X-Tra Rant

I can’t even begin to write coherently about the Democratic debate last night. I didn’t watch it because I’d figure it was going to be more of the same blandness: semi-important policy questions and a whole lot of nothing said. Instead it was apparently an before any actual policy question was asked. The rest was about bullshit GOP talking points.

I’ll let Masson sum it up on a more coherent manner than I can:

I didn’t watch the ABC Debate. I hear the moderators were awful. The following topics apparently did not figure prominently:

The financial crisis
The collapse of housing values in the US and around the world
Afghanistan
Health care
Torture
The declining value of the US Dollar
Education
Trade
Pakistan
Energy
Immigration
The decline of American manufacturing
The Supreme Court
The burgeoning world food crisis.
Global warming
China
The attacks on organized labor and the working class
Terrorism and al Qaeda
Civil liberties and constraints on government surveillance

Flag pins, on the other hand, were deemed significant. Our media is just truly, truly horrible.

Our bullshit media is ruining this country. To steal a line from CJ, if you truly think that the question of a candidate wearing a lapel pin is more important than god damned policy you don’t deserve to vote.

More debate dumb-assery summaries:

• Charlie Gibson’s Cocktail Napkin Economics [Wonk Room]
  
• I just complained to ABC [Sadly, No!]
• Lee Atwater Lives!!! [dailyKos: DHinMI]
• Clinton-Obama Debate: ABC Decides Top Issues Facing Americans Are Gaffes, Flag Pins and ’60s Radicals [Editor & Publisher]
• Gibson, Stephanapoulos outrage! [Philly.com]

That’s all I can write or even stand to read at this point before I have a stroke and/or get really stabbity.