Clinton pressures Obama to debate


The Hillary Clinton campaign sought Friday to pressure Barack Obama to accept the proposed debate in North Carolina.

"Unfortunately, all signs point to him trying to duck the debate," said Ace Smith, Clinton's state campaign director. "He basically wants to brush off the people of North Carolina."

Smith noted that such Democratic leaders as Gov. Mike Easley and former Gov. Jim Hunt have urged Obama to acccept a debate scheduled to be held at Raleigh's RBC Center on April 27, Rob Christensen reports. He noted the state Democratic Party, which is sponsoring the event along with CBS, has already received 20,000 requests for tickets.

"It's ironic that the campaign of hope has become: I hope I don't get any more tough questions. I hope I don't have any more debates," he said.

During a campaign appearance in Raleigh on Monday, Obama expressed disappointment with the tenor of a debate held this week in Philadelphia. Instead of focusing on issues that matter to people, Obama said the debate concentrated on peripheral campaign flaps.

Obama also said there would be little time to hold a debate in the state.

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Re: Clinton pressures Obama to debate

Barack Obama does not want to debate because he does not want to answer any difficult questions. The MSM has not vetted Obama. When a person does some research on Obama, he learns that Obama has more baggage than a cargo ship.

Obama knows the skeletons in his closet that have not been revealed by the MSM. Because the MSM would not vet their golden boy Obama, there are web sites that are exposing why Obama is unelectable.

Visit the web site that Barack Obama does not want voters to read. Learn why Obama is unelectable at:
http://www.AudacityofHypocrisy.com/

Obama does not want another debate. He does not want to answer any difficult questions.

Barack Obama - 20 Years of an Anti-White Ideology - Why?

Why did Barack Obama choose a spiritual adviser/mentor who taught the Anti-White Ideology of Black Liberation Theology ?

Why did Obama listen to the Anti-White Ideology for 20 years and give significant amounts of money to support the preaching of the Anti-White Ideology?

Why did Obama expose his daughters to the Anti-White Ideology of Black Liberation Theology?

Why didn't Obama denounce Rev. Jeremiah Wright's authorization of the publication of the 'Hamas Terror Manifesto' in the 7/22/2007 Bulletin of the Trinity United Church of Christ?

Why didn't Obama denounce Rev. Wright's gift of a 'Lifetime Achievement Award' to the Anti-White, Anti-Catholic, and Anti-Semitic Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan?

Jeff Jacoby wrote "Should people of faith empathize with Obama?" in the 3/20/2008 edition of the 'Jewish World Review.' The article is at:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby032008.php3?printer_...

Excerpts from the article follow:

"The problem for Obama is that Wright, the spiritual leader he has so long embraced, is a devotee not of King - who in that same speech warned against "drinking fro the cup of bitterness and hatred" - but of the poisonous hatemonger Louis Farrakhan, whom the church's magazine honored with a lifetime achievement award. The problem for Obama, who campaigns on a message of racial reconciliation, is that the "mentor" whose church he joined and has generously supported with tens of thousands of dollars in donations is a disciple not of King but of James Cone, the expounder of a "black liberation" theology that teaches its adherents to "accept only the love of G-d which participates in the destruction of the white enemy."

"Above all, the problem for Obama is that for two decades his spiritual home has been a church in which the minister damns America to the enthusiastic approval of the congregation, and not until it threatened to scuttle his political ambitions did Obama finally find the mettle to condemn the minister's odium."

Barack Obama repeatedly says that Rev. Wright's lifetime of ministry has been impugned by his detractors. Let's give credit where credit is due. Rev. Wright was instrumental in establishing numerous ministries that help people with a variety of needs. Rev. Wright and his congregation should be commended for those ministries.

However, nearly all churches have ministries that help people with a variety of needs. The fact that Rev. Wright has helped to establish ministries which help people does not excuse his indoctrination of the Anti-White Ideology of Black Liberation Theology to his congregation. Some people refer to Black Liberation Theology as a type of 'Victimization' Theology. How does it affect a person who has listened to it for 20 years? How does it affect children?

