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Sign Hillary’s Petition to Make Obama Honor His Promise to Debate in North Carolina

By SusanUnPC on April 24, 2008 at 6:37 PM in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, North Carolina

My friend in North Carolina, who is working day and night — and often in the middle of the night, awakened by fellow Hillary volunteers to help them replace torn-down Hillary signs — has asked me to urge all of you to sign this petition:

Senator Clinton has shown she’s committed to hearing from voters across the Tar Heel State. That’s why she accepted a North Carolina debate.

On Monday, April 21, the debate was cancelled because Senator Obama refused to make time in his schedule. On April 23 he brushed off North Carolinians again saying, “It’s not clear that another debate is going to be the best use of our time.”

Tell Senator Obama that having a debate in North Carolina is important to you. Add your name. Make your voice heard.

Here are some of the series of stories we’ve done on Barack Obama’s failure to honor his commitment to debate in North Carolina (abetted, many suspect, by DNC chair Howard Dean), and his disinclination to debate in other important primary states such as Indiana and Oregon (not to mention Kentucky, West Virginia, Puerto Rico, and more primaries yet to come):

“Hillary Asks Barry to Debate, Much More Nicely …” (in Oregon)
“Lanny Davis and Evan Bayh Throw Down the Gauntlet” (on Obama’s running away from the North Carolina debate — and a video of Lanny Davis expressing his suspicion that Howard Dean was behind getting Obama out of the debate — and his failure to give the people of Indiana a debate on their soil), and
“Obama Congregants: Waaaaa! Leave Barry Alone! No More Debates!” (on Obama ducking out of the No. Carolina debate).

Please sign Hillary’s petition. Let Barack Obama — and Howard Dean — know that you want the North Carolina debate, and that the people of North Carolina deserve a debate on their soil, and about their issues.

Patrick Henry

Star Spangled Banner by the Cactus Cuties..look up the U tube Video..I sent it to Hillary..Sing this petition…Hillary….08

JJ

I saw Hillary in Jacksonville today and I was impressed.
I want a debate. I’m tired of hearing Obama say the same things over and over and over but then refuse to be questioned or challenged about his assertions and promises.

J. K.

The problem isn’t with Barack Obama with approving debates. It wasn’t until Senator Hillary Clinton eeked out with under a 10% win in Pennsylvania she became re-interested in debating.

Senator Hillary Clinton is WORTHLESS! She cannot win a national election, and *SHE KNOWS IT!!!* DESPICABLE!

President Barack Obama … Get Used to It!!!

Lisa

That doesn’t even make any sense.

She was present for and kicked his ass in a televised debate on April 16th. She was perfectly happy to debate when she was behind, when the media and Obama surrogates were calling for her to quit, and when there was much ado over her trip to a war zone while First Lady.

No no, it’s Obama that is running scared. He showed himself to be petulant and sullen when not thrown softballs. He’s shown he thinks himself entitled to the kid-glove treatment and proved to be completely unprepared for any kind of earnest questioning, on “silly-season” fluff AND important issues.

She’s pressed for more debates all along. In fact, she was chastised and mocked for how many debates she advocated. It was a sign of how desperate she was for free airtime because she was broke… how desperate she was to stay relevant… blah blah blah.

How short the memories of some have turned out to be.
La Chatte

Lisa, Lisa, you don’t seem to be paying attention. I suggest you update your info! AP today reports Hillary with a 9 pt lead against McCain and Obama in a statistical tie. Besides, you sound really naive…
Reverend Wrong

eeked out with under a 10% win in Pennsylvania

eeked out? cute.
workingclass artist

Ehemmm…..JK…..Morolous es! Qualem blennum! Puto vos esse molestissmos !……Waddle back to GAZA and take Obama with you !

bambi’s brother

I’d like them to debate the Iraq exit plans. I think her exit plan will work best and his isn’t really an exit plan at all, so i’d like to hear him explain why we need 60 to 80K troops there, all those private mercenaries and why we have to let Bush’s friends keep his no-bid contracts. I think he can’t bring up the war because his plan isn’t workable. I fear he thinks we can’t exit and he’s just saying he’ll get us out to get elected.

simon, too

Today, Syria stated it is willing to join peace talks with Israel, but not while Bush is President.

And I found it interesting the former RNC treasurer, a big IL republican fundraiser, worked with Karl Rove to get Fitzgerald fired. Fitzgerald, currently prosecuting Rezko, also prosecuted Libby, in regard to Plame. The IL combine, of which Rezko is part, wanted to get rid of Fitzpatrick, because, you know, they don’t want to go to jail, or worse.

Same apparently for the Washington republicans, Fitz getting too close.

And I really want to know what Obama thinks of all this, I really do.

