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Poor Hillary.

Why anyone can understand how it's easy to confuse a "corkscrew" land at Tuzla airport among sniper fire and then having to run across the tarmac with a comedian and a guitar player in tow and ducking bullets all the while to a poem from a child.

John_Lai:

You should learn to say:

President Barack Hussein Obama, 44th President of the United States of America

Maybe you should salute, hold your hand over your heart and bow when you say it.

The coverage throughout the campaign has been totally slanted towards Obaama...I am a private citizena and i knew about Rezko, Wright and Ayers early in the campaign from searching the records of all the candidates...but they were not really covered until the readers outcry became too great,

So what if Hillary wasn't too happy with MSM. And it was terribel...journalists calling her names and using Obama's campaign's talking points instead of doing "fair and balanced" coverage....

Even with the "bitter" remarks some of the press perfers to leave out "antipathy to others that are not like themselves and anti-immigrant"

A lot of people may not care to be called bitter gun and church clingers....but most people really resent being called racists.

Anyway Clinton made do.....But the first time you bring up anything about Obama he is not just complaining but totally using a "scorched earth" policy. Will he debate again or use this as an excuse not to take questions? Did he ever take questions?

ANd so he sets his attackers on a network...and he stops hiding behind his attack dogs to go full blown negative.

There are youtubes out there where Obama made 2 different stops in PA the day after the debate and he is giving the "finger" to Clinton in the same basic part of the speech.

He is a hypocrite who will not allow anyone to question him. I believe there will be a lot more revelations about his friends and policies. Obama may give great speeches and the camera loves him. But he has no record of accomplishment and he has no relevant experience...

There is one fact that we can agree on. OBAMA is losing. He looks dumb. He can't change anything but his annual income.

He can't change CHICAGO POLITICS
He can't change REZKO and the Middle East Ties
He can't change Rev. Wright.
Now, he claims that he will change Washington should you give him your vote.
He is good at saying lofty things but not specific. Now he gets himself in a situation he needs to answer specific question and he mumbles, jumble and fumbles and tries to make a fool of himself by laughing it off.

As an audience, I think it is funny because of him.

I was just watching Reliable Sources address ABC's debate, and yeah, I think we can all agree the "flag pin" question was a bit much, though I didn't realize "the women on the street" who asked the question was actually someone the NY Times quoted about this, but all these other questions really were legitimate. The media has focused on the Rev. Wright and "bitter" remarks ad nauseum, and this IS the first debate held since these issues came up. But the larger point is that of the other 20-something debates, many of them focused rather harshly on Clinton's negatives. This ONE debate was more focused on Obama's, the front runner's, negatives, and the whining is deafening - just deafening. I think this highlights pretty starkly just how great the bias in the media really is. And let's face it, if he had actually performed well, no one would be saying a word, other than to praise how he tough he is.

So, this entire argument highlights IMO a greater issue, the liberal media's overwhelming favoritism toward Obama. Actually that's the real issue here. When Clinton was the front-runner, that was the "excuse" for her getting the majority of the hammering. If Obama makes it to the general election, you can bet he's going to get roughed up plenty and that these issues are going to come up again.

So . . . he can cry me a river. He's sure never complained about be the liberal media's darling.

Obama is a "sneak it in chicken."

For those foreigners who wonder how the US could have elected George Bush twice this is why.
They would rather ask questions about lapels and pastors instead of how to make the society better.
People must be deluded to believe these were "great" questions. WOW

Oh please. How dopey can you get? There was no fear in Barak Obama's voice. He was just irritated by the consistant whining from the Hillary camp. that includes people like you. Get over it. Barak is winning and your rights arent' going to get trampled on when he becomes pres. You're not that important.

