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My God Hillary was good, very good, yep she is ready America, as a male I am very much in favor of her leading this great country of ours.

and a brief word about the stupid questions ...

ABC stands for garbage, looked like a game show and the gop snipe machine is getting real real old. who do they think we are children , clearly far from substance and meaty on yellow journalism national enquirer gossip crap.

He had trouble even speaking in generalities.  He practically circumnavigated the eaerth to come up with a simple yes or no answer.

Call ABC and tell them you were happy with their professional coverage and moderating of tonight's debate.

The number:

1-818-560-1000

I just got off the phone with a woman there. I explained to her why she is receiving so many negative calls (Someone posted ABC's number over at The Great Orange Satan's and now it's on the rec list), that I loved the debate, etc. She had no idea about Markos's site, but she now is going to look into this and spread the word around the Disney offices.

We must get this message to them and support them now. Please help. They are being deluged with calls from Obama people.

This is the kind of tactic we have seen throughout  the campaign. If you care to help balance things out, please act now.

Thanks,

1. The board they both sat on was an anti-poverty board in Chicago. I guess it's a matter of caring who is on the board or trying to help poor people.

2. The attacks Ayers group were responsible for were between 1970 and 1974. Obama was probably not even to puberty yet.

3. They cant be too good of friends, Ayers has donated a whopping $200 to Obamas campaign. Ayers is a distinguished professor now who makes a considerable salary.

4. Ayers was never convicted of anything. It's hard to argue his group wasn't basically a terrorist organization though. I guess the question is whether it's better to sit on an anti-poverty board with one of them, or to commute the sentences of two of them (as Bill did).

It only lasted a moment on the live feed, but she said something like, "But, he never had any highlights!"

I thought he handled the gotcha questions quite well.  He even managed to insert Hillary's cookie-baking statement into an answer (quite slickly done).

I agree that 90% of the questions, as in all the previous 20+ debates, were of the gotcha, feel good, etc. type which don't require that the questioners (they can't possibly be called journalists) know anything about anything.

I'm a Hillary supporter who thinks Obama can't beat McCain and could go down in flames.  But I think it was 50/50 tonight.

YOU. HAVE. TO. ADDRESS. YOUR. SCANDALS. AS. A. PRESIDENTIAL. CANDIDATE. Obama really hasn't had to.  The media hands him a pillow, he writes and reads a fluffy speech and the scandal goes away.

Because there are no facts, there is no truth, Just data to be manipulated

Most of those hypnotized by Obama never saw the unfairness to HRC. They only see what happened to their guy.

This may, in the end, hurt Hillary!

He's just now receiving the abuse that edwards and clinton were forced to suffer at the hands of Russert and Matthews.

Obama's had soft serve after soft serve and HELLO now he's the presumtive nominee the media gut him.

Considering that there had not been a `debate' since the Wright controversy or the `gaffe' - I suppose that it probably wouldn't have started out much differently had any other network had hosted this debate. NBC's last couple of debates were somewhat pathetic too.

The capital gains issue is interesting because that does speak to the issue of taxation fairness and it does seem extremely unfair that someone making their living trading stocks/hedge funds pays 15% on their income whereas the bulk of American's pay over 30% on their wages.

Watching Obama equivocate and ultimately fail to step into the footprints that he had made earlier about a substantial increase on capital gains taxes was rather disappointing. I was glad to see that line of questioning myself.

WWJED (What Would John Edwards Do?)

Raise the tax rate on capital gains to 28 percent for the most fortunate taxpayers - taxing the investment income of the wealthiest Americans similarly to the wages of the middle class.

Hillary - a little less clear but committed to raising the capital gains tax...

Restore fairness to the tax system. Hillary will return to the income tax rates for upper-income Americans that we had in the 1990s - rates that were consistent with a balanced budget and economic growth. She will level the playing field when it comes to taxing the income earned in investment partnerships. Right now, some Wall Street investment managers making $50 million a year could pay just 15% on their earned income - while someone making $50,000 a year pays 25%.

Obama - ??? - I simply couldn't find any reference to `capital gains' on his web site including the ObamaPolicy_Fiscal.pdf. Apparently Obama had a `Tax Fairness Plan' last September but it seems to have vanished but it is referenced in the NYT here.

ABC embarrassed CNN & MSNBC tonight, and made Saturday Night Live look dead-on with its parodies of those two networks' debates.

Tonight, Charles Gibson and George Stephanopolus showed Campbell Brown, Anderson Cooper, Tim Russert and Brian Williams how a professional moderator conducts him- or herself.

No fawning. No stilted questioning. Clinton was asked about Bosnia. Obama was asked about BitterGate. Clinton was asked about her position on guns during her NY Senate fun. Obama was asked about Jeremiah Wright. Clinton was asked about saying Obama would be crushed. Obama was asked about wearing a flag pin.

I give you AND your opponent real questions. This is how it's supposed to be done.

Many have been waiting for this moment and had given up hope that it would occur. All we wanted was a level playing field, and tonight we finally had it.

The result: Obama was reduced to trite 'change/hope'-type lines and Clinton shone brightly. Obama even tried repeatedly chiding the moderators because it works so well with other media. But George and Charles were determined to be professionals, and professionals they were.

For now, just a heartfelt thanks to ABC for a magnificent job done.

The lace factory in scranton should be an ad.

This should be an ad.

Maybe now that Penn's not around they can do something smart and original.

• though he may not be all that left, he's still light years ahead of McCain
  
• that he's still a Democrat
  
• we can't have McCain picking any judges for SCOTUS
  
• we can't have more Bush economics
  
• we do need to get out of Iraq

The Obamabots are flooding them with negatives...

Nobody in the Obama camp stuck up for Hillary during the stream of malicious debates (BTD excluded from this of course).

It is my hope that all of this passion will translate into a landslide victory for whoever wins the democratic primary because if you think and Obama or a Clinton presidency will be bad imagine four years of McCain.

Personally I favor Obama because he did not give the neocons carte blanche to ravage Iraq and create millions of families who have absolutely every reason to despise this government and the people with no guts to reign it in. This lapse in Clinton's "leadership" is enough for me to give the new guy a chance. We could debate the guilt by association arguments thrown at Obama but juxtapose them with Clinton's enabling vote to get us into a war that now costs us 300 million each day and they pale in comparison.

Shows you how the Obama supporters are handling tonight's butt kicking.

You go, girl!

anyway while I was listening to the VP dual ticket issue, I checked the betting markets, to see if VP odds were up.  

The management and owners of Big Media apparently have decreed that there shall be no substantive issues on TV unless they are so hot that they will sell tons of deodorant and barrels of beer.