This is a poor line of attack and really works very badly.

Frankly, Edwards has gone way too far tonight.

Specific attacks on specific issues, fine, the rest of it is counterproductive.

My own view, this is becoming a real debate win for Hillary. Obama can not attack and Edwards attacks too much and in a scattershot fashion.

They give Hillary the chance to embrace the Clinton Adminstration of the 90s.

And Edwards is going to attack Bill Clinton?

While the evidence tells me that the death penalty does little to deter crime, I believe there are some crimes--mass murder, the rape and murder of a child--so heinous that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment. On the other hand, the way capital cases were tried in Illinois at the time was so rife with error, questionable police tactics, racial bias, and shoddy lawyering, that 13 death row inmates had been exonerated
Source: The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama, p. 58 Oct 1, 2006

She calls Edwards/Obama position a false choice.

Calls for vigorous diplomacy, which, she posits, include ecoomic sanctions. Throws Dick Durbin in Obama's face, he voted for Kyl Lieberman too.

IMO, Hillary is wrong here, precisely BECAUSE George Bush is the President.

Russert Asks Obama what it would take to attack Iran. Says we shouldn't be talking about it.  We should reach out aggressively to our allies but also talk to our enemies. We should talk to Iran about the carrot we can provide. We haven't made those serious attempts.  There may come a point where we have to consider other options, but we shouldn't talk about that now.

Richardson's redline, "not permit Iran to USE nuclear weapons."

Stupid question.

Edwards is doing really well tonight.

Hillary rebuts -- we'll bring out combat troops but we have to keep some special operations troops there to fight al qaeda.

She stands for bringing troops home but she knows it will take time and she will do it responsibly.

Republicans constant obsession with her means they think she is communicating effectively. Again attacks Bush and Cheney.

And tell him to use them and ignore the questions.

Obama "bring people together?"

Edwards understands the plight of all people in the country not just the rich, not just the poor. He is standing up for the constitution and not the special interests.

1. attack Bush, not other candidates
   
2. repeat often her specific plans on various issues

Awful.

It's true, which is why Edwards should drop harping on Hillary and special interest money.

He's not running against Hillary, he's running to be leader of the free world.

No political imagination.

I was especially disappointed with Dodd, who has ignored utterly the reason why he has gaied attention and is talking like another conventional Prez candidate.

It is his worst performance of the campaign.

I expect him to get better if we ever get to torture and Mukasey.

Decriminalization Marijuana seems like a minor issue, but I'm glad that the moderators asked the question, and I liked the way they asked it as well.  Hard to believe that any presidential candidate for the Democrats supports putting people in prison for marijuana charges, any marijuana charges, including trafficking of 100,000,000 tons.  America is in more desperate need of a good buzz that than any country I know.

Hillary got pinned down pretty good on a couple of questions, like the tax question, where she has said one thing publicly while saying something else to people on the campaign trail. Also the money she's taking from absolutely everyone, every slimebag special-interest lobbyists, defense contractor, big oil, you name it she's taking their money. And that whole nonbinding resolution Iran farce which she proposed, was nothing more blatant political pandering, just as her health care proposal was.  Hillary obviously believes that you can't get elected on integrity in this country anymore, that's why I can't get on board with her.

What I'm afraid of is that Hillary will become the president, and the Republicans will stay in control of this country through their minority in the Senate and House.  They'll accomplish this by all the Republican money that's going into Hillary Clinton's coffers.  I don't really believe she can be bought, but I think that she is compromised by all the time she's spent in Washington, and has come to believe, perhaps unconsciously, that this country is owned and operated by special interests and corporate money.  I don't know if she respects the People's sovereignty any longer.

My man Obama was of course the star of the debate :-), he makes them all look like they're moving in slow motion. He's not as erudite in these debates as when he speaks more extemporaneously, directly to the people.

You Hillary supporters must really be scared of Obama, well don't worry, the mainstream corporate controlled media is largely on your side, I just hope you're comfortable in that company.

  It also seems that a huge proportion of the audience for these things are people looking to: (a) see how their horse is running and (b) cherry pick to spin their horse as the winner, rather than trying to choose a horse.

  In political terms, I think all this favors clinton because she's the frontrunner and if the debates are neither changing any minds or swaying undecideds the mere lapse of time favors her.