Why not have one of the candidates rebut the State of the Union address?

As it has been tradition for the opposing party to rebut the current president's speech, why not have one of the most prominent democrats, and perhaps future presidents do it? A potential problem would be picking who would do the job.

Is this a downright crazy proposal that would never fly?

On ABC network news.

Nice of them.

They would have run with it if any of the top tier candidate approached them with the concept. Kudos for Clark.

And it gives one of them an advantage.

to all the candidates.

(Assuming they even exist any more, in any practical way.) That's why certain radio shows so desperately want to be classified as "news" programs.

DTH

I can't wait!

DTH

I'm hoping the Dean campaing does something, like a point-by-point counter via email or on the blog.

Good on ABC for giving him a voice.

wooohooooooo!

But they're definitely interviewing him right around/after the SOTU.

DTH

My first choice is either Edwards or Clark (keep flip flopping) with Dean coming in next.

But hell, any of the other candidates would be fine with me as I think they all have good qualities and are effective speakers.

Even if it was a random draw or something, people would still be mad.

Hopefully their anger at not being in the spotlight wouldn't deter their willingness to benefit the party as a whole.

It's all about me this time around.

I'd love to know, but usually, you hear about it from Dan Rather right after the POTUS' speech.

...but I forget entirely who it was. Some governor whom I didn't know.

read it in current issue of tv guide it will be Daschle and Pelosi.

I'll be interested to see how they present it, as two seperate speeches or a "tag-team" affair!! (my vote is for tag-team!)

Email C-SPAN to get them to show it!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=122083

...so Clark's rebuttal is happening in concurrence with Bush's speech in a manner that he can comment on Bush's talking points in realtime and its being carried on ABC?

I don't believe it.

If it was after the speech and Clark was just giving his own rebuttal, that I'd understand.

The more I think about it.

DTH

"State of The Nation" address in New Hampshire on Tuesday afternoon. He's going to rebut the speech before it even happens. LOL

:thumbsup:

is gonna spin & lie the same old stuff!

Go Dennis!
:yourock:

Pece & hope
DR

There's no way to pick one without running into all sorts of difficulties. First, it would politicize what is supposed to be an official activity (yes, we know it's all politics, but there's still be that hit). Second, any of those not picked would scream bloody murder, as well they should - not to mention the objections that would be raised by the candidates who aren't in Congress.

The plan was to watch the SOTU with a collection of New Hampshire voters and then have a discussion and a Q&A session after it was done. Several of us wrote to C-Span urging them to cover it.

The Jennings angle is news to us, but good news none the less.

It cannot be stressed enough that Clark is running against George Bush for the Presidency, not for the leadership of the Democratic Party. There is little point, in that view, to run against the other folks for the nomination or to go overboard with "gotcha's" or "attack ads".

If the people accept him he will be the Party's nominee and won't have to regear up to stop attacking other Democrats and start going after George Bush. He'll have a three or four month head start over the other Democrats who are spending most of their time attacking each other, and we'll need every minute to knock the Invisible Airman out of the box. If Clark loses the nomination, a lot of ground work will still have been done that will benefit the winner.

ABB Rules!

From the official website:

http://www.clark04.com/schedule/

Tuesday, January 20 Epping, NH
8:30 pm - State of the Union Watch & Response
The Palace Theater
80 Hanover St
Manchester, NH CNN
Paula Zahn, CNN, 8 pm EST
ABC
ABC interview with Peter Jennings to follow the State of the Union speech

DTH

Then I'll tune in for the rebuttals. That's all I'll be interested in seeing anyway.