How many times can a person hear about the 'White Oppressors' before he begins believing that, as Rev. Wright describes America, the "US of KKK-A" owes him - big time?

Linda Chavez wrote "Afrocentrism Is the Problem" in the 3/19/2008 edition of the 'National Review Online.' Check the archives at: http://www.nationalreview.com/archives/?q=MjAwODAzMTc

Excerpts from her article follows:

"...Afrocentrism is no more a reflection of authentic African culture than white supremacy is of American culture. Nor is Afrocentrism merely about black pride - though Afrocentric "scholars" do frequently claim that Moses, Jesus, Cicero, Cleopatra, and a host of other luminaries were black."

"At its heart, Afrocentrism is based on a profoundly anti-white and paranoid ideology. First, it asserts that the entire foundation of Western Civilization was stolen by the Greeks from Egypt, which, Afrocentrics claim, was ruled by ancient blacks. Second, it claims that whites are deeply inferior..."

Barack Obama - 20 Years of an Anti-White Ideology - Why?

Learn why Barack Obama is unelectable at: http://www.AudacityofHypocrisy.com/

Re: Clinton pressures Obama to debate

Has either Hillary or Bill been to Clinton?

Re: Kay Hagan Should Debate Jim Neal

Kay Hagan and Jim Neal should both debate with all of the candidates. There are more candidates running -- not just Hagan and Neal. Neal's narcissm seems to dictate that he believes he is only person running against Hagan. The real question is why Hagan and Neal AVOID any real debates with Dr. Howard Staley, Marcus Williams and Duskin Lassiter? I don't believe that this state needs either Hagan or Neal's snooty approaches. If they are going to snoot the other candidates for U.S. Senate -- hard working citizens of North Carolina, then they will snoot the rest of its citizens if elected. But then, we don't really need to worry about either Hagan or Neal getting elected. Neither is intellectually strong enough to go up against Elizabeth Dole. Their understanding of the meat of the issues is and has through their campaigns been presented like a sort of whitewash. The citizens of this state should make it their business to read up on the other candidates; otherwise, this entire state is going to lose. We don't need someone who is going to rail insults at Elizabeth Dole by telling her to go back to Kansas. Dole is from Salisbury, N.C. We don't need someone such as Neal who spends his time between questions writing his name over and over again as if he is in love with himself. We need good representation -- not the candidate with the most campaign funds. Those funds do not represent the bulk of North Carolinians because most North Carolinians can't afford to donate too much more than their churches if that. This is not a race about voting on the lesser of two evils. This is a race that is giving North Carolinians three additional choices that are much better than those the newspaper editorials are serving up and shoving down your throats. Spit out Hagan and Neal, and look at the real issues and the strengths of the other candidates. Dr. Howard Staley has practiced podiatric medicine in this state for nearly 27 years. He educational background and knowledge of our Federal government would be a major plus for this state in the capacity of U.S. Senator. Duskin Lassiter is a truck driver who owns his own company. Marcus Williams is an attorney. Consider all of your options -- not what any media dictates; otherwise, you -- the voters become like puppets and do exactly as you are told to do instead of thinking for yourselves.

