Tuesday, January 15, 2008

PS

Did you see the Democratic debate in Nevada tonight? See, it can be done, a debate about the nuances of policy difference and honest assessments of each candidate's past actions that were contrary to their recent stated beliefs and ideals, as well as each candidates past politcally corageous actions that personified their ideals and beliefs.

Guess they read my blog.

Or—great minds think alike.

Or—their experience, or the experience of some of their advisors, is similar to mine, and they feared the same results I did, and still do, so worked hard to keep it about issues and goals and factual experience and not about personal, race and gender attacks and set ups.

Let's hope they keep it up. Tonight they all came across as solid adversaries for any Republican in the general election next November. It was easy to see why each candidate's supporters believe in their standard bearer. Every one of them had a moment of passionate expression of their particular goals and commitment to them that convinced me, and each also correctly characterized the man they plan to replace, and his regime, as the failure it has so obviously been in so many arenas.

Like I said, I could vote for any of them. Tonight at least.

1 comment:

AlamedaTom said...

Dang Lal! You beat me to the blog, so to speak. I was going to make the same observations on my blog. The thing that literally hit me like a ton of bricks about half way through: all three of these extraordinary humans are so far superior to what the Republicans are offering, it's not even debatable.

After the first 15 minutes (when Porky Russert was trying mightily go stir up fights over bullshit), things really got serious as these three really spoke cogently and sincerely about the issues. I thought John Edwards was especially compelling. That guy really DOES care about the middle class and the poor.

The only thing that ticked me off a little was when Obama gave a terrific answer to the 100 Black Men's question and Hillary bullied her way in out of order to make her own reply and do a little ass kissing of all 100 black men!

Of course the funniest thing was in the post-debate commentary when it became obvious that Chris Matthews' answer to the recent criticism that he is out to get Hillary, was to kiss her ass even more than Hillary kissed the 100 Black Men's asses. Geez, he had her making bold new innovations that rendered Obama and Edwards mere followers who were jumping on her band wagon. Huh?

~ tom