What happens in Vegas…8:30pm Eastern: Obama BLOWS IT; Obama flubs again on human rights/national security; China comes up, but not China funny money; Edwards’ plant joke and faux populism fall flat; CNN’s abortion-crusading Suzanne Malveaux shoves citizen questioner aside; “Do you prefer diamonds or pearls?”
Obama pulls a Hillary
10:24pm Eastern. Final report card:
Hillary: C plus. Kept cackles to a minimum.
O-BOMB-A: D. For dud. He looked and sounded like a state senator from Illinois, not the next president of the United States.
Wolf Blitzer: D. You’re no Tim Russert, Wolf.
Biden: A for shooting down Denny K’s nutroots antics and for calling out Suzanne Malveaux’s agenda-pushing.
Suzanne Malveaux: F, F, F. She was suffering from pushy stage mother syndrome tonight. How embarrassing.
Oops, I forgot Edwards: L for loser. No one can stand him–left, right, or center. Here’s vid of him getting booed for going after Saint Hillary.
10:09pm Eastern. Oh, dear God. A UNLV student asks the last question. Directed at Hillary Clinton only: “Do you prefer diamonds or pearls?”
GAAAACKKKK.
Hillary cackles that she wants both. Cackle, cackle.
Suzanne Malveaux does not belong on a news network. She belongs on “The View.” Or Hillary’s press staff.
Here are two video clips of some emblematic moments I mentioned. The Obama flub:
And Kucinich’s “pick me, pick me!” moment:
10:05pm Eastern. Another citizen question (again, with Suzanne Malveaux cramming in her two cents) asks the candidates how they will represent all of the country, not just half of it. Hillary says, in so many of her own bloated words, that she is a uniter, not a divider. This “debate” is a duuuuud.
9:55pm Eastern. A citizen questioner asks what qualities the Dems want in their judges. CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux “helps” out the citizen questioner by tacking on her own question about where they stand on abortion. Maybe she could shut up and let the citizen ask the question.
Wolf asks the Dems Malveaux’s abortion litmus test question instead of the citizen’s question.
Biden calls out Malveaux for her agenda-pushing. “Suzanne’s already decided, I’ll ask the woman’s question.” (Applause). Yeah, I applauded, too.
9:49pm Eastern. Hillary and Obama go at it over entitlements. Obama accuses Hillary of engaging in number-cooking that he would expect from Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney. Mixed boos and applause. Hillary drags the “bipartisan commission” out of the failed ideas morgue.
9:40pm Eastern. Kucinich finds a chance to call for impeachment. “IMPEACHMENT NOW!” The crowd goes wild.
Joe Biden pours water on the anti-profiling, anti-Patriot Act frenzy. Ok, let’s not vote him off the island yet. He’s useful.
Now, we slide into an open-borders rant by Bill Richardson. Dodd gets to show off his Spanish. The Dems are in denial about the homeland security/immigration nexus. They could be using this opportunity to go after the Bush administration’s enforcement failures. They’re too stupid and craven to do so. Lucky for us, I guess.
9:37pm Eastern. Dan Riehl has seen that first citizen questioner before.
9:25pm Eastern. Citizen questions. A mother stands with her son, who has served three tours of duty in Iraq. They oppose ” war with Iran.” Biden says Bush “should be impeached” if he goes to war with “Iraq” (he means Iran) without congressional approval. Hillary talks about Qods attacks in Iraq on American soldiers. Defends her vote on Kyl amendment. Edwards goes nutroots with his attack on “Bush, Cheney, and the neocons” and attacks any defense against Qods. “We’ve seen this movie.” Obama attacks Hillary’s support for Kyl amendment. Blitzer points out that he missed the vote. BO: “Hazards of running for president.”
9:17pm Eastern. Commercial break for some stage furniture rearranging. Here’s my halftime summary. The boys have failed their mission. Hillary is untouched. Obama’s in miserable shape. The audience seems ready to drag Edwards off the stage. And it’s way past time to vote Denny K and Bill Kumbaya Richardson off the island, along with Dodd and Biden, the Spongebob twins.
As for Wolf and the CNN panel: D minus. The nutroots will be happy.
