MSNBC Ohio Debate Between Clinton and Obama

The Ohio Debate, organized by MSNBC, is on between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Below is an information summary about the Ohio Debate provided by Daily Kos.

First in the Ohio Debate Hillary denies the recent Obama photo came from her camp and Obama graciously accepts that response and is moving on to the differences in his health care plan versus hers -- and defending the health care mailer that she complained about last week.

The moderators are starting out the Ohio Debate wanting a fight, which is what you get with an MSNBC debate. In this case it's slightly more warranted than in prior debates, given that things have been somewhat more heated lately. It's still telling about the quality of moderation you get on this channel.

So far the candidates are going over the exact same health plan ground covered in the last debate, but framed around the issue of campaign tactics and negative campaigning.

Clinton and Obama ended up getting into what they got into last week - trading the exact same points about their healthcare plans. Obama says mandates are bad and Clinton doesn't cover everyone anyway, Clinton says Obama does have a mandate, Obama says "wait, let me answer that..." and the debate does not move on.

It's an important issue, but we've gotten to the point where there's no value being added in the discussion. I can't tell if it's the moderation or something about the candidates, but to this point Clinton has had to talk over the moderators a couple times to keep the healthcare debate going where Obama has not.

Clinton clearly thinks there's a moderation issue, asking specifically why she always gets the first question and referring to the SNL sketch and suggesting that maybe the moderators should ask Obama if he wants another pillow.

On NAFTA

Was Clinton opposed at the outset but unable to say so because it was her husband's administration? It may not surprise you to learn that there is disagreement on this point.

On another note, I don't know if it's my computer or what, but I have never seen such a poor quality of boradcasting in terms of streaming. While I have 5 MG high speed internet connection the MSNBC Ohio Debate keeps buffering and cutting the stream. I am not sure why is this happening, but I am wondering if there is relation with the earlier problems that MSN had with hotmail and the quality of MSNBC's Ohio Debate broadcast quality.

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