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Asked If Obama Can Beat McCain, Hillary Says: "Yes. Yes. Yes."
Hillary's attacks on Obama -- such as her claim that only she and McCain have met the "commander in chief test" -- have angered a lot of Dems who say she's never clearly stated that Obama can win a general election.
Well, now she has. It took George Stephanopoulos a couple tries, but after asking Hillary a second time whether she thought Obama can beat McCain, she said:
"Yes. Yes. Yes."
Hillary added that she thinks she's the candidate better positioned to beat him. When Obama was asked whether Hillary can beat McCain, he said, in what was perhaps a sly reference to her reluctance to admit that he can win:
"Absolutely. And I've said so before."
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actually she dodged the question first, saying "we have to beat mccain."
it was only after charlie asked her again that she said yes.
April 16, 2008 8:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
yeah, we said it took steph a couple tries
April 16, 2008 8:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Greg, please kill the spammer votenic's posts.
April 16, 2008 8:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, she seemed to hesitate a bit but realised she was'nt going to dodge this one,then relented.
Now that she has admitted that Barack can win the White House, need we say more?
April 17, 2008 3:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
If I could only believe this would put "electability" to rest. If only -
somehow I just know that some will not let go of it. *sigh*
It's totally bogus. This ought to prove it.
April 16, 2008 8:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
well, fuck her. :)
April 16, 2008 8:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol
April 16, 2008 8:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
If Hillary really said that, then you've caught her in a lie. He can't beat McCain.
April 16, 2008 8:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, go back to Tuzla! Just keep your head down!
April 16, 2008 8:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does wright love America as much as you? what sort of stupid fucking question is that. Ex Clinton employee indeed.
April 16, 2008 8:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Do you love America more than Wright does?"
...Seriously, George?
April 16, 2008 8:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
She lied.
April 16, 2008 8:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
{{{{{GROAN!!!!}}}}}
April 16, 2008 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now she is saying how she would have left Wright's church, and Obama is saying that Hillary's minister agreed with Wright!
But now, George Stephanopolis asked this question (believe it or not:)
"Do you believe that Reverent Wright loves America as much as you do?"
Is that not total BullShit?
And now he's asking if he is as Patriotic as he is?
What a bunch of hoooooooooooooooooooooey!
April 16, 2008 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wrightgate is a loser.
April 16, 2008 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
A filibuster on Wright, not healthcare. Interesting.
April 16, 2008 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
No thanks to her.
April 16, 2008 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have one point to make, so far, in this debate. It has nothing to say with what either Obama or Clinton are saying.
It has to do with the way they are saying it.
Obama has been looking the questioners in the eyes, the entire time he answers each question.
Hillary keeps looking up and around. Up, and around.
April 16, 2008 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's because only a battle-hardened, sniper-fired-tested-person can lie while looking someone in the eye. If Hillary can't do that, maybe she is redeemable, but it would take her accepting and admitting her lies. She just denied it again, and blamed it on fatigue.
She said it wasn't true (in Hillary-speak) but blamed it on lack of sleep.
April 16, 2008 8:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, that would follow, since she generally does.
LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 16, 2008 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Do you really believe he (Wright) is patriotic..." and Clinton just brought up Hamas and Farakhan in one sentence.
April 16, 2008 8:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's with this one-inch square video in the live stream? I might be able to take if it weren't for the swirling flag behind it?
April 16, 2008 8:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
yes shes not dumb but she is a liar.
April 16, 2008 8:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary seems to have a hard time looking at the camera. I'm assuming it's the bright lights but it looks like she has shifty eyes and looks uncomfortable.
Doesn't play well.
April 16, 2008 8:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, Clinton just basically admitted that she lied about Bosnia.
Color me shocked.
April 16, 2008 8:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Greg...
When you live blog an event you need to keep all your posts on the same thread. You append them as you go. Like Josh is doing on the homepage.
Think of it like a bunch of lovers on top of each other at an orgy. That's a lot of fun. If you have to keep changing rooms to get your mouthful posted... it is not as much fun.
April 16, 2008 8:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clinton admitted mistake is refreshing.
Pimped her book too.
I guess she read his tax return.
April 16, 2008 8:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sweet Christ, could this faux debate be any more transparent? Are there going to be ANY questions about anything other than nontroversies? It's intellectual pugilism.
April 16, 2008 8:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought HRC was going to bob her head off when the guy said he turned on her after the Bosnia sniper episode.
Obama's killing her.
April 16, 2008 8:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Needs someone to remind her that she wasn't being shot at?
April 16, 2008 8:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oo, thanks for the detail LisB - I like hearing that kind of thing.
April 16, 2008 8:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Wright thing is ridiculous. Hillary is such a liar. She says that Wright blamed the people in the WTC for the attacks. He never said that. He blamed US foreign policy. Also, as a New Yorker, it's sooooo offensive that she grabs the great mantle of NYC and says it's "her city." What bull.
April 16, 2008 8:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
And to top it off, it wasn't even Wright who said it, but rather Wright quoting quoting Ambassador Peck about the chicken's coming home to roost.
April 16, 2008 8:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're right. I forgot that.
April 16, 2008 8:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yah.
"I'm very sorry I said it, but it was a war zone! I'm proud I went to a war zone!"
April 16, 2008 8:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
And XTRA proud that I took my teenage daughter with me to use as a body shield!!!
April 17, 2008 12:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
The questioning is lame.
