Clinton challenges Obama to one-on-one debate

Sunday 27th April, 06:16 AM JST

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sailwind at 08:14 PM JST - 27th April

Two American arch-conservative rednecks weigh in on this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mc3GQmGGms

Like they say hurry up and pick one for gosh sakes so they know who they are going to vote agaisn't, they are even more frustrated at the democrats then the rest of us.
SezWho2 at 08:30 PM JST - 27th April

I don't think Obama should get involved in an unmoderated, no-holds barred contest with Clinton. She has basically issued a sucker's challenge here.

There is no need for further debate, but there is some value in it if it is moderated. The chief value is that it allows both contenders the opportunity to listen and learn regarding the accusations that will be used against them in debates against McCain.

I think this will probably help Obama more than Clinton. It seems to me that Obama has been infinitely more charitable to Hillary than she to him. Unless Obama adopts her tactics--which I think is a losing move for him--Hillary gets very little practice in fending off the real accusations that will emerge if she should win the nomination.
redacted at 08:56 PM JST - 27th April
The idea of either frontrunner in this Identity Politics Sweepstakes that the Dem race has now devolved into offering, accepting or even considering to partake in a "Lincoln-Douglas-style debate" is obscene irony, when you recall which side their Democrat predecessor took on the slavery issue:

"I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother or any kin to me whatever."
- Senator Stephen Douglas (D-IL)
RomeoRamenII at 09:51 PM JST - 27th April

Makes since that barack won't debate hillary without a moderator. The empty suit had his ass handed to him in the last one. Those of us who saw it know that without a teleprompter, barack is not even an average politican.

RR
Sarge at 10:08 PM JST - 27th April

We can always vote for Ralph Nader.
RomeoRamenII at 10:24 PM JST - 27th April

For a guy who has been whining that the voters just don't know him well enough, you'd think barack would jump at the chance.

RR
RomeoRamenII at 10:26 PM JST - 27th April

Wonder what TV organization would just turn the show over to them? Comedy Central? The Cartoon Network?

RR
RomeoRamenII at 10:30 PM JST - 27th April

Mr. McCain doesn't need a campaign manager. He has the democrats working for him.

RR
SuperLib at 01:58 AM JST - 28th April

MacCain is called a warmonger because he correctly says that withdrawing from Iraq would cause the place to erupt in civil war.

Yeah, the promise to withdraw seems now like cheap theatrics than a solid plan for both Obama and Clinton. If they do withdraw it could create more bloodshed in Iraq which would sink them. In the end they'd probably be forced to back off on their pledge to withdraw and that would sink them. They lose either way.
Badsey at 04:28 AM JST - 28th April

Hillary has no freestyle ability, and her evil calculated tactics are slow to change. How does Hillary expect to play one-on-one when she never hits the boards? I am expecting an Obama triple-double on this.
RomeoRamenII at 05:57 AM JST - 28th April

A good move by hillary. barack either goes for it and gets thrashed again or he comes up with an excuse, backs out and proves to the American voters once more that all he wants is to be left alone to eat his waffle.

It's a lose-lose for barack and a win-win for America.

RR
SezWho2 at 09:22 AM JST - 28th April

RomeoRamenII,

I don't think you understand Indiana and I'm sure that Hillary doesn't. You have to ask yourself, "Who would Kurt Vonnegut have picked and why?"

It doesn't much matter who wins between Obama and Clinton in Indiana. Unless McCain strokes out or suffers cardiac arrest before the Republicans can mount a replacement, Indiana will vote Republican in November. Its popular Democratic Senator notwithstanding, its popular Republican Senator is even more popular.

Hoosiers have more in common with Iowa than they do with Pennsylvania. They're unlikely to be beguiled by either wonkish policies which will never be implemented or by passionate rhetoric if rhetoric is all that is on offer.
keech2 at 12:43 PM JST - 28th April

After all their arguing about who is the most religious, how about a science debate between these candidates so the voters can get an idea about how they stand on scientific issues since the public already knows their views on religion?

Oh, and for redacted.

A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation but as an immediate separation is impossible the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. Abraham Lincoln(R-Il) June 1857.
skipthesong at 05:56 PM JST - 28th April

keech, what are you trying to imply?

Oh, and "best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together." As person who is "multi-ed", this is not really that bad of an idea, once people take the race problem bait out of it.. The Dems have been so bad at forcing multi-cultural ism down people's throats. They are more the problem than the solution. Let people live apart and come together naturally. Eventually, people will. But force?
keech2 at 10:34 PM JST - 28th April

skip,

No, that part of my post was in response to redacted's post where he quoted Stephen Douglas and made a point of showing that he was a Democrat. I simply thought that it was fitting to quote a Republican, and the man Douglas debated, to show that the attitudes that Douglas expressed 150 years ago were not held only by Democrats, but also by most whites, including the Great Emancipator. No offense was intended and my apologies if offense was taken.