Radical Ties an Issue as Dems Debate

So, Hillary supporters. You’ll loose and your party will be taken over by leftists. Who will you vote for then?
McCain, Nader or Obama? Be honest now.

This wasn’t an issue until George pushed it for FOX News. Peter Mansbridge must have turned over in his grave.
ABC News should be ashamed, why not just put the sign “Fox News Subsidiary”.
Shameful!

You have got to be kidding me.

Have you people even read a newspaper lately? This is the kind of bull****, trivial politics you want in this country?
How about the disaster of a war going on? How about the economy tanking? How about torture sanctioned by the white house?
THIS is all you care about?
You know what, forget it. Go back to watching american idol with drool running down the side of your face. I’ll take my country back, thanks.

Hillary has a mind and a mouth of her own. Anything Bill Clinton did as president was his decision. If nothing else, we have learned these two each think and speak for themselves and are not afraid to disagree with one another even publicly.
If she is elected President, I doubt they will even remain married.

I am just sick an tired of the way mainstream media attempts to pose as OBJECTIVE and instead play on the TEAR DOWN mantra of dis-unity and hate to forward someones’ agenda… never for the up-liftment of people or the common good… we must stand up to this and show that the NEW generation are not stupid or ignorant of the deep ingrained bias that is purported as NEWS…
PS- I am ###### off with ABC and the SHAM of a debate they had… they asked Hillary ONE question on Bosnia then went on to hammer Obama on everything for 53 minutes… I can’t afford GASOLINE to drive to work and these so called journalists are pressing Obama on Ayers and Flag Pins and Rev Wright like if these issues have not been pounded over and over and over… They attempted to FOOL people into believeing that Hillary did not have the heads up… I am willing to bet that this whole thing was set-up for Hillary… she knew what was coming, they had to put in the sniper story to hide the CHESS MOVE except that they checkmated themselves… because all it showed no matter who you support, is just how BIASED the media can be… I am indeed BITTER and saddened by the lack of respect ABC has shown everyone… they have taken the entire presidential process down into the gutter and we as a people MUST not be satisfied with this… LOOK at what is going on around us domestically and in the world!!! Are they really serious… you tell me?

Why was Hillary not asked the questions about her court case in Calif. and her dealing with a convict, her religious cult, her comments in Alabama when her husband was running for president and she said screw the little man. The attach on Obama was outrageous.
I know you read the Huffington Post and you already knew the above things. However, you choose to do a hatchet job on Obama and let Hillary off the hook.

Are you kidding. The connection is so twisted and small to be ridiculous. Shame on you.

Guess it was to close to the truth that is why it was not posted….

What a poor use of American’s time. There where no questions to Clinton regarding Mark Penn, NAFATA and The Clinton Library donors Also Mr. Obama was constantly interrupted while Mrs. Clinton was allowed to speak freely. ABC should be ashamed.

This report is erroneous. No pardons were ever issued. Obama got it wrong last night, and so have you by following him without basic fact-checking first.
The sentences were commuted; a vast difference.

Former President Bill Clinton is not running for President.
So that has no bearing on Hillary.
I don’t know about your guys, but many times I do not see eye to eye with my husband.
That would be like saying Michelle Obama did not want Obama running for president, so he should not be elected, for that reason.

I can’t tell you how disappointed I was in last nights debate. Since when is ABC News (my news outlet of choice) a mouthpiece for FOX?
I tuned in to hear about the ISSUES this country is facing. I am smart enough to know that neither candidate is always going to be on their game and they will make gaffes. I do not think that bringing up someone from the 1960′s and blaming Obama for his actions (when Obama was a kid) was thought provoking. I have never been disappointed in Charlie Gibson or George Stephanopolis until last night.

Weather Underground was a COINTELPRO operation to discredit anti-war activists with false-flag acts of violence. So of course some were “pardoned”.

ABC is simply trying to clean up their mess from last night. Too late. I’m switching to NBC.

MAYBE OBAMA IS CORRECT:
1. Maybe words DON’T matter.
2. Maybe friends DON’T matter.
3. Maybe past actions DON’T matter.
4. Maybe past associations DON’T matter.
5. Maybe experience DOESN’T matter.
I guess that leaves us with the question . . . just what DOES matter according to Obama?
Slick stump speeches? Psychotically-obsessed fans? Cult-like followers?

