Last Night's Debate Actually Gave Us New Information on the Candidates.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

The whining about the questions of last night's debate from the lefties has turned into a dull roar.

The folks who are whining don't actually want a debate. They want alternating statements of how bad the Bush administration is, and how terrible John McCain would be. Most importantly, they are left in a sputtering rage when a debate actually tells us something new about these candidates.

What, we needed to hear Obama tell us one more time that "I opposed this war from the start"? We needed to hear another back and forth on whether Obama's health care plan was truly universal? We needed more dueling, "I'll really reform NAFTA, and my opponent won't?" For Obama to talk about how he had been fighting for "real change" all of his life, or for Hillary to cite all of her foreign policy work as First Lady, yet again?

Do these folks realize we've had 23 Democratic debates? All of the issues that they're insisting were "ignored" last night were hashed and rehashed and rehashed in the past 22 debates.

I suspect they wanted a repeat of the endlessly happy talk of the one in Texas:

The audience was apparently under the influence of a combination of Prozac, nitrous oxide, tequila and cocaine, rapturously happy and eager to applaud anything either candidate said. Perhaps they had been playing a drinking game in which everyone was required to take a shot when they used the word, "the."

04/17 09:17 AM Share