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Originally Posted by Strangelet
hmmph can you believe this horse shit?
45 minutes of a 90 minute debate focused on bitter-gate jeremiah wright and the weather underground? what a fucking hit job.
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Well I didn't realize until I just now read it, but one of the moderators, George Stephanopoulos, was a former Clinton staffer. He
"helped run Mr Clinton's 1992 election campaign and acted as his press secretary and advisor on policy and strategy before joining the ABC"
But aside from that, I think the hit-job approach may have backfired. For one, Obama consistantly steered his answers back to actual policy, while Hillary was on endless attack mode....and it culminated with Obama calling her out on her hubby's pardons of terrorists when he was President. That seemed to shut her up.
And more importantly, Hillary was backed into a corner where she finally had to admit to the world that "yes, yes, yes", Obama can beat McCain in the general election. Claiming that he couldn't win was the previous centerpiece of her argument against him to superdelegates, and more indirectly to the remaining voters. She can't use that argument anymore without being called out as a liar at a time when voters have already overwhelmingly concluded that she's not trustworthy. I'd say she shot herself in the foot with a shotgun on that one.
I think the debate ended up making Hillary look petty and negative, while Obama remained relatively steady. There was focus on Obama's controversies, but those controversies have proven through polls to not hurt him. He could afford to maintain a status quo there....although hopefully since so many people watched the debate, some have had their questions about him answered and can move on from stories about Reverend Wright and "bitterness".