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NBC and CBS both followed up on Tuesday night's Democratic debate on MSNBC in which Hillary Rodham Clinton was accused of doublespeak on the wisdom of licensing immigrant drivers who do not have residency visas. CBS' Byron Pitts told us that New York State's proposal is not completely cutting edge. In total, ten states have policies that allow illegal residents to become legal drivers. Fellow northern border states Vermont and Washington have the so-called "enhanced" plan that New York's Gov Eliot Spitzer is proposing. Another eight states "have variations of a don't-ask-don't-tell policy." NBC's Andrea Mitchell covered Rodham Clinton's counterattack "after a faltering debate performance." Her campaign played both "the gender card" and "the woman as victim card," noted Mitchell. The former saw her return to her alma mater, the all-women's Wellesley College, to celebrate the shattering of glass ceilings; the latter had her Website "accusing the men of piling on."
ABC had anchor Charles Gibson (subscription required) resume the Who Is? series of candidate profiles that was interrupted last week by the southern California wildfires. This week's profile was of Democrat Barack Obama, who offered a pair of psychological insights. About his father leaving home when Barack was still a toddler: "Every man is either trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for his father's mistakes." About his own overweening ambition: "If you do not have enough self-awareness to see the element of megalomania involved in thinking you can be President, then you probably should not be President."
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