2nd Democratic Debate...

[David Flick]

[Haruo]

I think it might be more fun if they all did one-on-ones all around the circle, Lincoln-Douglas style.

[William Thornton]

Beto = zero

Gillebrand, another huge disappointment; I was reluctant to conclude she was a lightweight. She convinced me.

Castro, pretty smooth. Reminds me of Rubio.

Biden, actually has a pulse after all.

Harris, finally put a concrete proposal out on health care. Couldn't defend it.

DeB, go back to NY.

Booker, can do snide well.

Bennet, very weak at gestures with that wimpy hand chop.

Inslee, sounds like everything's perfect in WA. Haruo should have told us.

Gabbard, always smooth. Didn't seem to shine.

There was another guy, right? Didn't register with me.

This will be great fun when we get to the power five or so.

[Dave Roberts]

I'm not ready to invest time in hearing this many candidates--two nights of them. When the field begins to thin, then it will matter. Too bad I am in a state where the primary is so late as to be largely meaningless. Last time, there were three or four on the ballot who had long since quit the race.

[Sandy]

I watched both of them, didn't get to see all of the first night but watched the whole thing last night. Our primary is in March, so there may still be several candidates to choose from at that point, though I think the field will get down to less than ten before too much longer. There's not a person who has appeared on the stage the past two nights who won't give Trump fits in a head to head debate. It's worth watching, since one of those twenty people will be taking office in January 2021.

And the news keeps getting more encouraging.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administra ... -reelected

[William Thornton]

Old friend Sandy, bankrupted by a big bet on hil, hopes to recover in 2020. We'll e.

[Haruo]

If 90% of the voters in the five most populous states vote for candidate A, and 51% of the voters in the other 45 states vote for candidate B, who wins? Not the United States of America. And if the 51% would have been 49% if it hadn't been for the registered voters who stayed home rather than vote for A because of their age, gender, color, or position on some particular issue, then whom should we execute?

[Tim Bonney]

I’ll watch the debates when the crowd thins. (By the way, as so many Democrats are running for the Presidency, I want to announce that I will not be a candidate for President in 2020 though my dog Luke is considering running under an anti-mailman platform in which the postal service would finally be eliminated so that those scary mail deliverers stop coming on our porch without his permission.)

[KeithE]

[Tim Bonney]

Oh Lordy, Flick s going to suck us into another Global Climate Change debate. Shall we also start a thread for the Flat Earth Society? They have members around the globe. <VBG>

[Joseph Patrick]

[Haruo]

I think evidence of human involvement in/culpability for global warming and/or climate change would run up against David's entrenched economic/financial preconceptions, and the latter would win, at least for a few more years, probably long enough for most of us to be watching the eternal replays.

[Sandy]

[David Flick]

[Tim Bonney]

[Joseph Patrick]

[Tim Bonney]

[KeithE]

[Haruo]

What happened to reforestation?

[KeithE]