Clinton also did really well, particularly on the AIDS question where she pointed out if it were white women between 25 and 34 who were dying of AIDS, there would be a cure.

Gravel did fairly well though he did not get the audience response of Kucinich or Clinton. Gravel pointed out that Kucinich was the only one up there who was not in with the insurance companies.

Edwards and Obama feel really flat. They gave answers they though the audience would like but they couldn't get the audience to really care about their issues. The audience seemed less interested in the difference between different kinds of cocaine than in ending mandatory minimums and abolishing the death penalty. Edwards's haircuts and investments in the Sudan may have hurt him on the poverty and Africa issue. Obama answered the questions like a rich, out-of-touch white man.

Her comments about HIV were a disgrace and demeaning to all the programs funded by the Ryan White Care Act (http://www.hopkins-aids.edu/manage/ryan_white.html). These programs provide services where they are needed.

Let's not trivialize the work of dedicated professionals who have been fighting this disease for years with comments that pander to the crowd.

As far as her solution to outsourcing. Which was more education. How about she acknowledges the fact that the jobs that are leaving are going to countries where the workforce is undereducated in comparison to the US.

Its overpopulation and under education that makes the workforces in China and India able to work for less than minimum wage.

And its not just factory jobs that are leaving. Its also technical jobs that our middle class rely on.

More education achieves what?

Kuchinich made a point that needs to be driven home. This was started with NAFTA, passed by President Clinton.

And it needs to stop.

And I will not vote for a candidate who's investments were based in companies that are making profits off jobs taken from the American workforce.

Look at what has happened to Detroit!

How about we don't vote for a "show pony" this time (e.g. Hillary Clinton) and go with a candidate who might actually change things? And understands that the American way of life and business is at a crucial crossroads?

She wants to bring America together by using these type of comments?

Pretty sure ALL Americans want the same type of things as white folks also want a good education and a better health care system, like that this is somehow just important to one race.

No administration has funded more for HIV-AIDS, but yet that isn't enough.

Maybe more social programs are needed or maybe socialist programs, as they have worked so well in bringing people up from poverty.

The government can only do so much, you only get out of life what you put into it and ANYONE that makes something of themselves by getting up every morning and going to school or a job and learning and providing for a family, should be and is the norm for most Americans.

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Pleeeease, tell me what Cynthia accomplished in her tenure. Besides offering to accept $10 million offered to 9/11 victims.

None of the candidates will give answers to problems at this point because another segment of our society will moan and groan and shout 'reverse discrimination' or 'they are trying to make my child go to a black school', etc.

This is still a racist society and we need to be truthful about that in order to really affect change unless we want to keep some folks down because we believe some of God's children are inferior.

It is going to take several more generations before we are truly a color blind society.

Then I'd STRONGLY recommend such voters take a look at former Democratic Congresswoman from Georgia, Cynthia McKinney. Cynthia McKinney talks about 2008 Presidential campaign as a Green.

The Democrats love to talk about such issues but invested in dumping one of those who went beyond talk to actually pushing the issues. One might consider watching the documentary "American Blackout" too.