BILL RICHARDSON - MoveOn Virtual Town Hall - Full Video

[Skinner]

Run time: 09:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RItZliPmZXI   Posted on YouTube: April 10, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: April 12, 2007 By DU Member: Skinner Views on DU: 798

 
DUer Breeze54 posted BIDEN, EDWARDS, and KUCINICH here yesterday. I'm posting the rest right now.

Source: http://pol.moveon.org/townhall/iraq/report_back.html

[Deep13]

1. I'll listen at home tonight.

This office computer has no sound card.

[patrice]

4. Please see my post #3 below. n/t

[Rainbowreflect]

2. Thanks, I'll check this out later.

[patrice]

5. Please see my post #3 below. n/t

[patrice]

3. Please be aware, Re: Richardson's standings in the MoveOn results

Handy for comparison of Biden, Clinton, Dodd, Edwards, Kucinich, Obama, and Richardson on a selection of topics with focus on Bush’s War. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F1QF8BZ74Q

Transcripts are available for your perusal at http://www.moveon.org / and click on Iraq Town Hall.

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Obama subsequently won in MoveOn's straw poll, but MoveOn posted two sets of results:

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Now, here are the full results from the Virtual Town Hall vote (remember, this does not imply a MoveOn endorsement):

Sen. Barack Obama 28% www.BarackObama.com
Sen. John Edwards 25% www.JohnEdwards.com
Rep. Dennis Kucinich 17% www.Kucinich.us
Gov. Bill Richardson 12% www.RichardsonForPresident.com
Sen. Hillary Clinton 11% www.HillaryClinton.com
Sen. Joe Biden 6% www.JoeBiden.com
Sen. Chris Dodd 1% www.ChrisDodd.com

These candidates' views differed in quite a few areas, but they all rejected President Bush's plan and agreed that it's time to start bringing the troops home. Imagine what it would mean to have an anti-war candidate in the White House. Think about it.

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Thanks for all you do.

–Adam, Justin, Carrie, Anna, and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Thursday, April 12th, 2007

P.S. MoveOn members who watched the Town Hall at one of the parties voted differently from those who did not. Here are how the folks who attended the event ranked their choices:

Sen. John Edwards 25%
Gov. Bill Richardson 21%
Sen. Barack Obama 19%
Rep. Dennis Kucinich 15%
Sen. Joe Biden 10%
Sen. Hillary Clinton 7%
Sen. Chris Dodd 4%

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There is a distinct probability that a higher % of those who watched the Town Hall at one of the parties watched ALL of the videos, while a lower % of those who watched the Town Hall on their own watched ALL of the videos. Perhaps this accounts for at least some of the differences in the two sets of results.

[Deep13]

6. Oooo. What happened to our front-runner?

I can definitely see either Richardson or Edwards pulling a surprise win in Iowa.

[patrice]

7. Richardson's Plan for Iraq is the best in both the short and the long run.

Richardson suprised me with his emphasis on no timeline for Iraq, bring them home right now, start tomorrow with legislation that revokes the permission granted in the IWR, absolutely no residual force, two diplomatic fronts: one within Iraq in which the Sunni, Shia, and Kurds are required to start all over anew to solve their problems amongst themselves (because, as is fairly obvious, their status quo, with its American taint, is not acceptable to them); the other diplomatic front within the whole region to address all of their security needs, and thus our concerns about Al Qaeda. He says pursue the purse-strings approach to ending the war, but don't rely on it alone. Also create and pass legislation that revokes permission for IWR now and follow it all of the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.

I'm going to take the transcripts and do a point by point comparison, but my impression was the Richardson's plan for Iraq was definitely stronger than the others. I will do that comparison to be sure though.

[Deep13]

8. I agree. nt