New Hampshire Paper Blisters Hillary, Obama For Skipping N.H. Debate

[babylonsister]

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/apr/27/new_hampshire_paper_blisters_hillary_obama_for_skipping_n_h_debate

New Hampshire Paper Blisters Hillary, Obama For Skipping N.H. Debate
By Greg Sargent | bio

And speaking of debates...

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have not agreed to participate in a debate in June in New Hampshire, and the flagship political newspaper in this all-important primary state of New Hampshire -- the Union Leader is not at all pleased. The paper rips the two in a new editorial today:

We Granite Staters take this tradition seriously. That two major candidates for President have refused the invitation to take part in this process that is so important to New Hampshire and, because of the New Hampshire primary, the country, indicates that perhaps they take the democratic process here, and the New Hampshire primary itself, for granted.

...The people of New Hampshire will remember that when it was time to hold themselves up for a side-by-side comparison with their competitors, Sens. Obama and Clinton considered themselves too important to show up.

Obama and Hillary have both said they'll only participate in DNC-sponsored debates, and are urging the DNC to sanction the upcoming New Hampshire one.

[zanne]

1. The Union Leader exists to criticize Democrats

I never take them seriously.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Union Leader? May as well be FauxNews or NewsMax

The ultimate rightwing newspaper.

[SoxFan]

3. Bland conservatives

Not as bad as it used to be, but not as entertaining, either. Bill Loeb was a hypocritical horses ass, and his wife was almost as weird as he was. During the 1980's, editorial writer Jim Finnigan was a crusty populist Irish-Catholic Reragan conservative, and was actually kind of entertaining. The current bosses are just flat-out boring, establishment Republicans.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. I concur - Bill and Nackey Loeb were old-school, for sure.

The Granite State has changed in many ways.

And welcome to DU!

[w4rma]

5. Are there any other non-DNC-sponsored debates that might be scheduled anywhere? (nt)

[madfloridian]

6. The DNC stated again today via McMahon...no sanctions until July.

Now it might confuse the issue that the Pentecost forum is the 4th of June, and the top contenders are going. Yet they are not going to the NH one in June after meeting with the DNC pleading for sanctioned ones.

If they want rules laid down they should abide by them. All the candidates had people meeting with the DNC so they would not have to go to so many forums and debates.

[Forkboy]

7. The Union Leader is crap,but this still wont play well in NH I bet.

[aikoaiko]

8. The Union Leader a right wing, but it won't make any Democrat happy to be snubbed

As a former NH resident, I loved primary season. To meet, shake hands and speak to the candidates was a thrill.


My favorite time was shaking Al Gore's hand and suggesting that he be bold because we needed a bold president.