Were 'they' hard on the debaters?
Listening to The O’Reilly Report tonight where Bernard Goldberg and Jane Hall debated on whether NBC was hard on Senators Clinton and Obama in the democratic debate last night. I missed the debates because I was facilitating my on-line Organizational Leadership class, so I have no opinion that I would like to share on this forum.
Everyone heard the same questions; these comments are from FoxNews
“I will tell you it does not get much more fun than these debates,” Obama joked Thursday. “They are inspiring events. Last night I think we set a new record because it took us 45 minutes before we even started talking about a single issue that matters to the American people.”
Clinton spokesman Phil Singer retorted Thursday that it is Obama who is leaning on character attacks, and that his new comments “are being driven by his need to cover up his awful performance last night.”
Obama thinks he heard irrelevant questions for the first 45 minuts.
Clinton spokesman thought he heard character attacks from Obama.
How about this:
Obama later told the North Carolina crowd that the debate was good practice for the general election.
“If the Republicans come at me, I will come right back at them. You know — I’ll be honest with you … I’ll be honest with you — it’s a little harder to do with a fellow Democrat because you know, I’m trying to, you know, show some restraint. You know I won’t have this much restraint with the Republicans.”
Why did Obama say, not once but twice in this sentence, that he will be honest with us?
What did you get out of the debate?
It isn’t what they said, it’s what you think you heard.
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