Hah, how's that for elitism. *rolls eyes*

Ok folks, I am going to keep this short and to the point. I understand that a lot of these comments are coming from Hillary supporters. The fact is that Obama was not complaining about the tough questions, he was complaining that the questions where not issue driven. Instead, they where to scrutinize misspoken words. We all have said things that should have been said in a different way, does this make us bad people, certainly not. I like both candidates and may the best one win. I support Obama because he is the politics of change in America, the America that I love so much. With this said, I will support any Dem who wins the nomination because whatever happens, its got to be better than what we have had in office for these last 8 awful years. I am a registered nurse and barely able to make mortgage or pay bills and before the current presidency, I was an LVN and doing just fine. Can someone please explain to me why it is that if one or the other candidate wins the nomination, some of our "so-called" democrats are threatening to go republican. To me that is not patriotic at all, it is a lie. A lie when you supposedly support someone or group as long as the person is not "black" or a "woman". God help America, this is ridiculous.

geevill,
You can go ahead and say "black" supporters, we won't be offended because we are not that petty, as I can see a lot of people are. By the way, I sometimes use my middle finger to push up my glasses or to even scratch an itch on my face. Does this mean that I am giving the wall in my office the finger, h*** no. Don't stereotype black folks because you don't have a clue as what the h*** you are talking about.

"I know he spent all day yesterday complaining about the hard questions he was asked."

More BS from Hillary. Obama observed that the debate didn't dwell on the tough questions that are of much more interest to Americans. The ABC debate blog and the media outrage is evidence that Obama was right.

Hillary's ready for Day One to fight with everybody on silly crap like she has for 35 years.

After K makes a comment about "when you grow up," James responds by slyly rubbing his forehead with his middle finger exposed.

OBAMA used a gesture against Clinton that Will Smith did to TOmmy Lee JOnes in MIB. His lack audience knew what it was. spread the word and video.

It shows how low class and shameless Hillary really is after months of complaining about nonpreferential media treatment. I think Hillary has the capacity to top Bush in creating division. The Bush/Clinton has pitted this country against itself and Hillary continues the tradition. Obama has the class and humor to blow her off.

The debate was a farce as is main stream media.
Cable media is shameful.Nothing more than jerry springer mentality? this is insulting to democracy.

You would think a super power could do better?.
Why NOT hold a real debate at a University moderated by America's finest intellectuals instead of these so called news personalities.

I have no faith in American democracy and the American dream is just that, a dream.

When the primary is held the votes will be tallied by electronic fraud voting machines???.

Wonder why Barack Obama does better with a paper ballot caucus?

The hypocrisy of spreading freedom around the world when American democracy is nothing more than an exercise is futility.

Wake up America!!
Count your votes!

Demand your media serve you better.

At the end of the day, those supposedly tough questions won't give you the much needed pay raise, keep food on your table, lower the price of gas, make the Iraqi's get along so we can leave, catch Bin Ladin and everyone that's associated with him, won't lower the rapidly increasing price of college tuition, won't improve the economy, won't secure a future for your children, won't make the world like us any better, won't bring peace to the middle east, won't improve medical care, won't make our schools safer from crazy people with guns on campus, won't lower the price of buying a home, and won't secure that you'll have a job next year - do I need to say anymore? If none of those 45 minutes of tabloid styled questions solves, answers, addresses any of those issues, then how important were they to be asked in the first place. Shame on anyone that believes those "questions" were that important... it's probably because of that type of thinking that got us into the mess in the first place... too busy being focused on stuff that doesn't matter really doesn't matter - at the end of the day... God bless our democracy!

Hillary has been getting clobbered in the debates and by the media for over a year. Heck, for over 20 yrs. But for the first time he gets it a little rough and someone doesn't fall at his feet, and he carries on about it like he just got impeached for some silly nonsense. And the media and the DNC are out in full force defending him.

But with all of it, the media bias, the DNC taking away two states' delegates from her and now trying to prematurly end the election - the way she's been beat up, hand-cuffed, had Iraq blood poured all over her, and viciously maligned, she just will not be knocked down, and she just keeps getting VOTES. Frankly, I admire her more now than ever.

Even honest Obama supporters admit that the media bias in his favor has been extraordinary, and now Howard Dean's bias is becoming glaringly obvious. They'll take this election from the people come hell or high water.

It's like watching a murder you can't stop, knowing the perp will get away with it - BUT THE VICTIM IS OUR DEMOCRACY.

This beats all I've ever seen.

Congratulations to ABC! Finally, questions were asked that, I am sure, are being asked by many Americans, and it took the courage of these two highly qualifed and knowledgable News Commentators to ask them.

