Inane Question Of The Night! And Hillary Says Obama Didn't Denounce Farrakhan Forcefully Enough...
This wasn't an easy call, given what we've heard thus far (a question about Drudge, a gratuitous reference to Tim Russert's blue collar background, etc.).
But the inane question of the night award goes to this Russert inanity, which we just heard moments ago:
"Do you accept the support of Louis Farrahkan?"
Obama, unsurprisingly, denounced Farrakhan, and used the occasion to argue that there's yet another historic dimension to his candidacy:
"What I want to do is rebuild what I consider to be a historic relationship between the African-American community and the Jewish community."
Hillary, in her rejoinder, seems to suggest that Obama didn't go far enough:
"There’s a difference between denouncing and rejecting. And I think that when it comes to this sort of inflammatory — I have no doubt that everything Barack just said is absolutely sincere. But I just think that we’ve got to be even stronger. We cannot let anyone in any way say these things, because of the implications that they have, which can be so far-reaching."
Obama's response: There isn't a difference between "reject" and "denounce," but if anyone thinks there is a difference, he rejects and denounces Farrakhan.
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