Tonight's Dem Debate - Ohio

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Well, we tried for 50 years the other way.
Cuba got poorer. Castro stayed. We got nothing.
Now, after seven years of pissing away whatever international influence we might have had, a change of course seems warranted.

 

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I found it odd — in fact, surprising — that Hillary played nice.

I was expecting her to break out the long knives. Maybe she too was playing rope-a-dope.

Maybe her peeps know something we don't. Or maybe her strategy is not to appear desperate. After all, last I saw, she was still holding the lead in Texas and Ohio.

At any rate, I doubt last night's debate swayed any voters either way.

 

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You've never seen the current president? Mr. "I'll love-bomb Washington and restore integrity to the White House?" The guy who criticizes "tax and spend liberals" and then runs up the largest deficits we've ever had? Mr. More Than 900 Lies to Get to Iraq?

 

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That Texas lead was just about gone, going into last night.

She tried to kiss up to the Latinos with her immigration clarification last night.
That move may boost her, a bit, but we'll see whether any boost lasts ten full days.

 

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Some of the pundits were saying her closing statements sounded like she was ready to get out of the race. They said the right thing to do would be withdraw before March 4th, but they weren't sure Bill would stand for that.

 

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I am just glad that she will be OK. I was worried about that.

 

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. . . and for someone playing the Xerox card (a hoot), her closing statement was directly out of the Edwards playbook.

Bye.

 

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Agree. Seems to me, her plan is a more realistic approach and more likely to be a success in the long term. Really seems like she has learned some lessons from the failed attempt early in Bill's presidency.

Maybe not ready to get out, but laying the groundwork if things don't go gangbusters her way in Texas and Ohio. She shouldn't withdraw before 3/4, but if she's not a clear cut victor on that day, she ought to step aside. I think she realizes that, and that came across in her closing comments.

 

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No constructive debate is likely to emerge from the gap between 3/4 and Pennsy, unless HRC comes up gangbusters in OH and PA. Six additional weeks of backbiting and under-the-table superdelegate threats aren't going to do anyone any good (except the GOP).

 

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no BYE !

 

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The fact that US policy toward Cuba has been a half-century of fail that hasn't benefitted the people of either country is clear.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19246350

 

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Nixon's perceptions ? What about Kennedy's - NPR /Daniel Schor - figures