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Saturday, January 05, 2008 - Posts
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Gibson gives each candidate a chance to take back a remark they made during the campaign. Hillary and Obama dodge. Edwards takes back his comment about Hillary's jacket. But Richardson delivers a genuinely sweet moment of self-deprecation: "We were asked Read More...
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“Words are not actions. As passionately felt as they are, they are not actions. We have to turn passion into action, and feeling into reality.” That’s the case against Obama, distilled. Hillary is not appealing while on the offensive -- at least that's Read More...
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Almost all of the hawkish Republican candidates have skirted questions about what they’d do in Iraq by saying they’d defer to their generals. It lets them avoid the sticky details while vaguely committing themselves to the war effort. So Gibson confronts Read More...
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Oh here we go. Gibson asks Hillary: What does Obama need to be vetted on? Hillary dives in, charging Obama with “having a pretty good debate with himself” on the subject of health care. He first supported a single payer system, she says -- now he has Read More...
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And Sen. Clinton is speaking for the first time. And boy does she take her time. Responding to Gibson's question about what she would do if she had actionable intelligence about terrorists operating in Pakistan, she gives a five-part answer. She would Read More...
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Remember a few months ago when the Republicans spent an entire debate slamming Hillary Clinton? ABC sets this up as the Obama debate with a great question: Why not Barack Obama? The candidates cite his health care plan, his lack of experience, etc. Only Read More...
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Romney was asking for it. Look at the set-up he gave his opponents: “And when we sit down and talk about change, I’ll say not only can I talk about change, I’ve lived it.” John McCain can’t resist: “Gov. Romney, we disagree on a lot of issues, but I agree Read More...
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Romney is bearing the brunt of just about every attack tonight. His only breather was when he and Giuliani got to tag-team Ron Paul on foreign policy. The reason this keeps happening, a friend points out, is that Romney is the most unsympathetic person Read More...
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Rudy Giuliani: We have the best health care in the world. People come from around the world to get treated in America. Ron Paul: Americans are actually going to India to get heart surgery for half price. Maybe they just run in different circles. Read More...
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What is Thompson thinking? In his first soliloquy, he gives a disquisition on how Cold War foreign policy led to the theory of preemption. Now he’s going on about how the Bill of Rights informs his world view. I’m trying to picture the strategy session Read More...
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The candidates are sitting around a semicircular table. Looks more like an academic panel than a presidential debate. On the upside, it means no silly WCW-style entrances. The first question – "Would you run on George W. Bush’s foreign policy or run away Read More...
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Dennis Kucinich has been griping non-stop -- and even filed an FCC complaint -- after getting shut out of tonight's ABC News/Facebook/WMUR debate in Manchester, NH. The organizers are allowing the top four Democratic candidates -- Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Read More...
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