ELECTABILITY: "You represented inner city slum lords" or "No I didn't praise Reagan, read my words!"

[Proud2BAmurkin]

One of these candidates knows how to answer a charge by scoring a knockout.

The other one is knocked on the ropes by any charge and spends the rest of the debate looking like a bobblehead and crying to the media to fire pundits.

There's no comparison, and candidate B would never get out from under the RePUKE avalanche that would come down on him week one after the nomination.

[catnhatnh]

1. Do you realize that unless I search what you have posted before...

This is incomprehensible???

[Occam Bandage]

2. "While you were you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart!"

"I'm looking forward to you advising me, too, Hillary."

[jlake]

5. Wal-mart was a good line.... that advising line really proved her point and was REALLY

condescending.

[Occam Bandage]

6. That advising line was fantastic; it got tons of positive press.

[jlake]

7. He never addressed the issue.... what change can he provide if he is being advised

by numerous Clinton insiders and Hillary herself? It doesn't wash....

[Occam Bandage]

8. Doesn't matter. Obama won the exchange, despite the frustration of Clinton supporters.

[jlake]

9. Okay then. I guess you can't answer my question... just accuse me of "frustration"

.... it must be tiring to know that your candidate is full of shit and depends on those he is trying to defeat in order to lead.

[Occam Bandage]

10. Your question was irrelevant to the discussion. We were discussing the candidates' abilities

to formulate witticisms, not bickering over the questions that led to the witticisms.

[jlake]

11. Sorry, but anyone paying attention knows you cannot win with lines that make absolutely no sense.

[Occam Bandage]

12. How well they play with their opponent's base is utterly irrelevant. In fact, the best lines

infuriate them. "There you go again" did absolutely nothing to address Medicare, but it was a knockout. "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" did nothing to seriously address Quayle's qualifications for office, but it was a knockout.

[jlake]

15. But those statements weren't at odds with the platform of the candidate who said them...

[Occam Bandage]

16. And neither was Obama's, no matter how badly you wish to imply

that "change" is incompatible with experienced advisors. Clinton attempted to make that same implication; Obama deftly batted it aside (you'll note she hasn't dared raise the issue again), rather than tediously explaining why she was wrong. That's the kind of sparring abilities we're looking for.

[bellasgrams]

14. I like Wal-Mart. I know I'm not supposed to but I do. It was

better when Sam Walton was alive. HMM-is that when Hill was there?

[Occam Bandage]

17. I also enjoy the destruction of American labor and manufacturing.

[Alexander]

20. You know what I like even more? Endless war in the Middle East!

Hillary '08!

[Alexander]

3. "It's hard to tell who I'm running against sometimes."

Even better: "Hillary, you had your turn, now let me speak."

Yeah, Hillary looked bad in the debate. You Shillbots look worse trying to spin it.

[Occam Bandage]

4. Obama has had the highest number of spot-on comebacks. Hillary had one snappy-sounding lie. O wins.

[dionysus]

13. you ate the whole box of trollios this morning, dindn't you?

you kids and your sugary cereals.

[Alexander]

21. ROFL, that's the best line I've read all day.

[jackson_dem]

18. Obama isn't ready for the big leagues

[Occam Bandage]

19. Neither are you.

About that bet...

[zulchzulu]

22. I just rewatched the debate and it reinforced my view that Hillary is a shisty liar

Obama slammed back nicely and all she could do was try to cut him off like a sorcière sans classes.