9:12pm Eastern. Campbell Brown tosses Hillary a softball about playing the gender card. “I’m not playing the gender card, I’m playing the winning card…They’re not attacking me because I’m a woman, they’re attacking me because I’m ahead.” (Loud applause.) Campbell: “What did you mean by the ‘boys club?’” in her Wellesley speech. Hillary snickers: “Campbell!” Takes the softball and runs with it. Bleeech. Blitzer: “Do any of you believe Hillary is playing the gender card?” Edwards: “You looking at me?..Everyone on this stage should be held to the same standard”…lapses into faux populism talking points. Audience boos.
9:10pm Eastern. While the candidates pander to Nevadans over Yucca Mountain waste, here’s a partial transcript of Obama’s drivers’ license flub:
Wolf Blitzer: …Barring, and uh avoiding… assuming there isn’t going to be comprehensive immigration reform, do you support or oppose driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants?
Barack Obama: I… am not… proposing… that that’s what we do. What I’m saying is that we can’t be… [audience laughs] no, no, no look I , I have already said… I support the notion that we have to deal with public safety and that driver’s licenses at the state level can make that happen. But what I also know…
Blitzer: All right.
Obama: But what I also know, Wolf, is that if we keep on getting distracted by this problem then we are not solving it.
Wolf Blitzer: Because this is the kind of question that it’s sort of available for a yes or a no answer… either you support it or you oppose it!
Obama sounds more like Pinnochio than Hillary did:
9:00pm Eastern. Campbell Brown uses the Chinese toy recalls to press the candidates on trade policy. Denny K uses the opportunity to attack John Edwards. Edwards wrinkles his nose and says: “Cute, Denny, cute.” Ewww.
Blitzer invokes the NAFTA debate during the Clinton era, asks Hillary: “Knowing what we know now, was Ross Perot right?” Hillary cracks that all she remembers was “a bunch of charts,” launches into an attack on China.
Oh, the opening here is too easy. Someone say it: “Norman Hsu.”
8:53pm Eastern. My favorite little moment of the night so far. Dennis Kucinich trying to get some attention: “Hello?! Hello?!”
General Bill Richardson declares that “the surge is not working.” After saying “we shouldn’t talk about the body count,” Richardson laments “that our troops are dying.”
8:51pm Eastern. After obligatory Bush-bashing, Dodd finally says clearly: “The security of the country is number one.”
Hillary agrees with Dodd.
8:49pm Eastern. Wolf asks BO: What’s more important, international human rights or American national security? Convoluted answer. My fingers are too tired to type it.
8:47pm Eastern. Bill Richardson asserts that there are times when international human rights trump our national security.
Three people applaud. Dennis Kucinich, his wife, and Mike Gravel in the audience. No, not really.
8:30pm Eastern. Well, my friends, Barack Obama has blown it. Big time. His stumbly-bumbly answer on drivers’ licenses made Hillary’s botch last week look like buttah. He had all the mojo going into this and he BLEW IT. He can dance with Ellen deGeneres, but he is still not ready for prime time.
Words that will come back to bite Obama in the behind:
“When it takes two weeks and six different positions to answer one question on immigration, it’s easier to understand why the Clinton campaign would rather plant their questions than answer them,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement issued late Wednesday.
***8:27pm Eastern.*** Campbell Brown attempts to focus an immigration question on Obama. Answer: “I think they feel justified in feeling frustrated.” Is he talking about illegal aliens or Americans fed up with immigration chaos? Not clear. He says he support employer sanctions. Obama said “illegal aliens.” Progress.
Blitzer: So, Sen. Obama, you support drivers’ licenses for illegal aliens?
BO: The problem is not drivers’ licenses. They don’t come here to drive. They’re not coming here to go through “In n Out burger.”
Do you support or oppose licenses for aliens?
BO: If we keep on getting distracted by this…BO is tripping up…audience hoots and hollers…
John Edwards: Does not support licenses, but does a Pinnochio from Shrek impression on comprehensive immigration reform.
Dodd: “Clarity is important.”
Yes, please, let’s have some.
Dodd: They are the wrong thing to do in terms of attracing illegals.
Obama: Now says yes.
Clinton: No.
