skippy the bush kangaroo

Thursday, April 26, 2007

master debaters still

we missed the debate tonight (skippy was busy taking mrs. skippy to ballroom dancing lessons...there will be other debates; there is only one mrs. skippy).

luckily others in blogtopia and yes, we coined that phrase, happened to watch:

crooks&liars has obama v. kucinich v. gravel on the subject of iran;

booman has this open debate thread;

mydd has this open thread, and this one, and this post-debate thread;

here's pam's house blend's open thread;

the moderate voice found it unexciting;

digby points out that the majority of the moderators on msnbc were republicans tut-tutting the dems' policies;

and here's hillaryclinton.com's transcript of their liveblogging of the debate.

addendum: scarecrow at fdl chimes in:

the democratic presidential candidates held their first debate last night, and you can watch the video at msnbc. i later watched the msnbc crew show “highlights” and interview the candidates or their spokespeople. (obama’s guy was personable; wolfson came off, again, as arrogant and evasive — haven’t we had enough of that the last six years?) the initial reactions were subdued, trying to give credit to all the candidates, but by 10:30 p.m. (edt), the msnbc crew had unanimously concluded that hillary clinton did very well, coming off as “presidential,” and pat buchanan even compared her to ronald reagan, which i think he thought was a compliment! others did less well, according to this crew. i was surprised/relieved that hillary seemed less scripted than usual, and others more so, or just unprepared. here are media reactions from reuters, the new york times and the washington post’s chris cillizza. fdlers were live blogging on emptywheel’s thread last night.

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