Another great Dem debate spectacle, tonight!

[William Thornton]

I look forward to these things even though there's not a man, woman, old guy, fake Native American, boss-from-heck that I'd vote for. But it's good to see the ten on stage together

Biden: Ol' side-eye himself. Can he run the long race without stumbling. Well, not so far. He's going to rehab Gerald Ford's reputation for bumbling and stumbling.

Booker: I'm not votin' for anyone whose always angry. That went for Ted Cruz and goes the same for Booker.

Buttigeg: Dude, stay away from the Bible. It cannot help you.

Castro: Pretty smooth guy. VP.

Harris: So far a nothingburger. Can't make a stand. What's her great vision?

Klobuchar: Has done well up to now. VP. Likable in public.

Beto: Why is this guy still in the race. He's a zero.

Bern: Get a haircut and pass the torch. Nothing new from last go-around when Hil stacked the deck.

Warren: Medicare for all. Math, please? Maybe free DNA tests for all.

Yang: He of the free cash for all. I'll take mine now, thank you, in the form of a tax credit.

...should be fun. Will stay up for the first half like I do for all football games that begin at 8 or so.

[Sandy]

[Joseph Patrick]

[William Thornton]

[Sandy]

Sorry, but these debates don't live up to the descriptive term "spectacle." They are a far cry from the hostility and animosity created on stage by an orange headed buffoon slinging verbal bombshells around like "Your brother's presidency was the worst one in our country's history and yours would be worse," and "I happen to know that your father was involved in the Kennedy Assassination," and "Doesn't your wife have some things to hide about her past?" That with the need for a whole hour of fact checking after each debate because of all the lies that were told made those 2016 Republican Party debates a true "spectacle." These Democratic debates are way too civil and the divisions don't create enough hostility to call them a "spectacle." In spite of that, they're getting hefty audiences for having so many candidates on the stage.

The field might not narrow too much more prior to the primaries. The money seems to be flowing pretty well into most of these campaigns, at least, for the ten that were on stage last week. Polling data puts Biden, Sanders and Warren in a higher category than the others, though there's still a large "undecided" group among potential Democratic primary voters. And the characterization of attracting voters by giving away "free stuff" doesn't wash, not to anyone who is paying attention and isn't an extremist right wing media commentator or former record playing disc-jockey.

[Haruo]

Whose father was involved in the Kennedy assassination? I'd forgotten that one.

[Sandy]