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To start with the beggining was bullshit. The only candidates who did not piss me off duing the endorsement section were Carol, Wesley and Kucinich.... and I think perhaps Edwards (can't remember what he said). Dean got points for sticking up for Gore in the manner he did.
Kucinich slapped Ted Koppel several times on polls and dropping out and where the media is taking the debate in this country. Sharpton redeemed himself after his assinine boss statement when he talked about not dropping out of the race and why. Kerry won points with his slap down on the polls question.
When is it okay to lie to the american people? Dean's answer was lame, but then so was the question.
Gephardt was great talking about the unfunded mandates such as special education and smaller classroom size. Teacher Corp! Great idea since I am about to graduate with a degree in education and 20k of student loans.
Clark was great on military information. He clearly knows his business with defense and international strategy. This is a real advantage he has over Dean and some of the others.
I thought Kerry sounded intelligent and well spoken. Dean was right about getting our troops out of Iraq and I appreciated that he and Kerry were able to say several times they agreed with each other.
Leiberman tried to take on Rev Al with a quip about talking to God and asking AL to mention him to God. Al said he already did and he would tell him Joe God's response in private. I literally LOLed at that exchange and to give Lieberman credit he genuinely laughed too. Then he totally lost my attention when he was talking on how great the war in Iraq is.
Clark was great in talking about his plan for getting out of Iraq. I may not agree with him on all his points but he knew what he was talking about. He also said we should not be occupying foreign countries to extract their natural resources. That is a DU statement. Who can disagree with that?
Carol Mosely Braun was very impressive talking about preemptive war and the responsiblity of congress to make those decisions rather than signing resolutions signing that power over to the president.
Dean was great bringing the debate back to domestic issues. He talked about jobs and healthcare, education. Edwards hit the idea of corporations running the whitehouse and how wrong that was. Gephardt talked about making college affordable.
They dissed Sharpton. They did not give him equal time.
So who won? I think they all did well. I think the winners, and by that I mean candidates who made people take another look at them, even if very low in the polls, were Clark, Dean and Carol Mosely Braun. She sounded the most mature and experienced on all issues combined, though Dean and Clark were great in their respective strengths...Dean on domestics, Clark on foreign affairs.
I would vote for any of the candidates including Joe.
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