After

sleeping on it for a couple of hours, I continue to believe CNN fucked up with its "grand experiment" of using You Tube and flopped big time.

Gimmicks are no replacement for substance, not that any of the debates so far (with the exception of the Fox News Republican debate) have had them. But this was simply ridiculous.

I put up with listening to the likes of Jeffrey Toobin, who knows nothing whatsoever about politics, keep talking about Hillary and Obama, when in fact Hillary, looking more tired than usual, was off her game, and Obama never answered ONE GODDAMNED QUESTION TONIGHT. He skirted around everything that was asked, especially galling when one considers Anderson Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt's son, gave him abundant time in order to skirt the questions:



Gravel, who is simply a goddamned nutcase, got more time than he deserved. Kucinich fared a little bit better. Dodd seemed to have a lot of time to answer in the beginning of the debate, perhaps because CNN realized his campaign was keeping track of the time, but predictably let Dodd fall by the wayside. Richardson was ignored in the early going but somehow had almost as much time as Edwards. Biden made good use of what little time he had.

What was funny was Richardson, who was a big supporter of NCLB, has decided it belonged to the shitter. I expected Biden to give the answer he did, but his remarks about Ted Kennedy were surprising, to say the least.

As I said, Anderson Cooper got his marching orders from Time-Warner, and, by God, he was going to try and set up John Edwards for a fall. Despite the obvious set-up with the bogus gay marriage "issue," Edwards did fine, certainly better than most of his opponents.

But it is clear they, meaning the media, are building up Obama, so as to take him down later. Was it Fox News that I heard in my brother's room, where some goddamned fool claimed Obama just "has" to be on the ticket, so Joseph Biden, perhaps the sharpest debater of the bunch (including Edwards), has to be pushed aside. I have felt Obama is tainted in some way, and the Republicans can't wait to tear him to pieces, assuming Democrats are really that goddamned stupid and actually vote for him. The guy is no progressive or liberal; he's another Harold Ford, Jr. but much less honest.