We turned our TV on for the first time in months to watch Clinton and Obama debate in California. For my own part, it made me feel great about the party, because I got the impression that each of them is ready to take it to the Republicans and either of them would make a fine president.
Just one little thing. Clinton is still exposed on Iraq, and it’s really a shame she just can’t admit she blew it when she voted for war. At one point she channeled Condi when she said: “No one could have fully appreciated how obsessed this President was” about starting a war in Iraq.
Well, I guess I’m no one. I guess thousands of people who took the time to educate themselves on the issue were nobodies, and I guess all of us who realized that we were watching the world’s biggest con job were nobodies. Add to that the millions who knew that there was zero chance that there would be no war after that vote, despite the pro forma claim that war was a last resort. I give Clinton too much credit for intelligence to believe that she really believed she was giving Bush the tools to negotiate. She knew she was voting for war.
In all other respects, I thought she did a great job as did Obama. Each one of them appear to have found a way to properly package realistic thinking. I thought Obama was better responding to Wolf Blitzer’s outrage at the prospect that his taxes would be raised. Hillary was a bit too wonkish on that, though they both made the same basic point: Wolfie, you’ve had 8 years of a tax cut you didn’t deserve; you can’t complain if we put you back where you belong. It was truly refreshing to see two politicians not run for cover when a questioner accused them of “raising” taxes.
Interesting too that the crowd erupted at the prospect of the two of them on the same ticket. That would be something.
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