DoOver Tonight: Clinton's Chance To Undo Damage

The Democrats' first debate out West gives the party's presidential contenders an opportunity to spotlight the region's issues -- though the focus may be more on the first face-to-face confrontation between Hillary Rodham Clinton and her foes since the "piling on" debate of two weeks ago.

Thursday night's debate comes exactly seven weeks before the Iowa caucuses lead off the voting for 2008 presidential nominations. Clinton, the New York senator, is the party's front-runner in national polls but is in a tight race in Iowa with Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina.

Those two challengers went after her hard in Philadelphia two weeks ago, raising questions about her candor and willingness to answer tough questions, and leading her to declare her foes were "piling on because I'm winning."

In that debate -- "I wasn't at my best," Clinton conceded -- she gave a muddy series of answers on the subject of giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. On Wednesday, the eve of the Las Vegas debate, she said unequivocally that she did not support the idea.

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Comments

[gotalife]

10:28 PM on 11/15/2007

She sealed the deal like I predicted.

Time to back a winner,

The Clintons.

They will clean up the bushies mess again.

[freespeach]

09:26 PM on 11/15/2007

Biden looks good on the Iran issue responding to that woman and her son in the military.

Hillary is full of shit.

Hope Kucinich gets to speak on this one.....

[racetoinfinity]

09:25 PM on 11/15/2007

Those numerous "U.S. Trust" - managing wealth for the wealthy (a new division of the Bank of America) commercials on CNN now are turning my stomach.

A lot of that new wealth is blood and war treasure.

Kucinich and Edwards are the only ones who have talked about the plutocracy/corpotocracy (the elite rich corporate and corporate/investor class) in power lifting ("buying/'stealing') wealth upwards from the rest of the people in this country.

That sentimental narration and story design on the U.S. Trust commercials comforting the ultra wealthy is shallow as paper, and sick-making.

[SupremeIdiot]

09:10 PM on 11/15/2007

Theye talking about nuclear waste.

Need to do what the French do--recycle the waste and reuse it.

[dumbosrus]

09:00 PM on 11/15/2007

now Edwards is turning red.

This is a joke, time for the football game.

[cynic]

08:59 PM on 11/15/2007

And it's a race!!!


Who gives a flying fuck about ISSUES!!!


Sorry people, issues matter. Polls don't. Neither does Wolf Blitzer.

Who is really qualified and the best candidate to be President?

Any answers?

[dumbosrus]

08:59 PM on 11/15/2007

Oh my god, he did it again.

Bad news for Dumbacrats..........

[Chandidevi]

08:56 PM on 11/15/2007

John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich are speaking with passion and authenticity. Hillar Clinton is just another bozo on the bus. She can't be the front runner...CAN SHE???

[dumbosrus]

08:56 PM on 11/15/2007

Democratic Debate??

More like a Democratic Rebate!!!

This made for prime time crap has gotten boring. These nutjobs are stating the same stuff over and over and over, again.

Yet NONE of them are taking any responsibility.....

whoops, Kucinich just did.

It's a start.

[cynic]

08:55 PM on 11/15/2007

All 4 Democratic Senators running for President had better things to do than to vote against Mukasey for AG. None of them could bother to vote against TORTURE as the official policy of the United States.

All four of them are cowards and have no business being President.

I don't give a rat's ass what Hillary does or doesn't say. When it came down to being there when it mattered she wasn't. Neither was Obama, or Dodd.

If they can't back up their position of "opposing" Mukasey's confirmation with their own precious vote - they're not qualified to be President.

Who does that leave?
Edwards
Richardson
Kucinich

Who has experience in diplomacy, governing, leading, oh and by the way, nominated 5 times for Nobel Peace Prize... Governor Bill Richardson.

[StarsAndBars]

08:54 PM on 11/15/2007

two things completely overlooked:

human self-determination.

how are we going to pay for all this wonderful bureaucratic nonsense that these priviledged freaks are proposing?

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seriously. lets send more money to washington and rub our lucky rabbit's foot in hopes of getting it back. am i the only person on here that thinks about these things?

[Ginzaman]

08:54 PM on 11/15/2007

Hour 1 of the debate. And Kucinich gets 3 f*****g minutes. Can Blitzer make it any more obvious that the Time Warner neocon management ordered him and the others to totally shut him out?

[Chandidevi]

08:53 PM on 11/15/2007

Dennis Kucinich has barely had a chance to speak. What gives???

[guajiro]

08:53 PM on 11/15/2007

Concurrently watching the CNN Wolf Blitzer interview of the Democrats in the Democratic Debate and it is the most anti-democratic serving of questions I've heard. They all focus on demanding the candidates provide a one-word answer to a topic that needs a multi-textual response. I wish every one of the candidates would say to Wolf's demands of a one-word answer; I have no one-word answer to your question. Honest enough I think!!

[doug108]

08:47 PM on 11/15/2007

Why do you keep showing this picture that looks like Obama is leering at Hillary's ass?