Now Hillary is demanding a debate in Indiana

I see what they are trying to do. She's going to demand a debate in every state that has yet to vote, including Puerto Rico. 21 debates are not enough? That's many more than the Republican field had, and last time I checked they had TV's in Indiana too.

Obama should not agree to anymore debates unless the moderators agree to only ask questions about policy issues: no tabloid nonsense, and that includes the tabloid "gotcha" stories going around about Hillary too.


http://www.wibc.com/News/Story.aspx?ID=89353

Clinton Pushing For Indiana Debate With Obama
By the Associated Press
4/19/2008

The Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign is pushing for more debates with Barack Obama, accepting offers Friday for matchups in Indiana ahead of the state's May 6 primary.

The move by Clinton's campaign came two days after a prime-time debate between the presidential contenders that drew the largest television audience of any this election cycle.

Obama indicated the following day that he thought the 21 debates among the Democratic candidates had been enough.

But Clinton's campaign tried to apply some pressure Friday for more debates by taking up an offer from the private Indiana Debate Commission, which has proposed an April 24 debate. It also said it would work with Gary Mayor Rudy Clay for one in that city, but he backed off that plan on Friday.

"There remain a good number of undecided voters and they want more information and they are tuning in in unprecedented numbers," said Howard Wolfson, Clinton's national communications director. "If the American people are as engaged as they are and as interested as they are in this race and these issues, they deserve to have the candidates come before them and take tough questions."

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"Senator Obama, would you say you hate the American flag with the heat of a thousand suns, or a million?"

:eyes: :wtf:

of the candidate. Fuck the debates.

let the local universities and their student body who are studying politics and/or journalism conduct the debates.

That'd be a really unrepresentative sample of the population at large, don't you think?

the general public wouldn't be invited to attend a university-sponsored debate.

Anywho, University students would be far more likely to ask questions that would be relevant to ALL Americans then some idiotic media shill.

stretching-g-g this out; let's see what happens Tuesday.

That's EXACTLY the reason!!!

She wants free air time/smear time.

I say we deny her.

"Why more debates? Does the public really want to talk some more about flag pins?"

She needs to quit

broad just ain't gonna quit, she will fuck the Democratic party up as in..."screw em"

More misogyny from the Obama lovers. That is what is fucking up the Democratic Party and it alienates over 1/2 of the potential voters in the country. But if your goal is to elect a Republican whose supporters are all for that kind of nonsense then by all means, keep at it.

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though Hillary is also acceptable.

The one has been disgraced and the other is no one I want to name.

It should be no big deal that Obama wants to focus on the people instead of debate sound bytes.

state that hilary wouldn't debate Jonathan Tasini in 2006..the anti-war candidate. What was hilary :scared: of?

"Tasini has scheduled an announcement for Tuesday morning in New York City, setting up a campaign that could put unexpected pressure from the left on Clinton, the unannounced frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination who until recently has been one of the strongest Democratic backers of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Tasini plans to campaign in support of the call by U.S. Representative John Murtha, D-Pennsylvania, for the rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from that Middle Eastern country.

"Senator Clinton is out of step with the values of a majority of New Yorkers. While a majority of New Yorkers support an end to the war, Senator Clinton has repeatedly voiced her support for a war that continues to accumulate unacceptable costs, in terms of American and Iraqi lives and our own government spending," explained Tasini, decribing a central theme of a campaign that is also expected to advocate for fair trade, economic reforms and universal health care.

Clinton has felt little heat so far from her most prominent Republican challenger, Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro, whose campaign so far has been so hapless that some top Republicans are now calling for her to quit the race and instead run for state Attorney General.

But Tasini, who served for more than a decade as head of a national union and has since worked as president of the Economic Future Group, poses a far different and potentially more interesting challenge to Clinton. An author and frequent guest on television public affairs programs, Tasini runs a well-regarded progressive blog, Working Life, at his www.workinglife.org website, where his reviews of trade, health care and labor policy issues have drawn a broad following."

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=41233

Obama's not a masochist and he's not the m$$$$fm and miss Bosnian Sniper Liar's "chime in, too" whipping post.

