First Senate Debate Wrap-Up (Kleeb)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.nebraskademocrats.org/blog/1537/first-senate-debate-wrap-up

Kyle Michaelis at NNN has a good wrap-up of the debate. He personally attended, so I recommend checking it out:

It has to be by design that Kleeb is echoing John F. Kennedy. Kleeb talks about change in the same terms Kennedy once talked about going to the moon, and his call for “new pioneers” is lifted right out of Kennedy’s “new frontier.” But, Kleeb isn’t shying away from this fact, making several references to Kennedy by name. Kleeb praised Kennedy’s handling of the Cuban missile crisis and his creation of the Peace Corps as direct contrasts to what we’ve seen of the Bush Administration.

I was proud of Kleeb for being willing to go after the Bush Administration. Holding up Scott McClellan’s new book as a testament to “how fundamentally broken the system is in Washington,” Kleeb even went so far as admitting “we were lied to” by the Bush Administration. He also went after Bush for vetoing the Farm Bill (because of its investments in growing the ethanol industry) and for overseeing the decimation of the federal government’s balanced budget.

As many of you probably noticed, the video of the debate was not available in real-time. It is now posted online here: http://www.kolnkgin.com/home/headlines/19578324.html

You can hear the full audio here: http://media.journalstar.com/podcast/?mid=M4848817f77002
– by Eric Van Horn