April 26, 2007
The Debate, Part VII: NAACP, Worst Mistakes
An e-mailer asks about the NAACP boycott. Biden cites James Clyburn. Says there's no reason not to honor students at this college.
Sen. Obama: "I think that the Confederate Flag should be put into a museum. But we've got an enormous debate that should be taking place right now." Mentions black mortality rates and poverty. As "Hillary mention earlier, this is going to be a change election."
The candidates are asked about their professional mistakes.
Gravel: "I won't hold their youth and inexperience against them."
Kucinich: "When I was mayor of Cleveland, on Good Friday, I fired the police chief live on the six o'clock news."
Clinton: "I don;t have enough time to tell you about all the mistakes I made in the past years." ... she cites health care and her believing Bush.
Obama: The Schiavo case. "Professionally, the biggest mistake I made was that when I first arrived in the Senate. A lot of us, including me, left the Senate with [legislation] that allowed Congress to intrude where it shouldn't have."
Biden: "Overestimating the competence of this administration and underestimating the arrogance."
Edwards: "I was wrong to vote for this war."
Dodd: "The war in Iraq was a huge mistake."
Richardson: "I'm impatient. I'm too aggressive."
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Clinton is asked whether she'd grant amnesty, against the wishes of the American people, to illegal immigrants. Clinton responds that she favors comprehensive immigration reform.
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Obama is asked about his response to a hypothesized catastrophe. Two nukes. We're sure it's Al Q.
Obama: He'd make sure the recovery and response was solid. "What we can't do is then alienate the world community based on false intelligence based on bombast." He says he'd talk to the international community.
Edwards: "The first thing I would do is be certain I would know who is responsible, and I would act swiftly and strongly and hold them responsible for that."
Clinton: "Having been a senator during 9/11, I understand the horror ... of that attack. I think a president must move as swiftly as is prudent to retaliate. If we are attacked and we can determine who is behind that attack and if there were nations that supported or gave mateiral aid to those attack. I believe that we should quickly respond. But that doesn't mean we go quickly looking for other fights."
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