Re: Kay Hagan Should Debate Jim Neal

Kay Hagan and Jim Neal should both debate with all of the candidates. There are more candidates running -- not just Hagan and Neal. Neal's narcissm seems to dictate that he believes he is only person running against Hagan. The real question is why Hagan and Neal AVOID any real debates with Dr. Howard Staley, Marcus Williams and Duskin Lassiter? I don't believe that this state needs either Hagan or Neal's snooty approaches. If they are going to snoot the other candidates for U.S. Senate -- hard working citizens of North Carolina, then they will snoot the rest of its citizens if elected. But then, we don't really need to worry about either Hagan or Neal getting elected. Neither is intellectually strong enough to go up against Elizabeth Dole. Their understanding of the meat of the issues is and has through their campaigns been presented like a sort of whitewash. The citizens of this state should make it their business to read up on the other candidates; otherwise, this entire state is going to lose. We don't need someone who is going to rail insults at Elizabeth Dole by telling her to go back to Kansas. Dole is from Salisbury, N.C. We don't need someone such as Neal who spends his time between questions writing his name over and over again as if he is in love with himself. We need good representation -- not the candidate with the most campaign funds. Those funds do not represent the bulk of North Carolinians because most North Carolinians can't afford to donate too much more than their churches if that. This is not a race about voting on the lesser of two evils. This is a race that is giving North Carolinians three additional choices that are much better than those the newspaper editorials are serving up and shoving down your throats. Spit out Hagan and Neal, and look at the real issues and the strengths of the other candidates. Dr. Howard Staley has practiced podiatric medicine in this state for nearly 27 years. He educational background and knowledge of our Federal government would be a major plus for this state in the capacity of U.S. Senator. Duskin Lassiter is a truck driver who owns his own company. Marcus Williams is an attorney. Consider all of your options -- not what any media dictates; otherwise, you -- the voters become like puppets and do exactly as you are told to do instead of thinking for yourselves.

Re: Kay Hagan Should Debate Jim Neal

Kay Hagan and Jim Neal should both debate with all of the candidates. There are more candidates running -- not just Hagan and Neal. Neal's narcissm seems to dictate that he believes he is only person running against Hagan. The real question is why Hagan and Neal AVOID any real debates with Dr. Howard Staley, Marcus Williams and Duskin Lassiter? I don't believe that this state needs either Hagan or Neal's snooty approaches. If they are going to snoot the other candidates for U.S. Senate -- hard working citizens of North Carolina, then they will snoot the rest of its citizens if elected. But then, we don't really need to worry about either Hagan or Neal getting elected. Neither is intellectually strong enough to go up against Elizabeth Dole. Their understanding of the meat of the issues is and has through their campaigns been presented like a sort of whitewash. The citizens of this state should make it their business to read up on the other candidates; otherwise, this entire state is going to lose. We don't need someone who is going to rail insults at Elizabeth Dole by telling her to go back to Kansas. Dole is from Salisbury, N.C. We don't need someone such as Neal who spends his time between questions writing his name over and over again as if he is in love with himself. We need good representation -- not the candidate with the most campaign funds. Those funds do not represent the bulk of North Carolinians because most North Carolinians can't afford to donate too much more than their churches if that. This is not a race about voting on the lesser of two evils. This is a race that is giving North Carolinians three additional choices that are much better than those the newspaper editorials are serving up and shoving down your throats. Spit out Hagan and Neal, and look at the real issues and the strengths of the other candidates. Dr. Howard Staley has practiced podiatric medicine in this state for nearly 27 years. He educational background and knowledge of our Federal government would be a major plus for this state in the capacity of U.S. Senator. Duskin Lassiter is a truck driver who owns his own company. Marcus Williams is an attorney. Consider all of your options -- not what any media dictates; otherwise, you -- the voters become like puppets and do exactly as you are told to do instead of thinking for yourselves.

