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'Gotcha' Debate

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Sen. Obama puts a fine point on last nights galactic waste of time and efforts.
eldamon

20 responses // 'Gotcha' Debate

  • Once again, Obama's razor sharp judgement nails another one on the head. Obama 08!
    phoenix_fire999
  • It was not a debate.

    I'm still trying to figure out what Hillary wanted with that 9/11 comment. That Obama somehow likes those who did it? Or what?
    stardate
  • It wasn't a policy discussion between two Presidential candidates, but a series of baseless accustations and dark innuendos.

    But I did love the theater involved.

    There is Charles looking grim and serious, like a Prosecutor cross examining a child molester before a jury, asking Obama:

    "Sen. Obama when you were 15 years old you once rode a public bus with a man who, 10 years later, raped and murdered a woman in another state. Why is it you have never publically denounced that man or his actions? And as a brief follow-up please explain why you hate America so much."

    Subtle!

    Doesn't take much to be a journalist, does it?

    Asking dumb questions doesn't bother me -- the fact that those two idiots get to drive home to their mansions and count their millions of dollars pisses me off. I'm bitter

    :-(

    We -- all of us here commenting on Current! -- are all much smarter than those two jokers. So where the hell is our big paychecks and special backstage passes to speak with the candidates?

    (grumble, grumble)
    crob80227
  • Hear me O Gods of Current -- maybe that could be a special prize handed out to those lucky few who earn all their merit badge points! A special sit down interveiw with Obama.

    Or cash.

    Capital One won't stop calling me to discuss a "urgent financial matter" so I vote for the cash.
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    crob80227
  • You know... as a journalist, I thought I'd be irritated about the generalizations made about journalists... But I just got out of my cross journalism class (the class where they teach us to be PC), and I fear for the future of my industry. Journalists have to snap out of the horse race mentality, but consumers have to stop buying into it as well. While websites like YouTube, Facebook and Current are revolutionizing the industry, it's also playing up stupid little one second mistakes instead of the issues people actually care about.
    MEKColeman
  • Battlestar is back, the NBA playoffs are going to be CRAZY AND it's a presidential election?? Ha, seriously, just vote and you'll be doing your civic duty and you'll feel good about yourself for a long time. Let's get this done folks...
    AreOh
  • "Why would anyone want a president like that?"

    Because when all is said and done, no one want's their mother for President.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • Then why did he show up? He shows up, gets his own licks in, then complains because he knows people were annoyed with the questions asked? Kind of late for him to be seeing what the MSM is all about after playing them all these months, no? If he believed it was a farce (which every debate actually has been as well) why didn't he just take his mic off and walk off?
    JanforGore
  • I've resized your huge photo to make it fit snugly in Current and am hosting it on my ImageShack account. Click on "edit" for your article, click on "other media", click on "from elsewhere", then copy/paste the url below into the appropriate box, click on "process", then click on "ok", and voila! One shouldn't post huge images here, they only mess up.

    http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/6437/obamaflagalexwo...
    Vierotchka
  • "No one wants their mother for President."

    I wouldn't have minded my mother as president. She would have been a hell of a lot better than half the corrupt men who have done it. And people say sexism doesn't exist in this race?
    JanforGore
  • Guilty.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • Ask for a current.com debate! We want Obama, Clinton, Nader, and McCain being asked our questions. Real questions!
    jkateel
  • Covering that debate last night I kept waiting for george stephanopoulos to ask if Obama was shamed about not brushing his teeth three times a day.
    StuntBunny
  • jkateel: That would be great. Then those who voted for it could explain why they voted for the Bush-Cheney Energy Bill that gave more subsidies to the nuclear, ethanol, and oil companies while touting they were for the planet.
    JanforGore
  • JanforGore, good question. I want to ask McCain, why, when he touts foreign policy as his strength, he can't figure who's who in Iraq.

    Actually, I'll ask everyone one that. But mostly it's on McCain.
    jkateel
  • Boy do I miss Ted Koppel and Peter Jennings.
    marcozarco
  • Well, we learned something from last nights debate.

    Obama repeated his "different kind of politics". But apparently he only likes to claim that, not do.

    ...because as he's complaining about negative questions and gotcha's, he picked back up his mantel of negative and false attacking-a fellow democrat on top. Which he has been doing since Iowa.

    He has reprised the NAFTA attack mailer that was refuted by Newsday, because he was using their quotes, making it seem like Clintons.

    http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/4/17/212321/172

    And I guess we can expect to see the Republican mailer he used in California to attack Hillary on her Universal Health Care again for probably North Carolina.

    http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/obama-does-...

    So sad to see you dirty negative campaigning Obama. Cry foul and turn around and use lies to attack your rival.
    liberaldemocrat
  • liberal democrat: Sounds like he only cries foul about the media when the questions get too hot for him about personal associations. How many debates have they had so far that were total cr** regarding issues that people including myself have been complaining about? Where was he? I didn't see him complaining then. I didn't see him defend Hilary Clinton when Randi Rhodes called her a F****ing Whore while his campaign defended McCain not being a warmonger. Which is why I find it hard to believe he is now sincere about this. He seems to go the way the wind blows as well. To me, if you know it is all a farce say it from the beginning and refuse to be a part of it. Otherwise it only looks now like either pandering or trying to cover something up. The bottomline is that yes, the MSM is continuing to do what it always does, so why give it credence? It sure suited him when he wanted to give a "speech."
    JanforGore
  • JanforGore,
    I think we can all agree Sen. Obama has run a different type of campaign then anything we've ever seen before. In fact he's actually set records so it's a foregone conclusion at this point. Of all the candidates in either party how much time and effort have you witnessed Sen. Obama put into the standard 'gotcha' Rove style political game? I'm not claiming he has completely forgone the practice but you can arguably say it has been rare and generally in self defense.

    Flag pins and guilt by association are old school relics of time when one could be detrimentally painted a Commy or Red just by being in the same room with a known Communist sympathizer. That ridiculous mentality is what gave us seven plus years of W and the gang and its time as clearly passed.

    Although some get a little wrapped up in the hype and see Sen. Obama as some sort of messiah he is after all another politician. The saving grace is he's taken politics to a new higher level. Instead of wasting time with flag pins and fake sniper fire he wanted to debate health care and the economy. Unfortunately he was to hip for the room as everyone else wanted to play Fox News/TMZ and waste a lot of time.
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    eldamon
  • http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/20080415/Cartoon20...
    he he
    critter

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