Thursday, April 17, 2008

Clinton and Obama Lock in Iraq Positions during Pennsylvania Debate Wednesday Night

During April 16th Pennsylvania Debate, both Democrats left little room for changing their minds on Iraq
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USNews.com brings us this report today and it goes in part like this... Both said they would begin withdrawals of U.S. troops soon after taking office and would move quickly to end the war. They didn't leave themselves much room to change their minds even if the military situation were altered or U.S. commanders gave a different recommendation. This could make it more difficult for each of them to be flexible during the general-election campaign and, more important, as commander in chief... "Only through our commitment to withdraw will the Iraqis begin to do what they have failed to do all of these years," Clinton said. "We don't know what will happen if we withdraw. We know what won't happen if we don't." Obama said, "The president sets the mission. The generals and our troops carry out that mission."...

Read this report in full HERE

* LA Times Blog Website has this bit of sounding off. It starts off like this... Amid a storm of criticism that Wednesday’s Democratic presidential debate focused too heavily on “gotcha” questions and not enough on substance, ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos defended his decision to ask Illinois Sen. Barack Obama about his relationship with former political radical William Ayers. Stephanopoulos denied he’d been spoon-fed the question by Fox News host Sean Hannity...
Read the rest at link below...
Stephanopoulos defends his questions to Obama
(Got to love it!)

* Boston.com
reports...
ABC's Democratic debate from Philadelphia is getting panned in many quarters, but it did draw more viewers than any debate of the campaign... Nielsen Media Research reported that nearly 11 million viewers tuned in for the first weeknight, primetime forum on a broadcast network...Many of those who watched, particularly supporters of Barack Obama, were horrified, however. Commenters lit up blogs to say the debate was dominated by petty issues; some said it was the worst debate ever...
Read the rest below...
Debate rages over the debate

* Voices.KansasCity.com...
Obama won the debate (wait, Clinton won)

Photos from Candidates websites

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