Comments on: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Biden, Dodd, Kuch, Gravel New Hampshire Debate

By: kitforhill

kitforhill — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:27:40 +0000

I too loved that great comeback from Hillary – slap down Russert. What a creep this guy is. Both Mathews and Russert showed their sexist stripes last night. Russert was sweating after the debate – what a putz. I thought Dodd and Biden were most aggressive against Clinton. If Dodd says “here” one more time at the end of his statement I am going to gag. Biden for the first time went after Hillary several times. And I agree – Obama was barely present, and he copies what Hillary says all the time. Hillary was dead on on the Social Security debate…it IS about our government’s fiscal health. Russert has bought into the GOP meme, as is some other candidate, on trying to take the teeth out of the social security program. The governement needs to do whatever possible to support this program – if it were a priority it would be just fine and solvent. The GOP has always wanted to kill it.

By: Mrs. Smith

Mrs. Smith — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:30:15 +0000

Sparks are going to fly this week! The Big Dog is on a tear! (can hardly blame him for that!)

Timmy, all I can say to you is: “You’re ASS is GRASS”!

Mrs. S.

By: terrondt

terrondt — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:34:56 +0000

good morning guys, i read your reviews and now im going to watch the debate. later.

By: Gorto

Gorto — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:15:03 +0000

hmm, you just read my mind/feelings better than I did!!
Thank you very much for so effectively describing exactly what I failed but had hoped to do.

It’s so true as you describe it, and I believe many women will resonate with Hillary and her response.

Tim and the media in general hold Hillary to a different standard, by trying to link Hill and Bill in every way, not really trying to separate them even on policy opinions. I think her initial look says this, when Tim said it was said by William Jefferson Clinton, her eyebrows went up, as in a: “So?, what’s it got to do with me?” kind of a way… But of course I loved her response coming after that!

By: admin

admin — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:48:11 +0000

Gorto, think of going to one of those old steakhouse type restaurants where the man at the table gets the check and is given the wine cork to sniff to approve the bottle of wine even if he is at the table as the assistant to the woman boss. The reaction from the woman boss is the same as Hillary had tonight. A single mother asked where the husband is by car salesmen also has the same reaction as Hillary did tonight. Woman at garages and belittled by mechanics asking where the man is felt what Hillary must have felt.

The women in Russert’s life need to have a long talk with Russert after waterboarding him and applying all other sorts of appropriate tortures – none of it state sponsored or legal.

By: Gorto

Gorto — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:38:37 +0000

Admin I love that clip of Bill, I only wish Hillary had been the one going so forcefully out against the republicans, the Dems had an excellent case.
They could have easily ignored ‘the ad’ and rather gone right after the repugs for wanting to play politics.

Bill very effectively, and forcefully here went after the republicans hypocrisy on this issue. She could have strongly showed shes a leader by going after them. It would have been hard for the other dems to not follow her, even tho she is an opponent in this race.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:38:01 +0000

BV, we wrote earlier in the evening about the likelihood that when Obama bombed yet again his campaign would employ the schoolboy excuse of ‘I didn’t feel so good teacher’. In this the Obama campaign did not disappoint – their new strategy is preemptive excuses. What will the excuse for the next debate be? I overslept?

By: Gorto

Gorto — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:43:47 +0000

One of the reasons I loved ‘The Moment’ as hillaryhub promptly named it.
Was because I bet you there were a lot of women/wifes out there watching her comeback reply, and thinking they’ve done that same thing….*how do I phrase it to come across as I mean*, put their man in place.
You can almost see that hand, waving in the air with an attitude as she says it, hehe, I’m not sure how I can explain it, just trying to say that I think women could relate that Hillary moment with something similar they’ve done/said in their lives with regards to ‘their man’.

Anyways, I’ve SOO downloaded that clip, this is one to keep!

By: hwc

hwc — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:34:24 +0000

The state department official who blew the whistle on the Bush torture policy dealt with this hypothetical.

He said that, in that hypothetical, he would use torture. But, he would want it to be illegal so that he would only use it knowing that he would go to jail for it. That way, he could make still make a decision that torture was warranted by specific facts, but the bar for that decision would be would be very high.

As a practical matter, we’ve gotten nothing of any value from the terrorists we have tortured the hell out of. They just tell us anything we want to hear and most of it is just nonsense. Officially sanctioning torture as a matter of policy is a horrible mistake.

By: Berkeley Vox

Berkeley Vox — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:32:42 +0000

Hillary was solid and poised all night tonight. Meanwhile, Obama wasn’t big enough for the stage. From Politico:

“Meanwhile Clinton’s other leading rival, Obama, seemed almost to vanish for much of the late-evening debate. He ignored the advice of pundits to confront Clinton, delivering just one careful criticism of her having run an overly closed health care reform process in 1993.

Aides, when asked, said the candidate had a cold.”