Reply #21: The debate cemented her credibility..

[Tellurian]

"but currently Hillary is beating the socks off all her rivals, maintaining a solid front-runner lead that had been threatened by hotshot newcomer Sen. Barack Obama. And polls, for all their limitations, are the best measure of what's going on. In the May 8 USA Today/Gallup Poll, she has a 15 percentage point lead over Obama for the Democratic nomination, mostly reflecting public reaction to the candidates' comparative performances in the party's first mob debate."

as a bona-fide contender. If anyone had any doubts about her ability and knowledge of the issues, she dispelled them with her decisive response. When she was asked the "key" question referencing another attack on American soil. Hillary blew the doubters away with one word, "retaliate"! defining her as presidential timber in the eyes of the world, then and there.