My take on last night. It's different than the opinions i've

Posted on: February 20, 2020 at 10:58:32 CT

heard from the punditocracy.

First, all of them actually looked like they were alive. Biden less than the others. But they were combative, they were aggressive and they were not afraid to call a spade a spade.

Good for them.

I watched almost all of it. Switched a few times to catch small parts of Virginia Tech's latest debacle on the hardwood. Probably saw 90% of it. Did not watch the summations.

First, everyone said bloomstein got killed. I disagree. He took a lot of hits. He got attacked by everyone on the stage. He was the big dog, being attacked by the suddenly fierce little puppies.

He has a presence about him. He is used to being in charge of lots of people and big organizations. The gay guy was mayor of a failing little town in indiana, the rest were essentially career politicians who were better pandering, prevaricating, parsing, posing and posturing than they were at taking decisive action on anything. Compare his presence to amy klobachar. Or joe biden.

Or any of them.

I said y'day that bloommeister has more baggage than samsonite. He is an easy target and the shots on him were fierce but fair. But i think he can withstand them unless he just decides that these idiots aren't worth saving.

He is the only one in that clown show that i can see in the oval office. I don't like him, he is sleazy and has bad ideas on lots of things, but he is bigger than the rest of them. He is gulliver, the rest are lilliputins.

Most people disagree, that's just my opinion.

Of the rest:

Klobachar revealed herself. She is out of her depth. I said last night that she petulantly played the vagina card on the gay guy. "Are you calling me stupid? Do you think i'm too dumb to be president?"

The correct answer to that thinly veiled "I am woman" question is: Yes.

Biden was able to occasionally tap into his diminishing reservoir of energy and passion but for the most part he looked like he was making a hostage video. He looked bad physically and while more lucid than we've seen, was still, joe biden.

Thin Lizzie is friggin nuts. I said y'day that she could be beto orourk's mother. That might explain his genes. And his jeans. But she was better y'day than usual. Aggressive, confident and passionate. But still friggin nuts.

The gay guy, vanilla obama was very good. As usual. Very good at sounding learned, articulate, erudite. educated, and informed. But like the black marxist, the vanilla obama says very little beyond "hope and change" or whatever today's bumper sticker is. Klobachar said it correctly when she lost her cool and said to the unflappable and very dignified gay guy, that he memorized talking points and that's about all. Klobachar's best moment, but she seemed to regret saying it.
Like she broke a rule or something. He is pretending to be a moderate. He is not. Obama pretended to be a moderate. He is a marxist. Vanilla obama is taking a page from the "how to deceive the masses with vague, non specific high sounding phrases so they won't know you're a radical socialist" book.

Bernice Anders remains true. I give him credit for properly identifying what he is. He's a socialist, and that has now been called into question. But he does not waiver. He does not defend socialism very passionately of convincingly, because that may necessitate more discussion on exactly what he wants to do, but he does not back away, either. Early on, he seemed red faced in anger or at least the heat of the moment. Looked like a heart attack coming down the tracks.

Again, blumbaum may have had a bad night according to the pundits and he took more solid blows than wild bill clinton at a white house intern party, but there is no one else who imo, could share a stage with trump and not be reduced to rubble in three minutes.

And um, he's a successful businessman. He has run things. He has hired people. He built something. He had to do well or he would have lost his money. He did well.

The rest of the guys pushed this button to vote YES and this button to vote NO.

The moderators were pretty good. Best of the season. Real questions.

The mexican was a total dish. Hard to understand what she was saying but that's ok.

There was a point where klobuchar admitted not knowing the prez of mexico and it was like she had shlt on the sidewalk in san francisco. No wait, like she shoplifted something in california, no wait like she didn't know who the president of mexico was.

MYGOD.

Really, who cares? Mexico is a corrupt narcodemocracy. They are our neighbor, they are not our friend.

And do the campaigns for prez in mexico require their candidates to know about the united states? Other than the fact that we are evil racists, blahblahblah.

Edited by hokie at 11:07:06 on 02/20/20