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Clinton Challenges Obama to Lincoln-Douglas Style Debate
Yahoo News via AP ^ | April 26, 2008 | MIKE GLOVER and SARA KUGLER

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; battleofthetraitors; clinton; demdebates; hillary; obama
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Battle of the Traitors.
1 posted on 04/26/2008 2:26:03 PM PDT by freerepublic_or_die
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To: freerepublic_or_die

How are they going to hope to do that???


2 posted on 04/26/2008 2:28:43 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: freerepublic_or_die

Hillary is getting desperate/


3 posted on 04/26/2008 2:28:50 PM PDT by Uncle Hal
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To: freerepublic_or_die

Barry’s scared of a girl!


4 posted on 04/26/2008 2:29:05 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: freerepublic_or_die

Not sure this link will work,but I may have found an Obama fan:

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2419938/7504437


5 posted on 04/26/2008 2:29:44 PM PDT by genefromjersey (So much to flame;so little time !)
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To: Uncle Hal

The leader would have nothing to gain from such an offer, ergo, Hillary! knows she’s toast.


6 posted on 04/26/2008 2:30:32 PM PDT by coloradan (The US is becoming a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: freerepublic_or_die
The Tonya Harding of the Democrat Party isn't finshing yet!


7 posted on 04/26/2008 2:32:06 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: freerepublic_or_die

The only thing missing will be character.


8 posted on 04/26/2008 2:32:25 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (media is now a double-edged sword; it's no longer a billy-club in the hands of the big goons.)
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To: freerepublic_or_die

I guess she is saying obama is Douglas,no race card there;)


9 posted on 04/26/2008 2:33:24 PM PDT by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free)
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To: genefromjersey
The link works. This kid must be a reincarnation of Trotsky or Lenin.
10 posted on 04/26/2008 2:33:42 PM PDT by freerepublic_or_die (Words to live/die by: (Nathan Hale) I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.)
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To: freerepublic_or_die

Hussein can’t stand sharing the stage with a non-burqha’d woman.


11 posted on 04/26/2008 2:34:23 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: freerepublic_or_die
"Obama said at a town hall meeting in the aging industrial city of Anderson"

Obama: "I'm here in Indiana to talk down to all you bitter, resentful white folks who are xenophobic haters, clinging to your guns and religion because you are so frustrated, because you fear those who are a bit different from you, because you are anti-trade..... ooops, did I just say all that?"
12 posted on 04/26/2008 2:36:27 PM PDT by Enchante (Obama: All you dumb, bitter "typical white people" must learn to say "God D--n America!")
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To: freerepublic_or_die

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.


13 posted on 04/26/2008 2:36:52 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: freerepublic_or_die
...we'll set whatever rules seem fair,/I>

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?


14 posted on 04/26/2008 2:37:34 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: Enchante
"I was convinced that the American people were tired of the politics that's all about tearing each other down"

That's why it is so much simpler to say..... "God D--n America!"
15 posted on 04/26/2008 2:38:23 PM PDT by Enchante (Obama: All you dumb, bitter "typical white people" must learn to say "God D--n America!")
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To: freerepublic_or_die

This is clever, very clever...If Obama won’t take this ‘one on one’....>B-)


16 posted on 04/26/2008 2:38:36 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Tin eared zeroes and Hollypukes comin...)
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To: freerepublic_or_die
Clinton Challenges Obama to Lincoln-Douglas Style Debate

It would be much more effective if she challenged him to a Burr-Hamilton style duel...

17 posted on 04/26/2008 2:41:41 PM PDT by Zeppo (Every mighty mild... seventies child... Beats me (Metric - Combat Baby))
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To: mdittmar

Actually, there are more than one similarities between Obama and Douglas, not the least was that Douglas was the Democrat populist candidate.


18 posted on 04/26/2008 2:42:13 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Tin eared zeroes and Hollypukes comin...)
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To: freerepublic_or_die
If Obama is like me & a lot of people - it's hard to listen to that awful grating voice - let alone look at the face & body of hers!!

I don't like him - but I don't blame him!!

19 posted on 04/26/2008 2:42:19 PM PDT by LADY J
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To: DGHoodini; All

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!


20 posted on 04/26/2008 2:42:30 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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