Dear ABC,
What a stupid, shallow debate. With the problems afflicting the world today, the best you can come up with are questions regard flag pins and whether somebody’s former pastor loves America.
You should all feel a deep sense of shame.

Hillary neither served on a board with people from that radical group (Obama has) nor did she pardon them(President Clinton did). Just where is SHE involved with them? Nowhere. You are reaching to try to make her on par with Obama’s ties to them.

Hillary Clinton also has ties to Communists. She worked for Treuhaft, Walker, and Bernstein in Oakland. They represented radicals such as the Black Panthers. Treuhaft was a member of the Communist Party.

George S. used to work for Clintons!!!!

The debate was a travesty. No questions on NAFTA or CAFTA? No real questions on the economy except for the tax question? This was a hit job on Obama which is understandable but how does it convince voters which candidate has the best platform? ABC should be ashamed of itself. No surprise they are the being panned by everybody for their utter lack of proffesional behavior.

my my my, so you left wingers don’t like to answer tough questionshuh? how typical of liberals.

Hillary never pardoned them. Bill and Hillary are different persons. Hillary is the one running presidential campaign.
You Obama don’t try to make excuse. If someone else makes mistake, so you can make mistake too? Is that your logic? You are not a leader.
I vote for Hillary what so ever!!

Thanks ABC, I think you are the first of the broadcast media to treat Obama as if he was a candidate for President instead of giving him a free ride.
Wish you could have had time to make him actually answer the questions though, he skillfully avoided them all.
…but if you look at all the things he avoided…it’s rather apparent that he is far left of the far left…which causes a problem this late in the race.
If Hillary doesn’t figure a way to pull this off this late, we will have a radical as the democratic choice against a slightly moderate republican.
If only the press hadn’t given him a free ride for so long, perhaps we could have had a good look at both instead of the pep rallies on one side and the serious issues on the other.
Pep rallies are more fun.

In all my years as a Police Officer this is the worst mugging I have ever seen. The moderators clearly could have taken this event to establish policy content from the two candidates. Instead they spent the evening trying to get the two of them involved in a cat fight. People are tired of all the in-fighting and the re-hashing of old news. We care about issues like the economy, the war, crime, etc. Slinging around old mud won’t help me deal with the rising cost of fuel, or the rising crime that affects the poor neighborhoods that I once patrolled. Shame on you ABC…

The only sad thing is I lost my respect for Charles Gibson. As for George, who does not have a mind of his own, can go work for Fox.
A sad day for ABC news if this is the only kind of debate event they can come up with.

Charley and George I really thought this was going to be an informative debate based on the two of you moderating it. I can only hope ABC picked the questions you asked last night because it was obviously done for ratings and not as a service to the American voting public.

It is a ligit question. It seems some people just want to put blnders on and vote. We have the right to know who Obama thru the company he keeps.

LMAO So whats new? Most of the educated people already knew the Democrats were Terrorist/socalist/ wingnuts

It is not against the law to be communists, it is reprehensible to be a terrorist. You Obama supporters are going off the deep end. Yes your man did poorly, accept this. It is so obvious that this is the job of the day, malign ABC for asking Obama difficult questions. His judgement is what is being questioned, as it should be.

Wow! Command performance by Charlie and George. Finally, two moderators willing to ask the tough questions.

The American People deserved so much better than what we received last night from ABC News.
Torture, 2 Wars, the rise of autism, education,
global warming, gas prices, I could go on…..
but your network chose to ignore these issues,
you should be very embarrassed and ashamed of your obvious disservice….

