It's uncharacteristically Hillary Clinton. The New York Senator actually getting something wrong? For all the big bugs that the candidate pays her top advisors, with the biggest and most influential being her husband, she still gets crucified on a simple answer to a simple question: "Do you support giving licenses to illegal immigrants?"
Simple not because of the issue at hand, but simple because it is clearly a "gotcha" questions as she claimed. The answer is a simple "no." Not because she's against immigration, but again, simply, because that is not the answer to the problem of illegal immigration. Sure, giving drivers licenses to people is a "priviledge" like Senator Dodd said, but it is also a security measure. Licenses are given out because it is imperative for authorities to know who's driving. When it comes to undocumented people, on the other hand, driver licenses puts a band-aid on the boob oo and does not fix it. The answer is "no" because licenses are one of the last steps in the legal procedures making undocumented workers "documented." Or, as other people would say, from "illegal" to "legal." What first needs to happen is a way to secure our borders, provide a path to legal residency to the 12 million that are already in this country, and then finding a way to grant these people, who after paying back taxes and fines, actual citizenship and all the benefits of our great Constitution.
Hillary's heart was in the right place, but she totally messed up on her delivery. Before the licenses has to come immigration reform. Yes, Governors across the nation are really facing these issues, but it is because the federal government has completely failed in delivering much-needed immigration reform. The federal government's job is to protect the citizenry and not state governors. Hillary has to make this an immigration reform issue rather than a simple "yes or no" answer, because she's right, and Bill is right, this is not a yes or no answer. It is not that simple, but she cannot afford to cloud her message further by giving mixed responses to complex questions. If she is to win the nomination she has to clear it up with tonight's debate in Las Vegas. Recent poll numbers have shown that Edwards has clearly benefited from his attacks on Clinton while Obama has been attacking himself, but has mostly benefited from Edwards' attacks on the NY Senator as well.
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Hillary is constantly flip-flopping. Rudy will beat her in the General election.
Please, the Religious Right has sold out in solidifying its support for Rudy. They show that they are more interested about "winning" than in supporting a candidate that shares their values like Huckabee. They're complete hipocrites.
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