Democratic Debate

[shinerbock]

Originally Posted by pbear19

I don't know if I will watch the last 30 minutes, so I'm curious if anyone else has been following tonight's debate between Clinton and Obama.

I cannot help but be struck by the fact that Obama has been hit hard on negative questions 4 times, while they have only hit Clinton negative once. Which, goodness knows she has more than enough fodder for negative questions. And, the first soft issues question that got flipped to either candidate has been to Clinton.

Am I wrong in finding the questions to be biased so far?

ETA:
I was surprised by one thing tonight. Clinton said that she would commit to 'massive retaliation' against Iran if it were to attack any one of a number of Middle Eastern countries. Obama only offered that type of protection to Israel. I looked on their respective websites, and found a blurb from Obama specifically about Iran but could not find any opinion from Clinton, beyond what she said tonight. I cannot help but feel that Clinton is supporting the kind of world police policy that has failed us the past 7 years. Maybe I am being naive and all candidates are going to threaten Iran with 'massive retaliation' should they make any agressive action, but I didn't think that was a democratic ideal. I wasn't aware that the democrats upheld the belief that we should police and protect the world.

Thousands of "save darfur" shirts beg to differ.

[pbear19]

By all means, please show me a 'to save darfur we are threatening massive retaliation to anyone who messes with them' shirt, and I'll gladly agree with you.

[PhiGam]

Originally Posted by pbear19

By all means, please show me a 'to save darfur we are threatening massive retaliation to anyone who messes with them' shirt, and I'll gladly agree with you.

I can't say that I follow you there.