Why are you Obama supporters so miffed? All of these issues i.e who he associates with, 20 yr churh affiliation etc speak to his character and every time it’s mentioned you go spastic — except when it’s bad for Hilary. In last night’s debate whenever Obama was aked a straight question he immediately attacked Hilary — very immature — I almost felt sorry for him. Hilary DID discuss issues in a very concrete way and answered each question great. All Obama did was look sheepish and as I mentioned attacked her. Even when the VP question came up, she was quite gracious but he in turn turned it into s bitter strike at her; the look on her face showed just how naive she knows he is; he doesn’t even know when he’s being complimented — Edwards, by the way, had the same problem. NOW Time has his mother on the cover! What the media won’t do. I was actually proud of ABC; I expected less; you Obama types know it’s true that your boy got the heat and it bugs the heck out of you.

Monday, March 10, 2008 – Follow the Money: Obama’s Alsammarae “fairy tale”.
RezkoWatch has written a number of articles about Aiham Alsammarae, indicted political fixer Antoin “Tony” Rezko’s former classmate in the late 1970s at the Illinois Institute of Technology and former business partner.
Writing in the March 17, 2008, issue of Newsweek, Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff reported that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)’s campaign “released e-mails” from October 2006 between his U.S. Senate office and U.S. officials “on behalf” of Alsammarae, who was still “imprisoned in Iraq.”
Although “the Obama camp initially declined to release the e-mails”, during the first week of March 2008 they did. The “e-mail exchange ‘appears routine’,” they wrote.
How much is Obama really hiding from us? He has too many ties with terrorists. Will we find out before it’s too late?

Fascinating turn of events at DailyKos today, commentary about last night’s debate. There is a strong sentiment that Obama performed terribly at the dlast night, and the chatter shows increasing worry. The Daily Kossacks typically wear blinders towards anything that is not positive about Obama, and yet open discussion of concerns is present today, with some confessed Obama supporters publicly posting that Obama really worried them last night.
I usually trash Daily Kos, because of their extreme leftist and elitist ways, but today, well I’m still going to trash them, but Obama has obviously done something to cause some of the effects of the koolaid to wear off, at least momentarily.
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Bottom line: Obama Bittergate seems to be starting to choke.
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Hillary can dish it out but can’t take it. And why was everybody asking about Obama’s missing American flag lapel pin when it was quite obvious that Hillary doesn’t wear one. So does that mean she is unpatriotic?

How in God’s name can we take our country back if we don’t focus on the real problems. But some americans seem to thrive on the slim they can blog on. This nation has been taken away from its people,mainly due to the past 8 years of the republican disastrous administration, I being an american want my country back. I will cast my vote for the candidate with the integrity and desire to help make that happen.
Obama 08!
Yes we Can!

Last night’s debate was an absolute fraud. It seemed clear to me that the Clinton camp had been tipped off by Stephanopolous regarding questions he would ask, particularly the Ayres set-up. Stephanopolous proved once again that he’s just a political hack, doing Clinton’s bidding. I thought he was above all this tabloid stuff that consumed the first 45 minutes of the attempted Obama lynching. And Charlie, you made an fool of yourself, which, of course, everyone knew anyway. You’re a much better news READER, Charlie, then you are as a “spontaneous” questioner. Oh yeah, you’re also a fraud!

I agree with the host of bloggers who think that ABC tuned this debate into a cheap “gotcha” circus directed mainly at Obama. Matters of substance for Americans were given secondary importance by the moderators. Both candidates did not perform well and acted tentative or were forcing “safe” answers, such as on guns.
Some key points which did not make the cheap, gossipy talking points headlines:
1. Obama’s plan to raise payroll caps is about the only hope of keeping Social Security viable. He answered Clinton’s reference to a special commission formed in the past, which recommended raising the payroll tax rate, which ended up hurting lower wage earners.
2. Obama emphasized that we need to use a pay-as-you-go approach to spending. And spending there will be to offer universal health care, education, infrastructure, alternative energy and global warming, etc. Clinton has not shown how her programs can be paid for if she is not willing to increase the payroll tax and rolling back tax cuts starting way up at $250,000 will provide funding for programs.
In short, the candidates need to do a better job of demonstrating how we will pay promises for their new muti-trillion spending programs. So far, Obama offers some sensible solutions that have received the backing of a number of economists.

The whiners are at it again, saying poor Obama was being picked on. If he didn’t have anything to hide, he would have answered the questions! ABC did a great job, and brought out some important facts. I say if Obama can’t stand the heat, he should get out of the fire. Clinton’s life is an open book. Someone get this man out of the presidential race, please!