Both Clinton and Obama were asked questions that were tough. And, as someone who is wanting to know more about Obama, I am disappointed that he has taken, the attitude of being the
"Victim", something that he accuses Clinton of. We have watched many debates between these two and everyone knows about their plans for Health Care, Iraq, etc., what everyone doesn't know about are the very questions that were asked,e.g.; what Clinton will do to win back the trust of voters over her Bosnia mistake. More importantly, are the questions about Obama,because we don't know of him and he has the delegate lead, for now. We all know about Clinton, We don't know about what influences Obama. And so far, his choices and judgement to maintain relations with "Anti-American" hater's and his Pastor, still needs to be answered. We all should have the "Right to Know".

It is also appalling to hear what Obama is saying today, that basically, We the People of America don't care about those issues and then goes on to refer to them as; "petty issues", which sounds condescending. I believe there will be more unfavorable surprises yet to come about Obama and won't be able to win the General Election.

I question his ability, thus far, as to whether he can unite this Country, because he apparantly is no longer willing to have another Debate, before the North Carolina Primary, nor did he agree to allow the States of Florida and Michigan to revote. The People of those States are the rank and file Democrates, who had nothing to do with the rescheduling of their Primaries. Their Elected Officals did and he knows that. To continue to use the Excuse that the "Rules are the Rules" is wrong, and only divides and denies the rank and file their democratic vote.

Best moment of the debate: Hillary laughing at McCain's "They want to raise your taxes and have the AUDACITY to HOPE you don't mind." Of course Obama looked peevish. wahwahwahwah

Even though I agree that the Clinton camp has complained a lot, still I think Obama complaining about one bad debate is pretty sad.

I mean Clinton has gotten pretty tough coverage throughout this campaign, through most of the debates, and so the whining co-effiencients aren't equal.

I agree with Hector, your article is bringing some good journalism back to ABC. I was shocked because I thought Charles Gibson and George Stephanopolis were more professional. I can understand asking tough questions, but most of them were directed toward Obama, so it didn't even look equal -- and the clincher was bringing up that weatherman stuff -- that was just ridiculous and ABC lost all credibility because it looked they were really trying to find something that wasn't even there.

I am sick to death of the negativity that is surrounding the democratic campaign. I attempted to watch the debate, but was so annoyed with George and Charles' negative political journalism that I could no longer suffer through it. I agree with a previous post that many of the questions that were asked of each candidate were stupid and in my opinion irrelevant. Issues of Hilliary's lie of what happened in Bosnia and what O'Bama should have or shouldn't have done regarding his pastor doesn't matter as much as how people are going to pay for housing, gas, food, medical, decent wages.

Everyday we are hearing of citizens losing their jobs, their homes being foreclosed, gas prices escalating; the list can go on and on. And, journhalist want to sow discord and negativity?? I want to hear the candidates solution to that which concerns most of us all. Not the crap we are being subjected to by the media.

Needless to say, I was very dissatisfied with the way George and Charles handled the debate and disappointed with them. I expected better of them both.

Based upon some of the comments, we as people have a long way to go towards being united. This comment doesn't have a darn thing to do with my "patriotism". SSShhhh, I don't always wear my American flag pin: does this make me against my country? We can agree to disagree, but to be nasty? That is uncalled for and should not be tolerated.

scalie: It doesn't matter if the questions were ridiculous, unimportant, whatever --- the point is he can't handle the pressure. He failed miserably in a situation where he needed to show strength. Unless he is reading his script or talking to an adoring crowd, he fails miserably. Unfortunately, he's got a cult following that doesn't seem to care.

Haven't we all had enough of the bullying, intimidating, agressive tactics of the Obama supporters? - and Obama too for that matter!

Obama complaining about tough questions. Hillary, stop twisting words. He thinks, just as most, that the questions were studid and empty..not tough. Obama did right by dusting off his shoulders. After she's out, maybe we then can have a serious debate about with MCain about what we need to put America back on track.

Isn’t that the kettle calling the pot burnt?

