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NC Debate Cancelled - Obama’s Whining Won Out

Posted by: Curt @ 3:28 pm in Politics | 0 views

North Carolina Democratic Presidential Debate CANCELLED

We regret to inform you that the proposed Democratic Presidential Debate scheduled for April 27 has been cancelled due to time constraints and logistical issues associated with such a large, national event.

You have shown tremendous passion and interest in being a part of history as Democrats are poised this year to elect the first female or African-American President. However, there were also growing concerns about what another debate would do to party unity.

Obama had to answer a few tough character questions and now the party is running for its life. Niiiice!

UPDATE

From Marc Ambinder:

Despite pressure from the governor, from the local media, from their own-state campaign, Barack Obama’s advisers refused to accept an invitation to debate in North Carolina because they did not want to give Hillary Clinton any excuse to stay in the race beyond Tuesday, assuming she doesn’t fare that well. The Obama campaign’s gambit paid off

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Machiavelli

Ah yes, this is a great sign for the possible future Obama Presidency; when debate is likely to produce embarrassment and tough questions, avoid it all together…
Is the DNC that panicked about possibly having the weaknesses of their anointed candidate put on display? Have the radicals really taken that much power in the DNC that they’re going to try to broom Hillary out the door before the people have had their chance to vote? Is coercion of super-delegates (a curiously undemocratic tradition to begin with) now the new DNC norm? Wow, that’s a pretty twisted idea of party unity if you ask me…
But hey, in the end McCain reaps the benefits of that! Whereas BHO followers are so far to the left, they’ll go with Hillary readily if she gets the nod; Hillary supporters being closer (and I emphasize closer) to the center, are more likely to split for McCain come November. If BHO runs from a debate when he can’t stick to his “hope” and “change” rhetoric in the face of moderators who pander to him, McCain will mop the floor with him!

April 21st, 2008 at 4:01 pm

Dreadnought

Unbelievable. The Democratic Party of Truman and JFK are truely gone.

April 21st, 2008 at 4:38 pm

Gregory Dittman

Since McCain took public money, McCain will probably want to have debates. It also means that Obama will have to live up to his promise to take public money or again be criticized.

You are probably aware that the Democrats are spending time and money looking for dirt on McCain and so far they are complaining he was born in 1936. So far they have nothing.

April 21st, 2008 at 9:56 pm

Mike's America

The debate’s producers probably got scared after seeing the reaction of lefties who likened criticism of Obama to a “federal crime.”

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/04/28/080428taco_talk_hertzberg

How long will it be before free speech is outlawed by these libs?

April 21st, 2008 at 10:32 pm