What are my chances of getting an answer?

Well, I might as well go toast a waffle, heavy on the syrup.

I want that debate, too, lot’s of questions here, that need to be answered by Obama, more every day.

And shame on every “journalist” out there, not asking these very necessary questions.

http://camoderate ca moderate

May I suggest some CNDN Maple Syrup – This might provide you better luck with getting your answer as CNDN’s seem to be the only ones the Obama camp likes to talk too.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

I’d like to know his health care plans. I read his site and new instantly it won’t work. For starters, I don’t think he has a clue what a single pay policy costs when he brags he will save people 2500 a year in tax deductions. It’s chicken feed compared to the real cost. Where i am you can’t get a single pay HMO for less than the high $800s. Per month. For a family it’s close to $2k. when he says he’s going to give people a write off of 2500, he shows he hasn’t got a clue. It won’t make a dent. And to say at his site that he wont interfere with the states tells me that nothing will change since most states’ legislators are in the pocket of health care insurers. Nothing will change under his plan. Nothing. The plan is No Plan.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Furthermore, too many will fall thru the cracks. I know a woman who had to quit work to care for her elderly mother. SHe has to buy health insurance. A write off will mean NOTHING to her.

simon, too

I agree, so many republicans are so out of touch, they feel write offs justify every cost imposed on the struggling middle classes.

Write offs don’t’ matter when you make 30,000 a year, and it would be a good start for those idiots to recognize the Bush Straussian economy is a disaster, and will bite them, too.

Someone made the suggestion today the liberals will tax tax tax taking all our money, but, without control of oil prices, prices are spiralling, seemingly overnight. Foil (I bake and cook, a lot) went from 84 to 2.39 since Tuesday, at Target, flour went up two dollars, for five pounds, every item seems to have gone up at least 40 percent — I’d rather have a system of SOME control, initiated by a clean government, as I seem to pay more when the government doesn’t raise my taxes.

And it’s going to get worse, affecting the wealthy obtuse, also.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

That was OBAMA’s health care plan I was talking about. Hard to tell it from the Republican plan isn’t it?

It is so far off from Universal, it amounts to nothing.

J. K.

WTF?

Barack Obama has a plan that can be implemented … Shrillary dillary cannot produce healthcare results … and SHE KNOWS it!!!

President Barack Obama … Get Used to It!!!

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

LOL!
http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Hey I have an idea. Why don’t you tell me ALL about his health plan? Not that I don’t know it. Now let’s see if you know all about it. Then we will talk and I will tell you why it’s horse shit.

DCDemocrat

Fellow Clintonistas, Whenever you write about Pennsylvania, I encourage you to use the phrase, “Obama’s humiliating loss.” I think it will be useful to let the three words meld together across the whole of the Democratic blogosphere.

anna shane

plus, it’s true, all that money, for what? I think it would have been better spent on policy advisors.

DCDemocrat

Thanks, Anna! By the way, I understand that after his humiliating loss in Pennsylvania, Barack Obama has gone home to rest and lick his wounds.

John

Catch Rachel Maddow on MSNBC tonight? Obama didn’t LOSE in Pennsylvania! He GAINED among white men, women, Catholics, etc!

Maddow’s head was spinning like a top- “I feel like I’m in some kind of parrellel universe here!” Yes you are Rachel, a universe where black is white, up is down and losing big is winning.

What the f-ever. Save the screechathon for your lame-ass radio show.

beebop

She’s taking lessons from odonnaobama ….

simon, too

Are you serious?

This was nothing, not even a blip, and that baby needs to rest, at home, worn out and devastated?

Good thing Hillary didn’t “accidentally” flip him off, man, he’d have a nervous breakdown…

BTW, if he doesn’t cope well with political loss, it’s a red flag.

barh

Reminds me of someone in the present WH who doesn’t cope well unless everyone around him seems to agree with him….

Kourian

Yes. Good idea. And then follow up by enumerating why it’s a humiliating loss. Good one.

simon, too

Actually, the state of IL is suffering, due to the corruption propagated by Obama’s fellow political “gangstas.”

VA nursing homes are left half empty, and the basic government infrastructure is failing because there isn’t enough money to care for it, even though IL has the highest tax rate in the nation, or Cook County does.

So maybe he could donate it back to the state, because it sure isn’t helping to win elections.

