Jan. 31st CNN Dem debate in California **live commentary thread** (user search)
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angus
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« on: January 31, 2008, 10:01:10 PM »

caught this one, nearly in toto. 

Good, clean debate.  None of the sensationalism of the past few.  Apparently they disagree a little on health care, but both seem to agree that "universal health insurance is a "moral imperative," so from where I'm standing I just don't see the difference.  The main difference, or I should say the real difference, between them seemed to be that one can claim higher moral authority when opposing US military involvement in Iraq than the other can.

I saw no losers tonight.  They both performed well.
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« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2008, 10:39:47 PM »

I was really impressed with how well he presented himself and how presidential he sounded.

I was really impressed that he controlled the urge to say, "Hell no!" when asked whether he'd consider an Obama/Clinton ticket, but at the same time he didn't come out and lie about it.  He didn't say, "Oh sure, I'd definitely consider her as my running mate.  I think about asking her to drop out of the race on a daily basis, in fact, and the reason that I do is because I want her as my running mate because I relish the thought of spending the day with her every day for the next four years."  That's a fine line to walk, and he walked it very well.  He said no without saying no, and that was very politically savvy. 

And she answered the question even better:  "what he said."
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