Did You Watch The Debate Tonight?

Just wondering what percentage of DUers tuned in.

I really HATE to give FOX any credit for anything, but I think the tougher questions they asked the PUBS on THEIR depate forced Wolfies hand to pose some more difficult and provocative questions in this one tonight.

I thought tonight's format was fantastic, especially the first half. Wolf was quite annoying, though.

... than watch these bloviating frauds give the long version of their 30-second TV ads, which we'll be privileged to watch at least seven thousand times once the primary season kicks in.

And I expect that, as usual, the one with actual ideas and a track record of leftist, progressive activism, the only member of congress to introduce articles of impeachment (on cheney, but that's probably a better start anyway), the only one advocating single-payer universal access, rather than some sham that allows the goddamn parasitic for-profit medical industry to have a place at the "new" table -- just like the current one, which they've torn to shreds in service to their market-based credo that there's no such thing as enough...

In short, the only actual Democrat of the bunch, the only one of the pack who actually has something to offer besides go-along-get-along is, of course, marginalized, ridiculed, interrupted and generally held up as an example of everything bad about the old democratic party, which allegedly represented workers and other oppressed and downtrodden, while the rest of them -- scrubbed and coiffed and manicured and oh so on message -- represent the new breed democrats.

They're largely indistinguishable from republicans, except in their political ineptitude and naive inability to use their rare majority status to accomplish anything more adversarial than refining their BushCo suck-up conga line moves while sniveling to the very same corporate androids as the GOP fellates for ever more campaign money, so they can crank out ever more sucky TV ads, which will drive us very near to plucking our eyes out to save us the horror of seeing them one more time, and then they go back to their campaign "donors" so they can cadge more money so they can crank out ever more sucky TV ads... repeat ad infinitum.

So no, I didn't watch the "debates," as they're quaintly called. I watched some baseball, paid some bills, played with the cats, force-fed my wife my hideous cooking, and generally had a pleasant and message-free evening, unsullied by desperately hilarious appeals to voting blocs of all descriptions, and ridiculous claims of intrinsic American goodness. I suppose somebody must have bashed BushCo a bit, and I hear Wolfie did his usual excellent imitation of a functional human, but IMO you've really got to be a political junkie before you'll get sucked into these fabricated arguments, which eloquently tell the back story of our total lack of political courage or leadership. I mean, DK the glaring exception, is this group supposed to represent the very best this country has to offer? No wonder we're seriesly screwn.


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I hate when all the news people coin me "American people think", and this is what the debate tells us bullshit.

And I'm not sure why hypothetical questions aren't relevant to ask these people asking for a job. I know that in an interview I have, I am asked hypothetical situations to assess my aptitude. I think it is fair to ask questions dealing with a situation like they did with Bin Ladin. Obviously, you would want to know how many civilians would be harmed by taking one man out, but I think its a good question to ask.

Except I played with the dogs and fed my husband some not so bad cooking. :) I was tempted to watch only because of DK, but I'm glad I didn't. The others aren't going to change my mind.

I don't tolerate pain as well as I used to.

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Seriously, I was about to post something very similar, except probably not as well written.

not everyone has cable TV

Why do they put up with having these right-wing nuts as moderators?

Why don't the GOP candidates have to face a left-wing moderator to make things fair?

Dems need to demand some changes in these debates.

Anyone who has taken the time in the past to simply Google wolf knows that he is was and always will be pro-Israel in his outlook and cannot possibly be objective. Besides that he bores me usually. Get K.O. to moderate the Republican debates! Someone mentioned this as a possibility and I think it would be marvelous. Who makes these decisions anyway? Oh, the war profiteers... (G.E. it bring good things to death...)

I slept through the live broadcast.

didn't even know it was going to be on. Who won?

They all suck cockroach breath!!! Fuckin' assholes!! :nuke: