April 26, 2007
Debate, Part V: Model SCOTUS Justice And Guns
Same question of all the field:
Say a name or pass. The question is: your model Supreme Court justice.
Richardson: Justice Whizzer White. Or Justice Ginsberg.
Dodd: Ginsberg.
Edwards: Ginsberg or Breyer.
Clinton: did the government fail those students at Virginia Tech? Clinton: "Yes." "We now know that the background check system didn't work because this shooter... had been involuntarily committed but yet he could walk into a gun store and buy a gun."
Richardson, an NRA favorite, is asked about VA Tech: Expresses his condolances to those that perish. "You're right. I'm a Westerner. I'm the governor of New Mexico. But I want to state for the record that a vast vast majority of gun owners are law abiding." The issue is twofold: mental illness, and notes he favors instant background checks. He then calls for mental health parity.
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The Clinton campaign is blogging the debate.
The Dodd campaign warroom is live, too.
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Show of hands:
Gravel, Biden. Dodd, Kucinich, Richardson -- they've had a gun in their house. The rest haven't. Biden: "Shot gun, not pistol."
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Edwards is asked about which taxes he'd raise to pay for his health care plan. George W. Bush's, he says. And then he notes that he has a specific health care plan. "Rhetoric is not enough. High falooting language is not enough."
Obama is asked how he'd pay for his plan. Obama says there should be a national pool people can buy into if they don't have health insurance. Then -- he'd make sure that "we control costs." Then -- catastrophic insurance for those who can't afford it.
Obama did not answer the question.
Clinton: "All of the ideas that you are going to hear in this campaign" should be put out to the public for review. Clinton mentions that she put forth a plan with elements of what Obama and Edwards have proposed. First, she'd cut costs. She thinks she "we can save money into the existing system." She is "not ready to put new money" into the system.
Posted at 07:35 PM
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I wonder if Richardson remembers that White was one of the dissenting votes on Roe v. Wade?
John Bessey | 04.26.07 08:04 PM
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