Democratic Debates

[kylejack]

On CNN in a few minutes, if you want to get a feel for the format Ron Paul will be facing.

[DjLoTi]

I'll be watching.

[Korey Kaczynski]

So far it looks like they're giving more attention to the "frontrunners" :(.

[Melchior]

Hillary Clinton said all the Republicans support the war... well we know she's wrong.

[zMtLlC]

Hillary Clinton said all the Republicans support the war... well we know she's wrong.

I saw that too. Richardson won't answer the question.

[Korey Kaczynski]

So far, the winner by far is Kuchinich.

[Korey Kaczynski]

I like Gravel as a person, but he rambles a little bit and it detracts a lot from his clarity.

[ThePieSwindler]

Id rather it be Obama over HIllary in the primaries if for no other reason than i cant STAND her voice. Christ.

[BuddyRey]

I like Gravel as a person, but he rambles a little bit and it detracts a lot from his clarity.

Agreed, but I think he's stumbling over himself because he has so much to say in so little time. CNN's not being very fair to him.

[zMtLlC]

Did anyone notice how Gravel talked about Vietnam in relation to leaving Iraq basically taking that point from Paul?

[Korey Kaczynski]

Gravel got a nice sound bite in.

[hambone1982]

Kuchinich looks like the clear winner to me so far. He's being honest, making sense and he looks much more "Presidential" as compared to the rest of the candidates on the stage.

[mdh]

Gravel is the Ron Paul of the Democrats. He's got a lot of socialist ideas compared to Dr. Paul, and otherwise has some different views, but he's very much like Dr. Paul in that he's alone on that stage, the only one who won't BS and lie.
Right off the bat, Hillary lied the first chance she got to speak by saying that every one of the Republicans who will be at the debate this week support and voted for the war in Iraq! We all know that's totally bogus, but she just said it.

[wwycher]

I like the camera angles where you can see the other candidates. Man, what a bunch of socialists.

[akalucas]

anybody notice how Edwards is kissing up to Obama. I think he wants to be his VP.

[wwycher]

Yes, we are all stupid and we need you guys to take care of us.
Help us take back the Republic Dr. Paul.

[wwycher]

If Hillary becomes president, do you think she will use one of her interns to get back at Billy? Mmmm....

[MsDoodahs]

I have trouble watching them. It's making me feel like I need to scrub down the livingroom and take a shower.

:eek:

[rg123]

I did notice that Obama was taking pieces of Ron's foreign policy. They all tried to grab some of his Brillant thinking. But in the end they are all pandering for the illegal alien vote by pushing forgein language ballots. Problem is if you are a citizen and my wife became a citizen you have to be able to speak english. So their is no reason for the ballots to be in foreign languages other than to have illegal's vote They look for money when the government spends millions in foreign languages. The dem's are all about Socialism and the NAU not liberty or following the constitution. ITS REALLY HARD TO WATCH

[Korey Kaczynski]

Yeah, Kuchinich just got a nice applause. He's doing the best by far.

[AlexAmore]

I hope Ron Paul gets more time than the 2nd tier Dems are getting now.

[Teflon Master]

Gov. Richardson debates like a n00b

[rg123]

I think they don't let Kuchinich speak at all

[Korey Kaczynski]

What a stupid question, but Hillary seemed to really enjoy Gravel's response.

[BuddyRey]

How would I use Bill Clinton in my Administration?

As a paperweight.

[akalucas]

Is CNN going to provide a poll after the debate?

[singapore_sling]

Im watching this right now... all of these candidates are horrible. I haven't heard anything about how we're going to erase our huge deficit other than "get rid of bush's tax cuts for the 200k + crowd".

[ckg242]

re: Bill Clinton question

WTF? If Hillary wasn't involved, they wouldn't even ask such an asinine question. How is Bill Clinton a relevant issue?

[MsDoodahs]

Is it me, or are the candidates getting more time to answer the questions this time?

[xcalybur]

That was funny. Hilary just stated Ron Pauls stance on our place in the world. She said that we should be friends with other nations. Looks like the Dems are trying to beat the drum of Ron Paul.

[theblatanttruth]

Is it me, or are the candidates getting more time to answer the questions this time?

That's because Blitzer is a pu**y

[MsDoodahs]

Man, their base must be as dumb as posts if going after refiners and upping CAFE standards appeal...

[Kandilynn]

I can't wait until Ron Paul gets to debate these guys.

[rg123]

I cannot take Richardson he doesn't shut up and they never ask Kun. any questions real biased debate hate too see what they are going to do to Ron

[zMtLlC]

Kucinich and Biden are doing really well. Richardson and Dodd have not answered questions.

[wwycher]

Was not Bill the one that made it a priority to get Saddam out?

[wwycher]

Richardson is a crook.

[rg123]

I seen that xcal they are copying Ron's foreign Policy.

[MsDoodahs]

Anyone else notice Edwards sudden respect for states rights when they asked him about gay marriage?

