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In other news there was a democratic primary debate thursday. I shall now give you my impressions in order of whom I'm liking most presently to least.
Obama: Seemed a little uneased but acceptable for most of it. A few kind of lame answers true, but with the excessively broad and craptastic questions being given I probably would of run out of time too. The biggest plus though is that he choose to point out how Kucinich and Gravel's foreign policy positions are kind of loopy and unreaslistic in the extreme. In some ways, he's treating these two as equals in this contest, which is certainly not what usually happens in these contexts.
Dodd: Acceptable answers, nothing exceptionally noticable. (did I mention most of the questions sucked in how they were given?)
Richardson: His performance is making me really start to doubt him. He came off as really big on lists. Laundry lists are not how you win elections. And even if they seem like reasonable lists, they are not the way to win me over. If you have a bazillion points to make in your plan, start with the important onces and elaborate on them, don't give me all bazillion. On the other end, he could of done a lot better had the time per question been 2 minutes instead of one.
Edwards: *shrugs* Not much different from last round. Has a little of the creepy politican vibe, but not as much as Clinton.
Gravel: This guy is both awesome but still not an acceptable candidate for me. But I think he really showed himself as not willing to be nothing but an also ran. He came off as dynamic and interesting, and comparing his previous apperance at the forum way back, I can see he's someone who's kind of evolving as the campaign evolves (unlike other candidates who follow the doctrin of define yourself and your personality and never change). Of the bunch he was probably the most outraged seeming and was very honest about why he felt such. I wish more politicians were willing to be such.
Clinton: *snore* Still has the 'OMFG I'm Hillary and that's neat' thing going on. Some of her answers came off as making her sound like her foreign policy is a bit more black and white than I care for.
Kucinich: He tried desperatly to out Gravel Gravel once Gravel tried to slam the rest of the field. But he kind of failed. His sound bites were not as heavy this time. But all the same, he seems to be campaigning to hurt other candidates or is looking to once again to be a martyr for the anti-war crowd. Sorry Dennis, the rank and file of the party has figured out we should be out of Iraq.
Biden: *snores louder* Not really interesting at all. His one good answer, 'Yes', was accompanied by a smirk, and it was kind of lame because of it.
Note on format: This format, and the questions, sucked ass. I hope no one ever lets Brian Williams be a moderator ever again. It seems about half the questions were 'gotcha' questions of some sort. The rest didn't seem to be looking to probe into the plans of the candidates or their differences, but to show that yes, they're democrats, on a number of things they agree.
And the raising hand questions... the one about if they would vote for Kucinich's impeachment of Cheney resolution was a bit misleading in how it was phrased. Because naturally those not in congress wouldn't be voting for it because, surprise, they are not in congress.
I hope the next one is an improvement. The Republicans are having a debate next week. I'll try to catch it, but hope someone of a right leaning persuation is in the mood to post reactions about it as to avoid my biases.