Class is out and now I would like to talk about the Dem debate of last night……..
Yes, I like Bernie…I will get that out of the way first off…..last night was one of the few Dem debates…..now before I write about the debate itself let me ask…..who’s brilliant idea was it to have the debate in the middle of the NFL playoff? Since the criteria and schedule were approved by the DNC….who would plan for a debate that would have few watchers? All fingers point to Wasserman-Schultz….a rabid Clinton supporter….if that is the case she should be shot for being in the bag for Hillary….and not working for ALL Dems……
With that said let’s move on to the debate…….personally I wanted to see how it was handled by the candidates and let me say I was pleasantly surprised…..
The last Democratic debate before Iowa and New Hampshire vote took place Sunday night in South Carolina—and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were taking no prisoners. The pair clashed over and over again throughout the debate, while Martin O’Malley failed to make much of an impact. Here’s what analysts are saying about the candidates:
- Bernie Sanders. It’s not unanimous, but a lot of people are calling Sanders the winner. He was more aggressive than usual in dealing with Clinton and “positioned himself as the anti-status-quo candidate, a very good position to have in this electoral environment,” writes Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post, praising the “passion and disruption that Sanders oozed from every pore.” The senator from Vermont was at his best during the debate’s first hour, where he dominated the discussion and was judged the winner by 29 out of 30 undecided voters in a Democratic focus group, Politico reports.
- Hillary Clinton. Clinton—faced with Sanders’ “louder and bolder” vision—offered “aggressive lessons on political practicality,” trying to portray herself as the more pragmatic and electable candidate, writes Rick Klein at ABC. She scored points by attacking Sanders’ changing positions on guns and taxes, “but was not seen as dealing any decisive blow” writes Allen Rappeport at the New York Times. Isaac Chotiner at Slate, however, declares her the winner, praising her ability to bring Sanders “to earth and seem like just another politician.” Politico’s Glenn Thrush notes that she also scored point by hugging Obama “so hard he needs new ribs.”
- Martin O’Malley. The former Maryland governor “was most notable for his unsuccessful efforts to get a word in,” according to Rappeport, though Cillizza notes that he managed to come across as likable .”He did well in an impossible situation,” he writes.
In my mind Bernie was spot on and did not back down….Hillary looked like a well oiled machine (not a compliment)……O’Malley needs to bow out…..it is not his year……
So far I have seen or heard nothing that would lessen my support for Bernie……
Feel The Bern!
What say we hold an election, and nobody wins!
We might get a break for four years….
“The people never suffer so much as when Congress (government) is in session.” — Will Rogers..
It couldn’t be any worse, that’s for sure and for certain….
gigoid
I would vote for that…LOL chuq
I can think of worse comments than a well oiled machine…..
‘we came …we saw…she died’……
Hope the FBI ?…….smoke the ***** out! Two Smoking Guns: FBI on Hillary’s Case http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43947.htm#.VpzuJZtwo2B.twitter …
Yes!
🙂
Hey gigoid…ya gonna vote for a change?
grin and support Bernie?
I always vote in national elections, if only to vote against someone… or, to write in one of the few persons capable of doing it, all of whom happen to not want the job….
😉
After last night, I still feel the Bern! dru
That is great…..he does have a command of issues at least in my mind….chuq
No 2016 until 2016! Er…..
Okay, so I guess it’s okay for me to start paying attention now that it’s 2016. Unfortunately, that means I’m going to have to listen to all this bullshit for almost an entire year. This thing goes on longer than a Greek financial crisis!
And it is as boring as a Russian novel…..sadly it is a slow motion train wreck and I cannot look away…LOL
This is why it pays off to completely ignore it until about now. Doing so cuts an entire year out of the train wreck. And it’s the most useless year in this silly marathon. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING is achieved beyond compiling the list of horses who will enter the Starting Gate. Even then, Iowa & New Hampshire only provide about 1% of the delegates to the conventions. So even if you miss them, the statistical reality is that you still haven’t missed much. The pre-game hype is a total skull fuck that means nothing. Yet we usually pay more attention to it that the actual race itself.
Unfortunately, no matter how unhealthy it is for society, politics is considered a (blood) sport. Unfortunately, like most sports, it’s become more & more about talking and less about the action. And the talk itself is also increasingly less professional and more minstrel show.
