Democratic debate circus, part 2

[William Thornton]

Joe Biden; will be on his best behavior, no hair sniffing and stuff. Gaffe watch in effect.

Michael Bennet; has a plan for climate change. Not sure if the climate is paying attention to him. Mr. Nochance.

Pete Buttigieg; name pronunciation is his problem, not name recognition.

Kirsten Gillibrand; has a hard time sounding authoritative unless she has dropped her voice a couple of octaves.

Kamala Harris; Kick Butt Kamala; not sure how to pronounce her name either. Think she has done it a couple of ways.

John Hickenlooper; Absolutely no president of the United States named "Hickenlooper."

Bernie Sanders; Straight from Moscow, overshadowed by younger socialists.

Eric Swalwell; have no idea who this guy is

Marianne Williamson; who needs a crystal ball...just a few new age crystals; she may be unbeatable for the moonbeam vote.

Andrew Yang; not a clue on this guy
__________

Will do my best to stay up for this one, especially if the old white guys get testy with the others.

Election years can be fun, brethren.

[Dave Roberts]

And it's still over 200 days until the Iowa Caucuses.

[KeithE]

Kamala and Warren are the winners. Their firm, elegant responses were masterful. I have switch back to Kamala as my top pick as it stands tonight. But both were very good.

Marianne brought underlying truth of our political malaise. We have (1) a sickness industry not a health industry, and (2) love should win over fear were key, unique statements by her. But she is unlikely to survive and she shouldn’t due to lack of govt experience. Perhaps being a national chaplain would be fitting.

Overall, a lot of agreement on stage.

[Sandy]

[William Thornton]

Biden; from "Uncle Joe" to "Poor Uncle Joe"; looks feeble, frankly.

Michael Bennet; zzzz

Pete Buttigieg; reminds me of Marco Rubio, always composed and competent

Kirsten Gillibrand; thebincredible shrinking candidate; Madame Bromide.

Kamala Harris; Kick Butt Kamala...told ya; has a nice warm smile and is likable.

John Hickenlooper; Name is the most notable thing about him

Bernie Sanders; remimds me of the lovable family grouch; second acts don't work well.

Eric Swalwell; still have no idea who this guy is

Marianne Williamson; stick with Oprah; she has a cadaverous look, creepy. It's TV, looks matter.

Andrew Yang; my guy because of the no tie look; rich guy sounding competent
__________

Could only stand 30 minutes of this one.

Biden, Bern, Harris, Gillebrand, and Buttigieg make the cut. Biden on rep and Gillebrand hanging on by her toenails.

[Haruo]

[Haruo]

[Sandy]

William's comments and observations are not erudite by any stretch of the imagination. The "reality" of this election cycle is that 60% of the electorate will be more motivated than normal to turn out in November of 2020 to send Trump and Melania packing for their move back to Manhattan. So the distorters of truth will need to get used to the fact that one of the twenty individuals who appeared on the stage those two nights in Miami will be the next President of the United States.

The bonus for the Democrats is that their Republican opponents are against doing anything to benefit people, except, of course, the checkbooks of the wealthy. They are against everything related to the constitutional guarantee of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and if they are accidentally for something that benefits people, it's only because they need it for political purposes. The added bonus is that there wasn't a single person on that stage that is not superior to Trump in terms of either intelligence or morality, whether you evaluate the latter by secular or Christian standards.


https://www.nbcnews.com/card/almost-six ... ed-n936261

[David Flick]

[Haruo]

Per capita, it looks like the Japanese are far and away the most newspaper-addicted people in the world.

I'm hoping, David, that you don't think, ss one of your cited authorities seems to, that Sandy and I (and probably Keith and Tim) need to be destroyed over this stuff.

[David Flick]

[Sandy]

[David Flick]

[Sandy]

I did cite sources, two. Tells me you never really read the original post before you launched off on your tirade about newspapers in Japan. And when you're talking newspaper readership, print copies are no longer the measurement of a "newspaper's" influence. The Times is read and cited by over a hundred million readers a month, as documented by the Business Insider link I referenced in my previous post. Business Insider is not a partisan propaganda instrument like the sources you cite to "prove" the Times was in error. Newspapers are pretty much dinosaurs these days, as are cable news outlets. Far more people read their newspaper off their laptop or computer, or upload podcasts than watch television or pick up a printed copy of a newspaper. Your "evidence" is print copies.

You'll have to do better than extremist right wing sources to qualify as a credible source pointing out errors in the reporting in the Times. To date, you've posted nothing credible that is more than just someone's personal bias against the Times.


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-y ... 2019-02-06

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-new ... rs-2017-12

You'll have to go up a few posts to where these references were cited on the 29th. These links have expired.

[Stephen Fox]

Trump is the Disaster, the Elephant in every room.

Nitpicking the foibles of the Dems is a waste of Time. Bottom Line Biden is right, America may not survive another four more years of Trump and Mitch McConnell, the gravedigger of American democracy.

I had some important phone calls this morning.

Should have a blog out by early September. The legacy of FBC Spartanburg is in question, as Paul Weyrich looms large again, the crazy aunt in the attic, in abortion and race politics with FBC Spartanburg Truth for a New Generation Conferences the poster child.

And Eric Metaxas filled Ed Young's pulpit yesterday at 2nd Houston. Thornton should focus on the rot his friends Jerry Vines and Adrian Rogers helped foment, not on the foibles of the Dem Show.

I mean Willie Tee, how would you and me come across if we just got seven minutes to explain ourselves with ten others vying for attention and none of the 17 million or so viewers having read a book that mattered since high school.

[JE Pettibone]

[Sandy]

Should have ended after the second paragraph. At that point, it was all clear and reasonable.