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Hillary: Palin 'Composed...Effective' During Debate
October 03, 2008 4:19 PM
ABC News' Nitya Venkataraman Reports: If you were asking her to score it, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., would describe Sen. Joe Biden's debate performance as "flawless", and tell you she'd always expected high marks for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on the debate stage.
"I think she's very good," Clinton said, praising Palin on Ryan Seacrest's Los Angeles-based radio show Friday morning. "It's amazing: she's been thrust into the national spotlight with very little preparation and I think that, all things considered, you saw a very composed and effective debater last night."
Praise for Palin's debate performance aside, Clinton reiterated her support for her former Democratic rivals during the morning radio interview and said "the real issue is who is better for America."
Referencing the current challenges facing the country -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's call for a potential $7 billion loan to California run day-to-day operations in his state among them -- the New York senator said "the Obama-Biden ticket is much more likely to deal with these tough problems and I think the McCain-Palin ticket, as we saw again last night, is offering pretty much the same prescription which helped to get us where we are today."
As for the debates themselves, the New York senator laughingly said she enjoys taking in a debate when neither she nor her husband are required to participate. It was hard to watch her husband face-off on the debate stage, Clinton said, and "nerve-wracking" to play her own tapes back. "It's like watching my daughter do something. It's just a human reaction when somebody you love or you're really rooting for is in that kind of position," Clinton said.
Clinton is in Los Angeles for an environmentally-themed Saturday fundraiser "Angelenos Go Green for Obama" to raise money for the Democratic presidential candidate and Democrats in November Senate races. The event will be headlined by longtime Clinton friend Jon Bon Jovi who hosted a New Jersey bash for Sen. Barack Obama last month which hauled in more than $4 million.
Both Sen. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have come under recent fire for what some interpret as lukewarm support of Obama who defeated the New York senator four months ago after a bruising, eighteen-month battle for the Democratic presidential nomination that left deep divisions within the party.
Despite her praise for Palin, Clinton stood firm behind her party encouraging voters to "strike the center" and "figure out how we're going to work our way through this" to "come out of it stronger than we went in."
"What I'm hoping is on November 4 we are going to clean house from top to bottom, we're going to get back to having people who know what they're doing and can explain it," Clinton said. "But I am really hopeful we're going to elect strong Democrats, we're going to get back to putting the people's business first, we're going to get a much better balance between the do-nothing folks and the do-everything folks."
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There was no need for her to bring up my abs in the middle of everything...
Posted by: Joe Six-Pack | Oct 3, 2008 4:26:37 PM
WAY TO GO, HILLARY!!!! THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING GOVERNOR PALIN! I KNEW YOU LIKED HER!
OOPSS...LOOKS LIKE HILLARY DOESNT SUPPORT NOBAMA 100% AFTER ALL...SORRY OBAMABOTS, YOU LOSE!!!!
Posted by: NewOrleansLady | Oct 3, 2008 4:33:55 PM
Looks like Hillary likes Palin as well:
"I think she's very good," Clinton said, praising Palin on Ryan Seacrest's Los Angeles-based radio show Friday morning. "It's amazing: she's been thrust into the national spotlight with very little preparation and I think that, all things considered, you saw a very composed and effective debater last night."
Posted by: Nottingham | Oct 3, 2008 4:35:10 PM
I hope they clean house also.. for both sides.
Posted by: beck | Oct 3, 2008 4:36:04 PM
If Obama wins this election, Hillary won't get her chance in 2012. McCain 2008 ~ Clinton 2012!
Posted by: Michelle | Oct 3, 2008 4:36:31 PM
Senator Hillary Clinton: the best Presidential candidate that our children, our troops and America needs more than any other
Posted by: chris | Oct 3, 2008 4:37:14 PM
Thanks Hillary,
Now we will see Whoopi,Joy,Sheri, Barbara,msnbc,cnn,abc,nbc, panties all in a bunch for Hillary's comment.
Posted by: blksister | Oct 3, 2008 4:39:04 PM
I was impressed with the both of them. Biden showed he knows how to answer questions in a calm and civil manner, while Palin was in command of the questions put forth before her. The one glareing point that was a tripping point was Palin's incestance to change course when she could NOT anwser. All-in-all, no one bloodied each other and the debate, if you can call it that ended in a draw!!!
