RUSSERT'S LOWEST MOMENT (AND THAT'S SAYING A LOT)
Excerpt:
"I discussed this in the live debate blog. But I think it's worth going back and watching Russert's run of shame here. I would say it was borderline to bring up the issue of Farrakhan at all. But perhaps since it's getting some media play you bring it up just for the record, for Obama to address.
That's not what Russert did. He launches into it, gets into a parsing issue over word choices, then tries to find reasons to read into the record some of Farrakhan's vilest quotes after Obama has just said he denounces all of them. Then he launches into a bizarre series of logical fallacies that had Obama needing to assure Jews that he didn't believe that Farrakhan "epitomizes greatness"."
Showing posts with label Debate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Debate. Show all posts
Wednesday
RUSSERT'S LOWEST MOMENT (AND THAT'S SAYING A LOT)
Friday
Clinton doesn't vow to go on beyond March 4
Clinton doesn't vow to go on beyond March 4
Excerpt:
"The closing scene -- and Hillary Clinton's last words -- at the crucial debate Thursday night in Texas set pundits to opine that, just perhaps, Clinton is coming to terms with the fact that she's not going to win the Democratic nomination.
In appearances on the three broadcast network morning shows today, Clinton did little to rebut that interpretation. Asked directly whether she would soldier on, no matter what happens in the make-or-break primaries in Ohio and Texas on March 4, she refused to say.
"I don't make predictions," she said on NBC's "Today" show."
Tuesday
Clinton Accepts Fox News Debate
Clinton Accepts Fox News Debate
Excerpt:
"Though Clinton and Obama have frequently appeared on Fox News for interviews, the announcement is a 180-degree turn from the position that Clinton and other Democratic candidates took this past spring in which they pledged to participate only in DNC-sanctioned debates."
Clinton, Obama get fiercely personal - Chicago Tribune
Clinton, Obama get fiercely personal - Chicago Tribune
Excerpt:
"The smoldering acrimony between the Democratic presidential front-runners flared openly as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama traded charges in a debate Monday about who is dishonest, who is cowardly and who is doing the bidding of reviled special interests.
The debate was the most fiercely personal of the election season as the candidates showed the strains of a long and bitter campaign. At one point, Obama and Clinton raised their voices over each other to be heard. Each even attacked the other's biography."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-debate_web_22jan22,0,6405266.story?coll=chi_home_util
Wednesday
Arianna Huffington: Debate Shocker: Iraq Returns to the Campaign Spotlight...and Hillary Puts it There
Arianna Huffington: Debate Shocker: Iraq Returns to the Campaign Spotlight...and Hillary Puts it There
Excerpt:
"But everything changed when the candidates were allowed to ask each other questions. Clinton seized the opportunity to turn her Achilles heel into a strength by asking Obama to join her in cosponsoring a bill "to reign in President Bush," and force him to come before Congress with any plans that would prolong the U.S. commitment in Iraq. It was a brilliant tactical move, a sweeping gesture intended to blur the huge advantage Obama has as the only one of the three to have opposed the war from the beginning. "
Thursday
Debate Moderator Wolf Blitzer won't be Influenced by Hillary Clinton Campaign
Excerpt:
"On Tuesday, a top aide to Hillary Clinton indirectly warned moderator Wolf Blitzer not to be too hard on her in Thursday’s debate. The warning was issued via the Drudge Report, an influential Web site that has received numerous leaks from the Clinton campaign on such topics as her fundraising prowess.
“This campaign is about issues, not on who we can bring down and destroy,” a senior Clinton aide told cyberjournalist Matt Drudge. “Blitzer should not go down to the levels of character attack and pull ‘a Russert.’ ”
Blitzer, who said he had not been directly contacted by the Clinton campaign, called the New York Democrat “a sophisticated, strong politician.” But he also issued his own veiled warning.
“If she can’t handle the heat during a Democratic contest, wait until the Republicans really start going after her,” he told TV Newser. “If she’s the nominee.”
Blitzer also defended Russert against criticism by Bill Clinton.
“I think Russert was doing his job,” he said. “He was trying to follow up and be Tim Russert. He asks tough questions. That’s what people want. I admire him.”"
http://www.examiner.com/a-1049622~Clinton_looks_to_rebound_in_debate.html
Friday
The Politics of Pile On - Video from: hillaryclintondotcom
The Politics of Pile On - Video from: hillaryclintondotcom
"Hillary is the subject of a lot of attention in the October 30 Democratic presidential debate. "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk16oxb4Ck4
Wednesday
Obama, Edwards go after Clinton during debate
Excerpts:
"Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards criticized Clinton for her stance on Iraq, Iran and Social Security.