C'mon guys how about a contrast with McSame on an issue...ANY issue.
April 16, 2008 8:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary is a walking talking pile of lies.
The nerve of her to drop a few bombs on Obama for the Republicans to use in Nov.
She's pure evil.
April 16, 2008 8:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
She is a walking pile of piles (hemorrhoids).
April 16, 2008 8:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, they've negated the last half hour by concluding that obsession over gaffes is stupid.
April 16, 2008 8:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Look at Barack, attempting to move onto actual issues.
Silly man, you know that ABC has no desire to explore issues. They just want to see a rumble.
April 16, 2008 8:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where is your flag pin Obama?
Silly.
April 16, 2008 8:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do you see a flag pin on Hillary? NO? I guess that means they both are antichrists! Jeeeepers!
Could we GET any more superficial?
April 16, 2008 9:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
HRC's looking at the crowd instead of the camera makes her look like she's in fantasy land or something.
April 16, 2008 8:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
A lapel pin question. I need a beer.
April 16, 2008 8:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do a shot a Crown.
April 16, 2008 8:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
We can't, you drank it all and are posting drunk.
April 16, 2008 8:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is not a debate!! Now they're asking him if he "believes" in the flag!!
April 16, 2008 8:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
SWEET MOTHER OF GOD!!!!
"How come you don't love the flag?"
This is becoming sleazy and pornographic.
April 16, 2008 8:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
That couldn't have been the question (stuck at work without a feed)... are you serious?
April 16, 2008 8:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sadly, yes...that was pretty much a dead-on paraphrase of a videotaped reg'lar citizen question...but of course Charlie Gibson expanded on it....
April 16, 2008 8:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
god, this is just a hit piece against Obama.
where are the issues??
where did these questions comefrom ?
April 16, 2008 8:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama slapped George across the face on that Ayres question. Awesome.
April 16, 2008 8:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary-Joe - our new Lieberman.
I utterly detest that woman and the people running this show are apparently nuts - but then, Stephanopoulis is nutty.
April 16, 2008 8:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree. I can barely watch her. One story that I think no one is covering is the absolute revulsion that she has inspired. Should she steal the nom, she'll have quite a surprise in November. Canvassing in PA last weekend for Obama, several people (male, white, blue collar) buttonholed me just to tell me they'll vote for anyone but her.
April 16, 2008 9:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
If anyone were to throw a pail of water on Hillary right now - as she wades off into Ayers nostalgia - she would melt.
April 16, 2008 8:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
More lame questions.
Can the brightside be that we get rid of this crap tonight?
Do we ask Obama whether he's a Muslim, or wishes that his middle name was Hussein.
Hillary loves it in the mud.
HRC is a pathetic Repub wannabee.
April 16, 2008 8:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
this debate has zero substance and makes both of them look like idiots, we need to get past this and onto the general
April 16, 2008 8:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
She will not look him in the eye! She isn't even looking the camera in the eye! She is a disgusting pig and a liar!
April 16, 2008 8:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is gold. Looks like they just spent the last month stockpiling zingers.
April 16, 2008 8:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did they really just spend 10 or 12 question "bitter" and Rev. Wright?
Gibson and Stephanopolous tag-teaming to revisit and dwell on those two so-called issues and just drag it out?
Now William Ayers? As though knowing Ayers indicates anything at all about Obama?
This is a calculated, drawn-out assassination of Obama's candidacy. Full stop.
And it looks coordinated.
Givson ends with the lie that Clinton's been "shortchanged" on time??
This is an outrage. I'm wondering if this won't cost Hillary Clinton.
April 16, 2008 8:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, but at least he is addressing the rumors, lies and innuendoes head on instead of them continuing to fester unaddressed on the internet
April 17, 2008 12:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Obama on the defensive, getting crushed as usual.
Good line from Clinton on the gop not running anybody this cycle but Obama had to bring up dirt on the President.
Sad and desperate.
April 16, 2008 8:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love it when Hillary blames the Iraqis for the havoc we have visited upon their country. It's just so appealing!
April 16, 2008 8:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well if not Iraq, then who is to blame?
April 16, 2008 8:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Whoa, smack down on imanutjob.
Strong on national security.
April 16, 2008 9:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
I want Hillary to talk about her absolutely insane plan to freeze mortgage rates and stop foreclosures. It's a gift to banks, who will simply raise rates on other money products, wait for the real estate market to rebound, and then foreclose.
April 16, 2008 9:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Come on.
No one has done more for John McCain than Barack Obama.
April 16, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Haven't had a chance yet to see the debate as it won't show for another hour here on the west coast. But I'm disappointed to hear that Hillary said she thinks Obama is electable. I don't think she believes that. And I certainly don't.
April 16, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Are you suggesting that Hillary...gasp...is lying?!?!
April 16, 2008 10:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh Come on, she is so full of shit!!!!
This should be done now!
She is comfortable with war vote = GAME!
I dodged sniper fire in bosnia = SET!
Yes, yes, yes, Obama can beat Mccain = MATCH!
April 17, 2008 12:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
She lied, he can't win. Barry O is an empty suit.
April 17, 2008 7:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Science Dictionary: sociopath
(soh-see-uh-path, soh-shee-uh-path)
Someone whose social behavior is extremely abnormal. Sociopaths are interested only in their personal needs and desires, without concern for the effects of their behavior on others. (Compare psychopath.)
Sociopath=Hilary Clinton
April 17, 2008 8:15 AM | Reply | Permalink