Kusinich will rock you!
I'm currently watching the most recent Democratic debate, and I just want to know one thing: WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED WITH KUSINICH?! How is he rocking this hard?! Seriously. He's getting HUGE applause, and for good reason. He's addressing the stadium of people not like a Presidential candidate, but like a fucking rockstar, and he's totally pulling it off. Did he have incredible sex with his extremely hot wife five minutes before walking on stage? What?
(Olbermann has dissapointed me as a moderator thusfar. He's cute and funny, but he keeps wasting time complaining about the audience wasting time by applauding. It was amusing the first couple of times, but it's starting to sound shrill, now.)
One of the things that I liked about this debate was that when the candidates started hijacking it, answering questions they weren't asked, or when they gave really obviously evasive and bullshit answers, the audience was not shy about calling them on it with loud booing. I think that kept them a lot more on track than I've seen them, previously.
I'm not sure what I think about the massive number of debates that have been going on. I know that most people don't watch them, but I think that's a shame, because you can really get to know where a candidate is placing themselves on a lot of issues. You can get to know a lot of the candidate's personality, because after 90 minutes of arguing, it DOES start to slip through. You can see who has the balls to answer directly, and who's being evasive. You can judge who you think knows what they're talking about. I think it's a shame that every year, everyone stands around complaining that everyone seems to be alike and you're sick of soundbytes and blah, blah, blah, but when we get a really in-depth (and practically endless) series of debates, people don't bother to watch and complain that the campaign season is too long. Put up or shut up.
If people would watch the debates, then the candidates wouldn't have to spend big bucks to get on TV commercials so that people would know who they were, and that means they wouldn't have to sell out to wealthy corperate interests to do it. People complain about campaign financing -- well, there's the solution. If people watched the debates, they'd generate mad advertising revenue, and media outlets would be clamoring to host them. So watch the debates.
It's really not that painful. In fact, I think they're entertaining.
(Olbermann has dissapointed me as a moderator thusfar. He's cute and funny, but he keeps wasting time complaining about the audience wasting time by applauding. It was amusing the first couple of times, but it's starting to sound shrill, now.)
One of the things that I liked about this debate was that when the candidates started hijacking it, answering questions they weren't asked, or when they gave really obviously evasive and bullshit answers, the audience was not shy about calling them on it with loud booing. I think that kept them a lot more on track than I've seen them, previously.
I'm not sure what I think about the massive number of debates that have been going on. I know that most people don't watch them, but I think that's a shame, because you can really get to know where a candidate is placing themselves on a lot of issues. You can get to know a lot of the candidate's personality, because after 90 minutes of arguing, it DOES start to slip through. You can see who has the balls to answer directly, and who's being evasive. You can judge who you think knows what they're talking about. I think it's a shame that every year, everyone stands around complaining that everyone seems to be alike and you're sick of soundbytes and blah, blah, blah, but when we get a really in-depth (and practically endless) series of debates, people don't bother to watch and complain that the campaign season is too long. Put up or shut up.
If people would watch the debates, then the candidates wouldn't have to spend big bucks to get on TV commercials so that people would know who they were, and that means they wouldn't have to sell out to wealthy corperate interests to do it. People complain about campaign financing -- well, there's the solution. If people watched the debates, they'd generate mad advertising revenue, and media outlets would be clamoring to host them. So watch the debates.
It's really not that painful. In fact, I think they're entertaining.