Ben Smith: Video of Obama's best moment...and the increasingly real prospect he could be nominee

[flpoljunkie]

And here's video of Obama's best moment, a sign of his increased comfort on his feet and, perhaps, the increasingly real prospect (to him, to everyone else) that he could be the nominee.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nKHBSFSosY&eurl=http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1207/The_Obama_administration.html

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1207/The_Obama_administration.html

[babylonsister]

1. He sure did act a lot more comfortable, and confident! in this debate

than in prior ones.

[TwilightGardener]

2. That was a defining moment, I think--that's when people will look back

and say, that's when he became the nominee.

[sandnsea]

3. That was exceptional n/t

[flpoljunkie]

4. Talkingpointsmemo's Greg Sargent described it as perhaps "the best moment of the debate."

By Greg Sargent - December 13, 2007, 3:36PM

This might have been the debate's best moment. Toward the end came this exchange:

MODERATOR: Senator Obama, you have Bill Clinton's former National Security Adviser, State Department policy director and maybe secretary among others, advising you. With relatively little foreign policy experience of your own, how will you rely on so many Clinton advisers, and still deliver the kind of break from the past that you're promising voters?

(Laughter)

Obama: You know I am --

Hillary: (Laughing) I want to hear that.

Obama: Well, Hillary, I'm looking forward to you advising me as well. (Laughter)

I'd say that this exchange very neatly captures many of the Campaign 2008's various underlying tensions and absurdities, wouldn't you?

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/12/obama_to_hillary_im_looking_forward_to_you_advising_me.php

[proudmoddemo]

5. That Laugh Was the Final Nail

In the coffin of the Clinton campaign. It sums up her campaign as patronizing and arrogant, in other words, more of the same. And Obama said in essences, "I won't hold it against you and will be the President of everybody." I think this may have been it for Hillary. Hillary's Dean scream was a cackle at the debate...

[Madam Mossfern]

6. I thought that I would never say this

since I always looked down on people deriding Hillary for her laugh. That was downright disrespectful and mean spirited. Holey Moley!

Listen, I'm really trying to get a more positive attitude toward her, after all there is a possibility that she may be the Democratic candidate. This didn't help.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. That was an exceptional comeback to Clinton's "I want to hear that".

[Renew Deal]

8. Hillary deserved that.

She was childish.

[JackORoses]

9. Hillary reminds me of the kid in class who thought they were more 'adult' than the rest

and are therefore privileged somehow.

She answers the question for everyone regarding Global Warming.

She rudely cuts in on Obama's answer with an attempted dig only to have it blow up in her face.

She laughs loudly so you can hear her, of course.

[Tom Rinaldo]

10. Should we elect Jon Stewart President?

In my opinion he delivers the best political one line quips of them all.

Yes what Obama said was clever, and yes it showed confidence and poise, but shouldn't that all be a given to start with by the time some one is competing for a major party nomination for President. I expect Obama to be clever confident and poised, and a hell of a lot more in order to earn my vote.

I think Obama is an excellent candidate and far better qualified to run for President than Jon Stewart, but not because he thought well on his feat with that question and delivered a good one liner. Go back over the videos of all the Democratic debates and each of our candidates have had moments like that, even those guys now stuck in the "second tier"; Biden, Richardson, Kucinich, Dodd and Gravel. They all had funny and poignantly incisive quips at one point or another. Presidential candidates shouldn't be graded on quips. It is further evidence of the void that political reporting is becoming that stuff like this is what ends up getting all the attention after a debate.