Kucinich: “I take issue with you calling them illegal immigrants. They’re undocumented…Cancel NAFTA…I take exception to how you framed the question.”
He’s offended at a simple yes or no question.
Richardson: “My answer is yes and I did it.”
Biden: No.
8:22pm Eastern. Wolf Blitzer does not have control of this debate. The audience seems unhappy that Hillary is getting all the talk time. Chris Dodd and Bill Richardson get loud applause for getting a chance to say…nothing.
Blitzer asks all candidates: Are you willing to say you will support the Democrat nominee for president?
John Edwards: “Is that a planted question?”
Silence. The allusion falls flat.
8:17pm Eastern. Hillary interjects. “I’ve been personally attacked again!” Waaah. The audience is getting restless. Hillary attacks Edwards for “throwing mud.” “When Edwards ran in 2004, he wasn’t for universal health care.”
Wolf wants Biden to weigh in. JB: “Oh, no, no, no!…people don’t care about this stuff.” Biden gets all folksy. Hillary cackles.
8:14pm Eastern. These CNN journalists are too scared or incompetent to press the candidates on the drivers’ license issue. Someone bring in Lou Dobbs. Hillary scores by steering this away from her flip-floppery on illegal immigration to Hillarycare.
Wolf gently goes to Edwards. He changes the subject to “trust” and the Iraq war and “the neocons on Iran.”
8:10pm Eastern. Finally. First question. Campbell Brown starts in with Hillary on her drivers’ license botch and “some people on this stage” saying this is a pattern of your “politics of parsing.”
HRC: “It’s important that we have a candidate who is tested and ready to lead from day one.” Tepid.
Blitzer brings in Obama.
BO: “What we need is straight answers and that is not what we’ve seen from Sen. Clinton. On drivers’ licenses, Social Security…what I’m absolutely convinced of is that we need a different kind of politics.”
HRC: “When it came time to step up and decide whether he would support universal health coverage,” he failed. “I am proud to fight this battle…Let’s not forget that the people we are fighting against will not go voluntarily. We need someone who is tested and ready to lead.”
BO: “The fact of the matter is is that I do provide universal health care.”
HRC: “The most important thing here is to level with the American people…I helped create the children’s health insurance program in 1997…he does not mandate what I do…”
8:05pm Eastern. Ok, the debate has started, except that it hasn’t started. They’re doing this weird meta-coverage thing of letting viewers sit through the photo-ops, intros, etc., while the talking heads murmur platitudes. Wolf: “We hope to get a real conversation going.”
Get on with it already.
***
Dem debate in Sin City: Will it be Hillary by a nose?
The Great Big Hillary Comeback/Democrat Male Pile-On/Wolf Blitzer Moment In The Sun is hours away on CNN. I’ll have a full bag of popcorn ready. Join me for liveblogging here at 8pm Eastern. The media-politics hype machine is on overdrive.
Blitzer is manning up:
On Tuesday, a top aide to Hillary Clinton indirectly warned moderator Wolf Blitzer not to be too hard on her in Thursday’s debate. The warning was issued via the Drudge Report, an influential Web site that has received numerous leaks from the Clinton campaign on such topics as her fundraising prowess.
“This campaign is about issues, not on who we can bring down and destroy,” a senior Clinton aide told cyberjournalist Matt Drudge. “Blitzer should not go down to the levels of character attack and pull ‘a Russert.’ ”
Blitzer, who said he had not been directly contacted by the Clinton campaign, called the New York Democrat “a sophisticated, strong politician.” But he also issued his own veiled warning.
“If she can’t handle the heat during a Democratic contest, wait until the Republicans really start going after her…If she’s the nominee.”
Like Hillary said: “Turn up the heat!”
Oh, and hey, lady: How ’bout them pardons?
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#196
You know, your right to free health care, free college, dream job,c lean air, pure water….
Isn’t it funny how Hillary & Barack are doing everything they can to not commit to anything while all of the others are just dancing all over saying “Hey! Look at me!! I’m important!!! I swear!!!!”
Wish I could have had the free college.
I do have to admit I get the “free” healthcare through the military.
navywife — I think we just upgraded to a bathtub!!
Where’s Brit Hume when you need him?
Wow, I sure am impressed with Dodd’s ability to not answer a question in Spanish.
