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November 17, 2007 at 13:43:28

Democratic Debate in Las Vegas on Nov 15th – Performance Evaluation of Edwards, Obama and Clinton

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Finally, Obama and Edwards should be prepared with supporters in the crowd. If Hillary’s supporters start booing again, they should retaliate in kind. I would prefer that no campaign do those kinds of things. When I think of underhanded campaign tactics, I think of Republicans as do most people and I think it best to allow that correct perception to continue. This campaign for the nomination is probably going to be all but decided two months/60 days from now. As Democrats, we need the best candidate possible to come out of that to ensure we can beat the Republicans and take back the White House. I’m looking forward to supporting that nominee. I hope it is Edwards, but I am feeling better about supporting any of the top three.

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Lifelong reader, sometime writer with eclectic tastes and libertarian leanings. Don't hold my semi-notorious Berkeley history against me, I settled down so completely after 40 that I can barely recall my loosy-goosy self. But it sure beats going to the same party every night.
LaudymsLifelong reader, sometime writer with eclectic tastes and libertarian leanings. Don't hold my semi-notorious Berkeley history against me, I settled down so completely after 40 that I can barely recall my loosy-goosy self. But it sure beats going to the same party every night.

Clinton's NAFTA comments

You took them at face value. I don't, I think she's just pandering again.

Neo-liberals like Hillary work for the multi-national corporations who have highjacked our liberty, our economy and our future.

by Laudyms (0 articles, 876 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 451 comments) on Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 2:09:39 PM

Steven Leser specializes in Politics, Science & Health, and Entertainment topics. He has held positions within the Democratic Party including District Chair and Public Relations Chair within county organizations.

Steven Leser writes for www.opednews.com, an internet only media site that has grown to become one of the highest traffic news sites in America, reaching more traffic, according to alexa.com, than all but the thirty largest daily newspapers in the US. Mr. Leser is one of t...

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Steven LeserSteven Leser specializes in Politics, Science & Health, and Entertainment topics. He has held positions within the Democratic Party including District Chair and Public Relations Chair within county organizations.

Steven Leser writes for www.opednews.com, an internet only media site that has grown to become one of the highest traffic news sites in America, reaching more traffic, according to alexa.com, than all but the thirty largest daily newspapers in the US. Mr. Leser is one of t...

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Perhaps, but perhaps not...

I always have a tough time with mind reading. It is the first time she said something like this and I felt the need to commend her for it. I encourage her to keep it up and vote that way and craft those kinds of policies.

by Steven Leser (228 articles, 49 quicklinks, 34 diaries, 1647 comments) on Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 2:13:05 PM

Interesting back and forth on this article on DU

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x321256

by Steven Leser (228 articles, 49 quicklinks, 34 diaries, 1647 comments) on Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 3:05:05 PM

Richard Mynick is a US citizen who, despite the best efforts of the corporate media, noticed something disturbing about how the 2000 election was decided, & felt it augured poorly for democracy.
Richard MynickRichard Mynick is a US citizen who, despite the best efforts of the corporate media, noticed something disturbing about how the 2000 election was decided, & felt it augured poorly for democracy.

Agreements like NAFTA are bad because they benefit

transnationals while harming workers and the environment. In other words, they are policies which naturally appeal to corporatists.

Hillary is a corporatist. She's raking in big donations from transnationals, and is being careful to say nothing that offends them. Her husband's policies were also on balance extremely favorable to big corporations.

Notice that while Hillary made a joke about Perot's charts, she didn't explain WHY she thought free trade pacts "did not do what many had hoped." She certainly didn't say anything about these pacts screwing working people, while fattening profits for transnationals.

On your point about her stacking the crowd at the Las Vegas debate with her own boo-birds -- I agree with you that this is very troubling. This is just the sort of thing a Bush would do. It's unethical, and shows disrespect for voters' intelligence. In the same vein, Hillary repeatedly labeled all criticism of her as "mud-slinging." I'm no fan of Edwards or Obama, but their attempts to criticize her were not "mud-slinging." (In fact, Obama really nailed her once on an absolutely fair point about the cap on Medicare taxes.) Again, to simply act as though any criticism equates to mud-slinging is itself a filthy dirty trick --just the kind of thing Karl Rove would come up with.

by Richard Mynick (2 articles, 3 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 1231 comments) on Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 6:33:48 PM

Don'pigeon hole me or sterotype me
pratliff94Don'pigeon hole me or sterotype me

Steve Leser

Thank you for the excellent article. I agree with almost everything you wrote. I lean toward Edwards, but anyone on the Democrat debating platform will be a vast improvement on what we have suffered the past seven years as Americans, and every person on the Democrat platform is light years ahead of anything on the Republican campaign platform.

OBHG,

Phil.

by pratliff94 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 969 comments) on Monday, November 19, 2007 at 4:34:09 PM