Update: Debate Tonight
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama faced off during a CNN debate in Austin, Texas.
Republican John McCain agreed to attend the first presidential debate, set for Friday night, even though Congress doesn’t have a bailout deal.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on February 21, 2008 at the University of Texas in Austin.
Speakers: Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn.; Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.; Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.; Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M.; Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del.; Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, D-Ohio; Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
Tonight, in that building, Drexel continues Philadelphia’s proud political tradition, playing host to the Democratic candidates for president, gathered here to debate as the race heats up and the early contests draw near.
Republican presidential candidates directed as much of their firepower at President Bush as they did at each other.
With a potentially game-changing debate tonight, and a long string of primary results that have defied the pre-game polling, both sides are working in advance to set up the anticipated results in the most positive way possible.
I’d like to re-watch the debate tonight since I was missed some of it.
And I know that, if we work together, we can take on the special interests, transfer $55 billion of all those giveaways and subsidies that President Bush has given them, back to the middle class, to create jobs and provide health care and make college affordable.
Let’s hear it for Gravel for exposing the Lieberman Iran amendment and Clinton voting for it…and Obama not even voting.
This is the transcript of the debate between Democratic presidential candidates Sens.
Senator Obama, we’ll begin with you.
In addition, I found Chris Matthews’ interview with Joe Biden immediately following the debate highly disturbing.
My husband says he thinks all the politicians in both parties WANT the occupation to continue so money can be made from it.
Brian Williams: Philadelphia, the cradle of American democracy, where the founding fathers gathered to declare our nation’s independence and to ring out that news on the Liberty Bell, still proudly displayed here.
Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama held a substantive policy debate days before Super Tuesday.
The leading Democratic White House hopefuls conceded Wednesday night they cannot guarantee to pull all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of the next presidential term in 2013.
GOP front-runners attacked each other’s conservative credentials as they fought for their party’s top spot.
And 21,000 National Guard and Reserve members get access to health care because I went across the party line and joined up with a Republican senator to make that happen.
He listed all the positive attributes and his are the best that one of the candidates represented and said, “You can have a president who will [stand for these things] or you can have a president who is tall.”
