Obama gets asked four times as many gotcha questions in the 4 debates between the two of them

[Hamlette]

Barack Obama has received the overwhelming majority of scandal questions over the course of the four debates, by a margin of 17 to 4. Obama has fielded questions about his "bitter" remarks, his connections to 60s-era radical William Ayers, two questions about flag lapels, two questions about his alleged plagiarism of speeches, three questions on Louis Farrakhan, and eight about Jeremiah Wright.

Clinton has received only four such questions -- two about her Bosnia trip, one about a photo of Obama in African garb that was linked to her campaign without evidence by the Drudge Report, and one over-the-top inquiry about Bill Clinton ("If your campaign can't control the former president now, what will it be like when you're in the White House?").

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/20/debate-analysis-abc-asked_n_97599.html

Yes, and ABC was worse, far worse, than any other of the 4 debates between Clinton and Obama.

[Saturday]

1. I never see you complain when Hillary is treated unfairly by the media.nt

[futureliveshere]

3. dude..read the article... BO has been asked MANY more irrelevant questions than HRC

across ALL the debates. So HRC has NOT been treated unfairly.

[bobbert]

23. yeah, those 4 questions were so bad, Hillary was treated unfairly

Those four questions were not as important to be asked in a debate as real issues, you are right, she was treated unfairly. Now that I said that, will you agree that during debates Obama was treated MORE unfairly? I guess not... That's all the OP was saying.

[saracat]

2. Stop it with the whining. D'you seriously think Obama shouldn't be asked these things?

The GOP are gonna bring them up.When Hillary was the frontrunner the netroots attitude was "Suck it up" ,they always jump the front runner. But Obama should be protected? Fuck that. Sorry ALL candidates should be questioned and St.Barack is no exception.

[Cant trust em]

15. Then let the GOP bring them up

But this just feeds the accusations that our media is more focused on entertainment than hard news. I find it difficult to imagine those questions being asked by BBC moderators.

[saracat]

16. Really? Then perhaps one should pay more attention to the British press!

[Cant trust em]

20. Everyone has their Daily Mail.

[Catchawave]

4. He'll get worse questions in the GE debates....

He better start preparing because the worse that can happen...flop sweat on teevee.

[FrenchieCat]

10. I'm sure he is aware of that......

But since he's twice a good of a candidate as the others running, he will do fine.

[jackson_dem]

13. Being aware is not the same as being prepared. Michael Dukakis anyone?

[jackson_dem]

5. That is what happens when you are the front runner

See Clinton, Hillary 2007 and for that matter at various points Mitt Romney, Rudy Giulani, and John W. McSame. Going back to 2004 look at Howard Dean and to a lesser extent Wes Clark.

[crankychatter]

6. AND he got them repeatedly, in different ways... like a hostile interrogation

they repeated it over and over and over

trying to rattle him deliberately

[jackson_dem]

12. Yeah. If he can't handle Charlie Gibson how can he handle the GE or foreign leaders?

[depakid]

7. That's usually the case with frontrunners

Ask Howard Dean about 2003....

[Hamlette]

9. except it started before he was the front runner...it's happened all along

My only point is, Hillary has NOT been treated unfairly.

And her supporters who think she has are not being truthful or living in reality.

[saracat]

17. Nonsense. Obama has been handledwith kid gloves till recently.

[Hamlette]

18. well, that's not what the study shows

but if you want to believe in fairy tales...carry on.

[saracat]

22. I believe that is your milieu!

[IsItJustMe]

8. It isn't fair, but Obama deals with it.

[moobu2]

11. It’s called vetting the candidate. It's a little late for them top start doing their job though

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Because the media and 95% of Americans are too fucking dumb to care about/understand actual issues

and prefer to call all the irrelevant bullshit "news", and talking about things at an intellectual level higher than second grade "being elitistical".

[BlooInBloo]

19. Clinton supporters WANT every other Democrat to recieve the same shoddy treatment she received...

... for years - it's there "get us back" time, in their psyches. Don't bother appealing their sense of... well anything. They only want to get every other non-Clinton-supporting Democrat back.

[WA98070]

21. He refuses to hit Hilary the way he'll hit McPain.