Last night saw what, lets face it, everyone had been waiting for. The race to turn nasty. After weeks of niceties and mutual regard for each other, the two main candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, last night engaged in a fiery debate, with John Edwards calling it 'squabbling'. Poor John, in a race that is seeing him lose more and more points, it was his chance to shine but he ended up being ignored. Surely Edwards needs to realise that he's not going to win, and concede after South Carolina, rather than wait until a drubbing on Super Tuesday.
Back to the debate and it was one that touched on the big issues, and their respective weaknesses. Clinton touched on Obama's record on Iraq, and his ties to a real estate mogul under investigation for fraud. Obama touched upon Clinton's past experience as a corporate lawyer on the board of Walmart. It was indeed a personal debate and Obama refused to let the attacks from both Hillary and Bill Clinton throughout the week intimidate him. Clinton however, maintained that it was difficult to get a straight answer from Obama, which is a bit rich coming from Mrs Clinton. The most publicised attack coming from the Clinton camp this week was Bill Clinton deliberately twisting Obama's remarks on Ronald Reagen, saying that Obama had praised Reagen and that the Republicans were the ones that had the great ideas since 1992. That's not exactly what he said Bill. And quite rightly, Obama told everyone in the debate that it was hard to tell which Clinton he was running against at times.
As we approach South Carolina this Saturday, Obama was firmly the man in focus this week, a lot of it due to MLK day yesterday. Obama has proved that his campaign is no 'fairytale', with him leading Clinton in the South Carolina polls. Overall the two are neck and neck nationally, with the race getting a lot more personal.
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