Posted on 04/26/2008 2:26:03 PM PDT by freerepublic_or_die
Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton turned up the rhetoric Saturday in their increasingly heated primary battle as she issued a new debate challenge and he complained of a race that's largely been reduced to trivia while working families feel economic pain. Clinton took the debate dispute to a new level, challenging Obama to face off with her in a debate without a moderator, Lincoln-Douglas style.
"Just the two of us, going for 90 minutes, asking and answering questions, we'll set whatever rules seem fair," Clinton said while campaigning in South Bend.
Her campaign made the offer formal with a letter to the Obama campaign. Obama aides said they were studying the letter.
The more open style of debating where each side presents an argument gets its name from the famed debates that took place during the 1858 U.S. Senate race in Illinois between Republican Abraham Lincoln and Democrat Stephen Douglas. Trailing in delegates and the popular vote, Clinton has been stepping up the pressure on Obama for more debates in advance of primaries on May 6 in Indiana and North Carolina. Clinton argued that Obama won't debate because he's unhappy with questions from moderators during the April 16 debate just before the Pennsylvania primary. After that debate, Obama complained it focused too much on political trivia and too little on real issues.
On the campaign trail Saturday, he sounded much the same theme.
"I was convinced that the American people were tired of the politics that's all about tearing each other down. The American people were tired of spin and PR, they wanted straight talk and honesty from their elected officials," Obama said at a town hall meeting in the aging industrial city of Anderson.
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How are they going to hope to do that???
Hillary is getting desperate/
Barry’s scared of a girl!
Not sure this link will work,but I may have found an Obama fan:
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2419938/7504437
The leader would have nothing to gain from such an offer, ergo, Hillary! knows she’s toast.
The only thing missing will be character.
I guess she is saying obama is Douglas,no race card there;)
Hussein can’t stand sharing the stage with a non-burqha’d woman.
The L-D debates were 3 hours long. One candidate spoke for an hour, then the other candidate spoke for an hour and a half, and then the first candidate spoke for a half hour.
Neither of these two could make sense for a half hour, let alone an hour and a half.
I'll call you Osama Hussein, ask you about Pastor Wright, Rezko, Ayers,and your cocaine use, and you can ask me who designs my pants suits.OK?
This is clever, very clever...If Obama won’t take this ‘one on one’....>B-)
It would be much more effective if she challenged him to a Burr-Hamilton style duel...
Actually, there are more than one similarities between Obama and Douglas, not the least was that Douglas was the Democrat populist candidate.
I don't like him - but I don't blame him!!
I think Obama would take her down without moderators’ inteferences. She may be sorry she proposed the debate if Obama takes her up on the offer...Obama is a much more skilled orator!
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