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Clinton's answer to the diamonds/pearls question...
...should have been everybody's answer to the national security/human rights question:
"I want both."
Only an ill-informed, "gotcha"-driven moderator would have tried to make candidates choose between the two, and only an incompetent President would ever HAVE to choose between the two.
The candidates have to learn to shoot down some of these idiotic questions right from the jump, rather than reflexively answering them. Considering the contempt in which many Democrats hold the mainstream media, they could score major points with a takedown of Blitzer, Russert, et al.
And speaking of Blitzer, wouldn't you think there would be some rule in the universe that if you're that boring, you'd have to be, oh, I don't know, good at your job?