Man for a second I thought I sat on the remote and it switched to telemundo
You’re stronger than I am MissMarcilyn. I can’t even bear to watch the gag-fest anymore!
Richardson saying we should talk frankly with Mexico. Does he really believe W hasn’t?
He’s trying to throw us non-Spanish speakers off
It’s like listening to high school girls “I want world peace and we should be nice to each other” There isn’t a single grownup on the stage. My 19 year old son has a better, more realistic world view then these simpering fools.
That’s okay…I think I might need the tub all to myself this time.
I can’t BELIEVE the questioners can’t even remember the lines that are being fed to them!!!!
Has not retiring just because you’re of age ever been considered by any of these people.
I thought I accidentally hit the SAP button…
Well, at least we know the questions are canned now, based on the retirment question.
Good memory Judy, where is that cue card??….on that Medicare question….wonder if it was worded exactly as she struggled to repeat word for word.
No hard questions for leading candidates…This is a joke.
Actually, I think most of them have a very cushy retirement coming their ways, thanks to “we the people”. I’d be willing to give a little extra for their early retirement though.
I can’t believe these people are all making Al Gore look like a rocket scientist and I’m always hearing about how smart he is when he plodded through
college studying like crazy and Pres GW pretty much
played through college and made better grades than
Gores.
By the way, why does the “smartest” woman in
America need to have planted questions and to be
coddled by moderators? She should be able to
adroitly field any question thrown at her.
#211
Maybe they think they are in a beauty pageant and this is the part where they are given a really important question.
How will prevention help the elderly? When the vast amount of costs occur right before death, I hardly see how universal health care is going to solve anything, led alone spiraling costs.
Hillary’s for fiscal responsibility? On what planet?
oooooh…..she hates him, doesn’t she???
jsr, that reminds me of that poor teen USA girl from South Carolina who had the really embarrassing “answer” to the map question.
Now the upper class are people who make over $97,000. This is exactly why the middle class is shrinking, because these dems keep defining the middle class narrower and narrower.
navywife:
Exactly!
Michelle, I think you have more viewers on this site right now than MSNBC and CNBC combined… Great job!
A million hits a week, wow.
Perhaps she’s going to announce that euthanasia as a
large part of her health care plan. Kevorkian can be her surgeon general.
I have to brush my teeth..this is causing a really bad
taste in my mouth.
I meant, is a instead of as a …..
That would keep costs down, TXRose
sarc off
And right after she says that, she does the exact same thing.
The real winners of this debate will be us, for having such witty retorts to these ridiculous statements.
However, the real losers of this debate are us, for bothering to waste our time on it.
Forget plants…this whole debacle is staged….with Hillary supporters..including CNN.
Disgusting…guess they knew ahead of time they would get the viewers tonight, so give the other idiots dance time. If this was a football game, Hillary, Obama Hussein, and Edwards…haven’t had the ball but a few minutes of this whole debate.
STAGED…the whole thing…a joke.
ugh.
UGH.
UGH!!!!!
Obama is off his rocker!
Only 6% of Americans make over $96,000???
It’s actually 19.7% of Americans that make over $97,000 and 11.5% that make between $100k and $150k.
They should have a factchecker like on Jeapordy to correct the candidates and keep them from making up stats.
Figures Here
well, y’all, it’s my bedtime so I’ll just have to force myself to turn off this riveting dialogue (or should I say ‘conversation’, Hillary??) and go brush my teeth to get the awful taste out of my mouth.
I still think Bear held Dennis up by the ears.
That would be funny if a voice came over the loud speaker…”you’re full of it Obama. Your numbers are all wrong.”
Can someone explain this right to privacy to me? I bet none of these candidates would allow me to grow pot in my basement.
I’m so confused, Is President Bush running for a third term? I’m starting to think they did away with the 2 term limit. Bash Bush Bash Bush Bash Bush Bash Bush Bash Bush Bash Bush Bash Bush Bash Bush Bash Bush Bash Bush Bash Bush Bash Bush Bash Bush Bash Bush Bash Bush Bash Bush
#237 taylork
Only if you paid taxes on it and let them smoke it for you,
It’s just the BDS talking. It seems most of the audience has been infected with it as well.
