He keeps hurling these charges against Clinton, and then cutting her off from responding to Obama's charges. Why is she being double teamed?

As an Obama supporter, I couldn't agree more.

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Oh man, you have me laughing out loud.

for this guerrilla force.

just cause im a dem, don't mean i aint strapped with heat bitches.

and Obama lost the opportunity, given to him, to reject any association with Farakhan. And reason is very simple: Obama wants badly to keep hold on race-motivated black votes. Can you handle the truth?

it gives Obama air time, and allows him to answer really well

Which Cobra Commander though?  

Happens to me all the time in debate and election night threads.  Don't sweat it, it only lasts a few minutes.

Whatever- like she said, she's a little busy at the moment. She has until April like you and I.

And Russert's question was asinine- release your tax return so that we can see who is "bankrolling your campaign...." Jackass- what is he trying to say?

I thought her answer was fairly good there.

Of course she would have to go to that storage cabinet in her attic to get out the return, and she's just too busy to do so -- give me a break!  Too busy?  Like she doesn't have People to do it for her?

I'll support you. You can still do the jail time, however.

Me, too! I will vote for any candidate who throws the first punch to Tim Russert.

Well its not like they're in anyway linked to a computer savvy company.

Hmmm... well.. maybe Obama feared she might be.

That was too nitpicky by Hillary.  It gave Obama a softball to take a swing at.

And then let's bludgeon him with a large club!

I have to say that the denounce vs. reject thing was pretty silly.

not to the jewish community

Nah, Obama does like to tippy-toe around stuff when it's a lot easier to say "I don't want to have anything to do with Farrakhan and I don't want his endorsement."  

nope -- Jewish community remembers her for that SPECIFIC issue among others, and it was very important, especially here in NY.

Ordinary voter will be confused, Jewish population will remember

There's a clear distinction to the community between denouncing someone's words, and rejecting someone's support.

Yes I did look it up, guilty as charged :-) - if I am charged

yes -- see my comments right above yours

It is especially interesting because Obama just met with Jewish leaders

Yes, when he said he wouldn't be here without the Jewish community, I said "thank you."

Obama is not exactly giving a ringing endorsement of the term liberal, however.

no one on this stage has the right to interrupt clinton.

yes

sorry, no offense, but she's trying to slam BO for not taking a strong stand on farrakhan

As someone with ties to the Jewish community through ancestry and friends, I don't think she did.  I thought she was saying they both faced it.

I thought that's what she meant as well. Obama had been talking so long I had forgotten she was there.

Progressive is a better term than liberal, I mean Reactionaries get to call themselves conservatives so we should get to choose our nomiker as well.

Or a teevee studio.

Or a radio studio.

or a printing press.

or a PC.

Or a MAC.

Or a podium.

The moon maybe, but that's as close as I'll go.

"whatever hope of support Senator Clinton had from me completely evaporated."

Please.  As if she ever had a chance of getting your support?

Yes thank you! I agree with you wholeheartedly as a Jewish American.

Well, I am a Jewish American, and I understand the difference between "denounce" and "reject", and I liked Clinton's answer MUCH, MUCH better.

Obama said all chummy like "well, I can't tell someone who thinks I am a good guy to get lost".  Even if it is Louis Farrakhan.  

Yes, you can tell them to get lost.  And that was exactly Hillary's point.  And I think it is a great point - and something that Obama looked very naive to me in that he, as a Law professor, did not seem to understand.  Give me a break - he understands the difference perfectly well.

No, he didn't want to alienate anyone from his side, even if they are racist bigot supporters that have no place being his supporters.  They are "his" racist bigot supporters.  And I think he reluctantly said that he "rejects" them, for whatever that is worth, and only when forcefully prompted to do so by Senator Clinton.

I hope he doesn't need such tutoring when it comes to Hamas, Iran, et al, even if they "think Obama is a great guy".

FYI - Ohio is probably about 3% Jewish and Texas 1%.  Probably doesn't matter to appeal to them, but there are a lot of people out there who think we have no business with Farrakhan, myself included.

I would like to answer this.  Obviously, I would send in Scout first, with some explosive fire-arrows....

At the risk of stating the obvious:  Russert sucks

I have got to disagree. I think Obama pulled off looking WAY better than Clinton especially at the beginning. All the crowds reactions (as few as they were) were from something Obama said.

Show them a graphic

I was botherd by that, too. It's not tiny. It tells you a lot about his self-esteem.

I miss debate clocks.

I agree, mostly because debates hardly ever change anything, unless they're completely one-sided, like the first Kerry-Bush debate. And even that wasn't enough in the end.

amen

Um.... why did he look weak?

Post examples please...

Personally I think his debate strategy was perfect. He didn't let Hillary score any real points and didn't make any mistakes his own.

that doesn't really matter at this point. Most people are going to talk about the reject/denounce line.

horrible moderation.

"and she's a girl"?!?!?!

Care to explain that or are you just trolling?

After the crap about the "snub" he pretty much has to do anything polite.

It's called being a gentleman. Sorry if you haven't had experience with it.

She was hardly doing that. She was pointing out what she did differently in a similar situation. it may not resonate with you but there are those for whom it will.

Look, I support Obama and I find no merit to your charge.  It's not clear if she was trying to support Obama or appear more enthusiastic in her denunciation of hate groups.  Eithe way, she was not implying that Obama was anti-Semitic.

Did you even hear what she said? She said that she was endorsed by people she though were hateful and not only did she "denounce" their words as Obama said he's done, but she "rejected" their support, as Obama said he can't. It's really easy to reject someone's support. You say, "I reject Farrakhan's endorsement of me, because his support symbolically or no is not the kind of support I want."