Democrats paper over dispute in debate

[rodeodance]

Source: msnbc



Democrats paper over dispute in debate
Clinton, Obama, Edwards reject disagreement over race in Nevada meeting

MSNBC staff and news service reports
updated 20 minutes ago

LAS VEGAS - With accusations of racial insensitivity flying among their camps, the top three Democratic presidential contenders gathered Tuesday evening for an MSNBC debate focusing closely on issues important to minority communities.


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The question of race came up immediately on the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., whose legacy was part of a clash between the Clinton and Obama campaigns over the past week. Obama supporters accused Clinton of slighting King’s achievements, while Clinton supporters claimed that the Obama camp twisted her words for political advantage among black voters.

‘Race has always been an issue’
Both candidates issued conciliatory statements Tuesday, and they sought to further smooth the waters Tuesday night.

“We both sometimes have exuberant and uncontrollable supporters,” Clinton said. “... I think it’s appropriate on Dr. King’s birthday to recognize that all of us are here as a result of what he did.”

Obama echoed the sentiment. ....





Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22656153/

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Good--they told Russturd to take a hike. tsk tsk

[maddezmom]

1. Democratic rivals discuss race in debate

Democratic rivals discuss race in debate
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BY NEDRA PICKLER AND DAVID ESPO
Associated Press

LAS VEGAS -- Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama jointly pledged to bury a rancorous debate over race Tuesday night, each agreeing in a nationally televised debate that the other had long favored civil rights.

Both blamed supporters for some of the anger that had seeped into their competition for the party's presidential nomination in recent days.

''We both have exuberant and sometimes uncontrollable supporters,'' Clinton said in the opening moments of a two-hour debate televised on MSNBC.

Obama said both have ``supporters or staff who get overzealous. They start saying things that I would not say.''

more:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_po/republican_rdp;_ylt=AtdG5gt1tnjxik7tcth7a4OyFz4D

[Voice for Peace]

2. Kucinich excluded after all. Really infuriating.

"The debate in Las Vegas, which was televised by MSNBC and streamed live on msnbc.com , took place without Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, who lost a last-minute court battle after attorneys for NBC Universal persuaded the Nevada Supreme Court to uphold its decision to block him from the debate. "

Well at least he's getting a chance to be heard by the people in Russia.

[syberlion]

3. Clinton, Obama vow to bury race debate

Source: Associated Press

"Obama won the kickoff Iowa caucuses less than two weeks ago, and Clinton countered with an upset victory last Tuesday in the New Hampshire primary. Edwards is winless. After Nevada, the South Carolina Democratic primary is Jan. 26, then the campaign explodes with nearly two dozen contests on Feb. 5."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_el_pr/democratic_rdp

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They neglected to add, that Edwards beat Clinton in Iowa. MSM has already voted and elected their president. What galls me is how transparent they are about it, as if no one sees what is going on and how DK has consistently been right on every issue this current illegal administration has perpetrated.

What is it going to take to wrench the controls from these greedy, war-mongering, planet-killing globalist?

If you read the article, you will see the "two-person" scripting and how Edwards is completely discounted as so much road kill, and as for Dennis Kucinich, he's mentioned as an afterthought in the last paragraph in the article, stating, "...the Nevada Supreme Court ruled shortly before the debate began that MSNBC was legally entitled to prevent him from participating. It promptly did."

So once again, as with Bush V Gore, the courts decided, not the electorate who is allowed to be involved in the democratic process. Is this what you want?

I believe the country I was born to is no more. The values I was taught are no longer valued in the halls of the governing bodies. The moral fiber has decayed and sits rotten for everyone to see and smell. We are no longer a country with representational government, we are not what our founding fathers fought and died all those years ago. Men's and women's avarice, greed and self serving attitudes got us where we are today. We no longer revere those words penned by the thoughtful men, brave and daring, "We The People..."

The corporations - no it's not some nameless, faceless "corporations." It is Rupart Murdoch, General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt, Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone, ex-CEO of Halliburton Cheney, Halliburton's CEO David Lesar, Raymond V. Gilmartin Chairman, President and CEO Merck & Co., and more. These are the persons We The People must find out more about. Who are they supporting? Who are they donating money to? What type of fund raisers are they hosting? THIS is what needs to be news, this is what needs to be known by everyone. Then you will see who is really controlling the country.

We must work to bring these people into the light. They've worked tirelessly in the dark like little nasty cockroaches spreading their filth. They've helped to infect the election process and usurp the real power in this country, We The People.

[fooj]

4. Our voices will be heard.

Edwards is my choice.

[loveangelc]

5. thank God.

[avrdream]

6. Well, that was a bit more coverage than Edwards usually gets but

Poor Kucinich. One little sentence at the very end.

[Chisox08]

7. The Race debate was started by Karl Rove.

Karl Rove was the first to bring up race in the Murdoch Street Times on the OPED pages. Chris Mathews egged it on when Micheal Eric Dyson wsa on his show and said that people stated to the pollsters that they would vote for Obama and they turned around in voted for HRC. The M$M is doing their best to get Obama and Clinton to throw enough dirt at each other so that the Republicans don't have to.

[gratuitous]

8. Improved headline

"Democrats decline to dance to media's racism tune"