I think they thought about bringing someone in near the end of the debate to correct factual and statistical errors, but they realized it would take until 4 AM to get through all the corrections.
I”m going to buy stock in botox. Killery will make me rich
Those people are actually following around the lady who referred to Hillary as the “b” word instead. No fact check necessary there. OOps, that’s not very nice.
Bill Richardson puts me to sleep.
Hasn’t had bush had like 5 middle east peace envoys?
And, Biden, on cue, guarantees the audience that he gets along with all Republicans and that the “vast majority” are against Iraq.
Talk about cooking the books.
You would think, just once, that Wolf Blitzter could remind them, ever so gently of course, that George Bush isn’t running for the Democratc nomination.
diamonds or pearls, great question. At least Bill was on MTV when he was asked the boxer’s or briefs questions…and way to be a tool for CNN and Hillary.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? DIAMONDS OR PEARLS? Was she talking about a neckless (please don’t ban me Michelle)
Personally, I don’t think anyone in the audience cares that he “gets along” with Repubs. Who and where is this vast majority?
Paging Monica L.
Mercifully, it’s over.
248, I thought that too but I restrained myself.
Sorry, John, I just had to chime in with my gross 2 cents
I’m not watching, so was that question like the “boxers or briefs” question?
It allowed Hillary to say, “well in this case I want both” HAHAHAHAHAHAHA [/sarc]
Well, Hillary sewed this primary up. Way to not want it OB.
Michelle,
I stopped watching after the canned questions. I am really tired of these Q & A dog and pony shows. How about asking some serious questions, like what TH is preparing? How many more of these drivel shows are there?
That’s about enough Clinton News Network to last me a decade. We should all get hazardous pay for watching that.
Get ready because this drivel goes on until the first
Tuesday in November 2008. They won’t lighten up on
the dem just because (s)/he is running against a
Republican.
Empty suits and empty heads. If any of them are in the oval office, the Chicoms & Arab countries will eat them alive.
The reason Obama flubbed the answer on allowing illegals to have driver’s licenses (Y/N):
His position is stupid. It’s just a stupid position to take, and it’s hard to explain it in a way that makes any sense. How can he talk about being tough on illegal immigration, and the employers who hire them, while providing them with a “priveledge” that makes it easier for them to get to their jobs they shouldn’t have? Also the ability to drive legally while being illegal is a ridiculous concept. I like Obama a lot, but he’s missed the boat on this issue completely, and it’s no way to appeal to independents and moderates.
Biden did well…..as usual. Why won’t the media get behind him? I already gave my opinion on that on the slur threads. Peace out. Bedtime.
It was amazing tonight during the debate when the topic of Supreme Court nominees came up. It was unanimous, the constitution was barely mentioned but the most important issue for nominees to the moonbats is “the right to privacy”. In other words, support abortion on demand or you have no chance with the democrats. The Constitution is secondary!
I suffered through most of this fiasco but admit I had to change the channel once in a while to preserve my sanity so thanks Michelle for keeping me up to date …
I actually only have one comment on the content of this latest edition of irrelevant DemoCrap sham debates:
I’ve heard better answers from Miss America contestants than from these so called candidates …
I can’t believe I actually sat through that non-performance to blog it live …. What a waste.
Blitzer will be spared the shooting squad. Obama will spend the next two weeks parsing his own stumbles and I’m wondering if anyone will have the courage to mention Hillary’s horrid eye make-up.
“Diamonds or pearls?” sounds to me like a planted effort to play on “boxers or briefs.” The original was tawdry and childish, to play off it is simply wierd. Are they going to try to mirror Bill’s every play? (so to speak) They got a lot of ground to cover if they do!
what’s the old biblical saying,, something about casting pearls before swine…
Biden won this one, but Hildog didn’t stumble enough, so I’d say unless Biden sees a huge pop upwards in the next few days, thatthis is all but over.
The more interesting question now is who will drop out first: Dodd or Richardson?
Does Wolfe Blitzer have his ear pierced? It ceratinly looks like it on the video.
It appears that I didn’t miss much. Thanks for enduring the torture of listening to this drivel and then condensing the relevant parts for me, Michelle. I learned all I needed to know right here, and CNN did not get a ratings point from my house.
