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Clinton fails to confirm debate participation at Cleveland State


From WKYC:

Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has told Channel 3 News that she has not yet accepted or rejected an invitation to take part in the Feb. 26 presidential debate with U.S. Sen. Barack Obama here in Cleveland. She made the comment during a one-on-one interview Tuesday afternoon with Channel 3 News senior political correspondent Tom Beres.

Clinton and Obama are scheduled to debate at 9 p.m. Feb. 26 at the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State University.

“You know, Tom, I’ve accepted a lot of debates,” Senator Clinton told Beres. “I was talking to a Youngstown channel and I’ve accepted their debate. I’ve accepted a CNN debate so there are a lot of opportunities for us to debate.”

Okay – now this kind of thing makes me mad.  For goodness sakes, fish or cut bait people.  All of you.

By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:05 pm February 12th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Cleveland+, Debates, Hillary Clinton, Media, Ohio, Politics, WH2008 

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18 Responses to “Clinton fails to confirm debate participation at Cleveland State”

  1. 1 Joe Amschlinger on February 12th, 2008 6:09 pm

    Hillary’s favorite role, victim. Let the tears flow.

  2. 2 Mark McNally on February 12th, 2008 7:44 pm

    Now she’s boycotting the NBC networks? After boycotting Fox News Channel.

    I guess she’s only for speech that she agrees with.

  3. 3 Jill Miller Zimon on February 12th, 2008 7:52 pm

    Well – just a slight correction:

    She hasn’t pulled out of the CSU debate yet and there are rumors that she has said that she would do a Fox one!

    I know – almost impossible to keep track of. :)

  4. 4 Jill Miller Zimon on February 12th, 2008 7:54 pm

    Joe – see – you know, I don’t know anyone who does see her as a victim per se. Behavior to her can be wretched without her being a victim – a lot of people who say that they will not vote for her can still recognize lousy treatment.

    And the few people who maybe see her as an empathetic figure, still will tell you that that doesn’t mean they’d vote for her.

    No matter how you slice it, you can call her a victim – but it’s not mattering to anyone, truly.

  5. 5 Carole Cohen on February 12th, 2008 11:16 pm

    Isn’t it a better role modeling for Chelsea (not that she needs it, she’s a grown young woman), if Hilary is able to be above the fray? Apparently not in her nature. Another reason to vote for Obama as a better leader lol ok I’m done

  6. 6 Keith on February 13th, 2008 8:08 am

    Hillary, at this part of the campaign, cannot afford to dis Cleveland. That would be a HUGE mistake for them.

    Again, I have to agree with the odious Chris Matthews – these aren’t debates, these are joint press conferences. If she refuses to appear with Obama in Cleveland she hands him a victory.

    Perhaps she’s having second thoughts about giving Obama more face time. And again, I have seen Obama ads here locally running for the last two weeks and nothing from Clinton.

    Clinton’s campaign was not ready for an extended fight, that is clear.

  7. 7 Jill Miller Zimon on February 13th, 2008 8:11 am

    Carole – That’s certainly one argument, but there’s the flip side which is never quit, never give up, do the Huckabee thing and believe in miracles. Both sides have value – knowing which one to pursue when is the tricky part. :)

  8. 8 Jill Miller Zimon on February 13th, 2008 8:14 am

    Keith – I could not agree with you more on that last point – that is pretty shocking to me and perhaps that fact, as you say, “Clinton’s campaign was not ready for an extended fight, that is clear,” is the most insightful reason why undecideds should question supporting Clinton.

    After all, here’s someone who has been in and around politics for decades. To think that the didn’t prepare for this eventuality means they underestimated an awful lot of factors and over-relied on others. That’s a big miscalculation.

    We might not know what formulas Obama will use for many things, but the concern about miscalculating as the Clinton campaign seems to have done is a big one to me. Thanks for raising that point.

  9. 9 LisaRenee on February 13th, 2008 2:08 pm

    Who’s really at fault? Obama has not agreed to the CNN debate which was agreed to prior to the Cleveland one by the Hillary campaign.

    Maybe it’s just me but the impression seems to be that Hillary is supposed to be more accommodating to what the Barack campaign decides they want to do and it shouldn’t be that way. Why didn’t Obama agree to the CNN debate? That we still never learned as far as I’ve seen, so if we are going to focus on who hasn’t confirmed, why not have it be on both candidates and why they have not confirmed.

    If we are going to diss Hillary for not confirming Cleveland, then don’t we have to equally diss Barck for not confirming the CNN debate?

  10. 10 Jill Miller Zimon on February 13th, 2008 2:19 pm

    Lisa Renee – that’s an excellent point. Why do you think that’s the case?

  11. 11 Kurt on February 13th, 2008 5:19 pm

    Perhaps the issue is that she will not be in the race any longer by the time of the debate??

  12. 12 Lisa Savage on February 13th, 2008 5:42 pm

    To the Ohio voters:

    I am a 55 year old educated white women married to a 68 year old black man and we have a 26 year old white daughter.
    We have talked politics at our house and this is what we have learned.
    Although McCain and Obama have major differences on the war the only difference on the issue of ecomomics is that McCain admits to knowing nothing about the economy and Obama dances around it. We have watched the debates closely when Hillary could get Obama to do them, and we realize that Hillary’s plan is the only one that is believable. The economy and health care are big issues at our house. If you feel the same, support Hillary Clinton. Don’t get sucked into Obama’s one liners about change. Its rhetoric and he knows it.
    Lisa

  13. 13 Joe Amschlinger on February 13th, 2008 6:00 pm

    Lisa Savage-

    Don’t give Hill too much credit, her plan is just a variation on the Communist Manifesto.

    I can’t wait till Democratic “Superdelegates” come into play and try to screw over Obama. We will see the real Democratic Party. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

    Best,

    Joe

  14. 14 Jill Miller Zimon on February 13th, 2008 6:03 pm

    Joe – isn’t that a little over the top, gleeful or MiniMe-ish or something?

  15. 15 LisaRenee on February 13th, 2008 6:52 pm

    Jill, I wish I knew, I wondered earlier if it was related to some of the concerns the Obama campaign had with the ODP and the fact that the ODP was involved in the CNN debate, but it sounds like from what I have heard that the ODP would help any of the debate organizers if asked. At least with Clinton we have a slight inkling as to why she is not happy with NBC at the moment, with Obama we don’t know why he did not agree to the CNN debate. It could be something as simple as scheduling, but we don’t know…

  16. 16 Carole Cohen on February 13th, 2008 8:04 pm

    well the drama may be over, supposedly Hillary accepted now, at least according to WKYC (someone emailed me about it)

  17. 17 Jill Miller Zimon on February 13th, 2008 10:37 pm

    Lisa Renee – and why don’t people harp on that – that we don’t know? Eh – we’re not likely to get an answer. There have been at least a few articles about Obama’s closedness with the press. I guess this is another example.

  18. 18 Jill Miller Zimon on February 13th, 2008 10:38 pm

    Hi Carole – definitely over for now – but there’s still press and blogger creds! lol

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