Letters to the Editor
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"Debates don't serve the voters"
Now THAT'S my fave Obamabot rationalization yet. I guess that's why a record number tuned in to watch the one in LA, huh? Just to waste their time. LOL.
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When are they going to have their first debate?
These "debates" have been jokes thus far. The NPR one was the best I've heard.
I hope that the next ones will not be on cable news, but network.
It would also reach a lot more people....most people don't watch cable news....my grandparents dont even have cable.
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@cythera45
What happened, did Obama accidently run over your cat? You have more bad things to say about Obama--- and the total strangers that appreciate that he didn't vote to send trillions of dollars and thousands of soldiers down a rat hole-- by a 10 to 1 margin over positive words for your candidate.
And what makes it seem like a pathology is the fact that you criticise people as having many of the same qualities you show in rich abundance.
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Have fun, cythera45.
It's obvious all you're interested in is distortion and petty insults. Enjoy. I'll try to find a site where people are actually discussing things that matter.
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This IS fun, in fact it's too easy
Maybe you Obamabots should email his campaign to get better talking points. If these are the best excuses you can come up with to explain your candidate's fear of debates, you're definitely losing the spin wars. Oh well, It's been fun running rings around you logically in this debate.
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Won't Take the Bait
I'm no obamabot. Indeed, at my blog and in my cartoons, I dish it out on Obama as much as Clinton. But the debates are frustratingly superficial. Asking Clinton, "Diamonds or pearls?" Asking Kucinich if he saw UFOs? Asking Obama if Bill Clinton was the "first black President" (without noting Toni Morrison's irony)?
Please.
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Why does this wretched screaming match feel like the 90s redux?
You know, the parts we'd rather forget? The name-calling. The reductiveness. The lies and rationalizations of lies. The shitbag Republican congress led by haters and hypocrites. And, sigh, the Clintons.
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Cythera45...
jeez. What's wrong with you? Just stop it. I get it that your definition of a "coward" is anyone who doesn't play the game exactly like you've decided it should be played. In this case, you've decided that your favored candidate's request to "debate" is the MOST important thing in the primary process right now, and can't possibly accept the fact that the candidate you don't like won't agree to THIS SPECIFIC DEBATE SET FORTH ON YOUR FAVORITE CANDIDATE'S TERMS, and therefore that's just not fair, dammit. And the poor voters will suffer and that mean old Obama who won't play by your "rules" is a coward!
Brava!
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Hillary Clinton and Rupert Murdoch
Hillary Clinton doesn't have a problem with Fox news. In fact, she has accepted campaign contributions from Rubert Murdoch.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12762092/
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Hey, dash_7, you can't make me stop
So don't try. Unlike your candidate, I am not afraid of this give and take.
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Debate ?
Does Hillary sound desperate ?
or What ?
She's run out of money
She's lost her lead
She tied on Super Tuesday
February is set to be 'ALL OBAMA, ALL THE TIME'
Time for Billary to pull a 'Romney'
(becuas THEY love America)
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Let's take a page from
Obama's web site:
Obama mania arrives in Omaha
The Omaha World-Herald | February 08, 2008
By ROBYNN TYSVER
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama told cheering Nebraska supporters Thursday that Americans are demanding change now.
"We can't wait to fix our health care system, we cannot wait to fix our schools . . . we cannot wait to bring this war in Iraq to a close," Obama said. "We cannot wait."
Bringing his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination to the Civic Auditorium, where some in his audience had waited since morning, Obama said voters share that sense of urgency.
"Everywhere I go, the American people tell me that the time for change has come," he said.
...Obama was introduced by Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., who compared Obama's visit to that of Robert Kennedy in 1968.
"This person can get the job done," Nelson said.
Very informative and thought-provoking. I just can't wait to read Fans See Something Special in Obama. Let's see...
People in fur coats and zip-up hoodies smiled and said they wanted the same things - hope, change, something new. It sound like they will settle for a 'mango-and-shrimps' pizza and some promises.
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Debates vs interviews
I agree that the Dem candidates should appear on Fox, but in one-on-one situations, not a debate. The al-Foxeerites would have too much control in a debate format, and both of these Dems are too eager to score short-term points off each other. Clinton and Obama oughta go straight for the heart of the beast and go on O'Reilly. Chris Dodd was on, I believe around the time of the MoveOn/Petraeus ad, and handled it perfectly, calm, polite, and ever-so-subtly dismissive. O'Reilly started screaming and made a fool of himself.
And if possible, they should control the format of the show as much as possible. Don't let Bill-O cut to a fair and balanced panel of Lanny Davis, Ann Coulter and Dick Morris to discuss what Clinton or Obama said.
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Obama
Rupert Murdoch endorsed Obama.
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Dear
-- Ricardo Malocchio
It is ABC.
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Obama and rote learning?Ted Sorenson, age 78, is writing some of his speeches.
Here's another Ted rooting for Obama. I hope Obama isn't superstitious.
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Barack Obama did not embrace Murdoch's endorsement
The point is, Hillary Clinton gladly accepted Rupert Murdoch's money. Barack Obama did not embrace Murdoch's endorsement.
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"latte liberals"
A while back, I asked you who was paying you, and you denied that you were being paid. Now I know. Too bad you slipped, Republican concern troll.
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Obama
How can you become the Democratic nominee without winning states like California, New York, Massachusetts and Florida? Democrats need those states in November to win, and Hillary won them.
Obama is winning in states like Alaska, Idaho and Utah where the Republican won more votes on February 5th. Missouri, the bellwether state, was a tie.
I don't know why people think Obama can win in November.
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The more debates the better for democracy, informed voting, the PEOPLE!
It does begin to appear that Obama is afraid to face his competitor in one-on-one debate combat.
He's not good at explaining himself; nor is he good at addressing the "unexpected" verbal slice from an opponent -- he's obviously much smarter than GWB, but they have the same problem. Without the benefit of a prepared speech, or the TelePrompTer, they get their thoughts (using the term loosely!) all tangled and jumbled.
If Obama snags the nomination, he'll wish that he'd taken Hillary up on her offer to give him some practice in one-on-one debates.
I want a debate on the climate crisis.