@Alligator Ed understood the neoliberal idiocy on display when any of the Democrat Right idiots show their faces to be an object of cinematic fun. Thanks.

#1 Senator Klobachar. Although not athletic by nature, I am told, she throws a mean plate or cup. Her voice is not menacing except for the remote possibility this Minnesota witch might possibly become president (assuming she assassinates/incapacitates all her Dem rivals and the Cheeto).

The other positions don't interest me--except maybe the cat. I find cats to be tasty little snacks.

@Will Rogers Guthrie

#2
I thought Kamala got way too much attention from the moderators for a bottom tier candidate
I thought she must still have some big donor and/or corporate media support
Her movements and articulation were more exaggerated and grating to me
I thought Tulsi got too little attention from the moderators even for a bottom tier candidate but I expected that from the fear based crew
I did not like her use of the term Democrat instead of Democratic
Sounds so Republican

Andrew Yang and Corey Booker were wonderfully funny at times

@wokkamile I posted some more thoughts on the other post-debate thread (the more serious one) here. My sense is that, in responding to people like Booty and Harris, Tulsi needs to have a sense of the audience, which is potential voters watching on TV, not the MSM heads asking the questions, the DNC establishment or its corporate shills like Buttigieg and Harris. So, pivoting and attacking the media (as she did in the Oct. debate) was not her strongest point, IMHO. On the Assad point, she could have explained it further by pointing out that she met with both Assad and Assad opponents, that her opposition is to arming terrorist groups that are part of the Assad opposition in Syria, and also throw in the fact that Kerry (as Secy of State) and Pelosi (as House Dem leader) also met with Assad.

The trickier and more nuanced response on Assad/Syria (something that definitely would not have worked in the context of the 90-sec sound bites in these debates) is to point out how the evidence on Assad's use of chemical gas, at least with respect to the Douma incident, is mixed, given the quashed Henderson OPCW engineering report suggesting that the attack was staged.

Speaking of Fox, has anyone noticed another example of DNC hypocrisy -- not allowing Fox (and someone like Chris Wallace, an excellent questioner, as one of the moderators) to host a DNC Presidential debate, yet using Fox News polls as one of the "qualifying" polls to determine who gets to participate in these debates?

#2 an opportunity to remind Harris and the audience that Pres Obama also went on Fox. Including at least one major sit down with the execrable Bill O'Reilly.

Bernie Sanders too could have snuck in a Spartacus moment on Tulsi's behalf as he's appeared on the network a number of times.

Tulsi a/o Bernie could also have noted how rarely or relatively infrequently they are invited to appear in prime time on Msnbc and CNN. Rachel Maddow? She's shut out Tulsi, but not Pete, and probably not Klobuchar.

We could have had such a lively discussion last night if the attention had been turned back on the smug media panelists and their corporate bosses and the way they seem to be going about trying to put their thumbs on the scale in order to influence this Dem primary process.

@Not Henry Kissinger

Now there's an idea. If only old Abe had been a Dem, I wonder how different politics might have been during the 20th century.

(The Log Cabin Republicans wanted to name themselves after Lincoln, but "Lincoln Republicans" was already in use by another organization.)

#4

Is that even a thing?

@Le Frog @Le Frog with all things bad. You know straight outta Compton is considered the definition of ghetto. The Kremlin...the definition of voter tampering.

#6 I want to see the section of the Kremlin website they are talking about. Weird how these American news personalities know what straight out of the Kremlin means.

@Not Henry Kissinger

But if it is that funny, maybe I should start?

#6
According to the Style section, Tulsi shouldn't wear white after Hillary Day.

Tulsi Gabbard’s White Pantsuit Isn’t Winning
The Democratic presidential candidate has made white the staple of debate night appearances. It leaves a chill.

...Her white suits are not the white suits of Ms. Clinton, nor even the white of Ms. Williamson, whose early appearances in the shade often seemed tied to her wellness gospel and ideas of renewal and rebirth. Rather, they are the white of avenging angels and flaming swords, of somewhat combative righteousness (also cult leaders). And that kind of association, though it can be weirdly compelling, is also not really community building. It sets someone apart, rather than joining others together. It has connotations of the fringe, rather than the center.

And it is a reminder that clothes, especially when it comes to the optics of politics during an era of the ubiquitous screenshot, are only as meaningful as the content that fills them.

@Not Henry Kissinger

But it will come roaring back if she decides to jump in. Count on it. Hopefully someone will ask why the f'ck Hillary is even running like he did about Tulsi.

#6
According to the Style section, Tulsi shouldn't wear white after Hillary Day.

Tulsi Gabbard’s White Pantsuit Isn’t Winning
The Democratic presidential candidate has made white the staple of debate night appearances. It leaves a chill.

...Her white suits are not the white suits of Ms. Clinton, nor even the white of Ms. Williamson, whose early appearances in the shade often seemed tied to her wellness gospel and ideas of renewal and rebirth. Rather, they are the white of avenging angels and flaming swords, of somewhat combative righteousness (also cult leaders). And that kind of association, though it can be weirdly compelling, is also not really community building. It sets someone apart, rather than joining others together. It has connotations of the fringe, rather than the center.

And it is a reminder that clothes, especially when it comes to the optics of politics during an era of the ubiquitous screenshot, are only as meaningful as the content that fills them.