LBN 11/16/07-Hillary affirms front runner status in debate

[underpants]

AP/Las Vegas NV-Senator Hillary Clinton reasserted herself and the front runner in the race for the Democratic nomination for President in a debate that featured energized efforts by so-called "second tier" candidates.

Taking questions from CNN's Wolf Blitzer Sen. Clinton emerged from a lackluster prior performance fending off yet more attacks from the other participants.

Link?

Also to be noted in the coming news recapS

A second or third paragraph mention of Richardson since there is such a heavy influence of Latino workers and voters in the region.

Something nice about Biden

Obama will be panned for not making sparks fly out of his ass but it will be framed as a "let down" as compared to the "Midnight speech" in Iowa. *taking another hint of the coming coverage as per this morning's NPR preview featuring Juan Williams* Almost no mention of Edwards (NPR didn't mention him once).

Kucinich will get a line and then more about how fabulous EVERYONE agrees Hillary did.
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It's like the campaigns are writing these things now.
I'll be in the bar......with the rest of the "journalists"

[itsrobert]

1. That's about right

The main stream media will try to spin it in Hillary's favor. She hasn't won one debate and all they do is act like she won. I'm so sick of the corporate media and their corporate candidates.

[underpants]

2. I also want to note the timeline of the recaps of the last debate

That night everyone was already in agreement that Hillary had done just fine

then the blogs started mentioning how inconsistent she was even changing two answers during the debate

then her campaign started the "she was attacked" bit

then the blogs were having none of it and the MSM slowly came around to dismiss the "attack" part (though they have picked it back up recently) and panned her performance

NOW they already have the "comeback kid" scripts ready to go

[itsrobert]

4. Maybe on Hillary lovefest sites

DU was pretty much in agreement that she had a poor performance. Please don't try to rewrite history, we know the facts.

[underpants]

6. No that's pretty much what I said

the MSM had given her a pass and the blogs (the internets) called BS on it and the MSM turned right around.

[blm]

9. No objective person could've called it the way the corpmedia did last night.

What a disgusting display of BLATANT LYING by the establishment DC powerstructure set.

[jefferson_dem]

3. They've already telegraphed the predictable post-debate narrative.

November 15, 2007

In Las Vegas, Chance for Clinton to Undo Damage
By PATRICK HEALY

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton heads into tonight’s Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas with an opportunity: to try to erase the unflattering image that her chief rivals, and her own mistakes, have helped create.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/us/politics/15dems.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&pagewanted=print

[underpants]

5. Nice!

*I swear that I did NOT read that before I wrote this-I did hear the NPR take on it this morning*

I notice that at once her campaign wants to put the drivers license thing behind them and simultaneously has another spokesman BRING IT UP with regard to Edwards. Swweeeeeeeeeeet!!!

[Windy]

7. Wow, you nailed it!

[BenDavid]

8. The debate was won by HRC in the first 12 minutes and

from there forward the debate shifted towards HRC and the tone and the demeanor shifted. HRC controlled the debate.

She did what she needed to do and that was be firm against any Edwards attack and when Obama heed and hawed about license and instead of just answering YES or NO he went into a 10,000 words speech. When HRC answered the same question with a resounding NO, she chopped Obama off at the knees.

Ben David