Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Democratic Debate-2/26

Last night was hopefully the last of 20 democratic debates, and of course it was between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Though I am biased toward Obama, I try and watch as if I am not.
Going into this debate, Barack is slowly catching up in Ohio, and now winning in Texas. Hillary needs to win by 20 percent in both states to be able to get the nomination. Hillary Clinton needed to WOW the audience last night and really prove that she would be a better canidate then Barack for the presidency, and all Barack really needed to do was just hang on. Well Hillary did not do any wow-ing.
When Hillary really started to irretate me was when Tim Russert was asking her about the war. I love Tim Russert. He asked both canidates about there willingness to pull the troops out of Iraq, but leave some for some protection. They both said they wanted to do that. He then asked what they would do if Iraq said, "Well, if you are not going to leave them all we want you out completely." would they do it. Both of them said probley yeah. Then he asked Hillary about what if then the bad guys in Iraq came back, would you send troops back to help out. Instead of saying yes or no, she argued with Russert about the fact that the question was hypothetical. But isn't that what these debates are for: hypothetical acts of the future. The fact that we could have universal healthcare is hypothetical. You can have all the plans in the world, and they have since the 40's, but there is a chance it might not get of the ground. If she is not ready now to make a decision, is she going to be ready when the time comes? Will she really ready to answer the 3 AM phone call?
Now Hillary camparing Barack to George W. is the stupidist thing. Thats how far she has sunk. She says negative things about him all the time, but when he puts out a flyer with citings of real events, she yells "Shame on you!" Give me a break.
Over all I do feel Barack did better in the debate, solelly because he didn't really make any flip-ups. He said he ideas and defended them. Hillary just couldn't make any ground.

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