Iowa Debate Talk Clock
posted by Matt Browner-Hamlin, Campaign Blogger on August 19, 2007 - 7:08am
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I am ambivalent about Obama hogging the time. Someone seems to have coached him and Michelle on how to take advantage of people's reluctance to be blunt and cut them off. Perhaps it's the consultants who are advising that it's a good strategy to challenge the rules. Clinton does it in every response to the Bluehampshire straw poll questions.
I actually watched the debate..The person that spoke the most and had the least knowledge on world affairs again was Obama. I will not let the Media and press control my vote or country. This Presidential election study the facts about the war and home front. Pick the candidate that has the most qualifications. Senator Dodd is the one that will bring the country back to where it was before this Republican Administration ruined it.
he voted for the war in Iraq. Regrets don't help at all. What was needed was strong leadership at the time and he didn't step up and provide it. I see no reason to vote for him, Clinton, Biden or any of the others who supported the invasion of Iraq. That is why I'm leaning towards Obama. He vocally opposed the invasion and there is no doubt that he would have voted against it if he was in the Senate. For the one who had the "least knowledge on world affairs" he didn't make the biggest foreign policy mistake in the history of the United States... Dodd and the other Democratic Senators did.
What he voted for was the prospect of setting up a U.S. military and monitoring presence on the Arabian Peninsula that had been a Pentagon goal for decades. Why do you thing two Republican administrations tried to bribe Saddam Hussein with military support against his neighbors? If Bush One hadn't stabbed Iraq in the back when it went to reclaim Kuwait, it probably would have worked without military action.
Bill Clinton, in typical "wanting to have it both ways" fashion, thought he could use the no fly zone and other pressures against Saddam, even as the Pentagon continued to plan for 24 "enduring" bases for radar installations, communications intercepts and components of the "missile defense shield."
Hillary Clinton can't retract her vote because if she didn't know the plan as First Lady, she certainly knew it as a Senator. And Obama knows it now. Which is why he keeps nattering about the threat posed by Iran and the need to keep a "stabilizing" force in Iraq.
Meanwhile, it's my guess the Pentagon has already given up and is back to thinking Somalia is a better location for sea, land and air assets anyway.
It's much easier to say "I'm against the war" or "I would not voted for it" when you are not casting a vote!
Lets be honest; if you look at Senator Obama's voting record, you need to ask yourself if he would *really* had voted against the war authorization if he had been a senator at that time! Senator Obama voted to fund the war, voted for the Patriot Act, and many other votes that you would have expected him to stand on principle.
These forums are mislabled as debates. It is a Obama/Clinton forum. The people that have the most to say about the solutions to this countries probables are being short-changed by the media.
If I had another 90 minutes lying around to watch the debate again, I'd do the math to add a column for Mrs. Kucinich. Was it just me, or did the camera cut to her in the audience far more often than her husband actually spoke? I bet she got over a minute of just smile-time on Sunday.
Even Jon Stewart agreed tonight!