Posted by: Ken Woodard | Oct 3, 2008 4:39:47 PM
The bar was set low for Palin, so of course she looked good. I really find her "folksy" stuff nauseating, and she really didn't answer the questions well. The whole thing about the fundamentals of the economy being strong referring to the American people - do they really think we are that stupid. Her folksy act belongs on Hee Haw - not in the vice presidential debates!
Posted by: malkittens | Oct 3, 2008 4:40:00 PM
Imagine
Mrs. Joe Six Pack...
the President is in a plane somewhere
and she is told she needs to ask the President permission to shoot down a plane with a suspected terrorist on it...and a bomb somewhere on it that couldn't be found / was not confirmed...
and it is a domestic carrier..?
if it was Israeli?
if it was Russian?
now imagine her if it was British?
that's right Mrs Joe Six pack ...mrs... picks the questions she has been prepped for
Mrs..throw insults and then dive behind her gender and smile?
imagine her making decisions to shoot down commercial planes with 100's maybe thousands of civilians...Americans on them
imagine her if she was sitting near "the button"...and Russia invaded Poland ? Takikistan?
or India sent a nuclear missile into Kashmir?
People enough is enough
this woman is not equipped to be president.
she makes Huckabee look scientific and diplomatically aware.
this is crazy and the same team that threw us under the bus for their own power is now trying to do it again.
Posted by: dl | Oct 3, 2008 4:40:01 PM
There are 2 types of republicans, the rich and the joe 6-pack. Only problem is the rich republicans get the prize, and the joe 6-pack republicans get to foot the bill (BAIL-out). NOT this time NOT with all us joe 6-pack republicans voting for OBAMA 2008...THIS man is for real.
Posted by: Sara palin | Oct 3, 2008 4:40:28 PM
Clinton will get her chance in 2012, regardless of who wins in November, because both mccain and obama are weaker, less capable and comparatively unprepared for what awaits the President who starts his job in January of 2009, whereas Hillary's mere election would have begun the resurrection of America's international credibility and declining market numbers, and her job performance would have made her re-election a waste of time for any potential opponents
Posted by: chris | Oct 3, 2008 4:42:22 PM
OBAMA 2008...I am vote with my POCKETBOOK...I need more money
Posted by: SARA Palin | Oct 3, 2008 4:42:39 PM
Thanks Hillary,
Since we can't have you for our pres, at least we can vote for McCain and Palin. It is nice for at least one democratic leader to tell the truth about Palin's debate Performance.
The liberal media is out of ocontrol. Even Charlie Gibson last night was disgusted with the coverage. Every time he tried to act professional and comment truthfully, he was cut off by the bias talkers.
Posted by: Marilyn610 | Oct 3, 2008 4:43:00 PM
Hillary's faint praise of Sarah "Jesse Ventura" Palin is pitch-perfect: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. I'd love to see Hillary take Sarah on a walking tour of Harlem....
Posted by: fougasseu | Oct 3, 2008 4:43:14 PM
the key here is
she said she hopes we get back to having people "who know what they're doing and can explain it,"
yeah that ain't Mrs. pakin...ugh.
Posted by: dl | Oct 3, 2008 4:43:38 PM
Thanks Hillary, for the support of Governor Palin. I know you will be attacked by the Obamabots, the View, and all the media, excluding Fox News, since they are all in the tank for Obama. You were the better candidate and I would be voting for you, but as it stands, I can't even look at Obama and his self-centeredness...therefore, November 4, this democrat is voting for John McCain!
Posted by: Tina | Oct 3, 2008 4:45:47 PM
the only thing "real" about obama is his ambitions for political office (those same ambitions that made him join and abandon a church for the sole purpose of local credibility)
Posted by: chris | Oct 3, 2008 4:46:25 PM
I think Bill and Hill are coming around. I believe that they want what is best for middle America, because they too could be sitting on their laurels, Monday morning quarterbacking, and complaining and murmuring, but they are not. They are helping an organization that all but turned on them.
I want Hillary to become Secretary of State. She would be great. And I did not always believe she was qualified, until I saw what the Republicans (John McCain) thought about women. (one dimensional , one liner pinups).
They may win, but it won't be on substance.
And I am not even a part of the elite. (or unattractive).
I hope in the future there are more viable women candidates, but they should work their buns off like Hillary did.
You go girl!
Posted by: renu | Oct 3, 2008 4:46:34 PM
I say put our country first ... and let McCain have the next four years so we can ELECT HILLARY CLINTON IN 2012!!!!
Posted by: Francisco Cardenas | Oct 3, 2008 4:46:57 PM
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