Was it over Kyl-Lieberman? Iraq? Hsu? Fundraising? Corporate influence?
No.
It was over...driver's licenses.
Specifically, driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.
Here's the short version: Elliot Spitzer, the firebrand Governor of the State of New York, is proposing that illegal immigrants be granted driver's licenses in the context of his state trying to deal with the many, many illegal immigrants living in the shadows and away from the law.
Hillary Clinton stated she supported this legislation...until...Chris Dodd called her on it, saying that a driver's license is a priviledge, not a right. Senator Clinton then did her standard backpedal:
1. It's all George Bush's fault
2. I'm for this in theory but I don't agree with the specifics
Edwards then went in for the knock out punch: we need to have a President who says the same thing regardless of who she - or he - is saying it to.
It's about being in truth-telling mode all the time.
Not wanting to be left off the bandwagon, Obama joined in with his ten seconds of "me, too"...but this moment belonged to the tag team of Edwards and Dodd, who got Clinton on the ropes and didn't let her recover.
It revealed Clinton's main weakness: she dissembles, trying to carefully craft her messages so specifically to different audiences that eventually she just ends up completely contradicting herself until you're really not sure where she stands on anything.
And here's what I have to say about all of that: Edwards/Dodd 08!
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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I thought Obama got a nice shot in as well. Looking a bit confused, he said "I still don't know if she's for it or against it!"
He should keep that line handy for future events.
the trick here will be when hillary tries to turn the question back at obama and edwards...and my advice for edwards is to side with governor spitzer: we need to know who is on the roads, this allows for all drivers to be insured, and the state of new york should be able to make decisions that make sense for the state of new york.
between now and then, he has hit at least a double with this one, and he is well advised to continue pounding the issue as hard as possible.
corruption (who donates to hillary) is another big issue, but the edwards quote "if you think the bush policies were the right ones, just wrongly executed, hillary's your candidate" really hit the mark-and it was a perfect sound byte moment as well.
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