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Sue on Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:40:20 PM
11/01/07 11:11 a.m. PST
FROM FactCheck.org email:
Hillary's High-Stepping
October 31, 2007
The Democratic front-runner bobs and weaves at a candidate debate in Philadelphia.
Summary
At a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Sen. Hillary Clinton ducked some questions and gave misleading answers to others.
- She
falsely implied that the reason White House documents about her
communications with her husband haven't been released is due to
bureaucratic delays, and she avoided saying whether she would ask Bill
Clinton to clear their release from the National Archives.
- She
avoided a yes-or-no answer to whether she supports giving New York
driver's licenses to illegal immigrants and at one point denied saying
the idea made sense, when in fact she said less than two weeks earlier
that it "makes a lot of sense."
- She
avoided saying what, if anything, she would do about Social Security
taxes or benefits, saying a commission should study the system "if" it
has problems, and saying that acting as though the troubled system is
in "crisis" is "a Republican trap."
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