Comments on: Clinton Digs In; Romney Takes Foes' Digs

CBSNews.com's Vaughn Ververs: Clinton, Romney Try To Rebound From Iowa Losses During Back-To-Back Debates

[wooha3]

That ol madcap prankster Hillary is up to her jokes again. Sarcasm, sniping, confrontational anger, direct attacks. Wow, not letting her staff do the dirty work anymore, just going for the jugular with venom and lies. Mark Penn must be proud.

Edward''s realignment with Obama really elucidates his fighter image. Desperation trumps chivalry.

Senator Obama - calm, informative,humorous.

[nirak2-2009]

Leaving Candidates out of debates like Mr. Kucinich is what you call democratic in the US?

[feelfree1]

Re: "It led Bill Richardson, the only other candidate invited to the debate..."

Why is that?

Dennis Kucinich is showing equal support to that of Mr. Richardson, according to recent polling. Why is Mr. Kucinich not invited to the debate?

www.pollingreport.com/wh08dem.htm/

Is there a reason, CBS, that we are not being allowed to hear the opinions of Mr. Kucinich in this debate?

[PulSamsara]

Digs into a hole.

[PulSamsara]

Maybe your headline should read;

Frazzeled Former front-runner loses her cool.

Clinton tried to bait a fight... got a response back she didn''t like and flew off the handle.

Don''t dish it out if you can''t take it Hillary.

Not very Presidential at all.

[andersenme]

Here''s a bit of information about Sen. Clinton''s "experience" as First Wife and her patronage of Attorney General Janet Reno.

It should give anyone interested in good government pause.

I was the pioneer whistleblower in a security and corruption scandal involving senior Reno aides in the Criminal Division, including the person she appointed to "clean up" the INS and who at the same time was arranging to bring over two Russian women--one of whom he was sleeping with--on fraudulent visas.

(I eventually won the federal service''s highest award as a national security whistleblower, but that is for another time.)

Please check it out, then decide for yourself about Hillary''s judgment. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_30_18/ai_90753068

If Sen. Clinton became the Democratic nominee, she would be open to the same kind of charges they level against Rudy Giuliani about Bernie Kerik.

Martin Edwin Andersen

[danhansen888]

Ron Paul - the only mention of Dr. Paul in this article is as a "foil" for Rudy G. I thought his polemic on the effect that the devaluation of the dollar has on the price of oil in the United States was a masterpiece.

Ron Paul has drawn a strong distinction between defending ourselves against imminent threats from terrorist thugs and preemptive invasions of countries like Iraq. Much of Rudy G.''s argument relies on confusing these two - we did not have to invade Iraq in order to kill Al Qaeda. There were no Al Qaeda in Iraq prior to the invasion (but there are now).

We do not need to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on bases in 130 countries in order to defeat Al Qaeda. It is unfortunate that this "Ron Paul wants to let the bad men come and kill us" argument carries as much weight as it does with people. But then again, many of these people believed that Iraq had nuclear bombs because that is what the current administration told them. I am hoping that Republicans will take a look at Dr. Paul and understand how sensible a non-interventionist foreign policy is.

[speakinup]

AndersenME - yeah - I think I heard that last week. It doesn''t surprise me though.

I haven''t seen your name on the site too much, but if you do read posts on CBS''s blog - yo''d be amazed at how many far left bloggers act like Bush is going to run again.

They simply can''t resist getting their digs in. The usual parrot talk - you know - about how he lied, the high oil prices are his fault, how his ratings are so lousy (never mind that Congress as a whole is worse and Reid and Pelosi are almost negative.)

For the most part you need to gird your loins when reading on this site for total idiots. No wonder Hillary has such a big following.

I have asked, time and again, just what this person has done that makes her a great leader. No one has EVER answered.

Maybe they feel sorry for her, being publically humulated by Bill, with his affair while in office, but she stayed married to the jerk.

"Stupid is, as stupid does." is how I feel about her.

Frankly, I DO hope she gets her parties nomination. The person isn''t electable.

[iceman_1960]

"At one point in a discussion over foreign policy, Romney said to former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, "don%u2019t try and characterize my position." Huckabee: "Which one."

Not bad.

[iceman_1960]

Techno-bump.


Presto: the posts reappear

[jsilver2th]

Goodson is a joke- if I were any of these people I''d never return to ABC = playing GOP propaganga clips as neutral information then after the clip on Social Security Goodson never even asked a question about it- the pro "surge" spot was distorted and one-sided- what a pathetic attempt to manipulate public opinion- hang your head in shame ABC.

[iceman_1960]

This is music to our ears:

"Friday, January 04, 2008

Voters continue to trust Democrats more than Republicans on most key issues, according to the latest data from a Rasmussen Reports tracking poll.

Democrats get the nod on nine of ten issues we asked about. They lead by double digits on six of the ten: the Economy, Immigration, Government Ethics and Corruption, Health Care, Social Security, and Education.

On no issue are Republicans more widely trusted than Democrats. The best the GOP can currently achieve is parity: 43% to 43% on National Security and the War on Terror, an area where they scrounged a bare two-point edge a month ago.

When the War in Iraq is isolated as a separate foreign-policy issue, Democrats enjoy an eight-point advantage of 47% to 39%, the same margin they held in November."

Source:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/trust_on_issues/trust_on_issues

[andersenme]

Anyone notice how in the New Hampshire debate tonight Hillary Clinton was very careful to point out that the Pakistani president was not, rpt, not running in the upcoming parliamentary elections? And why was that?

Because after Benazir Bhutto died, in two separate televised appearances, Sen. Clinton claimed that he was standing for election, even going so far as to say that he might arrange to be the only candidate on the ballot!

So much for her vaunted experience as First Wife.

In foreign policy, either you know it or you don''t, and no matter how scripted she was tonight, as Joe Biden pointed out last week, she clearly doesn''t.

Martin Edwin Andersen

Churchton, Maryland

[speakinup]

"Clinton Digs In"

Yeah - that''s good ole Presidential material all right. If the hole she''s in were any deeper - she''d pop out the other side.