Notice a difference too: she was complaining while getting a question on NAFTA. Obama's questions were about flag pins.

Obama needs to say that he has no problem with tough questions, as long as they're relevant questions.

Thanks Obama campaign, you really do this well.

She walked right into this one. I can't believe that her campaign thought that criticizing Obama for complaining about the debate was a smart strategy. I'm guess that this is the last we'll hear of it.

That is not Hillary on the YouTube link.

Take a look at the eyes and the facial expressions.

That is Andy Kaufman in a Pantsuit.

A better, or at least more substantive, response would be that Obama is happy to discuss the real hard questions war, the economy, jobs, health care, etc. while leaving the tough discussion of flag pins to Clinton.

the clintons must be stuck in a time warp. they clearly don't know there's this thing on the internets call "youtube." that's the only explaination that works.

The Clinton campaign once again leaps before looking. Such political ineptitude. We have to keep them out of the White House or risk losing Congress like Bill did in 1994.

Decent response but the obvious counter is: OK, you say you want to debate issues, then agree to the North Carolina debate.

Then Obama has to respond again w/either 'we've debated enough,' which won't fly b/c he says Americans deserve a debate...or 'i want to know we'll debate issues,' to which the response is that he wants to control the questions and doesn't have the strength to address whatever comes at him.

We'll see how Clinton responds...but I am glad Obama didn't bother parsing 'what is complaining' and whether he actually complained, which is a waste of time.

I didn't think it was just Obama or his campaign protesting. Last I heard, there were thousands of people across the country writing letters, blog posts, and editorials saying that the debates were crap.

She probably 'forgot' about that time or the time she alluded to SNL to prove her point of being picked on by the mean media.
As Bill pointed out, she's starting to have memory problems.

Kids in the backseat squabbling....that's what it looks like.

And Clinton is the one who's crying loudest just to get what she wants.

Will everyone cave?

More whining?

His negatives piled up and he went down in flames in the last debate.

He sent the supers this message:

http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2008/04/17/did-obama-give-hillary-the-finger-today/

They should vote for Clinton if they want to win this time.

If we're nitpicking, then it's worth pointing out that Obama hasn't complained about the questions being "tough", but rather that they were "distractions" from the issues Americans really care about.

A Clinton Presidency will deal with the hard issues of what lapel pin you should wear, who your preacher should be and what neighbors you can be on a committee with.

An Obama Presidency will deal with the war, economy and jobs.

We report... you decide.

Hillary stood right up to the attacks RIGHT THERE ON THE STAGE and performed well in the debate. She fought back immediately. Obama did not stand up to the attacks. He got rattled. Then he complained about them later, after delivering a poor performance. Hillary fought back immediately. Hillary pointed out exactly what they were trying to do to her. And she withstood it all and came out ahead. Everyone saw her as a fighter. Everyone saw how fast she was on her feet. Obama wimped out, and then chose to complain about it later in an effort at damage control. Now he tries to turn the tables in a bogus argument.

By the way, Imus is calling him a "sissy".

Good try, Obama. But the difference is Hillary fought back right then and there. You are whining about it later.

This was a necessary response from the campaign, but Obama himself needs to let it go now. Let Clinton flail. He's made his point about eschewing distractions, now he should embody it.

Bus tour #2 is exactly what he should be doing right now. Coverage of him touring factories, etc., will do more for him now than bickering with Clinton.

Another high-profile endorsement on Monday wouldn't hurt, either . . .

I should not be so surprised to see the outrage over ABC's debate questions. Yet when I read the Washington Post this AM, a very liberal paper of course, I was still surprised at the attacks on ABC and George S. & Charlie G.

People/media have actually become so accustomed to the softee treatment of Obama that they were just shocked and outraged over the debate. The media treatment of BO had become a joke; Even Saturday Night Live was doing skits on it. Yet even with that, MSNBC, CNN and the rest were not changing their approach.

FINALLY, a news network asked him the questions that everyone else in America was talking about and asking! Thank goodness for that! And of course the left wing of the Dem. party and media are just besides themselves! What a joke that is.

I for one, am very grateful that someone (besides Fox and S. Hannity) had the honesty to ask what the majority of Americans are wondering about. Let the left wing attack all they want. We wanted these questions asked. They had to be asked. Better now than August/Sept.

And of course Obama failed miserably in his attempts to 'splain it all.

Hats off to you ABC!

