The debate is on?

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would debate in Raleigh.

The North Carolina Democratic Party announced today that the two presidential candidates would face off at the RBC Center on April 27.

The 90-minute debate would be sponsored by N.C. State and CBS News. It is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m., immediately following "60 Minutes."

Katie Couric and Bob Schieffer will moderate.

Update: Obama has not yet agreed to the debate.

"We have not received word from the Obama campaign, but we are confident they will agree. North Carolina has 115 delegates and 19 superdelegates," wrote Democratic Party spokeswoman Kerra Bolton in an e-mail to Dome.

Second Update: Obama's campaign confirms that the press release may be a bit premature.

"Senator Obama has debated Senator Clinton more than 20 times so far, and our campaign agreed to another debate in North Carolina that was proposed for the third week of April," wrote spokesman Dan Leistikow in an e-mail to Dome. "Unfortunately, the Clinton campaign vetoed that date. We are still determining whether or not the later date works for Senator Obama's schedule.

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Re: The debate is on?

Submitted by tayiestv on April 26, 2008 - 6:57am.

America has enough from the useless and non productive empty talks. Debate can be very informative, engaging and invigorating when it focused on issues that directly will effect the American people. I don't care what Barak Obama had for breakfast or what his breacher had preached. But I do care if he is trust wordy therefor I ask can we trust the next president? which one of the three candidates you think is trust wordy?

Tayie Rehem
http://www.soultv.net

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Re: The debate is on?

Submitted by rojo7449 on April 11, 2008 - 6:29pm.

Delightful. Obama scheduling was intended to mess with PA, but also to put enough distance between the NC Debate and the NC Primary. He wanted the additional time to undo the damage she would do to his lead because she's so much more effective debating. He won't get away with anymore of his "what she said" responses with the tact this campaign has taken of late.

His politics isn't only as bad as politics have ever been, he's taken it to a new LOW.

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Re: The debate is on?

Submitted by captsfufp on April 9, 2008 - 7:12am.

I'm not saying this is the reason, but, from my perspective, the appearance from the Obama campaign is that the point of having their first proposed debate was to take Sen. Clinton out of Penn. before the April 22 primary, to ensure she doesn't further increase her lead in that huge state, especially in regards to her popular vote.

Now that a post-April 22 debate has been proposed, suddenly the Obama campaign has schedule problems. That's politics, and that's strategy. And that's fine. But no more of this "new kind of politics" and "we can win anywhere" message, since both are obviously not true.

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Re: The debate is on?

Submitted by FFC1304 on April 9, 2008 - 5:47am.

Hmmm, I guess NC is not as 'important' in this election as they led us to believe. I'd appreciate both of them just staying the hell out of our already democrat corrupted state. STRIVE to be SMARTER than a democrat.

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