Clinton Tough
18 April 2008 10:11 am by Taylor Marsh
Q: So you were fine with the debate, did you see any problem with it?
HRC: Well, can I say that I’ve been through, what 23 of these debates?
And as I recall, I was asked some pretty tough questions in nearly every one
of them. That goes with the territory, having been inside the White House,
I know the pressures inside the White House, I know how hard it is every single
day. When the going gets tough you can’t run away. And it’s going
to be tough going to deal with these hard problems; getting out of Iraq in
the right way, turning the economy around, getting universal health care,
ending our dependence on foreign oil. The special interests are going to be
a lot tougher than 90 minutes of questions from two journalists and we need
a president who is going to be up there fighting everyday for the American
people and not complain about how much pressure there is, and how hard the
questions are.
I’m thinking here of Obama not holding a hearing on his sub-committee, ducking the Kyl-Lieberman vote, as well as not doing anything on Iraq while he was a senator. But also, his inability to take a firm stand on other issues, even something as simple as walking away from Rev. Wright, which clearly would have been the most courageous choice. The truth is that Senator Barack Obama seemed to resent the questioning of Gibson and Stephanopoulos. Remind you of anyone?
