Clinton agrees to debate on Fox

[Blue State Bandit]

Source: USA Today

After joining the Democratic National Committee and the party's other contenders in a boycott of debates sponsored by the Fox network, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign said today that it has accepted an invitation to a Fox forum scheduled for next Monday, The Huffington Post's Sam Stein reports.

But her Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama, has not yet done so.



Read more: http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/02/clinton-agrees.html

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Another broken agreement?

[DJ13]

1. Another broken agreement?

Yep.

Desperate people do desperate things.

I hope Obama tells her to pound sand, thats far too many debates, it would turn off the voters.

(Which may be part of the Clinton strategy.)

[beachbum bob]

2. no doubt

another example of hillary saying one thing and doin another...another broken agreeement. I truly hope Obama tells her to debate bill.. why would obama go on foxnoise to be subjected to their crapto the benefit of hillary.

coulter's endorsement has gone to hillary's head. Say or do anything to get elected.

[EV_Ares]

3. Well, after all Rupert Murdoch held that big fundraiser for her at his home, eom.

[wicket]

8. BINGO!

[psychopomp]

17. This should be mentioned when Sen. Obama declines

Knowledge of this fund raiser should be more widely disseminated.

[depakid]

21. Let's hope he does....

NOTHING good can come of it- for either candidate.

[krkaufman]

15. Yep, yet another pledge broken.

This one still ticks me off the most, though.

[krkaufman]

16. Obama would need to frame it as sticking to his prior pledge.

But the Clinton campaign would *still* spin Obama's refusal to debate/forum on Fox News as Obama being hypocritical, on one hand talking about reaching out and unity while on the other refusing to reach out to Fox Noise viewers.

Chalk up another in Hillary's "do anything" column.

[From The Left]

4. Hillary Follows the Money to FOX Noise

Remember, Rupert Murdock threw a fundraiser for Hillary early on. Hillary doesn't give a rat's ass about party unity -- Hillary cares about Hillary. For years the rightwing has alleged the Clintons had a thirty year plan to grab the ropes of power and hold them fast. In 1998, I would've and did, say baloney. Not today. I think at least some on the right were correct about the Clintons all along.

[onenote]

5. given that Obama just appeared on Fox and Friends, I'm not sure why this is a big deal

Frankly, it would make a lot of sense for Obama to agree to go on Fox News (as much as I dislike FOx News) and debate HRC. Obama is presenting himself as someone who can reach across the current divisions and change the tenor of the debate. For both HRC and Obama to go on FOx strikes me as a good move since they aren't going to alienate any of the Fox News viewers, who already almost certainly are disinclined to support them, and they might actually win a few over. Fox News viewers have an almost cartoon-like image of HRC and Obama presented to them on a daily basis by the likes of Hannity, Gibson, Oreilly. Why not go on and show the Fox News viewers what they're really like?

[msanthrope]

13. Indeed--it's not like the two of them couldn't

handle the Faux bobbleheads. They can.

And both of them have been on Faux plenty of times before.

[SoFlaJet]

6. Don't do it Obama

She is comfortable on that network-none of us are

[leftynyc]

25. Then why was Obama

on Fox and Friends?

[ohio2007]

7. FOX will be throwing "the high heat" at her. Obama to remain on the bench ?

She's going to fingerpoint imo

[superconnected]

9. Where she belongs. They can keep her.

The great question that I am not clear on but strongly suspect is true, is if Obama belongs there too. It's a corportist sell us out to the higest bidder chip on my shoulder thing...

[guruoo]

10. Tough predicting what will happen if BO turns this down

[ikojo]

11. Why shouldn't she debate on Faux?

After all Rupert Murdoch did host a fund raiser for her last year.

You know what they say about birds and feathers....

[leftynyc]

26. His biggest newspaper endored Obama (n/t)

[NoodleyAppendage]

12. Paying back the payola Murdock gave her early in the election process, no doubt.

The chicken comes back home to familiar territory to roost. GOD, I'LL BE SO GLAD FOR HILLARY TO RETURN TO THE DUST HEAP OF HISTORY! Arrrggghhhhhhhhhhhhh...

J

[tabasco]

14. What a shocker. Not.

[western mass]

18. Pathetic.

Never fails to remind us how much of a RW appeaser she is.

[Pachamama]

19. Poor Hillary....she won't have the $$$ like Obama in moving forward since most of her big donors are

maxed out from their limits, whereas Obama has so many donors who can give even in small amounts adding up big, that the only way that Hillary can get airtime is to be in debates. So there she goes to Fox and then what, hope to make Obama look afraid of debating her? Well, I for one hope that Obama refuses to debate her and have anything to do with Fox ever.

[PADemD]

20. Why should he waste his time preparing for a debate on FOX.

He has many more states in which to campaign before their primaries.

[onenote]

22. well, for one thing, some of those states have "open" primaries

in which repubs/independents can vote. And with conservatives bashing McCain, why not go fishing for some additional votes?

[bronxiteforever]

23. The New Triangulation Begins

[tomg]

24. It was interesting what Chris

Wallace had to say on A Daily Show last night. When he mentioned that Hillary was going to be on, and Stewart asked about Obama, Wallace said that now that she had agreed, it looked probable. Stewart came back and said ( or words to this effect), so it seemed that it was John Edwards who was holding them to it and had held the line all along. To which ( again paraphrase but closer) Wallace replied that at Fox they saw Edwards a little differently as pandering to the far left. The boos he got on that were wonderful and Stewart just cracked up.

I can live with Obama or Hillary, but damn, I wish Edwards was still in it. For that matter, I wish Kucinich was still in it.

disclaimer - I have stopped watching A Daily Show ( among others) until the strike is over, but every now and then I stop for a second when surfing. I also smoked for twenty years and then quit, but every now and then when I could still smoke in a bar or pub. . . ( mea culpa)