Quick Democrat Debate Recap

The Dems debated again tonight. The event was, well, most uneventful. However, near the end, Russert landed hard body blows on both Democrats-in and of itself the most atypical of MSNBC broadcasting techniques.

First, the Drama of Obama was asked about breaking his written promise to accept only public financing during the “general election” phase of the FEC cycle. The Drama dissembled with a degree of legerdemain previously found only in the lexicon of President Clinton. It was Obama’s single worst moment of the campaign. The most troubling aspect was the ease with which Obama lapsed into deceit and dissimilation-it undercuts much of the premise of his campaign.

As much as TRS is pulling for Evita to sufficiently close the race to get the Dems to a convention fight, sadly she was not to be out sleazed. When asked about her refusal to release her marital tax returns, particularly significant because so much of President Clinton’s income comes from Middle Eastern interests, Hillary’s deceit was ludicrous. In the end, she actually blamed President Bush (Dubya not Poppy) for the failure to release the documents because the current President has to authorize the release of Clinton era White House archives.

Aside from the complete lack of the relationship between the Clintons’ current tax returns and her White House archival documents, do even Democrats believe that George W. Bush is slowing the release of Hillary’s (and Bill’s for that matter) White House documents? Des Moines Dem, rf, Spotlight-are you with me on at least this one? I think the Bubba/Dubya/Poppy relationship is such that Bill could pick up the phone, dial the Oval Office (and I’m guessing Dubya takes the call) and ask brother George if he could declassify some archival papers for Hillary.

The funniest moment occurred when the genius, the smartest woman in the history of the United States, and quite possibly Western, if not world, civilization couldn’t name the hand picked successor of Vlad “the Impaler” Putin. After stumbling over several different versions of a name roughly similar to the correct answer, Hillary ultimately settled on “whatever“. Sorry Senator with 35 years experience, the correct answer was Dmitry Medvedev. The liberal press guffawed through the 2004 election over President Bush’s inability to recall the President of Pakistan’s name back in 2000. We’ll see how tonight’s Jeopardy gaffe is treated in the liberal press.

Wow, these guys could be flattened next November if we play our hand with aggression, innovation and the courage of our conservative convictions.