Debate tomorrow?

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I'm going to bet $20 in Vegas that Biden offends some minority group with an off-the-cuff statement, Hillary mentions her husband at least 40 times, Dodd will be unmemorable by tomorrow, Edwards will exaggerate his southern accent, Gravel will play the white Al Sharpton, Kucinich will be blah, Obama will be pronounced the winner by the media, and Richardson will just talk and ramble on a whole bunch.

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As we learned from Al Gore, intelligence is not always a good thing. I remember his line from his monologue when he hosted SNL.

"People told me my campaign had problems and that I was patronizing. You see, patronizing is where you explain things to people as if they are dumber than they really are." (laughter)

My guess on tonight's menu of events that the candidates will talk about:

War, Bush sucks, plans for Presidency, war, Bush sucks, economy, any of them: "People in America are poor!" war, Bush sucks, Kucinich: "Impeach the bastard!", civil rights, Hillary: "I'm the blackest candidate in this race!", war, Bush sucks, health care, Edwards: "Quality health care costs too much, more ambulance chasing will fix that.", war, Bush sucks, closing speeches.

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Poor Dan Quayle.

The Bentsen clip and "potatoe" will be all he'll ever be remembered for.

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Ooh, lightning round!

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First question: Obama sounds like John Edwards 2004.

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I missed the first 5 minutes.  Did Biden speak first on Iraq?

Second.

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This is now like the fourth time Clinton has gotten a chance to speak.  The first tier candidates are getting "rebuttals" when there's the slightest offhand reference made to them.

I'll post a generic scorecard after it is done.

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Best response so far: "Yes."

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I'm on a university message board as well, and a lot of people on there are loving Gravel so far.

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Was Clinton the only one that did not raise their hand on having a gun ever?

Edit: Obama and Edwards also.

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Richardson does not strike me as being comfortable.

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They sound like a bunch of nuts.

Wait til the Republican debate.

One man's opinion:

Helped themselves from position before-

Biden (he got a lot of questions, I'll post them below)
Gravel (from nothing to a person that made himself stand out)
Obama (did okay and he did not hurt himself, which some were expecting)

Hurt themselves from position before-

Richardson (that Hispanic comment with Gonzales...my God that sounded bad)
Edwards (just didn't seem there, and he missed an easy pitch with his moral leader)

Same position as before-

H. Clinton
Dodd
Kucinich (I think his thunder got stolen by Gravel)


Found it very interesting that none of them would support Kucinich's impeachment proceedings against Cheney, not even Gravel. Expected of course, but I was hoping Williams would ask one "why not?"




List of questions. Did my best, might be a bit wrong.

Questions/Follow-up/Audience Questions

Clinton 8/2/2
Biden 8/0/3
Obama 7/2/3
Richardson 7/1/3
Edwards 7/1/2
Dodd 6/0/2
Gravel 5/2/1
Kucinich 5/1/2

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Coming from a Republican, I thought Biden and Clinton were rather strong, Richardson and Edwards were kind of less than I expected, Gravel was an insane nut, Kucinich was his typical wackjob do nothing for Ohio congressman and Obama was in the middle.

The democrats' whole problem is that they have the opinion similar to Hillary Clinton's "Why won't the President respond to the will of the people?" AKA...Be like Bill and lead based on polls. A president is elected to put forth his vision for leadership, and the congress' job is to keep the government occupied and busy while solving legislation problems. This new Democratic Congress is trying to be the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces...which only George Bush is.

See you for the Republican debate next week.

Verrrrrrrrry interested to hear the President's hopeful successors and their views on what he has done and what they would continue. It will show us how much of a lame duck the President is in his own party.