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COLUMNISTS
TODAY'S STORIES
31.01.2008
Health Care

Hillary has a really impressive fluency and confidence in the details. But for Obama, merely invoking Ted Kennedy's support on this topic may be like swinging a wrecking ball through the edifice of Hillary's sophisticated talk.

--Michael Crowley 

Posted: Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:26 PM with 13 comment(s)

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huntlib said:

Disagree. She was meandering and almost incomprehensible. Obama was simple and pithy. She used to blind Obama with her high-wattage sound bites. That's not quite there tonight.

January 31, 2008 8:40 PM

teplukhin2you said:

Obama for POTUS. Hillary for Chief Nurse (Rachid)

January 31, 2008 8:45 PM

huntlib said:

Haha. Love the way Obama kept dodging Wolf's attempt to pin him down on whether Hillary's immigration record is "inhumane."

January 31, 2008 8:48 PM

miceelf said:

Well, he was pretty fluent, too. But the Kennedy thing WAS a wrecking ball.

Overall, pretty collegial thus far. At least on the surface.

January 31, 2008 8:53 PM

huntlib said:

Obama on immigration policy: "Senator Clinton does have a clear position. But it took a while."

Ouch. Biggest soundbite so far.

January 31, 2008 8:53 PM

huntlib said:

"35 years" is back!

January 31, 2008 9:00 PM

ralphnelle said:

HRC, like McCain, is talking too much. Americans don't have the attention span for all of her (back to back) 10 minute speeches. Yawn. Makes Obama's crisp answers even more effective.

January 31, 2008 9:42 PM

glacialspeed said:

She schooled him on this.  She clearly knows much more on this issue than he does.  I'm an Obama supporter, but I thought she was really impressive on this question.

January 31, 2008 10:09 PM

blogHillary said:

ABC News’ Jake Tapper – ‘Clinton has a really steady tone tonight, solid and presidential. Eminently...

January 31, 2008 10:19 PM

kgrant1054 said:

Oh, look, a professional hack from a Hillary site, how absolutely suprising.

Leave us be, eh?  Allow us to do our political-junkie thing without blatent knavery.

February 1, 2008 12:05 AM

Rhubarbs said:

Actually, kgrant, I think Blatent Knavery is the name of the Clintons' house band. I understand they've just added the Kazakh national anthem to their set, right after "Lawyer, Guns, and Money."

February 1, 2008 12:11 AM

blackton said:

i am tired of the lie that Hillary's health care plan will be Universal, it doesn't cover illegals or Permanent Residents (who are ineligible for low income subsidies) and being that the majority of the uncovered fall into these two categories the universal part is a lie. Beyond that, mandates are bad politically, because they will be distorted by the Republicans to mean that poor will have to buy overpriced insurance which has high deductibles and miserable care (crowded waiting rooms, etc.) when available. And I am afraid that in order for Hillary to get her "universality she will throw the poor under the bus by simply buying out the insurance companies, with the poor essentially buying worthless coverage, in which case they will be worse off then when they started. At least the Seniors get the drugs under Bush.

And Social Security is financed by taxes, Mandates expect people to buy insurance on their own, middle income young people will simply buy extremely restrictive, high deductible policies but very cheap policies to avoid a fine, but essentially only make the insurance companies rich without providing any kind of long term preventative care.

February 1, 2008 10:29 AM

teplukhin2you said:

Blatant Knavery & Villainy is my law firm.

February 1, 2008 4:18 PM

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