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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - Posts
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Usually, it’s the process questions that produce sparks at debates. Networks rely on questions about flag pins, VP picks, and radical hippie friends, because they reveal differences in character rather than policy. So in a primary like this one, where Read More...
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Clinton’s getting all the laughs tonight. All two of them. In an answer about the D.C. gun ban, she refers to Dick Cheney as “a fourth branch [of government] all to himself,” which gets yuks. Earlier, she made a crack about how it would be nice if the Read More...
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It’s more than an hour into the debate, and finally we get a question that’s not about a pastor, a surrogate, a gaffe, or a flag pin. On Iraq: George and Charlie ask if Clinton would really pull out of Iraq even if military commanders said no. Her answer: Read More...
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They approach the electability question sideways, via Obama’s association with former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers. Clinton brings up the fact that Obama sat on a corporate board with Ayers, who she says refused to repent for the bombs he once Read More...
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Charlie Gibson peels Obama's Rev. Jeremiah Wright scab and asks Obama why he rescinded an invitation for Wright to attend his announcement speech in February 2007, yet did not distance himself from Wright publicly. Obama responds by saying that Wright's Read More...
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We hear a video question from a good person of Pennsylvania named Tom, who says Clinton lost his vote because of her misleading Tuzla account. (This is like a greatest hits of the last seven weeks.) Clinton responds: “I may be a lot of things, but I’m Read More...
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As expected, an early question about Bitterclingelitistgate. Obama rails against the tendency in campaigns to “take one comment that wasn’t properly phrased and beat it to death.” As an example, he cites Clinton’s “baking cookies” line from the early Read More...
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Gibson starts with a genius move. He asks, Why wouldn’t you pick each other as running mates? and throws it out to both candidates. The silence, as the Hotline might say , was long enough you could knit a sweater. Obama says it’s too premature to say. Read More...
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Welcome to the National Constitutional Center in Philadelphia. The camera pans around the room. It’s tiny! Looks kind of like a Disney ride—one of those magic motion machines. Hopefully the seats rock back and forth and water squirts on the audience. Read More...
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It’s tempting to cast tonight’s Democratic debate—No. 21, for those counting—as an inevitable smackdown. Just look at what’s happened since the last debate: Jeremiah Wright, NAFTA, Austan Goolsbee, Samantha Power, the Bosnia sniper flap, and, most recently, Read More...
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A morning endorsement from Bruce Springsteen will help Barack Obama dominate the news cycle heading into tonight's debate. That, coupled with some new poll numbers and a newspaper endorsement, helps drag Clinton's ship down by two points to a 10.4 percent Read More...
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Obama racks up yet another endorsement in the music primary, this one from small town poet laureate Bruce Springsteen. On his Web site, the Boss implicitly defends Obama’s “bitter” comment: At the moment, critics have tried to diminish Senator Obama through Read More...
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