If McCain or Hillary haven’t twisted Obama's words for political purposes, or cried foul for being attacked, then I must be dumb, and I don't appreciate being condescended too. It’s about the facts, not the manipulation of someone’s words, and the fact is that Clinton and McCain both have records that are impotent at best and completely corrupt most often. What we know about Hillary and John is that they play the press and the public well mostly because they will say whatever the public wants to hear no matter how dishonest, and if you check the facts it almost always is a lie, and they have done nothing to stop and in fact promoted the debacle that this country is now in, both the war and the economy. But I asked myself what do I know about Obama? Well I know that I didn’t support him in the beginning and I still think of him as the lesser of three (evils?). I’ll explain how I could make such a decision to support him? Obama’s voting record is only slightly left of Hillary’s, and Hillary’s voting record is only midway left of McCain’s even though Hillary’s is way to the right of center and Obama’s is just about center, McCain’ voting record is that of a man that knows nothing of what is happening in the world other his own blind drive for power. And Hillary’s position on anything is questionable sense it flip-flops whenever her actions don’t sit well with the voters, as well as being driven only by power. Other then that my decision was set in stone when both Hillary and McCain decided to use a kind of political correctness that reminded me of the rhetoric that we the voting public lack patriotism because we question the war, our government, or our president? All assumptions I find patently insulting. So future President Obama, get used to it Hillary and McCain, but you were not my first choice but now you are my only choice. Congratulations

Calvin, yes, are you talking about the young group that still love off mom and dad? Spend many hours playing video games, have never had a mortgage, made car payments, or had any other burdens of live. Yea, they all follow the pied piper of hope.....change....hope....change....hope.....change......

Hank, how long did Obama service in the military?

Cmon people we get it, Hillary is a woman and you will vote for her because SHE is a woman, period. No pun intended. But, you fail to realize that Obama represents a bigger cross section of America then either Hillary or Mccain. I see young people who are truly excited about being part of this historic race and I see that all the negative campaigning by Hillary hurting the democractic party. Hillary is only concerned about HILLARY, she does not care about the issues. She knows that the only way she can win is to drag Obama down to her level and she is using you (WOMEN) to do it for her. You should wake up and see that America needs the change that Obama will bring if elected. He will force a change of the status quo, he will bring the country back from the brink of depression, he is the only one who will unify the country. Hillary and McCain will only tear it apart, it will be politics as usual. We need the change that Obama will bring. We need someone who is not jaded in the WH, someone who will bring about positive change and who will help to bring the USA back to prominance on the world stage and as a positive world leader instead of being the world's cop. Obama 08, stop with the negative rants Hillary, your disenfranchising a whole new group of voters in young people.

No whining from HilLIARy???? That's all she's been doing! Ever hear of Florida and Michigan?

And what about her being a baby in the last debate about "why do I always get the first question?"

The Debate on ABC sucked.

Clinton has had nothing be grief from the MSM. Obama gets a couple of questions he should have already been asked by now. Thank you ABC for doing your job. The coverage was and still is tilted toward Obama.

The Rev Jeremiah A Wright, Jr wore the uniform of his country serving six years in the United States Marine Corps and the United States Navy. He served his time defending the right of free speech and has the right to speak freely. You do not have to agree with what he says but Bill how long did you serve? We know HRC dodged bullets so I guess she can wear the CIB.

No one is stealing. Everyone is playing the game by RULE of DNC...

If Dems is defeated in G.E. Dean will be the first one to resign...

It's just stupid DNC primary rule to ruin the whole Dem party..

Andrea: sad, but true are your Clinton and Obama rules. I have never seen such double standards in my life. The latest example being the abc debate -- Obama shows that he is not ready for the presidency and Hillary comes out as negative. I guess she was supposed to come to his defense.

I was totally disappointed with this debate. The CNN Compassion forum was much much better. ABC blew it. The candidates had no problems attacking one another. We did not need ABC fanning the flames of these dying fires. We need answers to this complex mess our country in presently. Your debate did very little to address this. Do a better job next time or stop sponsoring debates. Leave it to others who care about the real issues.
D.J. of Philadelphia, PA

Lets not forget....Obama won 12 states in a row! 12 STATES IN A ROW!

So someone tell me again how he would be 'stealing' this nomination?

In the words of Obama " I borrowed this" but I thought it was dead on...