Rae

"How is it that Obama laughing about the debate being stupid is now whining? "

It's called the Obama rules:

McCain can have brothel-felon-advising campaign strategists and public-toilet-sex co-chairs, Hillary can have fugutive-donors and terrorist-pardons. But if Obama's college roommate gets a parking ticket, or if Harry Belafonte says anything, the MSM will be doing it's "gotcha" bs.

ps. "Obama did not stand up to the attacks. He got rattled." No he did not. He doesn't hit hard on Hillary because he doesn't want to offend her very touchy supporters. That's why he's winning. Being an attack dog always isn't "tough". In some cases, it is stupid. But anyway, good try goading Obama into foolish attack-dogism. He won't bite and Hillary will lose. To the patient and the smart go the spoils.

You would think in this error of the internet and tape recorded video the Obama could put together and Add of all the idiotic things the Clintons(and there supporters) have done and said. Im sure they would have to do it in a way that she cant spin it into negativity, but I mean she has provided so much amunition for the campaign that if done right, I think the public would have to say nuff said! Not that this wasnt a start or a good response to her, but we need more and more definitive...IMOP!

Dammit.....Era not Error.....Sheesh!

Obama has shown what a weakling and BABY he is. Wah Wah Wah ... all the way home little piggy...

LOL

FINALLY, a news network asked him the questions that everyone else in America was talking about and asking!

By the rest of America, you mean Sean Handupme?

I find it amazing that Stepontopofus went on Handupme and got the Ayers issue... and somehow Clinton was able to field that by smearing Obama over sharing a committee! It is...as if... Clinton was using a surrogate to use right wing talking points and use them to her advantage!

On another note:

I think Clinton overplayed their hand with the whining issue... It looks like they already had the plan in place and anticipated a whiny reaction from Obama. The orcehstrated a media circus to paint him as unfit, when all Obama did was brush it off and point out that the media was unfair to the American public by asking stupid Handupme right wing questions that have no BEARING on the crises facing us today.

I think Clinton ate a bowl of dum dums after drinking a cup of stupid juice.

And if we persist in our doltishness, he may just give us all the finger, or brush us off his shoulder. And in true non-partisan fashion, he thinks we're all unworthy, GOP and Democrat alike.

Hey hotshot, where's YOUR flag pin?

Clinton's hypocrisy is not stunning. It's expected.

Tell me why a Democratic candidate who acts like Karl Rove is good for America again?

At the debate Obama is mentioning Hillary shot right back at the moderators. She came out swinging. She didn't turn in a bad performance as Obama did, and then spend days whining about how unfair it was.

I did not bother watching the debate. I watched a Three Stooges Episode.

The usual Three Stooges stuff. One guy named Charlie used a baseball bat to assault a very refined African American Gentleman. After Charlie got tired of assaulting the Black Man, he then passed the baseball bat to a Stooge name George, who then wailed on the same African American Gentlemen, until Stooge number two grew tired of it. Then Stooge one, turned to Stooge number three, some one named Tuzla Mistake and asked her if she wished to have unlimited time with the baseball bat to punish the black man for not wearing a flag pin, and for having lived in the same large city as some guy who was a friend of two people that Tuzla Mistakes' husband had pardoned.

Tuzla Mistake said; thank you Charlie, and yes I would.

I bet you folks are all jealous that you wasted your time watching that boring debate, instead of catching that classic episode of The Three Stooges starring in: Only White Folks Don't Need To Wear Flag Pins.

He is absolutely right, do the Clintons have absolutely no concept of how wildly hypocritical they are when they say shit like this? I mean these two are the f-ing royal family of complaining about the big bad media, and they didn't even have much cause to:
http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/2008/02/waaaahh-meeedia-playing-for-excuses.html

But when Obama has every reason to, and then doesn't even complain, he simply brushes it off (literally) and says this is a perfect example of the kind of politics he is running against, the kind that keeps us from focusing on the real issues, they accuse him of whining??? Yeah, this coming from the person who threw a small tantrum over being asked the first question in a debate. The hillpocrisy of it all is shocking:

http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/2008/04/hillary-hates-talking-about-issues.html

Gotalife you are a dope. The film clip shows Obama scratching his face. Anyone trying to imply he is 'giving Hillary the finger" is looking through the lens of their own bias and hatred. I can't believe anyone would fall for this kind of nonsense, but you clearly have. I try to understand how and can only explain it to myself like this: you have deluded yourself into believing Obama was 'giving the finger to Hillary' because it's the kind of response you would give yourself to anyone who disagrees with you. I encourage you to step out of your blinkers and stop acting like a clown.