Re: Kay Hagan Should Debate Jim Neal

Kay Hagan and Jim Neal should both debate with all of the candidates. There are more candidates running -- not just Hagan and Neal. Neal's narcism seems to dictate that he believes he is only persson running against Hagan. The real question is why Hagan and Neal AVOID any real debates with Dr. Howard Staley, Marcus Williams and Duskin Lassiter? I don't believe that this state needs either Hagan or Neal's snootie approaches. If they are going to snoot the other candidates for U.S. Senate -- hard working citizens of North Carolina, then they will snoot the rest of its citizens if elected. But then, we don't really need to worry about either Hagan or Neal getting elected. Neither is intellectually strong enough to go up against Elizabeth Dole. Their understanding of the meat of the issues is and has through their campaigns been presented like a sort of whitewash. The citizens of this state should make it their business to read up on the other candidates; otherwise, this entire state is going to lose. We don't need someone who is going to rail insults at Elizabeth Dole by telling her to go back to Kansas. Dole is from Salisbury, N.C. We don't need someone such as Neal who spends his time between questions writing his name over and over again as if he is in love with himself. We need good representation -- not the candidate with the most campaign funds. Those funds do not represent the bulk of North Carolinians because most North Carolinians can't afford to donate to much more than their churches if that. This is not a race about voting on the lesser of two evils. This is a race that is giving North Carolinians three additional choices that are much better than those the newspaper editorials are serving up and shoving down your throats. Spit out Hagan and Neal, and look at the real issues and the strengths of the other candidates. Dr. Howard Staley has practiced podiatric medicine in this state for nearly 27 years. He educational background and knowledge of our Federal government would be a major plus for this state in the capacity of U.S. Senator. Duskin Lassiter is a truck driver who owns his own company. Marcus Williams is an attorney. Consider all of your options -- not what any media dictates; otherwise, you -- the voters become like puppets and do exactly as you are told to do instead of thinking for yourselves.

Re: Kay Hagan Should Debate Jim Neal

In a recent Democratic gathering in Martin County, State Sen. Kay Hagan said she wants to go to Washington, D.C. because she views Washington, D.C. as a dysfunctional place and wants to clean it up. When Dr. Howard Staley stood he responded to Hagan by saying that “…Washington, D.C. is not dysfunctional -- but Washington is trying to manage a dysfunctional society.”

What I believe voters should be doing is looking at the overall picture of this senatorial race. The goal of the race is to beat U.S. Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole. Which candidate can you picture going up against Sen. Dole? Which candidate has the education, and quick wit to go up against Dole?

The narcissm and arrogance of Jim Neal is not going to cut anything – not even butter. He is not electable. Hagan is not savvy enough -- nor is she educationally prepared enough to win against Dole. Can you picture her in a debate with the style she has of a sixth grader running for class president up against Sen. Dole? Hagan says she wants Dole to take her ruby slippers and go back to Kansas. Well, Mrs. Hagan, U.S. Sen. Dole is not from Kansas! She is from Salisbury, N.C.

When push comes to shove, Hagan fails to adequately answer questions put to her. If she says, I want to give North Carolinians a voice in Washington one more time, I think I will puke. This is the goal when any U.S. Senator is elected. They become the voice for everyone of those in the state they represent! What she touts is never anything of profound resolution. Hagan does not strike me as having enough fortitude to prevail the strong winds of the impending political storm blowing and pounding about the borders of the Republican and Democratic parties.

Duskin Lassiter -- no matter how much encyclopedia knowledge he brings to the table -- has not advanced enough yet to apply what he has memorized between his redundant uses of “ladies and gentlemen.” The only two candidates, who seem to be worth the trouble of wading through the over-spending of advertising hoopla of Neal and Hagan propaganda, are Dr. Howard Staley and Marcus Williams.

When I look at these two men -- I am inclined to choose Staley first -- but maybe Marcus can run for the next U.S. Senate seat in two years? Right now, North Carolina voters need to use their best judgment and vote on a candidate who is intellectually strong enough to go up against Dole.

I am sure the Republican Party is sitting back and enjoying the divisions that have erupted like an ongoing downpour through the Democratic Party. If you really want to get issues resolved with the least amount of money wasted – choose a candidate who stands apart from excessive political advertising. Excessive advertising dictates to voters how to vote.

Voters need to think on their own. Ideally, they should not allow themselves to be dictated to by candidates who shove their ways into their mailboxes and dinnertime between the evening news and advertisement telephone calls. Such advertising is frivolous and unbalanced. I would like to think that most voters can wade through the garbage and see the shining coin underneath it all.

