I Know You Are, But What Am I?

The lovely John Edwards rightly criticized Slick Hillary's confused and defensive straddle on immigration policy. But, for real entertainment, ask him where he stands.

"He supports licenses as part of a path to citizenship. He doesn't support the Spitzer plan because it doesn't include a path to citizenship," said Edwards' deputy campaign manager Jonathan Prince in an e-mail referring to the New York governor’s plan that prompted the question that flummoxed Clinton.

"That's not a rational position — Eliot Spitzer couldn't ever offer somebody a path to citizenship," said Margie McHugh, the Co-Director of the National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy at the Migration Policy Institute, which favors immigration reform.

"I don't know if they think you're stupid or what they think," said Frank Sharry, the executive director of the National Immigrantion Forum, another broadly pro-immigration policy shop.

Sharry laughed aloud when read Prince’s statement of Edwards’ position.

That is "sort of like saying I oppose the confederate flag in Southern states because there's not a corresponding flag burning amendment to it. It's nonsensical," Sharry said.

I have often read that John Edwards is actually thoughtful and intelligent, but no one has yet cited a single spot of evidence supporting that claim. All the evidence that I've seen is consistent with the John Edwards revealed in his immigration policy.