Nancy Pelosi joins the growing calls for more Democratic presidential debates

[brooklynite]

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Source: Los Angeles Times

Hillary Rodham Clinton's rivals in the Democratic primary have been demanding for weeks that the party hold more presidential debates than the scant six that are planned, and on Friday they got a big boost when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco said she agrees with them.

Asked in an interview with The Times whether she would like to see more debates scheduled, Pelosi responded, “I would.”

“Hillary does well -- I think they all do well on them -- and we should have more debates,” Pelosi said. She said she does not have a specific number in mind, but that the 26 debates the Democratic candidates took part in during the 2008 primary was probably too many.

“They thought 26 was too many, and I think it is, and you probably should have something in between,” Pelos said. “But I don't know that we're going to have more debates.”

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[PatrynXX]

1. I've stopped following or unsubbed

from anything with Debbie's name attached. If she wants to work for Hillary and Donald thats on her own dime

[Purveyor]

2. At this point in time it really doesn't matter. DWS/Hillary

have already pissed in that pool...

[bucolic_frolic]

3. I understand the logic

of letting the clown car implode of its own vapidity

but the risk is they will seem normal to the public after awhile at
the same time Dems have received no exposure.

On the other hand to debate now is to risk joining the perceptions.

But certainly October is 'pre-election' time of year that will echo
a year hence. Don't want to be too stealth.

[rhett o rick]

4. That's crazy logic. The R's are getting load of TV time and there is nothing to

compare them to. The Democrats look like they are afraid of exposure. And apparently DWS and Clinton are afraid of exposure. The DNC is damaging the Parties chances in the general.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

7. I was just about to say the same, you have to sell your message.

Now is the time for a real progressive populist movement, but the message needs to be clear and not overly complex and it needs to be repeated over and over to drive it home into the minds of the people.

Then Bernie will win.

[OnyxCollie]

10. It's the health care debate redux.

Do nothing while the other team sets the agenda.

[restorefreedom]

5. as jeff47 keeps trying to tell us

it is not enough to say "gop=bad, crazy" without offering a reasonable contrast, i.e. , "democrats = good, fair, not crazy."

the clown car has already had too much time to run amok. I have said it before and I will keep saying it. There are general election voters that we are going to lose in this freak show that we won't get back. It might turn out to be a close election in those votes could be critical. Wasserman Schultz is clearly in the tank for Hillary so we cannot count on the DNC to do anything at this point. We can only hope that the candidates minus Hillary agree to debate elsewhere breaking the stranglehold that Schultz has on them.

this process has become so transparently and blatantly undemocratic, it almost makes me weep. And Jeff I hope I accurately characterized what you've been trying repeatedly to tell us.

[Andy823]

6. If the DNC only wants six

Thats great, but to ban anyone who dares go to another debate other than the 6 they want, is just plane wrong on so many ways. I don't know if Clinton is involved in this or not, but as long as DWS holds to this very stupid "ban" on those who don't follow her rules, Clinton will be dragged into it, and it will look more and more like she is actually behind this, and DWS is doing this to protect her. Clinton could change that by getting with the other candidates and going to DWS and demanding that the take that banning clause out of the picture. Let those who want to have go to other sponsored debates do so. If some of them don't want to go and debate, that's up to them.

[rhett o rick]

8. Your suggestion is Democratic and democratic. The DNC is neither. nm

[raindaddy]

9. The Democratic front runner is afraid of exposure.....

How's that working out in the polls?

[Demeter]

11. STFU Nancy

and retire before you are ignominiously thrown out of office by your voters.

[zentrum]

12. The Republicans

…...get their message out over and over.

That's a really good political strategy.

Once again, the Dems create a vacuum of silence. Once the Republicans frame all the issues, the Dems are on defensive structurally.

DSW's entire political career should end. She has no national savvy at all.

Suggest we all call Pelosi and encourage her to use what clout she has. Reid too.

[TexasTowelie]

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