Democratic Debate Number Something!

~ Clarissa

I won’t be able to watch the whole thing but I need to see at least a portion to make sure that Hillary is all right and is still winning.

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20:13 – I’m getting very tired of people piling on Bernie about his gun control record. This is getting old and gratuitous.

20:17 – it’s good they are off the guns and on to racism. This is what the election should be about.

20:19 – Bernie is dreaming. He has no chance against Trump.

20:20 – the moderator sucks. He derails every interesting conversation and turns it to idiotic soundbites and Google searches.

20:23 – Bernie’s idea of involving the DoJ in all cases of anybody dying in police custody is absolutely deranged.

20:35 – O’Malley today looks like a couples therapist mediating a contentious marriage.

20:44 – whenever Bernie starts on the Congress being bought by Big Money and a handful of controlling billionaires and a political revolution and an uprising, I just begin to wilt because this is not a serious conversation. This is the kind of talk that excites pimply potheads.

20:52 – Bernie gets booed for mentioning speaking fees from Goldman Sachs. I support the booer.

20:53 – Hillary has taken the position of being Obama’s defender from Bernie. This is smart. Bernie is trying to stake out his own piece of the Obama halo.

20:55 – Bernie is asked about policy but he veers off into the personal time and again.

20:58 – are voters really so primitive that all this anti-Wall Street sloganeering is necessary?

21:01 – people! Democrats! Progressives! Stop bickering. Start running against Republicans already!

21:07 – what’s with the idiotic cartoon???

21:09 – Bernie is on and on about how everyone is owned by somebody. He’s like a woman who is convinced that all women but her are whores.

21:23 – oh, God, not the tired old canard about who supported the war in Iraq.

21:28 – Bernie will drive me nuts today. Who told him that Russia wants to destroy ISIS? Has he been following what’s happening at all?

21:29 – Russia “fomented war in Ukraine”? Who is this brain-dead moderator? What a stupid piece of deadwood.

21:30 – Hillary is quite disappointing on Putin, too. She had a very creepy reaction to the word “relationship.”

21:34 – Bernie can turn absolutely any question to his favorite issue of evil private companies. I can imagine dinnertime conversations at his house. “Honey, please pass the salt. Talking about salt, when I think of those evil private companies, it’s like pouring salt on my wounds.”

21:41 – O’Malley called Trump a fascist. That’s not OK. This is not a term to bandy around lightly.

21:42 – Bernie said something weird and unnecessary about the USSR. What was all that about? . . . And now he’s back on corrupt Wall Street. This is excruciating.

21:44 – the moderators are trashy and disgusting.

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19 thoughts on “Democratic Debate Number Something!”

  1. O’Malley just got in a good dig at his opponents. He said he’d just heard Hillary and Bernie describe how inconsistent the other’s position on gun control is — and he agrees with both of them!

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  2. “Bernie is dreaming. He has no chance against Trump.”

    Nobody thought Bernie had a chance against Hillary, either.

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  3. Hillary and Bernie are both shouting. O’Malley is the most composed — no doubt because he realizes that he has zero chance of getting the nomination.

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  4. “Hillary has taken the position of being Obama’s defender from Bernie. This is smart.”

    Might be smart in the primary, but in the general she’ll be accused of running for “Obama’s third term.”

    Since WWII, the same party has had more than two consecutive Presidential terms only twice (in 1948 and 1988), and never four consecutive terms.

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      1. According to recent history, the vast majority of American voters see keeping the same party in the White House for more than two terms as a negative, regardless of who’s in power.

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  5. Hillary’s lying when she claims her military actions against ISIS would be so constrained — right now she has to pretend to believe that Obama’s feckless foreign policy has been effective.

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          1. You’re right, the religious nuts and moral purists have been a bane on the Republican party for decades — but right now the party needs their votes to win any general election. (At least most Republican Presidents have been smart enough to ignore them once the election is over.)

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  7. 20:35 – O’Malley today looks like a couples therapist mediating a contentious marriage.
    Yeah…

    20:44 – whenever Bernie starts on the Congress being bought by Big Money and a handful of controlling billionaires and a political revolution and an uprising, I just begin to wilt because this is not a serious conversation. This is the kind of talk that excites pimply potheads.
    I think at one point he contrasted evil Goldman Sachs employees frolicking on Wall Street and pure innocent potheads behind bars.

    21:30 – Hillary is quite disappointing on Putin, too. She had a very creepy reaction to the word “relationship.”
    She thought she was coming off as “politely avoiding saying that she hates his guts” but she’s just inspiring weird Rule 34 RPF with her use of the word “bully”. She’s not completely wrong but…

    21:41 – O’Malley called Trump a fascist. That’s not OK. This is not a term to bandy around lightly.
    This was his ploy to remind people he’s still in the debate and hasn’t withdrawn from running yet. “I feel things! But I can’t take off my shoe and pound the table! Yarr!”

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