a clown car full of millionaires: the 2016 presidential primary thread

Heeeeeere's Jimmy!

Q: What is your favorite dessert?

Webb: When I gave the man who shot at me at Vietnam his just desserts

That Webb "joke". My god.

Jesus, Webb is nuts.

I've decided that I'm going to be Sexy Lincoln Chafee for Halloween

Next debate they can just replace Webb with a chair. An angry, bitter chair.

Jesus this Webb dude

We know what happens to pols who boast of no scandals.

webb -> sam the eagle imo

holy shit at webb ahahahaha

Can you imagine how middle-of-the-road this debate would have been without Sanders in the race?

Who is your favorite Beatle?

Webb: The beetle that bit me in the thigh after I killed it when I was on a boat in the Mekong Delta.

Real Vietnam veterans just call it 'Nam. At least they do in the movies.

Getting sleeeeeeepy.

He's mentioned the clean energy grid by 2050 three times, but no one has bitten.

Never trust anyone under 30.

Real Vietnam veterans just call it 'Nam. At least they do in the movies.

"When I was in The Shit..."

Ramesh Ponnuru
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@RameshPonnuru

Awesome Webb answer on his greatest enemy. Puts a lot of political drama in perspective.

Hillary down with Chumbawumba.

Man, how can they do this debate again without just spinning wheels?

Bring in Biden.

Good god is this still going on

I never thought he was getting in, but the conventional wisdom will stop the chatter after tonight. HRC's donors ain't leaving her.

Hmm, is it too late for me to get in on this?
http://img.thesun.co.uk/aidemitlum/archive/01626/SNE2510X-_1626450a.jpg

called it! 3 shares and counting

http://i.imgur.com/VmNXIhd.jpg

i think someone said this wd be 2 hours

YOU LIE

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654109946490060800

To be fair, none of the candidates even bothered to address the jabroni threat.

the "the guy i killed after he fragged me" thing was nuts, but frankly i thought webb's "i once represented a black guy, really!" was the most cringeworthy moment.

did webb, in his answer to which enemy he's proudest of (anderson asks great questions), really mention the guy who shot him in vietnam, imply that he killed him, and then smile and laugh?

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that was insane

did webb, in his answer to which enemy he's proudest of (anderson asks great questions), really mention the guy who shot him in vietnam, imply that he killed him, and then smile and laugh?

yes, yes he did.

Now now, I don't think there's a candidate on that stage that would not have killed the man that threw a grenade at them in Vietnam.

https://vine.co/whatishenrydoing

:)

Jesse Ventura just intimated on The Nightly Show that through some complicated process he's going to enter the race next spring after he gets the Libertarian party nomination, tells them to fuck off and runs and wins as an independent. I think, anyway. It was hard to follow.

WE CANT STOP HERE, THIS IS BAT COUNTRY

http://i.imgur.com/6ihXum9.jpg

so i missed this whole thing. CNN's highlight reel is garbage, just cut-together out of context non-statements and stuff. i get the impression chafee and webb were marginalized but still got wayyyy more time than they probably deserved (versus a republican performing at a similar level). doesn't seem like anything life-changing happened.

Pretty good debate, though it mostly confirmed the obvious:
- Chafee is useless
- O'Malley, while standing right in the middle of the part of the party that pays attention this early, isn't much better
- Webb has some strengths they don't, but is a nut at the fringe of the party
- Sanders is the most rousing candidate, but only has one mode - us vs them - lacking in any other form of inspiration/uplift; he's a grimace without a smile
- Clinton, while not a perfect candidate, is clearly the best one - the most universal, prepared, commanding, and thoughtful

Will be very interesting to see where the polls go from here, including on the other side. My estimation is that Bernie picks up a good number of unfamiliars/undecideds, but that Hillary too picks up a good number of Bidens/undecideds, strengthening both candidates but making clear that she is the frontrunner. I think Webb might get a boomlet and don't rule out the possibility that O'Malley could too, but my guess is the latter's candidacy ended tonight if it ever began.

Winner: the Democratic Party

/America

Absent from the stage: anyone of color.

Most significant event in the second half of this week: Julian Castro endorses Clinton at rally in San Antonio Thursday.

h8 the bern

martin o'malley looks like he's going to kill himself

like a sad, sad child

webb:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8HMX2B5pOs4/S_SqWK6Ep6I/AAAAAAAAAkQ/jRDqLeki0m4/s1600/sledgehammer4.jpg

it's not a tuomas (benbbag)
Posted: October 14, 2015 at 12:28:01 AM
Absent from the stage: anyone of color

Didn't want to take the time to make that stupid wonka meme for this I guess

Btw some might say that the biggest gaffe of the night might be Clinton saying that one of her proudest enemies is "Iranians" but I assume the defense is that she doesn't think that term refers to a group of people.

Oh wait but maybe she

Hmmm

It's common political lingo, but it's still straight up racist. Awful thing to say, but I'd be surprised if it hurts her.