Opinion: The Democratic debate was a dizzying three-hour barrage of empty claims and grandiose promises (via latimesopinion)
I’m a policy wonk and a bit of a political junkie, but that’s mostly because politicians do policy. And political choices are policy choices, at the end of the day.among the 10 leading Democratic presidential contenders. But having watched the full 17 hours — OK, it was closer to 2½ — I have to say that the event was a near complete failure, unless the point was to leave me with less clarity about the candidates than I had before I tuned in.
It’s not that the candidates were all inarticulate or vague; most were actually pretty sharp. Nor were there too many people on stage. The problem was that they didn’t, you know, debate. They just pitched. There was a hint at the beginning that this could be a really useful event. The candidates sunk deeply into the topic of healthcare, teasing out obvious and not-so-obvious differences among the various approaches to making insurance more available and affordable.
Oh, sure, simply letting the candidates vamp on topics was illuminating at times. Biden was a rambling stream-of-consciousness disaster on
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