The Clinton Rules
1. If anything bad happens to the Democrats in this campaign, it can and should be blamed on Hillary Clinton.
2. Every statement of any supporter or surrogate of Hillary Clinton is a reflection of Hillary Clinton’s personal views or directives.
3. If Hillary Clinton gets the nomination (through her evil machinations) and loses, it will be the fault of Hillary Clinton and her supporters.
4. Any votes that Hillary Clinton receives from Independents and Republicans are due to their interest in preventing Sen. Obama from becoming the Democratic nominee and defeating Sen. John McCain. After all, the GOP wants to run against Hillary Clinton in the Fall!
5. If Hillary Clinton attempts to work the completely screwed up primary system to her advantage, it represents vote-stealing and cheating.

The Obama Rules

1. If anything good happens to the Democrats in this campaign, it can and should be attributed to Sen. Barack Obama.
2. NOT every statement of any prominent supporter or surrogate of Barack Obama is a reflection of Barack Obama’s personal views or directives.
3. If Sen. Obama gets the nomination and loses, it will be the fault of Hillary Clinton and her supporters.
4. Any votes that Sen. Obama receives from Independents and Republicans are a result of his uplifting and positive campaign of hope, change and unity and his incredible coattails - and not because they are just becoming Democrats for a day. After all, isn’t it ridiculous that Democrats alone are allowed to pick the Democratic nominee?
5. If Sen. Obama attempts to work the completely screwed up primary system to his advantage, it represents hope, optimism and change and a reflection of the will of the people.

Although I have almost written off ABC as a credible news source after the debacle of the so called debate...I must admit your headline could not be closer to the truth!

It is not suprising that most of Obama's fans thought the questions ABC asked they called "stupid"?

It proved that Obama couldn't even handle "stupid" questions, how can he deal with real issues???

A true leader can govern all kind of situations. It is not about the issues, it is about how he reacts! - that is the true intelligent and true leadership...

Otherwise, Obama is just a spokenman to read the note written by his advisors... He is not qualified to be a president yet...

OK. The questions weren't TOUGH, just S-T-O-O-O-P-I-D. Who WOULDN'T be exasperated at having to justify one's patriotism for the umpteenth time to "Dottie in Duluth". Forty-five minutes and 16 "questions" before a single relevent issue is raised. What is that? Most Americans would be indignant at a single questioning of their patriotism; here this guy has been defending his for months. Of all the questions from 300 million Americans and THIS is the one ABC chooses to air? If wearing or not wearing a flag lapel pin is considered a more relevent issue by the "average" voter than Iraq, global warming, healthcare, the economy, social security et al, then we are in a lot worse trouble than we think. Send Charlie back to Good Morning, America - he'll have an audience more enamored of his particular style of "journalism".

Yes they did a great "Fair and Balance" fox debate
Hillay and Obama both deserve better then that!
The people deserved a real debate not a roast!
Gibson and Stephanopoulos "despicable"

I scratch my face with my middle finger quite frequently, but actually I hope he DID give Hillary "the finger".
Perhaps he used his middle finger because his index finger was contaminated by all the vitrolic dust he scraped off his shoulder.

Jack, thanks for quoting both Fox News and ABC aligning to deliver the same message. It's good that you are honest about how ABC is now aligning itself with Fox News.

you don't get to choose your family, but you can choose your pastor....

you choose your husband as well.

Its a same ABS = Fox

Obama has complained a lot less about media coverage than the Clintons, even though he's been far more under the microscope than the Clintons have since Super Tuesday.

We need a once-in-a-lifetime president, which Obama can be, to erase the worst-in-our-history president's legacy of 2001-2008. Last chance to save the US of A as we once knew it from the 1980-2008 continuous sell-off of everything we hold dear.

Sam Nunn and David Boren endorse Obama, an acknowledgment that his message has pretty well absorbed the high aspirations of the group Unity '08.

Obama08

I GUESS IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE $250 THOUSAND A YEAR VIEWERS YOU ONLY SPEAK ON THE COMPLAINING OR LACK OF IT ...
I AM ASTOUNDED AND AT A LOSS OF WORDS TO DISCRIBE ABC AND CHARLES .GEORGE YOU I'D EXPECT POOR PERFORMANCE WITH BARACK ,BUT CHARLES I'M TRUELY DISAPPOINTED THAT YOU DIDN'T GO FOR THE ISSUES OF BEING PRESIDENT .USUALLY I CAN'T WAIT TO WATCH YOUR SHOW AND YOU .

