Questioner whose question started the Obama-Clinton verbal battle says...

[Larkspur]

that he liked Obama's answer and that Hillary misconstrued what he meant by "preconditions".

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Stephen Speaks

After a week of escalating post-debate rhetoric from Hillary and Obama over meeting with dictators, Bush-Cheney lite, naivete and irresponsibility, we thought it would be worth finding out what the guy who asked the question that started it all thought.

So we called Stephen Sixta, the 59-year-old California video producer who asked on YouTube about the candidates' willingness to meet with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Cuba, N. Korea and Venezuela. He said it's been pretty much "surreal" to spend the last week hearing the question he wrote repeated in some kind of endless loop by everyone from Wolf Blitzer to Rush Limbaugh.

His bottom line: He liked Obama's answer, and he thought Hillary misconstrued what he meant by "preconditions" in acting like Obama had agreed to meet Fidel and Chavez with no diplomatic groundwork whatsoever. He said his question just meant there shouldn't be a requirement of a change in a country's behavior as a condition of talking to them.

"My question had something I wanted my government to achieve. I wanted my country to go out and speak to countries we don't speak to," Sixta said. "When the attacks started on Obama they were attacks on my question and what I wanted. They made me feel bad."

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[liberalnurse]

1. It does not matter..........it's benign.

As long as our Great Democrats dominate the media with active discussion of issues....the Party benefits. We shut out the repugs.

[illinoisprogressive]

2. Hillary changed the word in the debate from willing to promise. one word

[IndianaGreen]

4. That's Slick Hil for ya!

She will do the same slick shit when she is in the White House.

We can do better than that!

[davidwparker]

3. I like Obama's answer myself. It's better to meet with someone across the

table rather than have armies meet across the battlefield. It's a sign of strength to make the first move.