update: will be streamed live at abcnews
we know this for sure. annie oakley will be packing tonight.
let's hope abc doesn't let the debate get strangled in the "bitter" debate. we are past that phony controversy. i'd like to think that it was hyped by the media but nobody actually fell for it.
i'm hoping we can get to some issues. i'd like to hear more about nafta. i don't clearly understand obama's position on that. i'd like to hear about green manufacturing and more on poverty issues.
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let's hope abc doesn't let the debate get strangled in the "bitter" debate. we are past that phony controversy. i'd like to think that it was hyped by the media but nobody actually fell for it.
i'm hoping we can get to some issues. i'd like to hear more about nafta. i don't clearly understand obama's position on that. i'd like to hear about green manufacturing and more on poverty issues.
politico: Obama was holed up Tuesday night in his Philadelphia hotel, prepping for the debate. Aides said the Illinois senator will continue to defend the gist of his remarks by arguing that it is his rivals who are out of touch.
His wife, Michelle, joined his defense at a stop Tuesday in suburban Philadelphia, offering details of their modest upbringings as a way to deflate the charges of elitism.
“There’s a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that,” Michelle Obama told a gathering at Haverford College. “So let me tell you who Barack and I are, so you are not confused. Yeah, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens I grew up with. I am the product of a middle class upbringing, I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, in a working class community.”
Clinton must strike the right balance between challenging Obama on his “bitter” remarks and eliciting groans from the audience with her criticism, as she did Monday during an event in Pittsburgh – an awkward moment that now opens Obama’s latest Pennsylvania TV ad.
She may face questions about her retelling of a story, which she has since retracted, claiming that she landed in Bosnia in 1996 under sniper fire, and criticism from Obama about her accepting campaign contributions from registered lobbyists. Clinton has yet to come up with a strong counterpunch to Obama’s charges, which he is currently highlighting in a direct mail piece in Pennsylvania.
“Pennsylvania is a necessary condition for her to survive for the rest of the way,” said Christopher Borick, a pollster at Muhlenberg College in Allentown. “If she ends up on election night with a 2- or 3-point win, she will have a nice celebratory speech and for practical purposes, she will have seen her campaign’s chances evaporate.
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