[Razmear]

It looks like the positioning of the candidates on the stage is showing CNN's bias of who is a contender and who is not, with Gravel and Kuchinich at the far ends and Edwards/Clinton/Obama front and center.
It will be interesting to see where they put Ron on the stage for the Republican debate.
Also, they do seem to be ignoring Kuchinich, on the gas price question he was practically jumping up and down with his hand raised looking to answer the question, but instead they let Richardson spout off for about 3 minutes before the break.

Winner so far, thinking like a dem, (yeah it kinda hurts) is Edwards.

eb

[ThePieSwindler]

Anyone else notice Edwards sudden respect for states rights when they asked him about gay marriage?

I picked that up right away. It startled me. Id like to think that these guys are taking a page out of the Ron Paul playbook, what with edwards talking about states right, clinton talking about making friends with nations, etc. If nothing else, hopefully Paul's presence and popularity is changing the thoughts of some of the "major players" on both sides, even though if elected they would undoubtedly change their position to suit the situation.

[TruePatriot44]

This debate is pretty worthless.

However, John Stewart will have some nice sound bites about "gays being discharged" along with being gay or straight on what "hole" your in.

[wwycher]

This debate is pretty worthless.

However, John Stewart will have some nice sound bites about "gays being discharged" along with being gay or straight on what "hole" your in.

I agree. I'm gonna go read a book.

[rg123]

Richardson is a crook.

I think that Richardson has his hand in that ongoing trail where the chinese were
stealing Military secerets haven't really researched it been kinda busy pluggin Ron
but I read some where when he was sent to Korea for a month a couple of months ago he was seen with some of the company members who were involved
with recieving the military secrets and owns some business companies that has ties with them

[rg123]

Wow a question based on Ron's theory of VA healthcare I hate the media

[angelatc]

Hey! That "veterans should be able to get health care anywhere" thing is Ron Paul's idea!

[wwycher]

I will have to check richardson out. I saw him on meet the press and heard the story about a mother of an Iraq war vet who died and her letter to Richardson, telling him to stop using her son's name and hers as well. He would not fess up to lying about conversations he never had with this woman. He was saying that she had thanked him for the benefits she was receiving.

[wwycher]

He just sat there hem hawed about something. Like" We are just so thankful blah,blah, blah." Scum.

[akalucas]

Hillary just said Russia "had missiles pointed at us" point of view just like Ron Paul.

[wwycher]

Hey! That "veterans should be able to get health care anywhere" thing is Ron Paul's idea!

There's nothin' socialist about that!

[MsDoodahs]

lol, y'all - it just struck me that the dems copying RP (and getting applause every time they do) is going to piss off the GOP neocon candidates even more!

[akalucas]

lol, y'all - it just struck me that the dems copying RP (and getting applause every time they do) is going to piss off the GOP neocon candidates even more!

True, but they're going to point out how he is in the wrong party and that he sounds like democrat. Hopefully they ask questions in the republican debate that will help him distinguish himself from the Democrats.

[MsDoodahs]

Ah, I didn't catch it at the time but yes indeed that was a nice swipe at him.

[angelatc]

I'm wondering when Bill CLinton fired missles to try to take Osama Bin Laden out.

[ckg242]

I'm wondering when Bill CLinton fired missles to try to take Osama Bin Laden out.

You know. When he bombed the aspirin factory.

[TruePatriot44]

I'm wondering when Bill CLinton fired missles to try to take Osama Bin Laden out.

I think it was after the embassy bombings, he bombed some camp in afghanistan.

[MsDoodahs]

Edwards just said he wants the US to educate children worldwide? Did I hear that right or not?

And Obama ...did he just say that we have a national security interest in Dafur?

I'm not clear on what the US national security interest is in Darfur?

[RPR-omaha]

Clinton bombed a plant in Sudan that was supposedly making nerve gas for UBL. Most people believe this was bad intelligence. He also bombed a terrorist camp in Afghanistan.

[RonPaul4President]

So far, the winner by far is Kuchinich.

Agreed. Dodd lost me when he said "this is a global economy". IMO, they all seem to be pretty ignorant of the big picture. Barrack Obama is too robotic, too smooth, and the waving of the hand thing really gets on my nerves. John Edwards had a hair out of place so he's out. Hillary is a windbag. That guy on the left seems like he going to pull out a gun any second. Go Democrats! :D

[angelatc]

Mandatory public service for high school grads would be a violation of our Constitutional rights. One year of public service in exchange for a college degree? Cha-ching.

[TruePatriot44]

Wow, Edwards just said he doesn't know what a rich person is. Rather ironic.

[angelatc]

College is too expensive, yet they're turning customers away at the door.

Got it.

[MsDoodahs]

Obama defines rich as those making over 250K annually. Edwards defines it as those making over 200K annually.

I thought the audience chilled a bit at that point...

Also, why are only the big 3 getting questions from the audience? Wolf has asked Gravel and Kucinich questions...no audience questions.

[angelatc]

I wish they would give each participant the same number of questions, regardless of where the question comes from.

[rg123]

How dare chriss dodd say to save everyones constitutional rights copy cat
Chris Dodd couldn't lace Ron's shoes

[angelatc]

Restoring Constitutional Rights got applause.

