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Stephanopoulos defends debate performance: 'We asked tough but appropriate questions'

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Posted by Fred 2008-04-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 A "High Tech Lynching" as Clarence would call it! However I don't blame Stephanopoulos for the 'pitbull' tactics deployed; a former Clinton 'loyalist' and all, a viper like all the other snakes waiting their turn to pounce on the 'Boy Wonder'! I'm surprised Carville didn't make it three...Ooh he's with CNN. Thank goodness 'Stephy' didn't ask him on 'Live' TV if he ever dreamth of white women (ala Carter), or if he thought it was appropriate to tag a black man or woman for the Vice Presidency! I can just imagine ABC asking Nixon THAT question (If he thought it was the right thing to give the nod to a white man [sorry Mr. Ford])!!
The mere fact that Clinton felt at ease with the process, and grinning like a Cheshire Cat showed me, she was most pleased with the 'Bias'. No grilling the burger on both sides that night I guess. Maybe the acceptance of 'this' debate was a tactical strategy to vet certain 'issues' and 'fears' of some before the fall, but to millions of Obama's supporters, that was a 'knife that turned alittle too deep and often in his back, with no blood splatter to boot, on Hillary's side of the podium!! 'Stephy', sorry...You can't fill the 'Wolfman's shoes!

Posted by smn 2008-04-18 01:51|| 2008-04-18 01:51|| Front Page Top

#2 I think you missed a metaphor...

Posted by Pappy 2008-04-18 02:35|| 2008-04-18 02:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Tough questions for Democrats = "Gotcha! / politics of personal destruction / despicable", etc.

Tough questions for Republicans = "Why'd you go easy on him?"

Screw 'em. Let 'em bitch.

Posted by Raj 2008-04-18 08:02|| 2008-04-18 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4 So the donks are pissed off that it wasn't a pep rally?

They really don't have anything to be celebrating anyway.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-04-18 09:04|| 2008-04-18 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 LOL Pappy....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-18 09:28|| 2008-04-18 09:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Jeebus, smn, you visited Joe M's shop in Guam lately?

Posted by BA 2008-04-18 13:26|| 2008-04-18 13:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't I remember FEMA getting roasted for holding a mock news conference? I guess the shoe's on the other foot now and it doesn't fit so well, either.

Posted by gorb 2008-04-18 13:46|| 2008-04-18 13:46|| Front Page Top

#8 I think I found some:

The Obama camp must realize that it's fourth-down-and-twenty in the ninth inning with only four months left on the clock. They're still in no-man's land with the Hillary Army refusing to give up ground even with the stalwart lions of the Democrat party pushing her to jump into the abdication-wagon. To add another twisted thread to the Democrat presidential candidate tapestry, a high-profile Obama now faces a withering barrage from the MSM archers while wandering around in what was thought as friendly territory so that the Obama-fanboy/girl-yet-scared-of-Hillary-and-wanting-to-appear-disinterested-and-professional media doesn't give the impression that it has already placed the electoral crown on the prince's head.

Of course, it hasn't helped that the fog of Whole Foods Arugula and smoke from his pastor's sermons made it easier for millions of non-decided voters to sniff that something might be rotten in Denmark. After all, the press can't carry Obama's water allllll the way across the Election Desert while simultaneously juggling economy-has-gone-to-hell and we're-going-to-fry-if-we-don't live-in-yurts-and-elect-a-Democrat chainsaws.

Factor in his verbal missteps to San Francisco money-bags whilst wandering through in the swamps of Pennsylvania primary and then his rather hurried attempts to extract his 'Bruno Malis' from the mire, and you have African-origin (with a touch of caucasian) blood in the water that the ABC sharks have to latch on to with dutiful relish and mustard.

Posted by Pappy 2008-04-18 14:17|| 2008-04-18 14:17|| Front Page Top

#9 heh heh

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-18 14:50|| 2008-04-18 14:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Yurts followed by Bruno Malis? You've outdone yourself, Pappy dear.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-04-18 15:45|| 2008-04-18 15:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Pappy,

did you mean to say "fever swamps?" Other than that, I think you pretty much got them all.

Posted by Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707 2008-04-18 17:09|| 2008-04-18 17:09|| Front Page Top

#12 Pappy, you're like a fountain of metaphors

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-18 18:36|| 2008-04-18 18:36|| Front Page Top

#13 The pu**y dems complain that the first 40 minutes of the debate were a waste of time. In fact, the first 40 minutes of the debate were the best of the entire season.

Posted by MarkZ 2008-04-18 20:22|| 2008-04-18 20:22|| Front Page Top

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