Democratic blab fest

Arrested for sexually caressing teens feet,
foot fetishist previously stole panties.
His wife said he likes to smell socks.

They didn't touch her. Didn't even make a dent. I'm not a big fan of Hillary's but I think the much advertised attacks on her by Obama and Edwards didn't amount to much. They brought up again her vote on the Lieberman/Kyl proposal but she, again, answered with her interpretation of it and no progress was made on that score. Toward the end she kind of waffled on whether or not she supported giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants but even there she made perfect sense, saying she thought it was a good idea but didn't say she supported it (so it was unclear). But she asked what Spitzer was supposed to do, have thousands of drivers driving with no licenses. Dodd was the only one who came right out against the idea (with an argument that was really pretty feeble - a drivers license is a priviledge so why give illegals a priviledge). This would seem to indicate a certain oblivion to a real problem. Edwards probably made a bigger case against her but it seemed to just bounce off her like the proverbial water off a duck's back. I have to admit once again that in general I thought Hillary's performance was far superior to the rest. Actually, I thought the best moment of the night was when Biden came right out and said very emphatically that Giuliani was just not qualified to be President. Mike Gravel wasn't there. I guess they wouldn't let him participate. Democracy at work. Of course they had to get a laugh at Kucinich's expense at the end when they asked him about seeing a UFO and of course linked him with Shirley McClaine (well known flake).

I had to turn off the comments by the newsmen at the end because it seemed to me they had not actually seen the same program I did. Of course they tried to make a big deal of anything that even remotely seemed to be a dig at Hillary. But Hillary did fine as usual, kept her cool, made perfectly sensible answers, demonstrated once again that she is well versed on the issues, and in general was pretty much untouched. It wasn't much but compared to the last Republican babbleothon it was pretty good. I do wish these high-powered newspeople would learn to ask decent questions that one might reasonably expect the candidates to answer. Tim Russert is particularly guilty of this. For example, he asks if they will commit to saying that they will not allow Iran to have a nuclear bomb. All of them said they would do their best to prevent it - what in the world could anyone expect them to say to such an absurd question. The same with the question about Spitzer's drivers license question - do you support it (as if it were already set in stone and there could not be an question about it). Dumb questions. And of course Chris Matthews was his usual obnoxious self, constantly talking over everyone else and forcing everyone to talk at once. He is the worst interviewer I've ever seen (except, perhaps, Tucker Carlson who is little more than a blatant partisan).

LKBIQ:
"It's a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter"
Satchel Paige