Tonight my son and I watched both the Republican and Democrat debates on ABC. Charlie Gibson was an excellent moderator. However if Hillary Clinton loses the
Democratic nomination the beginning of the end may very well
be traced to tonight's debate. She was attacked by both Edwards and Obama as the candidate of the status quo. She then got angry and became very shrill. For the first part of the debate she did not smile. When she spoke she did not look at the moderator or even the other debaters. She seemed to look off into space and to recite pre programmed stump speeches. Some one may have talked to her during the break because she then started to smile in the second half and was more personable but then it was too late. A focus group of Democrats on Fox News paned her performance. Even liberal Jake Tapper of ABC news said this about her performance on his blog:
"Frankly, I don't even really understand what she was saying. What I was getting was how angry she is. Not about an issue, so much, as about the fact that Obama is beating her.
The clip, I predict, will be played again and again and again.
Pundits will say that her tone made male voters recoil. And led some female voters to sneer.Clinton people are spinning this as her projecting strength. I do not think that will be the widely-head view."
Click on the title for a video clip of the portion of the debate when Hillary lost it.
UPDATE: She lost the Debate but won the Primary.
