I too heard that Hillary “won”. Somehow I really don’t care what a journalist or pundit has to say about this. Their bland support of Dubya in 2000 and their nit-picking of Al Gore doesn’t seem to have helped us much over the last 7 years. I’m less than thrilled to hear what they have to say this time around, except to consider their endorsement as an indicator of whom NOT to support.

Their bland support of Dubya didn’t help us much, but it did help Dubya.

While, like you, I can discount their opinions, I suspect that more people will hear the pundits opinions about the debate than the debate itself. That gives the pundits way too much power to shape public opinion. They really, really need to get out of the way. They’re major contributors to undermining the process.

I would like to see some way of transplanting Gravel’s populist ideas into Edwards.

Edwards/Gravel

As I was watching the debates and coverage last night, my general impression was that it seemed awkward.

I believe Sen. Dodd came off as “Presidential” and leveraged his 26 years of service. I agree that Kucinich and Gravel expressed the most passion.

I tried to watch the post election coverage. In the first hour of post coverage, I was disappointed by the lack of Edwards or his staff. Was this intentional or MSNBC’s decision.

If I were a member of HRC’s camp, I would not be claiming victory in a Democratic debate if Right Wing Pundits like Scarborough and Buchanan liked your performance. IMO.

I am looking forward to more comprehensive discussion of the issues versus how to respond to an Al Qaeda attack. I was hoping for one of the candidate’s to say: well Brian, when I am President, I will make sure that we are using all of the legal and proper tools available and with all of the 9/11 recommendations in place, We would intercept an Al Qaeda attack before it occurred/ IMHO

I was thinking exacting the same thing about Obamas’s response to an attack on two U.S. cities question. I would have said that as President, I would be giving my full attention each day to the PDBs and if any intelligence flags were raised, I would enact every effort to prevent an attack before it happened, instead of going on vacation like Bush. Then continue with what he would do if an actual attack occurred. It would have been a great contrast to what Bush allowed to happen and show that he would pro-active.

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I thought it interesting that Kucinich was not asked about health care while h/o/e were given time to drone on w.o giving any solid answer. Everybody knows Kucinich is for single payer, you would think that would be where the debate would start. Also, no equal time. Disappointing.

agreed. incredibly jumbled format, no equal time, and no equal questions on identical issues. a mishmash which worked to noone’s advantage, except the ‘annointed’ 3, in terms of serious q’s. after avoiding gravel for like 15 minutes while the biggies were grilled on big issues, they finally turn to gravel and ask him about his ‘biggest mistake”. pretty pathetic. let’s hope the formats improve.

If you’re looking for direct access to the candidate issue videos, try this:

http://www.ExpertVoter.org

Debates don’t always bring out the issues in a comprehensive fashion, so this might help.

gary

The other really disturbing thing he said in regards to Iran was something that was so Bush like in regards to the run-up to the Iraq War, that you should really pay attention to it. On Meet the Press he said, “The vast majority of people are concerned about what is going on in Iraq. This will make the American people reticent toward going for Iran. But I think the American people are smart if they are told the truth and if they trust their President. So, Americans can be educated to come along with what needs to be done with Iran.” Now, wouldn’t you agree that that’s the same tactic the Bush administration used in the run-up to the Iraq War – they set out to “educate” the American people about what needed to be done with Iraq. And now John Edwards is talking about “educating” the American people about what needs to be done with Iran.

Sorry, I don’t trust John Edwards when it comes to national security and foreign policy questions.