Just a small sampling of what they will get for the general election.

The debate was a pretty sleazy affair, where was the hard hitting questions. I know George used to work for the Clinton’s, but does that give him the right to be so biased?? Shouldn’t he have been EXCLUDED from moderating if he was a former employee of one of the parties in the debate, just on it’s face appearance it seems wrong let alone in reality!!
If they are going to keep asking about Rev. Wright, why don’t they ask Clinton about the trouble she got into when she worked on the Nixon Impeachment case? It seems to me if she was willing to lie (about prepping the argument that was going to be used to denie Nixon an attorney) and steal (the documents that showed proof of her lying) and then storing the stolen property in her then office, she should be questioned quite hard about that! If she is willing to break the law then, why would she not be willing to break it now? We all know what the last Clinton administration looked like and I’m sure hers wouldn’t be any different judging by her previous law breaking habits.
If anyone here thinks that knowing someone who says something stupid is worse than lying about your past experience (she finally admitted it last night) or breaking the law you need your head examined. You will also deserve anything that she is capable of puling off on you, because you had enough pre-warning!!

Watching the debate last night made me think that the media like ABC are now so caught in the culture of celebrities and reacting on gossip. Is what the Americans want from the news media. I have to admit that as a non American from the republic democratic of Congo who suffers a tragedy with the plane crash in Goma. We always look up to the Americans because they such a good hearted people however the negative politics of their politicians always overshadowed that good spirit. Thats why I can assure from someone who have lived in Belgium, USA and Canada to envision Barack Obama could end up to be the President of the United States and the Free World surpass the Clintons wanted to have a third term as McCain is willing to follow a Bush policies.

what happen to the real issues, like the economy, student loan, the war, and other important issues for the average Americans who work more than 16 hours a day.

I think ABC did a fantastic job and this is the first time any mainstream media outlet has held Obama accountable instead of giving him a free pass. The Obamapots are bitter because for once he gets the tough questions and he couldn’t handle it. I am an African-American women and I strongly feel Hillary has been treated unfairly. The Obamapots should call their guy “Saint Obama” because they feel he walks on water and can part the Red Sea. Great job, ABC!

That display of juornalism was just as awful as your line of questioning. You need to go back to Journalism 101. i am ashamed and will not watch anything that your’e on any more George and charlie. Stick to the issues instead of backing a liar who knows nothing about the truth.

what this time in race,finly tells the true,that your vote don’t count,the deligets decide who well be president,not you,

But Clinton didn’t pardon William Ayers, who was their leader and is the person in question.
President Clinton is also NOT Sen Clinton. As Obama is not responsible for lets say John Kerry or Ted Kennedy’s actions in office, Sen Clintonis not repsonsible for Bill Clinton’s pardons.
Sen Obama’s candidacy is based entirely on judgement as he has basically NO experience. His judgement is what is in question here again.
Sen Clinton’s judgement did not pardon any Weather underground members, nor did President Clinton pardon Bill Ayers.

I think ABC did a fantastic job and this is the first time any mainstream media outlet has held Obama accountable instead of giving him a free pass. The Obamapots are bitter because for once he gets the tough questions and he couldn’t handle it. I am an African-American women and I strongly feel Hillary has been treated unfairly. The Obamapots should call their guy “Saint Obama” because they feel he walks on water and can part the Red Sea. Great job, ABC!

I can not believe Obama and his supporters are whining over this debate.20 plus debates and Hillary has gotten all the tough questions on personel issues. I didn’t see the outcry then. This is hupocritcal at best. Obama is the front runner. He has been given a free ride from day one and now the tough questions start and he cries foul. Lets not forget that on policy issue’s Obama was weak. This is an attempt by the Obama team to change the story from his loss. For you Obama bloggers, how dare you critize when most of you have focused on an organized destruction of Clinton and rarely talk issues on the blogs.
Clinton won the debate and Obama proved he is not prepared to be President. He lied to america last night, is this why we have the cover story today. Funny how bias is now an issue when the media has been a lot harder on Clinton for 15 months. Good job ABC.

