>>>>>What's wrong with talking about the record? Specifically, Dem. record on energy is in stark
>>>>>contradiction with their current promises. Why should not this issue get more attention?
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>>>>Nothing's wrong with talking about the record -- of the topic on which the question was asked. Flatly telling the moderator you're going to answer your own questions instead of hers is _not_ cool.
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>>>She just gave short answer and returned to the previous question to say more there. It's happened many times with other debaters too.
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>>Notice the quote marks -- there were two or three different places in the transcript I quoted.
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>It is all the same.

So she does the same thing at least three times, which then makes it OK, as it has now become a strategy, not an isolated incident? Repeated a thousand times, anything can create a habit, but does it really become a good thing to do?

On a scripted event, where the questions were pre-filtered, where no surprise and hard questions were possible, she doesn't want to answer these prepared questions? I'm rather thinking this is a calculated display of "I don't care about your questions, I know what I want to say and amagonnasayit" than a flimsy attempt to evade a question she didn't like. I'd rather conclude that this is another Rove-style show, where whoever wants to ask questions will get a firm finger pointing back to talking points and message enforcement.

Which, in itself, is the message.