AFL-CIO Democratic Debate

Why not start off with a democratic labor union organizations debate when it's on a middle class white boy blog and the democrats are going to win the election anyway? Exactly. If I had to rank them all tonight:

Barack takes the number one spot
John Edwards stayed in the same place - second
Begrudgingly, Hillary handled herself successfully to third
Dennis Kucinich (Who?) moved way up to number four
Joe Biden gets fifth because he's mediocre
Bill Richardson stays in spot six so that...
Christopher Dodd can be in last place where he belongs

Dennis Kucinich surprised me by clearly being the working class candidate. Despite the fact that .7% of Americans know who he is, I definitely found myself interested with his quick, precise, simple answers to almost all of the questions as opposed to skirting the issues. All of his plans mentioned tonight appeared to provide the working class with exactly what they needed, although who knows what taxes he’d have to implement or if any of them would ever financially come to fruition in the first place, but it sounded good. He definitely moved up on my list of candidates.

Christopher Dodd came off as an ass. *Rogaine* I didn’t have too many good things to say about a lot of his opinions on random subjects, *Rogaine* but the way he handled himself really pissed me off. *Rogaine* I counted more than several times that he waved off Keith, didn’t even remotely answer the question, and even completely ignored questions to try to top another candidate’s previous question and answer – in my opinion, *Rogaine* not his night, and not a good first impression for me. *Rogaine*

In terms of some of heated frontrunner debates, I felt that Obama did extremely well. I’ll admit that I’m a little biased anyway but he fought back Clinton and Dodd’s attacks against his foreign policy. Both tried to show him off as an inexperienced politician that was getting himself way in over his head, but he came back with a strong system and plan in regards to Iraq, immigration, and his political openness. Barack also gained the approval of the working classes and AFL-CIO with the back-to-back debate against Hillary over the "not always say everything you think” issue. She kept her long-term view that one has to pay attention to what they say and follow the usual governmental decision of only revealing what they want to the populace, but Obama came right back and said exactly the opposite – that the public needs to be informed of what’s really happening in the world and decide what to do by the country as a whole. Who knows what could happen if the government decided not to lie or hide things from the people… But those kinds of thoughts are just plain unpatriotic

I still don’t see the mass appeal in Hillary. Yes she acts like a true politician and speaks very well, but that’s just the thing. She acts like a true politician. She basically defended her position as the big business democratic candidate and backed up her opinions of strict governmental control. I just don’t get it.

Despite what the analysts reported after the fact, I felt that John Edwards did do himself some justice today. True, he completely missed a chance to shine and push himself ahead, but he more than held his ground. It was mentioned that Kucinich’s strength in the debate took away from Edward’s campaign, and I can’t help but think that there’s some truth in that. Edwards is doing ok, but just ok, he needs to seriously get things moving if he wants a chance in this. My guess is that he’ll end up running as VP again, just not next to Herman Munster this time.

Chances are, they'll be some flack from some of the candidates tomorrow so hang in there for anything new. Republican debate coming up soon too, so make sure you're saving those babies from the heartless unwed teenage rape victims and gassing those goddamn convicts.