Thread: Clinton Defends Wife on Licenses

Time for damage control....bring out Bill
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Nov 6, 12:30 AM EST


Clinton Defends Wife on Licenses

By RYAN NAKASHIMA
Associated Press Writer


LAS VEGAS (AP) -- 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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I think they're underestimating the damage Hillary did to herself and campaign the other night. Already, I have caught notice of polls which have downgraded her popularity since the famous drivers license debate comment.

And now, there is a real sore point all the other dems (and republicans, later or potentially) can hammer her on too.

Thanks to Tim Russert for asking a real question of a Democratic candidate.

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.

Bill and Hillary don't include illegal immigration as an important issue and put up a smoke screen to deflect the issue and her political blunder.

Problem: Health care --Solution: Deport all illegals draining our health care system.

Problem: Education Reform-- Solution: Schools teach all subjects in English except foreign languages courses. Deport all illegals bleeding our school systems.

Now health care and education reform are taken care of let's discuss ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION! Hillary.

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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.

There should be a law against a former president stumping for his wife. Bill definitely gives the Hildabeast an advantage over all the other candidates. I don't know, somehow it just doesn't seem right to me.