Reply #1: I am glad Clinton called him on it so he could rethink and revise his position.

[Ravy]

The press knocks it off as trite, and the moderators chided her a bit on it, but to say you reject is important.

I can't say she did it out of magnamimous reasons, she may have thought he would refuse to reject it.. but had she not brought it up this could have been a big deal that could have hurt is if he was nominated. And all, unnecessarily.

I think this is a message that Clinton has been trying to say, but not been successful in connecting with it. In general, Obama does not seem to understand the "messages" that words and actions can convey. For instance, a Presidental visit is a *big deal* to foreign dignitaries, as it tends to bolster their own positions within their own political systems. Saying that the President should meet directly with heads of state that are not friendly to us, without preconditons, can have a lot of negative adverse affects to the US by elevating these leaders to a position on the world stage that they may not have had without it.