rangerBlog - July 25th, 2007

02:10 am - Public debate.

I admit, I've been working my way through the CNN/Youtube democratic debates. (It took me 10 minutes to find this page by the way- the actual YTDebates page doesn't have a top-level link to this clearinghouse page that I could see- most obnoxious.) In a way I find the byte-sized format annoying. I want to watch (well) listen to the whole thing while doing other things. There should be one video that's the entire thing as well as the individual clips.
Hillary got a lot of flack for her answer to the 'would you talk to foreign leaders' question (embedded below,) Obama's campaign people have been gently suggesting that this is a reversal of her previous position open communication- and surprising everyone, Hillary seems to actually be holding to her position, not qualifying, backpedaling or shifting.

I think it's because (::shock::) she actually believes it, passionately, and doesn't care what other people think. Startling as that idea is- I think I know why.
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