Hillary Wins MSNBC Debate

Here is my take on the MSNBC Debate:

Hillary won not because she gave the best answers. She won because she got the applause and went unchallenged by the other candidates. The NY Senator has a gift for sticking to her talking points. She learned well from the master--Bill Clinton.

Barack Obama gave the most thoughtful answers. That is probably why he's gotten into trouble lately. He doesn't follow the script like Hillary. Listening to him I don't hear a man weak man. His feisty nature sugggests a tough candidate with a modicum of decency. Something you don't see in most politicians. But these very same attributes work against him. You win the presidency by being a phony. That is why he won't win...this time around.

Listening to John Edwards I hear a man who's ambition exceeds his abilities. His pro-labor stand is calculating and unconvincing. He has JFK's looks but lack his rhetorical skills. He's getting really boring. His poll numbers also reflect a public that is getting wise to his shtick.

Joseph Biden sounded the most presidential and had the best ideas. But listening to him you wonder what has he done all these years in Congress. He acts as if he's had nothing to do with the mess this government has brought us. Biden is to much of an insider. He's too much talk and not enough action.

Dennis Kucinich's pro-labor views are well known. But he seems to really think that he is a serious candidate. It is precisely his bomb-throwing rhetoric that insures he won't be taken seriously. His views are not the views of his establishment party.

I don't get Christopher Dodd. His purpose for being at the debate was to attack Obama. He apparently thinks that is way to getting ahead in the campaign.

What I don't understand is why an overwhelming pro-labor crowd at the debate gave the anti-labor Hillary so many applauds. This is probably why big business is succeeding at slaughtering the American worker. We don't know our own worst enemy.