Comments on: About That Debate Last Night

By: Pamela Leavey

Pamela Leavey — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:59:17 +0000

Ian Welsh

Yes, sad thing is they do work. I happen to think this backfired some though. Time will tell.

By: Ian Welsh

Ian Welsh — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:51:25 +0000

Sad thing is, negative campaigning works. Saying “don’t go negative” is very often saying “lose gracefully”. I prefer candidates who don’t do that.

And nothing said in the debate is 1/10th as bad as what Clinton will face in a general election. If she can’t handle it, we’d better know now.

By: Stuart O'Neill

Stuart O'Neill — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:56:51 +0000

As to the Archives, there was a detailed and literate response in a thread at DKos which effectively removed that as an issue. I can’t remember the details but it was complicated and a systemic analysis of the system in place for any President.

One thing I remember, I think, is that the decision about the timeframe for release was made in 1994, far before anyone would see the need for an earlier release. I also seem to remember that is was one of 6 choices that had to made.

I think it’s a non-issue. She’s an attorney and she’s naturally going to oppose a situation where private communications could be analyzed by opponents and ‘spun’ in any direction they wanted.

But I’m not sure that the release is something she could accomplish at this time merely by making a new choice.

I’ll try and find the post but I’m not good at using the search system at Dkos.

I’m in no one’s camp at this point. Yet I think the field and the moderators demeaned themselves when they attack the frontrunner in such a one-sided manner.

By: ironxl84

ironxl84 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:55:43 +0000

Interesting. “Candidate Calculator” here….

Just answer yes/no/unsure and assign a priority level.

http://www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html

I wasn’t surprised at my result!

Tom

By: alrudder

alrudder — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:31:51 +0000

Two things to follow are:
1) The National Archives. If Hillary keeps her White House records under wraps, and still touts her “experience” as first lady, that will continue to dog her. At the end of the day, she can’t release them, it’d be a distraction.
2) Immigration. It touches so many issues, hard and soft. I’m in a small minority thinking she did a good job defending Eliot Spitzer’s plan to issue drivers licenses to undocumented people. She’s stuck in that very unpopular position now, and she’ll be hammered for it.

By: Darrell Prows

Darrell Prows — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:30:01 +0000

My newspaper had a piece by Rich Lowry this morning talking trash about Obama, and hyping Hillary. That old right wing strategy of pushing the one they think will be the weakest candidate.

It’s really weird that they can’t seem to concede that the Dems could run anyone other than Ralph Nader and take it in a walk this time.

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