Illinois Voter

Obama Knows His Way around a Ballot by David Jackson & Ray Long, Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070403obama-ballot,0,1843097.story?,page=1
Some say his ability to play political hardball goes back to his first campaign….His overwhelming legal onslaught signaled his impatience to gain office, even if that meant elbowing aside an elder stateswoman like Senator Alice Palmer…Obama’s first campaign clouds the image he has cultivated throughout his political career…first entered public office not by leveling the playing field, but by clearing it…

Obama’s Failures in Illinois…Blood on Barack’s Hands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqu3u9ISctA

Look at Obama’s 13th Ward District in Chicago

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Well CNN is moving into fractions now. It’s not REALLY ten percent. It’s only REALLY ten percent if it’s a state Obama won. Every single state Obama won, he won exactly on the dot. No fractions. And the knife ran away with the spoon.

bambi’s brother

I’d also like to hear why he thinks McCain will be better than Bush. She’s for reversing Bush’s policies, it’s her main and first message, and in that way McCain will be worse than Bush, cause he has a head start, and just keeping Bush’s nutty policies in place will cause more and more disaster. I wonder who he thinks is competent in the Bush administration. I wonder who his foreign policy advisors are and if he now thinks he needs some. It could be a great debate if someone would ask him the right questions. For her we can look at her web site, and she takes questions all the time, but i don’t know what’s important to him. Specifically, I mean.

http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

Oh he likes reagan too. he fancies he’s going to get all those reagan people to vote for him. He’s just trying to be all things to all people when in fact, he is nothing to anybody.

Kourian

Barry doesn’t have to debate. His sweaty suit might still be in the cleaners. But if he doesn’t want to debate then he should do the HONOURABLE THING and WITHDRAW HIS CANDIDACY.

Simple as that, Barry boy.
http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com TexasDarlin

Hillary is like the brainy nerdy obedient girl in school, and Obama is the cool distracted kid smoking cigarettes out back. I always wanted to be a cool kid, but then again…I had no plans to run for President!

Obama is a wimp. He is afraid of the brainy girl. And with very good reason.

sandyR

Ah, Hillary’s Hermione. Nothing nerdy about her. Super smart and always has the magic to pull everyone’s rear end out of trouble. You’re only nerdy if you can never apply your smarts to real life. And just to round out the comparison: “you’re no Harry Potter Senator Obama.”
Obama’s pretty much Voldemort…. and now losing power….losing power…

Mel

I hope Obama doesn’t debate, it just proves more and more the sort of guy he is, even though it doesn’t allow for more exposures, it does show his preference of staying unknown and non-transparent!

Kourian

I hope Obama doesn’t debate

Maybe it won’t matter. He looks bad enough if he doesn’t debate but if he gives in – what’s the first question gonna be? It’s gonna be why he waffled so long on the whole thing. After that it’s gonna be Jeremiah and waffles and why not speak to the media, blah blah. For every day that passes he’s more and more in the shit of it.

It’s all over, Barry boy. Do the honourable thing and drop out now.

ModDem

Yeah, but issue won’t be debated. Instead it will all be gotcha games. Did Hillary lie, does Obama hate America? Ect.
Get a clue – the media doesn’t care for either candidate’s political positions. They only care for Inside Edition b.s.

simon, too

Which is why they’re irrelevant.

Most people with half a brain only watch Olbermann to mock, or bait, him.

I wish he could catch a clue.

IndayHill

OBAMA, STOP YOUR WHINING AND DEBATE HILLARY!! YOU SAID YOU ARE BETTER THAN SHE IS, THEN PROVE IT AND REDEEM YOURSELF FROM THE HUMILIATING LOSS YOU GOT FROM HER AT ABC DEBATE!!!
AND STOP ACTING A “GANGSTA”. THAT MAKES ME IMITATE YOU, A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE!
SENATOR OBAMA, JUST DEBATE THE LADY!!!
barh

brack, brack, brack, brack, brack, which is the sound that a chicken makes and also sounds quite like BOs name….
http://vimandvinegar.blogspot.com Suzanne

Thanks for the link. I signed it. We’ll see. It would be good to see how much poise each candidate still has, how much “gas in the tank” after 20+ debates, especially after a momentum shift. I’m not holding my breath, though.
Kourian

I’ve thought more about this. I am aware she knows best but my instinct is to recommend she simply say ‘oh to hell with it, he’s such a loser anyway, why would anyone want to hear what he has to say when he has nothing to say’. Or whatever. In other words I think Hill should stop taking this clown seriously. If she stops maybe others will too.
may not have to leave party

i think maybe it’s good if he doesn’t debate. that way, the last impression of him in a debate is a total flop sweat disaster, followed by a chickenshit refusal to play any more. if he debates again, there’ll be another disaster, but he’d at least be able to pretend he has some courage. maybe better to leave it at – humiliated, by a girl….., followed by chickenshit won’t play any more.
B-Rob

If Obama choses not to debate, there is one reason

Scoreboard!

See, folks, this is how it works: remember the great victory you got in Pennsylvania that resulted in a 13 delegate pickup by Hill (which got reduced to 8 in the next two days as five more suers case out for Obama)? Well he is looking at something like a 20 delegate pick up in North Carolina if nothing changes.

