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15:15, June 29, 2007 |
Eight Democratic presidential candidates on Thursday night gathered at Howard University in Washington, D.C., in their latest debate with focus on domestic issues.
During the 90-minute televised show, the third for Democrats this year, the candidates argued about education, poverty, health care, voting and other issues.
They spoke strongly against a Supreme Court ruling on Thursday,which struck down school integration plans in Louisville of Kentucky and Seattle, Washington.
The court ruled in a five-to-four vote saying that the school districts, by classifying students by race, were perpetuating the unequal treatment outlawed by a Supreme Court decision decades ago.
The court's ruling "turned the clock back" on history, said Senator Hillary Clinton of New York.
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois said if it were not for a ruling by the Supreme Court decades ago against school segregation,"I would not be standing here."
On poverty, former senator John Edwards of North Carolina, alsothe Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee in 2004, said theissue was the cause of his life.
They also dealt with the Iraq war. Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, a staunch opponent of the war, said the Bush administration had wasted billion of dollars on the war. If elected president, Kucinich said, he would cut the Pentagon's budget by half to fund education.
As black voters, the second largest minority group in the country, tend to vote for Democrats, all eight Democratic candidates participated in the debate at Howard University, a historically black school.
The debate was hosted by the PBS, which has also planned a debate at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, for Republican candidates on Sept. 27 this year.
Source: Xinhua
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