True...those were not very good and tough questions.

They were stupid questions.
Do you know if your pastor is more patriotic than you??

That was just stupid.

Explain your relationship with a colleague....that same colleague teaches impressionable 18 yr olds, but there is something sinister about them being friendly?

That's not tough, that's stupid.

Why don't you wear a flag pin?

Hmmmmm, you mean that same flag pin that no one else had on =look around=....THAT flag pin?

lol just stupid.

Those were not tough questions. They were stupid questions. Plain and simple. Obama came out on top with integrity intact. I know a superdelegate personally and the talk amongst some of them right now is that Hillary too easily accepted cheap politics over real issues. Americans do not want a cheap president. Dems know McCain can beat Hillary.

Hillary's shameless attempts to embarrass Senator Barack Obama over the last week and during the ABC Debate, pandering to Shock Jocks and Poison Pen Writers posing as "Journalist" which is no more than Acting Bad entertainment. Her aim as she claims, is to try and sway Super Delegates. The Polls show no one is listening to HRC especially the Super Delegates. HRC is complicit with these "Yellow Journalist". The Media Industry and the FCC may need to do a little Policing when obvious Free Speech Rights may be abused. HRC has nothing further to add at this time, and time will remove her from the Public Square of the Democratic nominee process. Short biased opinion masquerading as objective fact is rejected,coming either from Hillary's camp or biased media this is not complaining on Obama's part.

Andrea, are we looking at the same campaign??

now we are talking about a finger?

People are rioting in countries over lack of food. More layoffs are being announced. More and more of our servicemen are coming back with ailments that are not being looked after. But lets keep focusing on fingers and flag pins (which anyone can wear doesn't really mean much)

American people are not stupid???I don't know who elected G. Bush. Not me.

ABC asked very good and tough questions. If you can't handle the heat, you may hit a wrong button to launch nuclear weapon to your ally...

A president should be able to handle any tough situation facing him... Clearly Obama is not ready for it yet...

No one can really win over the issues thru the debate depending how people taste them,

The debate is NOT about the issues, it is about how you react....

Obama just reacted poorly..

Doesn't it worry any of you that are independent, Clinton supporters or even Republicans, that the press and also the superdelegates are being bullied into Obama's candidacy by his supporters who have a mob mentality? I am worried. This is not the way to select a president. Clinton has half the support in this primary- Obama and his mob are not succeeding at convincing (threatening) everyone. This is reminiscent of how G.W ran his campaign with the right-wing supporters pushing him so aggressively. I am reminded of a quote by Gloria Steinem who said "Evil is obvious only in retrospect."

The main point is this:
Obama has had a free ride from the press throughout this primary and the first time he was asked a number of tough questions, he buckled. Clinton and her supporters never complained about getting hard questions, rather they noted that Obama never seemed to get them. When she did this the media said she was whining. Now Obama tries to make the case and suddenly the press gives in to his complaints? There is something fishy going on here. What's good for the gander is good for the goose.

oh yeah =gasp= I almost forgot...there's a primary next week.

Its about time for either the clintons or someone to create a new scandal regarding Obama....

Watch out folks, cuz its a comin'.

This is the largest "complaint" the Clintons have had, that Obama was getting off easy yet when he does have to come "under the gun" they then have to drag out another lie. That they have not complained. That's the thing, and the difference here, is that these 2 lie when the truth would serve them better but they think the public is so stupid that they won't catch on to yet another lie.
She is losing in all polls, she is behind with no hope of catching up and she can only win if the will of the majority of the American public is thrown under the bus...and all polls point to the lies, the bashing and the inability to change their actions...and yet they still lie.
She deserves to lose and not only deserves, she is entitled to it since it is the only thing she has earned in this race.

Clinton and McCain are politics as usual, bought and paid for by the people who make more in one year than most of us will make in a lifetime. I''m voting for the guy being funded one $25 contribution at a time by average Americans in RECORD numbers -- which just goes to show we are sick of politics as usual and GOTCHA news media as usual. Turn the cameras on Britney Spears if you need salacious gossip. Let''s stick to the WAR, ECONOMY, HEALTHCARE and other serious issues when we talk politics.

