It was mostly a predictable affair, they all slammed the Idiot in Chief, who it must be said, deserves it richly. They all tried to appear cogent, Presidential, and pretty. Some even tried to pretend they were higher in the polls than they really are, did you hear that Joe Biden?
The stand outs from the nights debate were Mike Gravel, former Senator from Alaska and now elder statesman and fire brand of the party, and Rep. Dennis Kucinich. They stood head and shoulders from the pack in our opinion because they spoke out and said what has to be said, namely that we should end this crazy war now, we should impeach Cheney for his crimes against our Constitution, we must stop using war as a weapon of foreign policy, we must act responsibly on the world stage, we must treat all other nations as equals, and we must work to become a force for good in the world. Gravel also pointed out that we really have no enemies and that we spend way crazy amounts on the military. We here at Monkey Muck HQ almost wept when Gravel said that the military industrial complex is ruining this country, we'd also like to point out that multi national corporations like Wal-Mart also play a role in fucking up the good ol' USA and when the candidate that has our heart Kucinich whipped out his pocket sized copy of the Constitution.
Edwards seemed very sincere but when he started playing the "I pray to my lord for forgiveness and guidance everyday" card, we almost threw up.
The ostensible front runners, in other words the two who the corporate media want us to back, Obama and Hilary, both had problems. It seemed like Hilary did not want to answer a question directly, she still would not distance herself form her vote to go to war, and she gagged it on a question about whether Wal-Mart was bad for America or not, by the way it is. Obama got a little testy with the other candidates and he seemed a bit stiff in his mannerisms. Neither gets high marks from us.
Richardson lost us on when we found out he is the favorite of the NRA.
Dodd and Biden need to hang it up and hope they get invited to join in the next administrations cabinet.
But seriously, it's way too fucking early for this stuff. Ahh, who are we kidding, we fucking love it.
1 comment:
You really shouldn't give Edwards a hard time about talking about his religion. Part of the mess the Democrats have gotten into is that the GOP has painted a picture that Democrats are all atheists. Remember, Jimmy Carter got some traction with the south mostly because he was openly evengelical. Democrats are supposed to be the big tent party, inclusive - not exclusive. I'm gonna steal that picture of the impeach girl, you know. You should create an email acct just for the website, ("monkeymuck@..." or whatever) and put it in the upper right hand corner of the page, like the picture upper right hand corner on my site. Then your ape bretheren can contact you.
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