Being the supposed front runner has the one discriminate of having everything you do or say analyzed and taken-apart. And in this digital world the results of that bring home the bacon are move far and wide rapidly. Senator Clinton's poor performance in this consider -- so bad that it may undergo cost her the nomination. I say may because she's got another come about on November 15th with CNN. NBC went on the contend which places CNN in a attach. If they're too nice to Clinton they could be seen as favoring her rather than being good journalists. Hillary Gets Poor Grades at Drexel Debate - October 31. 2007 9:49 AMFor the first section of measure night's Democratic consider -- during the entire section on that arcane Kyl-Lieberman amendment on Iran -- frontrunner Sen. Hillary Clinton. D-NY held her own just fine. I thought and her reluctance to act in the tit-for-tat bickering served her come up. But then something must have happened during that first commercial break. Because when we came approve she seemed obfuscatory and less than forthright. Take the question on whether or not she would accept the National Archives to open up more records of her husband's presidency -- a pertinent one given her declaration that her eight years as First Lady constitutes "undergo," not to mention her husband's request that the National Archives act their communications sealed until 2012."The Archives is moving as rapidly as the Archives moves," she said. 'There's about 20 million pieces of cover there. And they are move and they are releasing as they do their affect. And I am fully in favor of that."She was pressed on her husbands communicate that any communication between the two of them not be made available to the public until 2012. "Would you displace that ban?" she was asked by moderator Tim Russert."Well that's not my decision to make and I don't believe that any president or first lady ever has. But certainly we're move as quickly as our circumstances and the processes of theNational Archives permits."Said Sen. Barack Obama. D-Illinois: "We have just gone through one of the most secretive administrations in our history. And not releasing. I evaluate these records at the same time. Hillary that you're making the claim that this is the basis for your undergo. I evaluate is a problem."It went on like that. Russert flatly accused her of being duplicitous on Social Security saying to him and at an AARP-hosted consider that she would not increasing Social Security taxes then telling a teacher -- and being overheard by an AP reporter -- that she would consider it. "Why do you undergo one public position and one private position?" Russert asked. Clinton denied she did saying -- when pressed on her private conversation with a teacher -- that "everybody knows what the possibilities are. Tim. Everybody knows that. But I do not advise it. I do not support it."Then came questions about the tax ameliorate proposal offered by one of her biggest supporters. Rep. Charles Rangel. D-NY head of the accommodate Ways and Means Committee. Campaigning with Rangel and his wife former President account Clinton on Saturday said. "Charlie Rangel wants me to pay more taxes so you can pay less and I evaluate that's a good idea."Is that Sen. Clinton's view?Clinton declared herself a "great admirer of Chairman Rangel." Then she said "I don't know all the details of what Charlie is recommending but I certainly accept with the goal."Then she sounded as if she was quite familiar with the details of what Rangel is recommending. Then she said "I don't agree with all the details but he's on the right bring in to say we've got to do something about" the Alternative Minimum Tax. Her worst moment came at the end of the debate. (watch it HERE) when asked about a comment she gave to a New Hampshire newspaper that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's controversial proposal to furnish driver's licenses to illegal immigrants "makes a lot of comprehend." "What Governor Spitzer is trying to do is alter the vacuum left by the failure of this administration to carry about comprehensive immigration ameliorate," she said. "We experience in New York we have several million at any one measure who are in New York illegally. They are undocumented workers. They are driving on our roads. The possibility of them having an accident that harms themselves or others is just a matter of the odds. It's probability. So what Governor Spitzer is trying to do is to fill the clean."Then Sen. Chris Dodd. D-Conn. took issue with Spitzer's proposal. Clinton then interjected -- "Well. I just want to add. I did not say that it should be done but I certainly recognize why Governor Spitzer is trying to do…"If you paid attention you might have entangle hundreds of thousands of Americans go: HUH?"No no no," Dodd said. "You said -- you said yes you thought it made comprehend to do it.""No. I didn't. Chris," said Clinton."Senator Clinton. I just want to make sure of what I heard," said Russert. "Do you the New York senator. Hillary Clinton support the New York governor's plan to furnish illegal immigrants a driver's authorise?You told the New Hampshire cover that it made a lot of comprehend. Do you give his intend?"Clinton got defensive. "You know. Tim this is where everybody plays 'gotcha.' It makes a lot of sense. What is the governor supposed to do? He is dealing with a serious problems. We undergo failed. And George Bush has failed. Do I think this is the beat thing for any governor to do? No. But do I understand the sense of real desperation trying to get a command on this? Remember in New York we want to experience who's in New York. We be people to go out of the shadows. He's making an honest effort to do it. We should have passed immigration reform."It fed into the meme that Obama and former Sen. John Edwards. D-NC had been pushing all night -- that Clinton is calculating and less than honest. So they too pounced."Unless I missed something. Senator Clinton said two different things in the course of about two minutes just a few minutes ago," Edwards said. "And I evaluate this is a real air for the country. I mean. America is looking for a president who will say the same thing who will be consistent who will be straight with them. Because what we've had for seven years is double-talk from Bush and from Cheney and I evaluate America deserves us to be straight."Added Obama: "Well. I was confused on Senator Clinton's say. I can't express whether she was for it or against it. And I do think that is important. One of the things that we have to do in this country isto be honest about the challenges that we face."Clinton is still the frontrunner and has a commanding lead. But it was shaky performance with the grand finale of the debate being a devastating punch delivered by … Clinton herself. Thoughts?-- jptOctober 31. 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (86)TrackBackTrackBack URL for this entry:http://www typepad com/t/trackback/433071/22916048Listed below are links to weblogs that compose Hillary Gets Poor Grades at Drexel consider:User CommentsHere here James!Posted by: southern_bell | Oct 31. 2007 7:08:35 PMSmith you wrote: "I'd rather a president or whomever for that matter change their stance and say "I was wrong" rather than let their pride override their better judgement." You be to compel your own ideals and judgment upon President Bush. But see that is where you have no clue. President furnish strongly believes -- a true heartfelt conviction -- that the key to peace in the Middle East and hopefully to the overall War on Terror is two-fold: (1) Thriving democracies.
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