Hillary Clinton finally got too cute by half in her explanation of her convoluted position on giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants.
(SEE VIDEO CLIP FROM DEMOCRATIC DEBATE IN PHILADELPHIA IN LEFT COLUMN)
The American people saw her tying herself into a knot over the issue, trying to have it both ways.
It was a moment in the 2008 campaign akin to Ted Kennedy’s inability to explain to Roger Mudd why he was running for president in 1980. It was one of those few moments when the real candidate is on display and visible to all. It came about because Senator Chris Dodd had the courage to defy the uni-speak of the Democratic debates, where everybody agrees with everybody else and spoke out against the proposal to give licenses to illegal immigrants. Hillary, suddenly realizing how exposed she was by her seeming endorsement of Spitzer’s plan to illegals, backtracked and pointed out that she had not explicitly endorsed the plan. It was her equivalent of Bill saying that it depended on what the definition of is is. It was a Hillary moment and her parsing and mincing of the vocabulary to have it both ways was on full public display. Caught, she retreated, with asperity, to the claim that everybody was playing “gotcha” but, indeed, she had been got!
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Hillary finally was exposed the other night. The fact is that Hillary while a Senator from New York has never experienced a real competitive campaign and especially ever being questioned. She has won twice against candidates who had both no money and no chance to win. I’d love to see her in a one-on-one debate with Rudy. No more hiding in the shadows of 7 other men, she clearly faded as the debate went on the other evening.
Hillary for all he so called experience has really none. I continue to ask people who thinks she is god’s gift to the nation - so what is her 3 biggest qualifications? They all struggle to give me a straight answer from being first lady to working on children’s issues for 35 years…… so that’s it.
As Rudy started pounding: Hillary has never run a business, a city, a state or responsible for thousands or even hundreds of people.