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Watching the Democratic 'debate' last night was like watching a extraordinarily painful version of American Idol. Each candidate had to sing a memorized song, and then answer silly follow-up questions. All we missed was having one of them voted off the show at the end ("Well, Senator Gravel, the viewers have spoken...")
Here's my take: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama played the game like the frontrunners they are -- carefully sticking to the prepared script and not taking any chances. They have this down and were visibly holding their ankles to keep feet from going into mouths. They both seemed to take the strategy of "I'm not going to make a stupid mistake." Which means, essentially, they said very little of real interest.
John Edwards: whine, whine whine. "I'm so different and better than all the rest of you wieners." Whine, whine, whine... Hey, John, maybe you should wear a rhinestone leisure suit so you make sure everyone notices you.
Bill Richardson: I really wanted to like this guy, but damn, he has to learn to answer questions without going into "I have a policy for this..." and then talking about something only peripherally connected to the question. It was like he had about six statements prepared and used whichever one he thought was closest.
Joe Biden: "I DON"T HAVE A CHANCE, BUT DAMN IT, I AM GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT I THINK REALLY LOUDLY AND FERVENTLY! I'M REALLY PISSED OFF. LISTEN TO ME! LISTEN!"
Dennis Kucinich: "We could stop this war right now by cutting the funding, and giving everyone in the world a college education, and then have health care for all. Love is all you need. Love, love, love."
Christopher Dodd: "I have really great hair, don't I? And why do you keep giving me the lame questions? Hello, is anyone listening? Hello?"
Mike Gravel: well, when we film the live action version of "Snow White & The Seven Dwarves," we know who to cast as Grumpy. Man, in the second half of the debate he was literally sitting so far away from everyone else that he was half off the stage.
And Wolf Blitzer should never be allowed to host another one of these. Either that, or he needs to get a staff who can actually pass him some intelligent questions to ask. The "raise your hand if you agree with this statement" questions are pretty frigging idiotic, Wolf. "I'd like you to raise your hand if you think that bedwetting is bad."
Here's my take: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama played the game like the frontrunners they are -- carefully sticking to the prepared script and not taking any chances. They have this down and were visibly holding their ankles to keep feet from going into mouths. They both seemed to take the strategy of "I'm not going to make a stupid mistake." Which means, essentially, they said very little of real interest.
John Edwards: whine, whine whine. "I'm so different and better than all the rest of you wieners." Whine, whine, whine... Hey, John, maybe you should wear a rhinestone leisure suit so you make sure everyone notices you.
Bill Richardson: I really wanted to like this guy, but damn, he has to learn to answer questions without going into "I have a policy for this..." and then talking about something only peripherally connected to the question. It was like he had about six statements prepared and used whichever one he thought was closest.
Joe Biden: "I DON"T HAVE A CHANCE, BUT DAMN IT, I AM GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT I THINK REALLY LOUDLY AND FERVENTLY! I'M REALLY PISSED OFF. LISTEN TO ME! LISTEN!"
Dennis Kucinich: "We could stop this war right now by cutting the funding, and giving everyone in the world a college education, and then have health care for all. Love is all you need. Love, love, love."
Christopher Dodd: "I have really great hair, don't I? And why do you keep giving me the lame questions? Hello, is anyone listening? Hello?"
Mike Gravel: well, when we film the live action version of "Snow White & The Seven Dwarves," we know who to cast as Grumpy. Man, in the second half of the debate he was literally sitting so far away from everyone else that he was half off the stage.
And Wolf Blitzer should never be allowed to host another one of these. Either that, or he needs to get a staff who can actually pass him some intelligent questions to ask. The "raise your hand if you agree with this statement" questions are pretty frigging idiotic, Wolf. "I'd like you to raise your hand if you think that bedwetting is bad."