Letters to the Editor
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Going first...
On the planet I come from, going first in this kind of a "debate" would seem to me a good thing. You get to lay your points out, you get to take the first shot. I couldn't figure out why she was blathering about it...it was her shot to put him on the defensive. Instead, it looked like a petulant teenager alleging the homecomeing king/queen selection committee was too cliquey.
Tactically it didn't make sense, unless she had the line in her back pocket -- pre-writen but certainly not plagerized -- and wanted to use it somewhere and wrongly thought this was the time. You can see her and her managers thinking "Ok, we can point out to them, like SNL, that the press rolls over for Obama..." thinking it a great idea and just dying to toss the gernade.