We watched Hannity&Colmes instead, Mike Huckabee interview and Ollie North torched the Dems latest “we are not losing fast enough” Defense appropriation bill. Naturally, the Ollie segment wasn’t long enough for my taste, but Col. North did slap Colmes around pretty good. Boy did he deserve it. He said that the Democrats should keep sending Bush these bills, make him keep vetoing the troops. Ha! I dare you.
Between the Congress and this Democrat primary, I’m just a bit more confident that Republican common sense will defeat Democrat pandering. Just a little.
By the way, what are the odds that Dennis the Menace had a mother that used him for a human shield and dropped him on his head? It would explain alot
These sissies are scared to go after her. i thought Biden would cut off his nuts if she handed him a knife. Yuck. SissyMen
OT: Thought you all would want to see this…
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/15/cmu.nooses/index.html
4 nooses found in Central Michigan University classroom
Story Highlights
-The nooses were made of compressed gas lines typically used in lab work
-State senator to say Friday whether university will ask feds to investigate
-University police offer $500 reward for information about nooses
-School president: We must continue “educating everyone on diversity issues”
PIAPS is not doing so well in Iowa according to local news broadcast here tonite (KPIX 5- they love Bubba’s PIAPS).
Her numbers may have peaked. Is she on her way down?
Does it matter?
She’ll get the nomination because they have to give it to her- the rest of these testicularly deficient clones are completely unelectable.
The highest drama is yet to be: when Al “Don’t Mind My Goiter” Gordo let’s his fan club twist his lard enshrined arm til he runs.
This is hilarious- all the Dhimmis had to do was tell their lunatic fringe to suck an egg and they woulda taken the White House.
But no. All that Soros cash hung them by their collective petard.
They are literally upside down, hanging in full view, trying to get elected.
Go with your gut. Mine says they’re cooked no matter who they nominate.
Kucinich is crazy like a fruit bat.
And, no, I didn’t pick him up by the ears. I clothespinned him to the circus high wire during his carnie days.
Wolf Blitzoid looked like a bartender from the Castro. There is definitely something raging behind his scenes.
In the clips I saw of Barry Abomo I kept wondering how the next round of fundraising is going to go. He looked like a total putz. He tries to speak in that deep, manly voice, so he ends up sounding like some lounge lizard asking Kucinich’s arm candy “Do you…like…jazz?” It’s just pure hokey.
Anyone want to bet on when Joe Biden is going to start combing his hair over the top of his head from one side?
At what point will Lonely Bill Richardson admit he needs to eat more fiber?
Corporal Agarn— by god, yer right. And the rest of the candidates are Hakawees.
Is John Edwards campaigning just to earn a permanent tax break or something?
The guy should be selling Amway.
So, where was Hubby Bubba during the “Duh-bate”. I’m sure he was there in spirit while blessing somebody’s wash basin for them. He and PIAPS are really “speer-chull” now. They got “Val-yooz” like the voters.
Dennis “Plant Me I’m a Turnip” Kucinich was happy to be in Vegas. After the debate he attended a Star Trek convention and crashed it as Spock’s Love Child.
The cameras never show Dennis’ cowboy boots. He tucks his pants into them and pulls his “slacks” up above his navel. That’s why his “blazer” is always buttoned.
I suffered through until the abortion (let me throw this in) question. If you took a little smidgen out of each Dem candidate it still wouldnt amount to someone presidential. It’s obivious Hillary had some better coaching for this one, no clear concisive thoughts of her own though. All of them dont get the Immigration issue(not listening to the vast public opinion)Enforce our laws people! How anyone can support this group of imbucile’s has me totally dumbfounded. They should have taken note from the Vegas Casino’s playbook and pumped oxygen into the room. Michelle’s grades for this debate are dead on, but I’ll go with scud not dud they usually start out with some flare but always miss their target and fizzle.
If you took a little smidgen out of each Dem candidate it still wouldnt amount to someone presidential. It’s obivious Hillary had some better coaching for this one, no clear concisive thoughts of her own though. All of them dont get the Immigration issue(not listening to the vast public opinion)Enforce our laws!. How anyone can support this group imbucile’s has me totally mindboggled. CNN should have taken note from the Vegas playbook and pumped oxygen into the room.
geez, sorry for all the posts I dont know what the heck happened,
I just watched “swing” voter reactions with Luntz on F&F and couldn’t believe what I was hearing from these people. Hillary, they said, had clear, concise answers for what she wanted to do as President.
