2008 Primaries Thread

not really but still

wtf @ line item veto

Line Item Veto?!

Light Rail! Line Item Veto!

a microcosm of this boring-ass debate was charlie's softball debate-joke that none of them even swung at!!! no one even whiffed!!! wtf?!!

lol richardson

Richardson, u r dum

FUCK YOU BARACK YOU RUINED THE MOMENTUM OF LULZ

Edwards/Obama are acting like frat boys. Not flattering.

Nice closing by Edwards. That question was tailor-made for HRC, but she was sort of flat with it. Obama is terrible with it (but he's playing protect-defense).

Obama-- "I wish I'd been boringer"

nah him and hillary had to play it safe and just say 'we all did good', what more could you expect

'nah' was an xp

no i don't blame him he just ruined a good moment

i mean obv it's not a coincidence that hillary and obama were the ones who answered it presidentially.

i think the debate was a wash. hillary was best but only marginally, what a boring debate

republican debate was good TV, like some odd reality show

Richardson will be Obama's Secretary of Not Knowing Stuff

i'm still stunned by the collective muttering after gibson's debate joke

debate was good news for mccain for sure

maybe romney's worst showing during the whole race?

debate was good news for mccain for sure

^^^ This, especially if independents now vote for McCain.

hillary looks at least as hot tonight as she did in iowa

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/01/hillarys-debate.html

^^^this kind of shit makes me want to go all daria on a motherfucker

I think that will be an outlier opinion, but we'll see.

Stephanopolis just said that Edwards seemed the most energetic and vital, so maybe I'm way off-base.

He went for a jog!

Daniel I accidentally posted in tonight's ILNFL thread that i thought step was RONG in his analysis on both debates

idk if you saw it but he said thompson had a great night when he was basically inconsequential

Didn't see it. I generally like Step, tho.

yeah i don't think he's a bad dude by any means but he was off-base tonight

http://news.theage.com.au/edwards-rebukes-clinton-during-debate/20080106-1kd0.html

clinton says 'obama changes'. edwards says that now that things have changed, and he and obama are making changes, hillary has changed. hillary says: "I want to make change but I've already made change," she said. "I'm not just running on a promise of change - I'm running on 35 years of change."

we can spare some change.

yeah i don't think he's a bad dude by any means but he was off-base tonight

I think Step sometimes overcompensates for his role with the Clinton Admin. by being especially tough on the Clintons.

OK, I'm out, guys. I'm going to the White Room to get knockered.

Nite.

First paragraph OTM; Second paragraph off-base

from my local news:

"One candidate though decided to get some rest. Fred Thompson was taking the day off from campaigning."

Is Yglesias right in his assessment of the GOP debate? Generally, I think he's a pretty sharp commentator.

hillary's 35 year fight against the death penalty & nafta have made me proud to be an american.

Maybe I'm wrong about what will resonate from tonight's debate. Still, I stand by what I said above. But we'll see.

holy shit i just got to see McCain "change" zing on Romney.

zing: A-
McCain's shit eating grin: A++++++++

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/6965/thumbs/r-CLINTON-FUMES-AS-EDWARDS-TAKES-OBAMAS-SIDE-huge.jpg

who was it that said that o/ed were coming off like frat boys?

I want Gibson as moderator in every debate.

You mean Mr. "The-surge-is-working,-just-admit-it-you-cut-and-runners!"

McCain zing: http://youtube.com/watch?v=c6DR1Y3j_4k

Another zinger:

ROMNEY: I've been very firm about my position on the war.
HUCKABEE: Which one?

who was it that said that o/ed were coming off like frat boys?

Me. You disagree? (NP if you do; just curious).

I didn't see the debate, but in the image above they certainly look pretty chummy.

That Edwards/Obama photo isn't from tonight. It looks like they were on The Price is Right set!

dating game, morelike

it's a cheesy huffpo composite

They both jumped on HRC (tho it was the way they behaved that made them seem like frat boys). Still, when Edwards rejected HRC's overtures, and sided with Obama in attacking HRC, I felt like I was watching an old pro-wrestling skit (when a ''good guy'' suddendly kneecaps his friend and reveals himself to be in cahoots with the ''bad guys').

(I'm not saying Obama, Edwards and/or HRC are ''good guys'' or ''bad guys,'' btw; I'm just using shorthand to distinguish my hypothetical wrestling characters).

Given my dislike for HRC, those instances were the highlight of my night (even if I thought she actually gave a good performance). Within debate parameters, though, I thought Edwards kind of ran away with this one. If New Hampshirites were watching, it should probably give him a 3 to 5 point bump.