November 1, 2007 -- "Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday refused for a second straight day to say whether she supports or opposes Gov. Spitzer's controversial plan to let illegal immigrants get driver's licenses - as leading rivals in both parties battered her for failing to give a straight answer.
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Republicans mocked Clinton for waffling after she provided a series of vague and confusing answers when asked about Spitzer's plan Tuesday at a Democratic debate in Philadelphia.
"She was being attacked all night for taking different positions in front of different audiences, and then by the end of the night, she took different positions in front of the same audience. It was pretty amazing," Rudy Giuliani said on the Glenn Beck radio show.
"In politics, I've never quite seen that before. I know there are some politicians like Hillary. They say different things to different people. They use different accents in different parts of the country . . . I had never seen it happen all in one place, in one minute," he said.
"This is not a tough issue. Of course, you don't give out driver's licenses to illegals. Among other things, it'll make it even more difficult to deal with all the fraud, all the forgery that's going on."
State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, appearing on CNN, asked, "Why can't she say I'm for it or I'm against it? It's very unbecoming a person in high office such as Sen. Clinton."
Barack Obama, who slammed Clinton in the debate by saying, "I can't tell whether she was for it or against it," yesterday hit her harder.
"Twelve hours after the debate ended, the American people are still waiting for an answer on Senator Clinton's position on providing illegal immigrants with driver's licenses," said Obama's spokeswoman, Jen Psaki.
"The 'politics of hope' doesn't mean hoping you don't have to answer tough questions," she added.
Obama told The Associated Press that Clinton's vague answers raise questions about her ability to become president, saying, "Senator Clinton left us wondering where she stood on every single hard question from Iran to Social Security to driver's licenses for undocumented workers."
Clinton twice refused to answer direct questions from The Post yesterday about whether she supported Spitzer's plan.
Her campaign released a statement expressing support for governors in the abstract - but failing to say whether she approved of Spitzer's policy on licenses for illegals.
"Senator Clinton supports governors like Governor Spitzer who believe they need such a measure to deal with the crisis caused by this administration's failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform," according to her statement.
"As president, her goal will be to pass comprehensive immigration reform that would make this unnecessary."
The Clinton campaign didn't respond to follow-up questions about whether she backs the plan.
Republican Mitt Romney's spokesman, Kevin Madden, said, "Senator Clinton's troubling answer on providing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants was emblematic of someone who is both dismissive of efforts to enforce our nation's immigration laws and entirely unwilling to offer a straight answer to a very direct question."
GOP candidate Fred Thompson's spokesman accused Clinton of "speaking out of both sides of her mouth," adding, "Giving legal driver's licenses to illegal immigrants is wrong and would provide them the opportunity to register to vote in our country."
A group representing Sept. 11 families offered a $1,000 reward to "any American who can get a straight answer" from Clinton.
"It's offensive to us that she can't even say if she is for or against licensing terrorists," said Peter Gadiel, president of 9/11 Families for a Secure America."
Now THIS is of the utmost importance. Sure we don't want to surrender to the illegal hispanics and so what if they can't read or write English and will CONTINUE to wreck havoc on the roadways, NY's governor will give them licenses to drive even if they cannot do so because it makes him look good to a large block of voters...but...
Al Queda sleeper cells having a hard time fitting in with mainstream America need only move to NY and viola, instant legitimacy.
Hillary doesn't seem to mind that illegals will be empowered to vote because they'll vote for her and people like her.
But she SHOULD be wary of those who enter America to do it harm.
She most obviously is not.
To blazes with asking the woman to withdraw her candidacy for the Oval Office; she should be impeached and forced to resign her senate seat.
This was bound to happen. A liberal in sheep's clothing can only continue with such a facade for so long until the truth wriggles free from her pre-planned speechifying. ANY Republican worth his salt will crush this harridan in a one on one debate, and know what?
It'll be fun to watch.
This snafu isn't Hillary's death knell but a few more like it and she better plan on keeping her day job.
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