Suck it up hilary...and do something about that fetid stale breath.

After TWENTY debates there is little left to learn about either candidate - leaving only a game of Gotcha to be played.

Not my cup of tea.

as the other night, i.e., bitter, wright, etc.


to be honest, i'm tired of seeing her and hearing her voice.

please make it stop

but I did a real actual LOL when I read your post:7


Thanks for the laugh... I needed it after reading this tiresome nonsense.

:rofl: at O.U. (Obama Underground)

:rofl:

Losers - all the same.

This primary has gone on long enough...and the debacle of the so called debate by abc, should turn everyone's stomach sour.

a few beach-balls in her direction so she can be tough as nails and declare herself the winner.

best name for him yet

Just say NO!

i want to start my little printing press...well my canon i560...

And Howard Wolfson can kiss my ass.

She wants to be seen as somebody still active on the national stage, rather than a has-been.

Did you see Moyer's lead-in to his show last night? It was brilliant.

I think he would make a perfect moderator .... we would actually get some facts out there.

After spending so much time on DU, it was so enlightening to see such an incredibly intelligent conversation about something so important.

I'm going into town now to stir up some trouble. It's been nice talking to you. :hi:

All candidates must go on the show "Moment of Truth" and depending on how honest they are is how much campaign financing they get. :evilgrin:

hooked up and a graph placed on the bottom of the TV screen like where that cyron(sp?) is ... for all Politicians whenever they are talking. Might intimidate them to tell the truth?

I only thought of the campaign finance angle because it's a game show that awards cash prizes.

No more fucking sham debates about flag pins.

You run a debate with KO and Rachel Maddow and then we can talk. They stand to lose a hell of alot more by posing crappy questions.

She'd keep it about issues.

No more debates based on tabloid stories and RW talking points.

No thanks!

:thumbsdown:

and there are no moderators.
But at this stage, it is just too much.

No more debates.

The last round generated too much vid footage of him stammering through questions, and his handlers will not allow any more of that

in the last debate.

Is he scared?

Obama is the front runner he doesn't have to play Hillary and Stephanopolous' games to satisfy her ego. This race was already over before the last debate. Why prolong it?

He got his ass kicked in the last one, so you'd think he'd jump at a chance to show a better performance.


Besides, more and more people are tuning into the debates. The public is engaged. The next debate, if Obama accepts, sure to be the highest rated debate yet. More people in the process. Let the process continue. Unless he's just not up to it. That's how it will seem.

There's no such thing as too much democracy.

He should debate at every opportunity, if he is the one, with the message. Scrutiny and hard questions should not be something he fears, if he is the real thing.

Senator McCain.

:wtf:

mccain shill all piling on. Oh yeah that was fair. I'm not surprised that you loved it, but the fact is hillary is not going to be the nominee, and Obama shouldn't contribute to her campaign by giving her a free platform to attack him for what others have said or done.

You win Hypocrite of the Week, hands down. If mere associations were enough to disqualify a candidate, Hillary should have been out of the running from the start. She is, afterall, related to the man who singlehandedly gave over control of Congress to Newt Gingrich. She can bloody up Obama, per Rush Limbaugh's instructions, but it doesn't change the fact that she will never be the nominee...not now, not 2012, nor 2016. She's done, and may not even hold her Senate seat.

If she doesn't stfu people will start demanding she drop out of the race again. Eff her.

you have to get any kind of air time you can get on the cheap.

She debates Mike Gravel first.

Both are out of the running, so it seems only fair for her demands to be met by meeting Gravel's identical arguments.

Then, lets see if Hillary wants to debate.

If her idea of a "debate" is a one-sided smear show with loaded questions, she can forget it.

Debating with Hillary is a waste of useful time. She is irrelevant and just wants to drag Obama into the mud where she's been living for a while now.

it just proves that there is no God. On the other hand, if the debate moderators are going to ask questions that have some relevance to the issues, it may be okay.

we could have Bill Clinton himself moderate this one instead of his former employee.

KO

Maddow

Chomsky

Chris Rock