Hillary, can't event get her own orginal slogan! She is ripping Obama's slogan, wow! Talk about a cheat! and since it rhymes, she is on a retreat!

Girlinvt--Thanks for pointing out that Clinton won California and New Hampshire, both states where Obama and Clinton have debated. You forgot to mention that they also debated in Iowa and South Carolina, two states which he won. In addition, the debates' transcript and video recording can be found on CNN, Youtube, and dozens of other popular sites on the internet available to everyone, so the idea that debates only affect one state, like they're the only people that saw it is rediculous. Maybe you should take up a career in politics, especially in the Clinton campiagn, where half-truths and mis-leading innudendo, trump anything else.

News flash: "Yes, We Can" did not originate with Obama but with Cesar Chavez. Let's understand that mister originality can really take quotes and speeches from others. He may want to have his speech writer check his plagarism manual.

Clinton has a bit of a political tin ear, I think, because she's still harping on this debate thing. I really think outside these blog message boards, most people who have any interest in debates have already seen enough to have a little debate fatigue.

I've already watched 4 debates and I do not want to see another one. Why does she keep harping about that? Enough with the debates already. The information about where each candidate stands on the issues, how they hope to accomplish these things are already out there. They aren't that far away from each other on most issues. She just wants to keep Obama away from the people. And I'm just curious but why would it matter if someone said "Yes we can" before. That's an issue? That speaks of someones' overall character? I'm more concerned that Bill Clinton will have a huge ax to grind when he gets into the whitehouse again.

Thanks to ABC for all you informative articles. I am gaining insight into your election process.

Excuse me, but I don't know of any candidate named "black" and the Millenium Development goal regarding foreign aid was established by the U.N.
Both candidates have endorsed it. The purpose is to help end world poverty, hunger, and disease in developing nations. I wasn't aware that China fell into that category.

Would everyone stop saying they've debated 18 times!? No they haven't. THEY'VE debated once. It is now just the two of them and those are the debates America needs to see.

Did I not hear that debates have been agreed in Texas and Ohio - maybe I am wrong?

What right has EITHER candidate to insist on being debated when it happens to suit them?

I little humility here might help!

In any case I for one prefer to see the candidates working the patch on the ground where they seem to be attracting audiences in the thousands, rather than participating in artificially structured debated where both parties walk on eggshells and we learn little

Why do people say the Clinton campaign is racist when almost all the blacks are voting for Obama?

Debates have a way of having candidates be on record as to what they stand for and having to explain their position.

If you are interested in the truth, you cannot possibly be against debates. Besides, what has a Havard graduate have to fear if he is willing to stand by and defend his policies. Unless, there is something to hide bihind all the hot rhetoric.

Ducking debates is "POLITICS AS USUAL".

Why does Hillary keep comparing herself to her husband. Doesn't she realise that they are two different people. That this is a completely different race. Can someone please nudge her on the shoulder and tell her this.

As usual, Obama fights back with words that are not his. He constantly tries to morph into MLK of JFK or the founding fathers. Nothing original. None of his thoughts. Empty suit. He borrows Hillary's work and treats like he thought of it first. His health care plan leaves 15 million uninsured, immigration solution is give illegals drivers license, but that doesn't begin to solve the real problem, social security, just work more years before you retire with less benefits, his foreign policy solution is bomb Pakistan. Either he doesn't have anything original to say or well, we don't know what he would say because he believes that everyone was tuned in to all the prior debates with 8 people and the single one on one with Hillary and his job is done as far as explaining his positions. We can just go to his web site for the Cliff Notes of what he hopes for.... I hope Hillary wins!

It's pretty clear by this point that the Clintons are willing to tear the party apart in order to win the nomination. Just today, Hillary is slamming Obama using John McCain's talking points about public financing in the general.

Hillary: We don't need Democrats to help the Republicans do their dirty work, they do it well enough themselves.

If Hillary insists on campaigning like a Republican, then I see no reason to not vote for the real thing. If she gets the nomination after all she and Bill have done to Obama, I'll vote McCain just to see that the Clinton's aren't rewarded for their behavior. I have a feeling I won't be the only one.

Maybe he's afraid to debate her because she might cry, lol.

Sorry, but both of these candidates are "bad news" just as McCain and Huckabee are.

There is little difference between those 4... it'll be SSDD. I suggest you write-in someone else... like Gravel or Kucinich those guys have awesome records in congress and they're more honest than the others. I guess the for Republicans you'd have to write-in Ron Paul, for the same reasons.

OF course if people had done their homework they would know all of this already and they would know why the founders wanted limited government and what they meant by "general welfare". Bill wasn't as good as everybody seems to remember... some of his policies looked good on the surface but really weren't that good.

Obama is the speech king. If he wins I will vote for him.Hillary is the smart substace queen. If she wins i will vote for her. I do not hate women. I am a gay latino man and I love Hillary. Latinos win Hillary.

"'I think the fact that he won’t debate me says a lot about his campaign,' Clinton said."

What is she talking about? Haven't the Democrats already had something like 18 debates? It seems like I can't turn on CNN or MSNBC without seeing yet another Democratic debate.

In fact, I checked, and they have another debate coming up this Thursday! Unbelievable.

The candidates should be available for any and all debates a state wishes to host for the viewing public. It doesn't matter how many they have done, they need to do as many as the voting public demands and saying no only shows weakness on the part of the candidate that refuses.

The reason Obama has agreed to debate in Ohio and Texas is because he is losing big in those states. By debating in those states he has everything to gain and nothing to lose. As for Hillary, she is already way ahead and by debating she has more to lose than gain, yet she has agreed. We have had only one head to head debate for the two candidates. I say have a debate for each state. Every state is different with different issues and concerns. Let the people in those states know where you stand so they can make an educated decision. What are you afraid of Obama?

The flip-flop of Hillaries campaign would be amusing if it not were a chance that with helpof the superdelegates she could win the nomination and eventually the Presidenecy. If her skill to select her advisors is repeated then, this would be catastrophe,

These examples:

1) Saying she is not concerned that the divise campaign extends itself to June,
even if anybody knows that given that the GOP has already free hands to battle for the general elections, each day lost diminish the Dem' chances

2) Issuing a release saying that she will try OBAMA's elected delegates to switch allegaince, which would provoke
such a backlash that it would doom her even more

3) Openly admitting that she counts on
the super-delegates to win the nomination, which means she is discarding already to get the majority of primery votes and so killing the motivation of her supporters to vote in the remainng primaries.

All this seems to REINFORCE THE PERCEPTION that her adviser BILL HAS LOST HIS POLITICAL TOUCH, possibly after his heart trouble !

tom