Personal Democratic SC Debate: Hillary Clinton Barack Obama

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Clinton, Obama get fiercely personal
Democratic South Carolina debate heats up

MYRTLE BEACH, SC—The smoldering acrimony between the Democratic presidential front-runners flared openly as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama traded charges in a debate Monday about who is dishonest, who is cowardly and who is doing the bidding of reviled special interests.

The debate was the most fiercely personal of the election season as the candidates showed the strains of a long and bitter campaign. At one point, Obama and Clinton raised their voices over each other to be heard. Each even attacked the other's biography.

Obama dismissed Clinton for working as "a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart" during the 1980s while he was a community organizer on the streets of Chicago's South Side.

Clinton countered by blasting Obama for doing legal work he did for Tony Rezko, a developer and campaign donor to Obama since indicted on corruption charges, while she joined her husband in struggling against the Republican-controlled Congress during the 1990s.

Smarting from charges former President Bill Clinton has made that Obama has not been consistent in his opposition to the Iraq war and that Obama had spoken favorably of Republican policies, the Illinois senator accused the New York senator and her husband of misleading the public.

The only polite treatment of the evening was reserved for the members of the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, the hosts of the Martin Luther King Day event, who were seated in the front row of the auditorium and to whom the candidates made frequent reference. Some influential African-American leaders are staying out of the fray right now and have refused to endorse a candidate in the days leading up to this weekend's South Carolina primary, where roughly half the Democratic electorate is black.

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  • I'M NOT AN AMERICAN...

    I’M NOT AN AMERICAN…..I REALLY REALLY HATE AMERICANS!!!! I'M A CHINESE CHRISTIAN LIVING IN A MUSLIM COUNTRY AND LET ME TELL YOU THAT THE ENTIRE WORLD ESPECIALLY ASIAN COUNTIRES LIKE JAPAN, CHINA, ASIA PACIFFIC ETC REALLY HATES AMERICA BECAUSE THE AMERICANS KEEP VOTING FOR THE WRONG PRESIDENT AND AS A RESULT, CREATING POLICIES AND TENTION AND HATRED FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD. IF YOU REALLY LOVE YOUR COUNTRY. "AMERICA", IT'S TIME TO VOTE FOR CHANGE!!! VOTE BARACK OBAMA!!!

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  • the next US president?

    Will there ever come a time where the USA elects a Black President? quite possibly and i think this guy might just do it. people seem to think Hilary will be the first woman President but if she did it will be mostly because of riding on her husbands coat tails and his legacy as a former leader.

    Maybe the next president will be a woman? maybe the next President will be Black! but at the end of the day it is as the old American saying goes "it doesn't matter who you vote for as the govermnet still gets in!"

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