Like the GOP candidates discussing climate change, I readily admit I am not a scientist. I understand entropy to mean the dispersal of energy, and that’s exactly what we saw in Saturday’s GOP debate. Just when I thought the Republicans may have learned something about argument in the last debate, Saturday’s GOP matchup proved me wrong. [...]
For about the first hour of the Democratic debate in Wisconsin, Clinton and Sanders expressed much mutual admiration for each other. Clinton repeatedly pointed to areas where there was general agreement on the end if not always the means. It quickly became clear that the audience they spoke to wasn’t sitting in the university auditorium [...]
Saturday’s debate harkened back to the earlier Republican contests, with moderators spending an inordinate amount of time in the beginning trying to get candidates to attack each other. They weren’t disappointed in their efforts to provoke a cockfight. The tamestream media should be more transparent with their agenda and take ownership of the questions they want to [...]
If past debates are any indication, the upcoming Republican debate will witness neither the civility nor the discussion of issues evident in Thursday’s Democratic Debate. Let’s first look at areas of agreement, then who won on issues of clash and finally how effective the moderators were. The candidates agreed on the role the federal government [...]
Perhaps it's the somewhat civil nature of the campaign, or perhaps there really isn't much of a difference. Last night’s Democratic Town Hall debate provided some excellent opportunities for the Democratic candidates to make clearer the distinctions between their plans, their visions and their fight for the soul of the party. Unfortunately, both of the [...]
When we look critically at Thursday’s GOP debate, it becomes clear that Trump’s absence made for a more informed, more mature more reasoned debate. I’ll propose my nominations for the top winners and losers. GOP Debate Winners Perhaps the biggest winners were the audience members, both in person and at home, who weren’t subjected to [...]
As the most recent Democratic debate proved, the Republicans have no monopoly on pandering to a base. While they congenially agreed on a number of issues, the big three differentiators they chose to highlight were Wall Street influence, healthcare and gun control. 1) Wall Street Reform When faced with the charge that Clinton was too [...]
As more pachyderms near the precipice of dropping out of the primaries, we can still learn a thing or two (actually three) as we watch them. As they continue to pander to the extreme wing of the base, the biggest question of the debate for each candidate is expressed in the immortal words of The [...]
There was almost no mention of domestic policy in the 5th Republican debate. Instead, the focus was on national security. I predicted that candidates would argue about who had the best plan to defeat terrorism and who would be the toughest. After watching the debate, three aspects stood out for me: Revealing moments, language choices [...]
CNN has been promoting the 5th Republican primary debate as if we’re about to watch The Hunger Games [watch the CNN trailer]. While we won’t hear a cannon shot and see pictures of the candidates afterwards because they’ve been figuratively killed during the debate, we might see certain elephants make a big splat after falling [...]