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Welcome to the National Constitutional Center in Philadelphia. The camera pans around the room. It’s tiny! Looks kind of like a Disney ride—one of those magic motion machines. Hopefully the seats rock back and forth and water squirts on the audience. Read More...
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Part three of the Clinton vs. Obama debate-a-thon airs tonight (9 p.m., MSNBC), and it’s being billed as the last, final, ultimate one-on-one showdown ever, forever … until Hillary steamrolls Obama in Ohio, and we do it all over again. But the past week Read More...
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Last week, Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle ( RIP ) sent the Obama campaign a letter throwing down the gauntlet and challenging Barack Obama to a debate a week—a sort of Lincoln-Douglas series that would either captivate America or bore it to Read More...
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The candidates get to ask each other the questions—how cute. Yet not even Q&A sessions can spruce up this snoozer of a debate. Here's who asked whom what, and why: Romney asks Giuliani about China: Look how far we've come since autumn, when Romney Read More...
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Has anybody else noticed that the majority of the debates have had awful sound quality? Tonight's is no different, with a constant, hollow echo sound whenever anybody speaks. It's especially bad when they go out into the audience. I may be wrong, but Read More...
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And we're back at yet another of these powwows. Thus far co-moderator Tim Russert has tried to play Gotcha with McCain, Huckabee, and Romney, yet none has taken the bait. Russert seems consumed with trying to get the candidates to say they don't trust Read More...
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A few months back, the Republicans all made their cases by saying they were the best candidates to beat Hillary. Now the Dems are talking the same way about McCain. “It’s becoming increasingly likely that John McCain is the Republican candidate,” John Read More...
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What could have been an incredibly awkward moment somehow isn’t. The question is for Obama: “Do you think Bill Clinton was our first black president?” Obama handles it with poise: “I think that Bill Clinton did have—still has—an enormous affinity with Read More...
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After spending the first half shivving Obama in the back, Edwards tries to make a joke about Obama's vocal tic of repeating lines. It falls sort of flat. For a second, I worry it could become Edwards' second pink jacket moment. But Obama saves the moment Read More...
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Obama is stuck in the middle in more ways than one. Neither Clinton nor Edwards is buying his claim that his health care plan is superior to their proposals for universal coverage. Edwards compares Obama’s attitude toward health care to George W. Bush’s Read More...
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These two lines seem to sum up the current two-way Enemy at the Gates -style sniping duel: Hillary tells Obama: “You never take responsibility for any vote.” Obama counters: “It’s important that people aren’t willing to say anything just to get elected.” Read More...
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The past four minutes have seen some of the biggest slams in the race so far. The question was about fiscal responsibility, but the answers quickly devolved into an exchange over what Obama meant when he said Republicans were the party of ideas in recent Read More...
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Wolf Blitzer promises that this debate will be “about the issues.” Is that a slam on MSNBC for last week? In practice, that apparently means a loosey goosy debate format. In the first half, time limits are more guidelines than rules. In the second half, Read More...
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Today's debate has a lot hanging over it: Today's market crash, major squabbles of the past week, plus the race issue, which gets extra emphasis seeing as it's MLK's birf. Speaking of which, how many people want to watch a debate on their day off? CNN's Read More...
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The decision to let the candidates ask each other questions — risky, by cable-network standards — was probably the best part of the debate. For one, it led to some of the most substantive exchanges of the night: Edwards asked Obama about lobbyist money. Read More...
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Obama gets the first (and probably the last) sincere laugh of the the night. A moderator asks: Is there a history of Hispanics not voting for black candidates? "Not in Illinois," says Obama. "They voted for me." It gets laughs, but it also serves a purpose: Read More...
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John Edwards answers each question as if he'd been asked, Sen. Edwards, can you please recite a few of your talking points on Subject X for us? Brian Williams asks, "What’s the problem with English as an official language?" Edwards takes a few minutes Read More...
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All three candidates agree to enforce the law that cuts off federal funding for schools that don't offer ROTC programs. In their answers, Obama and Clinton take a few minutes to praise soldiers serving in Iraq. Edwards turns his answer toward veterans' Read More...
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Here comes the good part. (Fingers crossed.) NBC has decided to let the candidates ask each other two questions--wait, says Brian Williams, make that one question. (So this is why they didn't let Kucinich in — it would have taken too long.) Sounds like Read More...
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We've moved on from the Awkward, Useless Questions segment to the Economy segment. All the candidates talk about how they'd cut down on foreign ownership. Edwards points to how this trend hurts the middle class more than the wealthiest. Hillary says she'd Read More...
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