Reply #59: my take

[paperbag_ princess]

She was taking a risk and trying to create one of those defining moments that change momentum....it flopped for that audience. You could see on her face that her heart wasn't really in the remark...

No regular folks could get into that debate...it was all party insiders who had already chosen their sides...that is why the cheering was evenly split for each candidate.

Now how the xerox remark affects voters is yet unknown. They may react like the Obama voters and think it was a total blunder...but will that one remark change minds?

They may decide that it was rude to boo one of the candidates and soften toward Hillary...thinking her remark didn't deserve that kind of disrespect...there seems to be a bit of a history regarding this type of attitude...the voters let her get kicked around only so much before she gets a bump out of it.


Regarding the end of the debate: I am going to officially argue that you can not plagerize your spouse. After years of political conversations between the two of them ...I am sure that they don't even know who is repeating who...Bill's original lines could have been her idea...

and I agree with those who are arguing that plagerism is not being defined very well....ideas can not be plagerized....only specific phrases and text...