Obama-Clinton debate

Obama-Clinton debate: A whiff of McCarthyism as media pushes Democratic campaign to the right

By Bill Van AukeWSWS
18 April 2008

The debate aired Wednesday night by ABC television from Philadelphia was the 21st such contest held since the beginning of the Democratic primary campaign and, without a doubt, the most reactionary and contemptible.

After two brief opening statements followed by a commercial break and a stale repetition of the attempt to get Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to declare that each would accept the other as a running mate, the moderators—ABC’s Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos—settled into what can only be described as a right-wing inquisition.