Reply #66: Exactly: "Neither candidate disputed what has been reported." [View All]

[DemBones DemBones]

They couldn't dispute it since it's on videotape.

Even those who buy Edwards's explanation that they were talking about smaller debates, not eliminating candidates, need to wake up and realize the unfairness of dividing the candidates into two or three groups for debates.

We've already seen that once, when CNN gave Clinton, Edwards, and Obama to be asked about their religious views and a half hour for Biden, Dodd, Kucinich, and Richardson.

Of course "the top tier" aired first, getting across the message that the media keeps pushing: these are the candidates who count. Ignore those other guys. It effectively eliminates the other guys. The media has been pimping the "top tier" for months, years for Hillary.

The Clinton-Edwards discussion doesn't pass the smell test and those who support Obama should be very concerned.

Watch the tape and notice how HC and JE barely glanced at Obama or Kucinich while Hillary said "Thanks, Barack," "Thanks, Dennis." JE shook their hands, didn't seem to say anything, probably because Hillary was talking to him and inserted her brief recognition Obama and Kucinich in the midst of saying to JE that they had to get together, obviously for further discussion of how they would get the networks to do what they want for the debates. JE was listening to her, not paying attention to Obama or Kucinich.

If HRC gets the nomination, she'll pick JE for VP because he's a Southerner and she knows she'd have to win some of the Southern states to win the election. She won't pick BO because he is black. Only half-black, really, but seen as black, and that would cost her some votes in every state, including blue states like California, New York, and Massachusetts. CA and NY have GOP governors so they have a fair share of conservative voters. There will be people everywhere who won't vote for a woman, as well as people who won't vote for THIS woman, so she can't afford to lose people who might vote for her but won't vote for a black. All our presidents and VPs have been white men so who knows if the voters will go for a woman or a black in 2008?