Hillary's "Politics of Parsing"
The one debate I decide to skip is the one debate that becomes the one to watch. Had it not been for Tim Russert's Botoxed eyes, I would have grabbed a mojito and enjoyed the truthiness, but I did not.
Which is why I am aghast by this clip put together by the John Edwards campaign. This one is too good to pass up.
Wow.
Now I can see why there's so much clucking about this debate. She really flip-flopped badly, didn't she?
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NY is getting browner and browner
Submitted by liza on 3 November 2007 - 10:04pm.
While the political elite is increasingly whiter and over 50.
Giving migrant workers the right to a driver's license is a good move but given that the political elite is whiter and older, they are not too keen on the whole deal. Middle/working class brown people are a threat, not the brown agrarian & poverty stricken cherry or tomato pickers.
The issue really is not the licenses or IDs. the issue is how Spitzer has gone and decided to unveil and implement the plan. He has not engaged none of the latino, african american or ... gasp ... pro-migrant democrats in Albany. it's been all very clickish and behind doors.
That's why he's come under fire here in NY. the republican reaction was expected; but his lack of coordination with minority state senate democrats has been absolutely crass.
Flip flop is out
Somewhere I picked up a new description. Zig zag. It goes better with a waltz.
So, Liza, is the Spitzer drivers license thing a big deal in New York? And do you think it'll make any difference at election time?
In East Tennessee there's an undercurrent which I can feel. People with a moderately good education, living in better than average houses, and driving better than necessary cars come at the "illegal" question dyspeptically. The state passed a drivers ID law and that has not entered conversations I've heard. (Heck, I had to get one of those in order to board a plane, except theirs allow operation of a vehicle and require proof of insurance.) The beef is about taking places in schools, which are overfull because of increased newcomers from other states, and getting welfare without paying taxes, which is hard to substantiate. Because of the history of the region, Section 8, meals on wheels, AFDC, and other poverty benefits are largely used by white people who have lived in these parts most of their lives. Regardless, it is maybe helping Fred Thompson drain off votes from Republican frontrunners.