Since the mega-corporations that own the news now consider news just another part of their entertainment division, it all boils down to supply & demand. If more people refuse to watch the pre-game hype show, then demand would fall. After trying stunts to get ratings (ie special guest stars like Trump) they’d cancel the show and move onto something else they think the chimps at home will watch. (I’d like to see Bowling For Dollars make a comeback.)
As it stands, for an entire year we’re essentially watching a show where overpaid morons stare into a crystal ball and make shit up. They predict the future with 100% certainty and a 100% amnesia rate when said future doesn’t even come close to materializing.
(Note to self: I need to find the paper where I wrote down my dice-roll-determined picks of who would make it to Iowa. I think my Democrat picks where 100% accurate, but with 75 Republicans, I just can’t remember.)
For me the train wreck is just fodder for my thoughts…..I enjoy seeing just how far these toads will go in their lies to influence the mental midgets that listen to them…..makes the movie “Idiocracy” a very prophetic piece of work……just a matter of time before the US is that nation from the movie…….chuq
I like trains far too much to watch them wreck. I also don’t enjoy seeing democracy wrecked. And I certainly don’t want to risk being turned into one of those “mental midgets” who get sucked into this distracting Dog & Pony show and start thinking that it means anything, when it doesn’t. I prefer to wait until something actually starts happening before I tune in. Weird, I know. But that’s just me.
As I said, I’d much rather watch Bowling For Dollars. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a clip of the show featuring a bowler from the (very real) Loyal Order Of Water Buffaloes. Yes, this outfit was modelled after the famous Flintstones men’s club. Clubs were at a few Canuckistan universities from the 70’s to the 90’s. During that time, a major regional TV station ran The Flintstones every day. The Water Buffaloes got together and watched the show (while presumably drunk and/or stoned).
At one point, they got the bright idea of going on Bowling For Dollars. They actually bowled with those big-ass Water Buffalo hats on (while presumably drunk and/or stoned)! They were regular participants and tended to ham it up for the show. If I recall, they were eventually banned from the channel.
So, no Buffaloes, but at least I found a clip with “The Count”. (I assume the nickname was derived from a recurring SCTV character)….Oh, and the Canadian shows used the standard Canadian 5-bin bowling format!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbIR36sPCv0
Now which would you rather watch, The Count bowl for dollars…or Ben Carson troll for dollars?
I like sex more than bowling….the balls are lighter and I do not have to change shoes…..sorry it is early….chuq
I didn’t say the choice was between bowling and having sex with Ben Carson. I said it was between watching Bowling for Dollars and watching Ben Carson trolling for dollars No sex involved, you dirty old man.
But if you want to drag me into….the gutter….(rim-shot please!)…The balls are lighter in sex? Speak for yourself!!! For me, it’s about equal. If I’m 5-pin bowling, it’s no contest.
But this does give me a half-decent excuse to post a video (one day, I’ll learn how to just post links) of my runner-up choice of 70’s bowling videos. Because this one has an -um- “innocent, nostalgic, sexuality” about it. (Yeah, I’ll have to go with that.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biufiMvx1VE
I’ve got to stop myself before I go down the black hole of nostalgia.
Have a beer…I was making a joke only….Marsha, Marsha, Marsha……Celebrity Bowling? I am old but I never watched that….never that bored….LOL
You’ve been watching Ben Carson for an entire year now…and you STILL claim you haven’t been bored enough to watch half an hour of the Brady Girls bowl…without wearing bras? Or, are you just saying that because you don’t want to sound like some creepy old pervert? 🙂
Me? I’d be much more comfortable being known as a “creepy perv” than somebody who spent a year listening to these buffoons before I actually had to. Hell, I’ve spent the last few days digging up and watching cheesy 70’s bowling shows in their entirety rather than break my self-imposed 2016 exile. And it’s expired now!
I prefer red heads…..even floppy boobs cannot make bowl interesting….kinda like golf and fishing on TV…..rather listen to a soft spoken moron….at least that is fodder….chuq
I’ve read the link to that head shaking website of Libertarian “thought”. I will address the laughable, sociopathic, content here later. But I’m currently working on a sarcastic response I will post there…..a response they will probably NOT recognize as sarcasm, no matter how easy I make it for them.
From what little I saw, they seem like the kind of folk who masturbate while reading The Fountainhead while sitting in front of a mirror.
Masturbating at the keyboard type of thing? While eating Doritos?
Oh shit!!!!!!! That comment was supposed to go under the “Let’s all cheer” Canadian farmer topic…I have no idea how that happened. (presumably drunk and/or high)
Maybe a brain fart? LOL