We heart hot mics

Posted: Thursday, July 12, 2007 1:50 PM by Mark Murray
Filed Under: Democrats

From NBC's Lauren Appelbaum and Carrie Dann
Hillary Clinton was the victim of an unknowingly unsilenced microphone after this morning's NAACP forum in Detroit. Junkies might just blow their eardrums out trying to catch what she was saying to John Edwards during the 45 seconds that her microphone was hot, but the audio was mostly drowned out by thanks from host Russ Mitchell and by an organist's rousing rendition of "God Bless America." But here's the tantalizing pieces that we picked out of the cacophony:

"But we've got to (inaudible) ... They are just being trivialized... You know, I think there was an effort by our campaign to do that. Somehow we got to get back to it. Because that's all we are going to do."

She then shared a quick handshake with her No.1 rival, chirping "Thanks, Barack!" and then another "Thanks Dennis!" to Kucinich.

Here's the kicker for the pundits and conspiracy theorists: Clinton turned back to Edwards and concluded, "So, our guys should talk."

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It is my assumtion that the Dems have no plans to run the country..the only thing they repeat one after the other is how bad the Reps are..just pointing fingures..what a wast of time, money and manpower..educated at that.. Irak, irak, irak that is all they do...

Thomas Abey,Silver Spring, MD (Sent Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:50 AM)

I love how people say, oh, we should only have the serious candidates in the debates. all these fringe ones or ones without a chance shouldnt be in them. thats a great idea. so by that rationale, if we limit it to the top three or four, bill clinton and john kerry would have been excluded at this time in their respective years. okay, you say, well then just the ones who are mainstream, not these wackos like gravel and kucinich and ron paul. well, i would say, if we only took the people whose opinioins were mainstream, then in the 1840's we would never have had any candidates in the primaries who were anti slavery, and their presence wouldnt have dragged the political climate to the left, to the point where eventually slavery abolition became mainstream. in the 30's we never would have had the radicals who wanted to make homosexuality legal. or the people who wanted to give women a right to choose. etc. just like today, you may call gravel and kucinich radical, or not serious, because they support gay marriage, and drug legalization. but in forty years these are going to be mainstream beliefs, and this will be due to the fact that because we live in a democracy, "wackos" like gravel and kucinich are allowed in the debates, and positively influence them thus.

Julian Langness, Seattle, Washington (Sent Sunday, August 26, 2007 1:40 AM)

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