Originally Posted By: the G-man
We only hope he stops with Colbert and Stewart. If he brings out the big gun-Keith Olbermann, we're all doomed.




In all fairness, this post-debate analysis includes both Air America's Rachel Maddow as well as conservative Pat Buchanan.





to everyones credit, they devoted more substantive talk in 3 segments than Charlie Gibson was able to achieve in 2 hours, 1 devoted exclusively to furthering every innuendo he could squeeze in about Obama. Buchanan's take on Clinton's Imperial presidency statement, in clip # 3 was especially good and something almost all the media ignored while sifting thru the slime.


and a funny...



Tom Shales of The Washington Post summed up the debate the best:

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When Barack Obama met Hillary Clinton for another televised Democratic candidates' debate last night, it was more than a step forward in the 2008 presidential election. It was another step downward for network news -- in particular ABC News, which hosted the debate from Philadelphia and whose usually dependable anchors, Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, turned in shoddy, despicable performances.

For the first 52 minutes of the two-hour, commercial-crammed show, Gibson and Stephanopoulos dwelled entirely on specious and gossipy trivia that already has been hashed and rehashed, in the hope of getting the candidates to claw at one another over disputes that are no longer news. Some were barely news to begin with.