Congratulations on an excellent debate.
Gibson and Stephanopolous surprised me with their questions to Obama. All of us want them answered. He is like the emporer in his new clothes, bare of substance, all fantasy with fine words. You can fool some of the people some of the time, but our long election period has exposed him as totally unprepared to be President of the U.S.

Good Grief! It just came to me. I think George and Charlie read these blogs to get thier questions.

They realy believe that thiese are the questions America is asking! Holy Cow!

Thanks for not repeating the Clintons' distortions without correction. The AP has taken a similar approach today:

"'We were both asked some pretty tough questions and that's part of what happens in a debate and in a campaign, and I know he spent all day yesterday complaining about the hard questions he was asked,' Clinton said, although Obama did not complain about the difficulty of the questions, just the substance."

wow, this debate was equivalent to tabloid reporting. does anyone realize that George S. used to work for president Clinton. so how is he expected to not favor Hillary Clinton. this is showing the true nature of the Clinton's. that we will do anything attitude. what a shame

ABC thank you-we do want to know. hillary supporters refer to that as fair and balalnced reporting. obama supportes on the other hand are always bitter, angry, and rude. obama flipping-off hillary? can we see the video/footage/link please.

The American people are not stupid.

Who is falling for the Clintons' petty games?

There's a reason Obama is winning this race, and a reason he's going to win in November.

We're sick of the politics of sleaze and ready to elect a president who will work for us, not corporate lobbyists, foreign governments, media windbags, and most importantly, themselves. Hello 100 million, Bill and Hillary Clinton.

OBAMA 08

I love the solution to gas prices from both of them, look for the big evil corporation and fund a big government program by raising taxes.

Gas prices are a result of Supply and Demand. Look on the road and see all these people with huge SUVs drinking gas. Maybe we need to tax all vehiles that get less than 25 MPG to pay for alternative fuel. The rest of the world still pays more than we do for gas, it is a global economy, get use to it. Everyone one with a 401K or money in a stock fund loves the oil companies results, but of course in a communist, oops I mean democrat, world business shouldn't make money.

Actually it was 52 minutes before they asked about any of the issues.

But hey...I thought the debate was supposed to be between Obama and clinton. So why were the moderators interrupting and 'debating' with Obama?

Because it wasn't a debate....it was a hit job. They didn't really want to discuss issues, just continue to ask Obama the same questions over and over again. The sean hannity question....nothing but innuendo, no substance. If we continue to ask the question, there has to be something to it, just because we say so.
Disingenuous crap people.

She did not complain! She cried her eyes out! Get it straight.

Hillary Clinton, D-NY, said of Obama, "I know he spent all day yesterday complaining about the hard questions he was asked.
I have not heard Barack Obama complaining that the questions were HARD! He is rightly complaining that it tuck 45 minutes to get TO any meangfull questions on the ISSUES
ABC YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED TO HAVE CALLED THIS A DEBATE!

Hillary is the true complainer.... She and Bill have it down to an art form...

Hmmm...funny, wasn't it Hillary and Bill who started the "complain" game when they said she was unfairly given harsher quetions in another debate? Oh wait, maybe not, or maybe, or maybe I don't have the facts right, or maybe I'm having a senior moment. Never mind let's talk abotu Bosnia, NAFTA, etc., at least Hillary almost got those stories right, or maybe not, or maybe I don't remember, or maybe I was just had a lapse in memory.

I would only be BITTER
if I lived in a country that I knew could never CHNAGE.

Thank God, George W. is not Dictator.

go USA

Let's face it, friends...

The Clintons have gotten to the point of being just plain scary. It's so blatantly obvious that they'll say anything and do anything to score a cheap political point.

She needs to get out of the race and Bill needs to go back to making millions peddling his presidential influence with tin pot dictators and tassle-toed pansies in Washington DC.

lol I see most of you hillary supporters just make up stuff to talk about.

Obama did not give hillary the finger.

He brushed the criticism off lol but he didn't give her the finger. The man has much more class than that.