I don’t think we were all watching the same show.
Navy, r u kidding me?
It was all rhetoric, nothing clear at all. gag.
she has asbestos poisoning.
End the war, pull out the troops, pull out the contractors…. they dont have a clue, what? leave Iraq in complete shambles and the people to fend for themselves when were gone? Al queerda moves in Iraq moves in savage killings and mayhem in the middle east, is this their solution? These crapweasels have drank to much code pink kool-aid and couldn’t run a 7-11 yet alone the United States.
The whole episode was a mere farce.
Those “plants” seemed to have grown deeper roots last night in Hillbillary’s favor, of course.
hi gayle, yep and wolfy provided the miracle-gro for her. It’s so transparent when she’s prepped it makes ya wanna puke.
I was able to suffer through most of the debate last night and am still amazed that some Senators think it is their job to establish foreign policy. I felt Dodd’s stance on national security was the best, but he still comes up short on other issues. There is not one candidate in the Democratic Party with the ability to lead a group of men to a whore house with $10,000 in their pockets (one of the favorite quotes I used to hear from one of my former Commanders).
The worst part was Hillary’s smug smile as she gave her answer to the driver’s license question. How in the world could Obama not have been prepared to answer that question? These folks make George “Its Hard Work” Bush seem like a Lincolnesque debater.
I never thought I would say this, but Biden was the most sensible adult on that stage. (Shaking head, unbelievably.)
The boos were from just a few in the crowd towards Edwards, me thinks they were Hillary Plants.
I am astounded, because I cannot figure out why the Dems think they are more intelligent than Reps. They are immature and there does not appear to be an adult in the crowd, amongst the commentators and on the stage. These questions were empty as well as the responses. No ones foot was held to the fire on any issues while I was watching. I had to turn the channel, as I was shouting at Wolfie to stand up and be a man! Yes, blatant genderism! BE A MAN, take control of the debate and hold these shisters feet to the fire.
God help this great country, if that monster gets in the White House. As I have thought all along, it is so that Bill can skirt that pesky Document the Constitution and waltz into power again.
Were I Hispanic, I’d consider B.O. and the Hilldebeast as an insult to my intelligence.
They want it BOTH ways, on the Driver’s License issue.
They’re pandering for the Hispanic/Latino vote in the nominations, but you can believe this…They’ll throw ‘em under the bus, in the General Election, where they have a lot less power as a voting bloc.
Ever notice how people refer to democrats as “good politicians”, but they never say “good leader” or “good human being”.
Good politicians is an oxy moron dmartin..
oxymoron
Oxymoron,
Is that the name of a sammich?
ox (b)e moron.
democrat: dumb as an ox and not nearly as useful.
Blitzer is a sheep in Wolf’s clothing.
a burnt weenie sammich. yum! time for breakfast
My attention turns off the second I hear pandering or these so-called “debate” questions that simply generate pandering. I don’t care if they are Republicans or Democrats, if all I can hear is pandering, the more I am figuring on staying home on election day, 2008.
I’m disappointed that my beloved Governor Richardson didn’t even get a grade. Guess we’ll have to vote for another one that can at least make the scale with an L grade.
Wake up Michelle, the story broke about the Necklace girl that CNN forced her to ask that question. ALL Staged. CNN just lost that last 1% of credibility that they had left.
What do you expect from the Clinton News Network?
This is embarassing for CNN and a black eye for American politics. Suffice it to say presidential politics is nothing more than a popularity contest. No real discussion about substantive issues and how to solve problems without either throwing huge sums of money at free handouts (a euphamism for raising taxes on the so-called rich) and bashing Bush in the process (I seem to recall he is NOT running for POTUS in 2008). Makes you wanna puke.
Now I see why Rush calls it the Clinton News Network. Pitiful. And none of these chickens will even appear on a Fox News debate.
If nothing else, the Dem debates provide the country with an entertaining showcase of vacuous, braindead bots.