[Teflon Master]

This is EXACTLY what Ron should do. Kucinich and Gravel just bitchslapped the top 3 and they went on the offensive and straight up called them out. I hope we see some serious boost in their numbers.

[angelatc]

I wonder what blogs they are going to monitor for the post-debate commentary?

[ckg242]

I really hope they ditch the audio tech before the next debate.

[DXDoug]

Lol right the sound tech is smoking something in the back . I Just heard anderson cooper saying Hey whats up to some one. while they were interveiwing edwards wife.

[Gee]

Socializing 14% of our economy without significant increases in taxes? Uh, yeah. :o

[kylejack]

It happened around the Monica thing and some saw it as diversionary.

[angelatc]

Is anybody else watching it on CNN.com's pipeline? I would desperately love to see some of the techsavvier of us capture all 4 of those feeds. Watching the reactions from the New Hampshire participants appeals to me. They're reading comments from Pipelines "Your Voice" but I'll be darned if I can find that section. We should be sure we have that staffed for the Republican debate.

[coplinger]

I thought Hillary had the most ludicrous remark of the night when she said that we 'did our job' in Iraq & that the current situation there is the Iraqis fault!!
What a crock of s#@t!!

I loved how Gravel called Hillary on stealing from Social Security to 'balance the budget'. That may be the first time that has been said on national TV.

I did like Hillary's line about sending Cheney to do diplomacy, though.:D

[UtahApocalypse]

It scares me that I once was voting as a democrat. These people are just as bad as Bush & Co. The only ones that had any sense (and still not much) were Gravel, and K.

[rg123]

but unfortunatly wolfie did not ask Hillary what do you have to say about using the people's ss to balance the budget and he wanted to shut Gravel up the whole debate was totally biased to richardson who cannot shut up and the other so called front runners and every single one of them stole a line from Ron the only man qualified to be the POTUS

[rg123]

NOW THEY ARE ALL SAYING IT WAS HILLARY'S NIGHT THEY JUST CANNOT WAIT TO IMPLEMENT THE NAU SRY CPS :eek:

[zMtLlC]

Wow, two of these people said they liked Bill Richardson. They must like avoiding questions and bumbling idiots.

[NMCB3]

I`m glad I didn`t watch it, it sounds like your IQ gets lowered several points by doing so. I would not watch the Republicans either if Ron Paul were not involved.

[CurtisLow]

CNN
A lot of time giving attention to the "frontrunner's"
Pre-scripted questions to help a candidate and dumb questions for the non frontrunner's.
Moderator:
Lets frontrunner's speak when it's not there turn but the non frontrunner's he cuts them off. Never lets a non front runner go beyond he's time limit.

In our debate this tuesday I will time each candidate on there time given.
It is my understanding the each candidate pays like $25k apiece and should get equal time to a degree.

Kuchinich looks like the clear winner to me!

[dwdollar]

How fake and obnoxious can Hillary's laughter be? That's my question.

[DjLoTi]

84 replies with 1,500 views. That is definitely not spam, ppl :-)

1,500 diggs in 1 day is instantly to the top of the list.

How you like that, ppl ?


Ron Paul is Coming, I think we all can't wait and are excited..... yeahhhh!!!!!!

[Give me liberty]

Did anyone see that old lady sitthing with a smile agreeing with Hillary?
I hope ron paul would impresse those people sitting this tuesday.

[Bossobass]

When they asked Hillary what she would have for Bill to do in her Administration, I was praying she would say...

"Eunuch".

Bosso

[SeanEdwards]

Edwards just said he wants the US to educate children worldwide? Did I hear that right or not?

And Obama ...did he just say that we have a national security interest in Dafur?

I'm not clear on what the US national security interest is in Darfur?


I heard that stuff too, and my jaw about hit the floor. These guys are just freaking clueless. New Orleans washed away. Recent reports indicate EVERY U.S. household owes $500,000 for the national debt, and these pandering assclowns can't wait to spend MORE money that we don't have. And they want US troops back in Africa getting their corpses defiled, again?!?! :eek:

[drinkbleach]

CNN
A lot of time giving attention to the "frontrunner's"
Pre-scripted questions to help a candidate and dumb questions for the non frontrunner's.
Moderator:
Lets frontrunner's speak when it's not there turn but the non frontrunner's he cuts them off. Never lets a non front runner go beyond he's time limit.

In our debate this tuesday I will time each candidate on there time given.
It is my understanding the each candidate pays like $25k apiece and should get equal time to a degree.

Kuchinich looks like the clear winner to me!
What? The candidates have to pay?

[kylejack]

What? The candidates have to pay?

Not exactly. Ron Paul had to pay $25K to get registered as a candidate in South Carolina to be able to participate in the last debate, because South Carolina's ballot access laws are lame.

[CurtisLow]

Not exactly. Ron Paul had to pay $25K to get registered as a candidate in South Carolina to be able to participate in the last debate, because South Carolina's ballot access laws are lame.


Ok my bad.. I thought they payed $25k each time. Yeah that's a suk law. No poor people running for office in SC, thats for sure.