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Newsblogging - Democratic Party Debate
Sep. 5th, 2003 02:00 pmI watched the first Democratic Party debate last night on PBS. The format was good - one minute answer per question, if someone went over it would count against them later. It was also broadcast in part in Spanish on Univision - Nifty. And I could understand some of the Spanish words, so I guess my flunked Spanish courses weren't for nothing after all.
First impression: any of those people would make a better President than our current Unplanner In Chief.
Quick impressions of candidates, in no particular order:
I don't care for Liebermann's hawkishness. I also noticed the way he tossed barbs at Dean. I'd still prefer him to Bush and I liked him least.
Gephardt was digging at Bush a lot but I don't quite care for him.
Moseley-Braun is willing to support single-payer healthcare but she didn't address a couple of questions tossed her way.
Dean was succinct and to-the-point and danced around questions a lot less than most of the others. When he disagreed with other candidates he did so politely. Of the ones who were there I liked him most.
Kerry was fairly genial and also fairly direct, but there seemed to be something missing at a couple of points.
Edwards was good with humor but didn't seem quite as together on policy as some others.
Graham seemed decent but wasn't very charismatic.
Kucinich seems to have a brain and a clue, but at the same time he talked about building coalitions he also talked about pulling us out of NAFTA and WTO. I think they need renegotiating. He was one of the least charismatic there.
Sharpton was absent.
Most of the candidates were positive in general focus while sending a few barbs at Bush - which is good, that's the only way any of them will be able to win.
First impression: any of those people would make a better President than our current Unplanner In Chief.
Quick impressions of candidates, in no particular order:
I don't care for Liebermann's hawkishness. I also noticed the way he tossed barbs at Dean. I'd still prefer him to Bush and I liked him least.
Gephardt was digging at Bush a lot but I don't quite care for him.
Moseley-Braun is willing to support single-payer healthcare but she didn't address a couple of questions tossed her way.
Dean was succinct and to-the-point and danced around questions a lot less than most of the others. When he disagreed with other candidates he did so politely. Of the ones who were there I liked him most.
Kerry was fairly genial and also fairly direct, but there seemed to be something missing at a couple of points.
Edwards was good with humor but didn't seem quite as together on policy as some others.
Graham seemed decent but wasn't very charismatic.
Kucinich seems to have a brain and a clue, but at the same time he talked about building coalitions he also talked about pulling us out of NAFTA and WTO. I think they need renegotiating. He was one of the least charismatic there.
Sharpton was absent.
Most of the candidates were positive in general focus while sending a few barbs at Bush - which is good, that's the only way any of them will be able to win.
