Asymmetric analysis of UNLV Democrat debate

Our friend Nelson Guirado at Asymetric offers his analysis of the recent debate among Democratic presidential candidates. It's a scream. Read the whole thing, though I couldn't help excerpting a good chunk of it:

In style, Bill Richardson came off as a combination of both Gilligan and the Skipper.

Hillary Clinton had an odd-looking, sour, school-marmish mouth.

Biden was funny, but he clearly didn't care. At the beginning, I thought he was drunk.

Obama is a slender sliver of stardust. The only thing he managed to do was drive another nail in his coffin.

Kucinich is a dangerous nut who only talks tough to his own side like a parent who tells his own kids to behave while the neighbor's kids are beating them up. He, like Hillary Clinton, can't answer a question.

I worry about my brothers and sisters in the Democratic party. It's clear that they have more animus towards Bush than they do for nations like Iran. At one point, the audience, having not reacted to Hillary's semi-talk about Iran, exploded in applause when she attacked Bush.

They also think that only reason we have wars is because Bush wants them. If we stopped talking about wars, they'd just go away.

On energy, Democrats don't think that we should invest in proven technologies like nuclear. Instead, we need to dump billions on solar and wind and see what happens. Barak Obama became upset when somebody suggested that it may not be possible given our current technology. Hope, for Obama, overcomes physics.

I've come to the conclusion that whenever somebody asks a candidate for anything, the Democrats will give it to them. If somebody asked for assistance in wiping ice cream dribble from their chin, the candidates would start a federal agency for it. Please, can one of them just tell somebody, "well, why don't you do it yourself."

Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at November 17, 2007 05:10 PM

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Posted by: jsb at November 18, 2007 07:17 PM