The Debates

I caught most of the D debate and from what I saw, I could have missed it all without, um, missing anything. One thing of note, when asked if she would support merit based teacher pay, Hillary wouldn't say yes, but she did say we should get rid of the bad ones. (Hello, Hillary? Teacher's union on line one) I don't know if she accidentally said it, or if she'll backtrack on it, but her union overlords won't be happy with that.

One other thing, MM has a clip of Dennis Kucinich trying to get Wolf to call on him, and it looks like he's over eager or something. That really wasn't the case. Wolf had said he was going to ask each candidate about Pakistan, and he went right down the line, but stopped at Kucinich. Insert short person joke here.

Most of it was blaming Bush, and proposing magic. Asked, anyone of the candidates could tell you that all we have to do is fix Iraq then leave. I think it was Obama who said something like, "I would work out a stable government with concessions from the Sunni, Shia and Kurds, which is what we're not doing." Well that's what we have been doing since day one. And I doubt Obama could do any better. Then he would leave the country with a combination of Arab peace keepers and UN troops. Fine. There are several neighboring countries who would love to get their troops into Iraq, but good luck with the UN.

So that's it, magic compromise, magic UN cooperation, magic fixing of schools, borders, and the children, always the children. Oh, and Bush bad. It was like the simplest TV sitcoms, you know how it's going to play out but you watch anyway.

-Oh, and remember the Obama "invade Pakistan" gaffe? He did a finesse on that; on the Pakistan question, he said he would send troops in after the bad guys in the mountains between the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Must be some pretty thin mountains.