Voters must care enough to do their homework. Read the newspapers – not their opinions – but the unbiased news reports. If you can’t trust your local newspapers to deliver equal, balanced and unbiased reporting – read the AP New wires. They seem to make it their business to strive for unbiased reporting.

Visit all of the candidates’ sites. Call the candidates on the telephone if you need to. Dr. Staley has numbers up for voters to get in touch with him. He invites their questions. Don’t be shy. He’s not ever going to put his nose up to any citizen in this state. He does not side step any issue – nor is he likely to avoid or dance around single-issue groups’ questions. Every group makes up in totality the majority – but all require someone who is not in this race for the glory, or prestige, or for narcissm, or because someone put them up to it.

Dr. Staley is – but a human being willing to step away from his career and make the needs of this state and this country the focus of honest-effective and operational resolutions. When you vote, vote your conscience; otherwise, the voting process is degraded. If you are going to be a lazy voter – those candidates with the bulk of political advertising are depending on it. They don’t want you to think for yourself – only to remember their names so that you will respond like a robot absorbed in the powers of suggestion and fill in the spot next to their name.

Above all, remember not to lie to yourself about the qualifications of these senatorial candidates. Remember what William Shakespeare wrote in his play Hamlet, “to thine own self be true.”

Kay Hagan Should Debate Jim Neal

If Gov Easley and Gov Hunt truly believe in presidential debates are good for NC, then why don't they urge Kay Hagan to debate Jim Neal on TV for US Senate??? Jim Neal is completely willing to debate Kay Hagan on TV, but she refuses because she is scared of being outshined by Jim Neal (who has a very Obama-esque speaking style). Without a debate, it looks like Kay Hagan is simply trying to buy the primary with special interest money (she does sit on the NC budget committee and has control of a LOT of state money).

This refusal does not pass the smell test. North Carolina citizens should demand a TV debate between Jim Neal and Kay Hagan.

And her excuse of "I do not feel comfortable in participating in a debate without the other 3 [minor] candidates" on April 11th, and then participating in a non-televised debate without the other 3 candidates 2 days later is hypocrisy. She is just offering weak excuses not to debate Jim Neal, because he is an amazing speaker with progressive ideas.

Again, North Carolina should demand a TV debate between Jim Neal and Kay Hagan,

Kay Hagan Should Debate Jim Neal

If Gov Easley and Gov Hunt truly believe in presidential debates are good for NC, then why don't they urge Kay Hagan to debate Jim Neal on TV for US Senate??? Without a debate, it looks like Kay Hagan is trying to buy her way into primary with special interest money. North Carolina citizens should demand a TV debate between Jim Neal and Kay Hagan.

Re: Clinton pressures Obama to debate

The difference with the Hagan/Neal debate issue is that Obama And Hillary already had more than 20 debates..duhhhh.

Enough debates, let's vote already.

Re: Clinton pressures Obama to debate

What I find intellectually dishonest is that I know many supporters of Sen. Obama who are also supporters of Jim Neal for U.S. Senate. They have blogged and spoken out about the fact that Sen. Kay Hagan will not debate Jim Neal...and that's perfectly fine and appropriate. But they are strangely silent on Sen. Obama choosing not to debate Sen. Clinton. I suppose they can say, "Oh, the media is just playing the 'gotcha' game," but that doesn't excuse them from not encouraging the Obama campaign to accept a debate before the one on Wed. occurred. And I would like to think that they believe in their candidate enough to know he can stand up to tough questions.

I think the presidential candidates owe NC a debate. Heck, I think they owe Indianians (is that right?) a debate as well! All these states are getting once in a lifetime chances to make a difference, and I would hope BOTH candidates would see this as a great opportunity to speak to the voters of these states. I applaud Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton for both personally appearing and sending surrogates to NC. So let's debate, too!

Re: Clinton pressures Obama to debate

It is clear he is taking North Carolina for granted. He doesn't want to address issues to that matter to us...