Charles Gibson asked Obama about why he doesn’t wear a lapel pin of the US flag (in an effort I suppose to flush out if he is in fact unpatriotic).
Well Charles, I have a response for you.
You want to know what’s unpatriotic:
Attending pro-NAFTA meetings under the Clinton administration to push help push through an unfair trade deal (at the expense of our good Pennsylvanian jobs), that’s unpatriotic!
Having a chief strategist that’s secretly working with a foreign government to push through yet another trade deal (CAFTA) while telling the american people that you OPPOSE CAFTA, that’s unpatriotic!
Having your husband (Bill Clinton) accept $800,000 from a foreign government (Columbia) to get that same trade deal pushed through congress, that’s unpatriotic!
Explaining why it’s permissible to court ELECTED (pledged) delegates –delegates representing the will of the people who have already (in good conscience) voted– in order to have them switch their pledge and in so doing, completely undermining our democratic process, that’s unpatriotic!
Visiting a right-wing (republican) newspaper (the Pittsburgh Tribune Review which is owned by a man (Richard Mellon Scaife) who sponsored an investigation into your (Mrs. Clinton) involvement in the death of deputy white house counsel Vince Foster) in order to have one of their trained minions *ASK* you if you would have left the rev. Wright’s church, that’s unpatriotic!
Proclaiming that the caucus voting process is undemocratic and doesn’t “make much sense” because your campaign’s poor organizational skills lost most of them, that’s unpatriotic!
Talking about southern white people and telling your husband to “screw em”, that’s unpatriotic!
And finally… attacking a fellow democrat (Obama, who refused to attack you last night because he truly cares about the Democratic party and ultimately our great nation) and instead praising your real adversary (John McCain) and in the process adopting the doctrine of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”, THAT’S UNPATRIOTIC!!!
And yet… Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos did not see it fit or relevant to ask about even ONE of these things regarding a true lack of patriotism on your part??? That is truly astonishing!
I’m embarrassed and ashamed about what ABC news has become!
All I can say Hillary is that your blind and destructive ambition to win at all costs is what will ultimately be your undoing!

Kudos for ABC. They did a great job of taking on questions others would not ask. Good for you. Your supposed to be reporters, not personal secretaries of the candidates.

The first 30 minutes were about gossip? Rev. Wright story is gossip?
No, the first 30 minutes were questions that reveal character. And when your candidate has none, you get upset.
Sorry Your guy lost. Deal with it.

If these questions last night were so silly and stupid and insignificant, then why did Barack do so poorly on them?
The mainstream media who is in the tank for Obama and treats him with kid gloves, does him NO favors because he becomes ill prepared.

The people pardoned by Clinton had served time and apologized. Ayers said on 9/11, he wished they had planted more bombs. Hardly a repentent person. This was during the time he was supporting Obama personally for a seat in the Illinois legislature. He is a bad man who walks the streets today and is friends with obama as well as other dirty Chicago polics. Just what did Obama organize in Chicago anyway? Chidren there are being gunned down daily going to school. What about Obama’s own back yard. The church, crime, nefarious characters? Who is this smooth talker? What did he ever do for anyone other than himself?

Does the “Obama Girl” (the one that made headlines, but didn’t register to vote) that launched BHO into the mainstream sing the blues also? I’d like to hear her latest.

Whinning how the hell do the Clinton camp complain about a whinner she whiner is the 1# WHINNER did you all forget New Hampshire, in one debate she complained about getting the first question, oh let’s not forget about the the media’s beat me up. WHINNING please she is the number 1 of them all these questions we all heard about I want to know how am going create jobs out here in AMERICA for my children, How is our they going to make college more affordable so I can send my kids how when I get ready to retire I dont have worry about my healthcare preime that what I want to know ans I’m SURE I’m NOT THE ONLY ONE and if you FOOLS think another republican is for you if your not RICH you are a dame FOOL!

Poor excuse for a debate!! This was an
attack session, and I was sadden by the
lack of substance about what is most
important as an American. By the way
where is Hilary’s American flag pin?
Will either one of them wearing a pin
decrease gas prices and get us out of
this war? Let’s make a CHANGE.