OCCOM BILL wrote:I can hardly wait for the debates tonight.
What did you think of them?
We looked at the second half of the Dem debate only here, three of us cause Anastasia has a friend over. Was surprised that there wasnt a mention anywhere at all here on the forum on either debate that I could find.
A's friend turns out to be a true Obama believer, while A herself still has no preference and well, you know what I think. So that was interesting
But seriously, we had a lot of fun watching and gossiping and keeping up this running commentary. I was pretty impressed by the debate, I thought they were all pretty good; A's friend was pretty disappointed and thought it was a weak debate. She also thought Obama could have done a lot better and Edwards was the only one who did well. I didnt say nuthin about that (I'm quite different IRL from here :wink: ), but did say that I thought Richardson did very well, to his debate standards especially.
But then again, we missed the first half, which apparently included the most contentious moment of the debate - like, "the moment" of the debate.
One minor note: remember that last question, where they were all asked if there had been anything they had said in any of the, like, 438 TV debates so far, that they regretted? Hillary, predictably, straight-out ducked the question and went on about how all the Dems were much better than all the Reps, basically. True, but in the context of the blatantly ducked question sanctimonious crap.
Richardson played that one well by striking a stark contrast and being as real a human being as one can, dishing out this enjoyable, funny self-deprecating story of how they were asked their favourite Supreme Court justice and he answered, "dead or alive?", then proceeded to name a SC justice appointed by JFK. He's all, "JFK is my hero, so I thought, he must have been good... then I find out afterwards that he was against Roe vs Wade, against civil rights.." he trailed off as everyone laughed in that sympathising way, like, that could so have happened to me..
Edwards tried the same thing but in a little less sincere, little more self-serving way (saying he regretted once commenting on Hillary's jacket and telling her, I've got to say, you look great). Then came Obama, and I was so surprised - like negatively, and you know I already dont hold much of him, but this was just so unlike him - did the Hillary thing! He plain ducked the question and went on for what seemed like five minutes with standard campaign memes about the difference between Dems and Reps. That was lame. A's friend said he's just gotten too nervous, he should relax more, he comes across better then.
Anyhow, that was just one question, and a wholly un-substantive one at that, but I wonder how it played out with viewers or the media (havent read up yet), cause it was such a striking contrast between the two frontrunners and the two others. Its a shame what frontrunnerdom can do to a politician (see also Huckabee, Mike).