"The American people ... deserve a president of the United States that they know will tell them the truth and won't say one thing one time and something different at a different time," Edwards said."
and
""I don't think the Republicans got the message that I'm voting and sounding like them," Clinton said.
"If you watched their debate last week, I seemed to be the topic of great conversation and consternation. And that's for a reason, because I have stood against George Bush and his failed policies."
Obama offered a different explanation. "Part of the reason that Republicans, I think, are obsessed with you, Hillary, is because that's a fight they're very comfortable having," Obama said.
'"It is the fight that we've been through since the '90s. And part of the job of the next president is to break the gridlock and to get Democrats and independents and Republicans to start working together to solve these big problems like health care or climate change or energy."
But, said Edwards, "another perspective on why the Republicans keep talking about Sen. Clinton is, Senator, they may actually want to run against you.""
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/31/dems.debate/
Thursday
Friday
Wednesday
Monday
Democrats Reach Out to Hispanic Voters - New York Times
Excerpt:
"Democratic presidential candidates courted the fast-growing Hispanic electorate on Sunday night by debating on a Spanish-language television network, where they promised to swiftly overhaul the immigration system and accused Republicans and President Bush of stoking anti-Hispanic sentiment."
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Super Tube Debate - From: current - Views: 166,997
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SiP79MFoKs
The Democratic Debate - What They Really Said - By Alex Hammer
Excerpts:
"Here are my interpretations of what the candidates may have really meant in their responses to the ABC Debate on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” (debate excerpts from transcript in quotes, with my interpretation of what they may have really meant embedded in italics)."
and
"“STEPHANOPOULOS: Senator Biden, you stepped into this last week. You told Newsweek magazine that Senator Obama is “not yet ready” to be president........
“OBAMA: Well, you know, to prepare for this debate, I rode in the bumper cars at the state fair, and…
A. They’re not getting to me.
B. The other candidates pretend to be funny. I really am.
(LAUGHTER)
(APPLAUSE)
But, George, I don’t actually see that much difference or people criticizing me on the substance of my positions. I think that there’s been some political maneuvering taking place over the last couple of weeks.
Put it back on them. This is easy.
I do think that there’s a substantive difference between myself and Senator Clinton when it comes to meeting with our adversaries. I think that strong countries and strong presidents meet and talk with our adversaries. We shouldn’t be afraid to do so.
Put it back on her. Nothing sticks to me.
We’ve tried the other way. It didn’t work.
Back on her again.
I think that, if we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and we’ve exhausted all other options, we should take him out before he plans to kill another 3,000 Americans. I think that’s common sense.
Show I’m not weak. They blasted me before.
So there’s one other thing that I believe.
I could talk all day. They love me."
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At Dem debate, the word is change - Obama on hot seat as candidates invited to repeat criticisms
Excerpt:
"The Democratic presidential contenders used a debate before an Iowa audience Sunday to try to buttress their rallying call for changing the country's direction as they questioned Sen. Barack Obama's experience and argued over how best to leave Iraq.
"To prepare for this debate, I rode in the bumper cars at the State Fair," Obama said as he defended his foreign policy declarations and challenged the failed "conventional thinking that has become the habit in Washington.""
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Clinton, Obama fend off criticisms in debate
Excerpt:
"Sen. Barack Obama worked to counter suggestions that he is too inexperienced for the White House while Sen. Hillary Clinton fended off attacks from President Bush's outgoing political adviser Karl Rove that voters perceive her too negatively in a debate Sunday in the critical showdown state of Iowa.
"Is Barack Obama ready to be president, experienced enough to be president?" moderator George Stephanopoulos asked, presenting the first question of the debate hosted by ABC's "This Week" in Des Moines, Iowa -- the first state"
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/20/dems.debate/
TRANSCRIPT: The Democratic Debate - George Stephanopoulos Moderates Democratic Debate on a Special Edition of "This Week"
Excerpt:
"Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this special edition of "This Week." We're back here at Drake University in Iowa for the first Democratic presidential debate in Iowa. It's been sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee. All of our guests here have been invited by the Iowa Democratic Party, and all eight Democratic candidates are here.
The podium order was determined by lot, but here's where they stand in Iowa, according to our latest ABC News poll."
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/Decision2008/story?id=3498294&page=1
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