Burning Atlanta

This is nuts but a calculated kind of nuts. He's not stupid. He and his advisors know that a large majority of Americans oppose driver's licenses for illegal aliens. The matter exploded in Gov. Spitzer's face and spilled over to Hillary. However, he knows that Hillary is out- pacing him with Hispanics and obviously feels this may weaken their support for Buttface, I mean, Hillary. Seems he thinks it may help him with the nomination more than it will hurt him if nominated. I'm not so sure.

Weak-kneed appeaser and pandering weasel.

Sen. Barack Obama easily won the African American vote in South Carolina, but to woo California Latinos, where he is running 3-to-1 behind rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, he is taking a giant risk: spotlighting his support for the red-hot issue of granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

It's a huge issue for Latinos, who want them. It's also a huge issue for the general electorate, which most vehemently does not. Obama's stand could come back to haunt him not only in a general election, but with other voters in California, where driver's licenses for illegal immigrants helped undo former Gov. Gray Davis.

Clinton stumbled into that minefield in a debate last fall and quickly backed off. First she suggested a New York proposal for driver's licenses for illegal immigrants might be reasonable. Then she denied endorsing the idea, and later came out against them.

Democratic pollsters Stan Greenberg and James Carville issued a direct warning on the driver's license issue in an analysis last month designed to guide Democrats through the treacherous immigration quagmire.

"The findings about driver's licenses are particularly notable," they said. Two-thirds of surveyed voters oppose them, the pollsters found, and the safety argument fails to dent the widespread conviction that granting a driver's license rewards illegal behavior. I think his supporting licenses may be a mistake on a number of levels but I've been wrong lots of times. We'll see.