitting at all.
None-the-less, it cannot be a shades of gray issue. One either supports it or denounces it, justifying her stand. Unfortunately, the AP writer whose story is highlighted did not write in depth.
Talk out there where the real America seems to be is that Spitzer’s plan will likely turn the NYS Driver’s license into something worth less than Scott tissue.
Dumb, and dumber. Stupid is, as stupid does.
This Tom Wolfian talk of the ‘real’ America gets me.
I call bullshit on the notion that the rest of America (apparently, like Wolfe, you mean the blue state coasts)somehow isn’t the ‘real’ America.
Both of the stolen last two presidential elections were close in the popular vote, which Gore won, might I remind you who obfuscate this way.
Vince: You have made us aware that you have familiarity with various places around the globe. I’ve been a Northeast Coast person my entire life.
There isn’t a person of my acquaintance who has spent time in rural America, anywhere on the four points of the compasss, who doesn’t tell me that it is like being on another planet.
My own personal experiences, though limited, tend to support that view as well.
No disrespect intended, Dad, but I’ve been told that some Jews are surprised to discover just how many of the goyim there really are outside New York City.
I’ve never been to another planet, so I can’t compare rural America to one, but it seems strange that everyone you know who’s been to rural America thinks the people in it are aliens.;-)
Now I didn’t say that everyone I know who’s been to rural America thinks the people in it are aliens…..I said…..”it is like being on another planet.” Yours is simply one interpretaton.
As far as aliens are concerned, well…I guess Gov. Spitzer thought he had an answer to that issue ….for awhile….at least.
It was a joke, D__.
But still, I would expect an ‘alien’ planet to be populated by aliens. It was your choice of words, and it implies a certain mindset.
To me, such a disconnect between city dwellers and the place where their food comes from suggests that maybe they should get to know the alien planet dwellers (aliens) a little better.;-)