Just as you folks need help with Michigan and Florida, you also need another shot at Obama to be within sniffing rom of 40% in NC. So what you people are essentially asking him is “Gee, Obama, why won’t you give our underachieving candidate with no money another shot to block your sun, advertise herself for free and take pot shots are you and drive up your negatives? She might be able to fundraise off that, Obama! Why won’t you help her?”

There have been 22 debates. He doesn’t need any more so why should he have another? Why waste the time preparing, the time away from campaigning to drive up his margins, just so the weaker candidate can get some free face time? Ah, now I get it! The “distraction factor”. You Hill-bots are “negotiating” from a position of extreme weakness. So, sorry folks, you don’t get to “demand” that Obama do anything!

And speaking of debates, is that whining I hear coming from the same candidate who thought she was “too good” to be on the same stage with Dennis Kucinich? Uh, huh . . . well the shoes is now on the other foot. Hillary is in the same place as Dennis was then: broke, needed free publicity, and needing to show she still matters. Well, too bad . . . because its over, Hillary. It’s simply over . . . .

Kourian

You sad sick fuck. You wouldn’t be here if you weren’t worried sick your precious BARRY-BOY was going under. All the major media sources are saying he’s toast. Or waffle. Even the bloody London Times says so!

So poor you. What will you do if he loses? Go back to supporting the New England Patriots? Tough game this.

But there’s another reason your despicable Mr Waffle should debate.

BECAUSE IT’S THE HONEST THING TO DO.

You see – you already know – HE CANCELED BECAUSE HE’S SCARED. JUST LIKE YOU.

We don’t want a coward in the White House. Cowards: they play mean, they play tough – just like you! But when the going gets tough they leave half a waffle and their sausage behind and skedaddle.

Your boy is a despicable coward. You’ve got a good head on your shoulders. He could probably use you in his next Illinois senate campaign.
beebop

Every time he runs from Hillary he looks more vulnerable to McCain.

Rob Gard

Barry Allen was “The Flash” (Marvel Comics), but Barry Obama could beat him running away.
Lisa

That’s a damn fine point.

Run, Barry, run!

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Fran V

Whether or not Howard EEEEHAW Dean is behind Obama’s decision not to debate HRC, he should resign…He is a disgrace to the Democratic Party along with Nancy (make up bible stories Pelosi).
chuckac

people belive dean was behind obama not debateing, here in oklahoma hillary caried the state by a large margin, we were feeling good about it untill dean visted and met with our gov. brad henery about 3 weeks later he announcfed he was supporting obama. now that is upsetting. our dem. behind hillarry should voice thier opion. we in oklahoma are still behind her even tho dean did his dirty work. wonder what he promiced our gov?
Taters

Done, thanks Susan.
Jann Aldredge-Clanton

Debates are important! They show much more about candidates than ads and rallies. Obama needs to honor this request to debate Hillary in North Carolina. He should have the courage to face this debate.
MS

Obama originally provided a date to debate in NC, but Hillary denied the original date as it did not work with her schedule. Now the debate is not going to happen

Lisa

She’s now made room in her schedule. He won’t.

Wha’cher point?
http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

The debate is not going to happen because barack Obama is a coward, a pussy, a wimp in the fetal position every time a piece of the Real Him is exposed. Barack Obama is a Narcissist and he still can’t understand why everybody doesn’t comprehend that his stupity, insincerity, misogyny, bigotry, disrespect for Americans-Jews-Italians-Latinos-”hicks”-gays-women, his racism and lack of knowledge of important details even the most idiotic presidential candidate should be able to grasp is really a sign of his own superiority.

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yheitman

That cowardly lion picture from the Wizard of Oz on No Quarter is now how I now picture you Senator Obama. I will say it out loud “Sir, you are a coward and do not belong in the White House.” This makes you look really bad. Since there have been nothing but sexist comments from your camp I will continue by saying “a woman has called you out and you’re hiding. How precious!” What a big, brave man you are.
JULIE

HE’S SCARED OF HILLARY. WHAT A PUSSY.PUSSIES DONT WIN NOMINATIONS. PUSSIES NEVER GET TO BE PRESIDENT
kam

i think what we ought to psuh for is a high profile interview with barack’s wife, on her own….let that woman talk for any length of time and her true racism will surface and his candidacy will be over. trust me, i know this woman.
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Sweet C

Don’t all yall bitches feel stupid now! Bow down now because America chose the best choice in 40 years. Obama is the man so pick up your faces and reverse your negative ass comments. It really doesn’t make a difference because if it did, yall asses would have ran for the seat. Dumb muthaf%$#@^

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