If anyone had a single complaint about Keith Olbermann and his moderation of tonight's Democratic debate, well, just be glad this guy wasn't doing it again. Here's what passes for political discourse from Matthews and friends:
Breaking news!! Obama and Clinton won and Edwards did lousy because he's.....short!! I kid you not. More debate video and commentary below.
This post debate discussion was one of the more sickening things I've watched in a while but hey, it's Chris Matthews so I am not shocked. They blathered on about how Edwards didn't command the stage, how he got upstaged by Kucinich, how wonderful Hillary and Obama did, and ignored every other candidate and also much of anything of substance that was said tonight. They focused on the "important things"...you know, like Clinton changing her accent. Now she's got a "Chigaco" accent whatever that means.
I think they're trying to do their best to stay with this dialog that Clinton or Obama cannot be challenged by either Edwards or any of the other candidates, and I do not believe that is true. Anything can happen and we're still a long way off from this election being over. I don't have a horse in this race yet and am waiting to see what Gore does and leaning towards Edwards and will support anyone with a D behind their name once the primaries are over. I personally don't like seeing anyone written off before the primary voting starts and this little farce looked like just that to me.
I was thrilled to see Keith have a chance to moderate tonight, and I think he did the best job so far of all the debates with the possible exception of the one that almost no one saw which was shown on PBS. I think Kucinich did really well tonight and even though I believe he doesn't have a chance of getting the nomination I like where he drove the dialog. Apparently he did it well enough that even the Matthews crew could not ignore him completely although I'm sure they would have liked to.
Here's Kucinich in action.
On supporting labor and unions:
On NAFTA:
And on digging a hole to China:
And unless I missed it I do not believe they even mentioned Biden's gaff tonight and the slight he gave this poor woman:
And in case you missed it here is some of that debate that they had on PBS. I should add don't let the screen shots fool you on these. The videos are not just of Joe Biden or John Edwards. They're of the rounds on both questions.
Topic: Outsourcing:
Topic: Hurricane Katrina: