Clinton Beats Blitzer in CNN Debate

[helderheid]

June 4th, 2007

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=201801">The Nation

Maybe the Democratic presidential candidates should rethink their decision not to debate on the Fox New Channel. It couldn’t be worse than the theater of the absurd CNN organized Sunday night at New Hampshire’s St. Anselm College – which, it should be noted, was co-sponsored by an even more aggressively conservative media outlet than Fox: the rabidly right-wing Manchester Union-Leader newspaper.

The second major debate between the eight Democrats who would be president broke little new ground. In fairness, that wasn’t CNN’s fault. It’s still too early for the candidates to stray from their talking points; that won’t happen until the desperate days of the late fall and early winter when contenders who recognize that the keys to the Oval Office are slipping from their grasp decide to go for broke.

So Sunday’s debate was, for the most part, a dull dance.

Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards repeated appropriate criticisms of his fellow frontrunners, New York Senator Hillary Clinton ☼ and Illinois Senator Barack Obama ☼, for failing to take a leadership role in opposing the war in Iraq – while Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich and Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd tried to get some attention for the fact that they actually been outspoken in their opposition to giving President Bush another blank check to pursue his war of whim.

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[rodeodance]

1. You go gal. She did take charge last night.

[whistle]

2. Wolf Blitzer is a putz and a total neocon sellout, the worst possible

.....pick for being an objective moderator of any political debate.

[Captain Hilts]

4. Look, just because he worked for AIPAC and the Jerusalem Post.....nt

[whistle]

10. Yes anf your point is....?

[madrchsod]

3. why did i waste my time? oh wait ,i did`t watch

the "sopranos" were far more entertaining

[MadBadger]

5. Sopranos were on after the debate

Just pointing out. Cuz I watched it too.

[madrchsod]

7. goes to show ya how much i cared or how old i`m getting..

but i`m not sure which?

[EmmitFitzhume]

8. same here

I tried, I truly did, but that lasted all of five minutes. I'm on the east coast so didn't have to tune out to catch the Sporanos, but I'm thrilled I did given the terrible quality of the audio feed coupled with the unusual camera angles and brilliant post-debate coverage from Larry King. I got all I needed from watching clips online this morning.

Between the debate last night and the previous one on MSNBC I have to ask how hard is it to run an organized and fair debate where everyone gets a chance. This early in the game there is no excuse to blatantly cater to the front-runners.

[NastyRiffraff]

6. Good for her

I'm not a Hillary supporter, but her leadership on calling out Wolf on his juvenile "raise your hands" questions impressed me. It also rallied all the candidates on the issue. You could tell that she was irritated at Wolf's little games. So were the other candidates, but she was the one who made an issue of it, as well she should have.

[monmouth]

9. She also received a hearty applause from the audience, must have made her night...n/t