I don't disagree completely with you but I still don't trust Obama. Not all republicans are supportive of Obama. They don't want Hillary because she is a stronger adversary than Obama. He has too many secrets and skeletons that makes him a liability not a credit. Plus he could not win the states which win the White House. She has 8 to his 2 possibly 3. That is a huge statement for the superdelegates. Primaries not caucuses wins the general elections. Our election will pretty much be done by the time it hits the Midwest.
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A Political Rerun
The 21st Obama-Clinton debate was just more of the same.
Apr 17, 2008 | Updated: 12:30 a.m. ET Apr 17, 2008
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that after more than 20 debates between the leading Democrats, both candidates are exhausted and have exhausted every conceivable debate question. That the debate format is itself a televised form of tyranny that has crushed the imagination of political junkies and TV producers across the nation.
So it was in Philadelphia for the 21st debate of this nomination contest, where Pennsylvania's voters have surely earned the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness after five weeks of endless political ads and candidates on bus tours.
How exhausted is the debate format? ABC's producers were so desperate for new ideas they resorted to quoting sections of the Constitution after every commercial break. (The first ad break came only three minutes into the debate, suggesting that ABC was more interested in generating revenue than reviving interest in the founding clauses of the nation.)
The candidates quickly got down to business. Barack Obama needed to address his comments about the bitterness felt in small-town America, which he did in his opening remarks, saying the country was both decent and frustrated. Hillary Clinton needed to keep the small-town flap alive, so—a few minutes later—she talked about a country that was both positive and frustrated. In its third century of existence, a frustrated America is still engaged in the pursuit of happiness.
When faced with their first real question, neither candidate wanted to answer—a rare moment of silence that revealed more about the relationship between the two senators than did 90 minutes of predictable "gotcha" questions and telegraphed swipes between the candidates.
Why not take one another for veep, in line with the suggestion by Mario Cuomo, asked moderator Charlie Gibson? Both candidates stared out at the audience with forced smiles. "Don't all speak at once," Gibson quipped.
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