Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama spent almost as much time responding to gossip surrounding the candidates' personal lives as to the issues which distinguish them, during last night's final Democratic Debate.

The question choices and comments made by ABC's team of moderators, helmed by Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, at the Philadelphia debate at the National Constitution Center, focused on scandals, like Obama's brief association with '60s radical William Ayers and Clinton's statements about her 1996 trip to Bosnia.    

The personal ...