Comments on: Open thread: Democratic presidential debate; Update: Iraq slapfight video added; Update: English as official language video added; Update: “Assassinate Osama?” video added

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Rudy demagogues the Democrats

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Rudy demagogues the Democrats — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:04:07 +0000

[...] The first one is at least debatable per some of their rhetoric (Silky’s in particular) but certainly not per their lifestyles. The second may be technically true but they’ve talked about Iran and Al Qaeda, if perhaps without using the actual words “Islamic terrorist”; you’ll find the two frontrunners responding to Kucinich’s plea to put Bin Laden on trial in the third clip here. The last two, as far as I know, are flat wrong. No one’s proposed a tax increase of that magnitude and Hillary and Obama, at least, support expanding the military. Either he honestly doesn’t know where they stand or knows full well and chose to distort their platforms deliberately to make himself look more right-wing by comparison, but someone who’s already suspected of being a lightweight shouldn’t be playing with straw men. As Waffles found out, “electability” can only take you so far. Make the case on the merits or let someone who can do it do it. [...]

By: Cop The Truth

Cop The Truth — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:30:11 +0000

Amnesty/Shamnesty Bill Stalls…

So it’s hung-up in the Senate with another vote pending. Will the government ever get this right? Let’s re-hash: Close the border, now Enhance border patrol efforts, both north and south Deport all alien criminals and those already scheduled for…

By: Pirate’s Cove » >>Americans Never Quit » Eric Alterman Tries Not To Feed The Trolls

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:40:14 +0000

[...] For those that haven’t heard, Eric Alterman was arrested yesterday during the Surrender Monkey debates (h/t Hot Air). Well, Eric is over at the HuffPost explaining what happened, and, to me, sure looks like he is doing it in an adult, reasonable manner so as to not feed the trolls and have IMPORTANT ACTION ALERTS go out. Cause we all know how grounded and sedate liberals are. [...]

By: CyberCipher

CyberCipher — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:09:14 +0000

Update: “Assassinate Osama?” video added

Is that why he has Secret Service protection now? Oh wait — sorry. Never mind. **blush**

By: csdeven

csdeven — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:38:50 +0000

Jen the Neocon on June 4, 2007 at 3:30 PM

I looped a fit of cackling laughter that Hillary let loose with last night. The devil appeared. And I didn’t even play it backwards.

By: Jen the Neocon

Jen the Neocon — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:30:19 +0000

I had to miss the debates because it would have made my eyes and ears bleed, but I wouldn’t have missed these comments for anything!
Thanks, everyone–hilarious!

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:53:57 +0000

Asked what role former President Clinton would play in a new Democratic White House, she said, “Bill Clinton, my dear husband, would be sent around the world as a roving ambassador.”

Would that be a roving hands ambassador?

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Audio: KP unloads on Edwards for his sick-making nutroots pandering

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:33:04 +0000

[...] Hot, although it would have been hotter if she wasn’t so far in the tank for Hillary. Compare the Glacier’s response to Edwards in the first debate video here to Obama’s response. Obama swings back by calling him on the very point KP herself makes — namely, where does Edwards, who voted to authorize military force in 2002, get off criticizing any Democrat for not being anti-war enough now? Hillary, meanwhile, can only weakly offer that this is “George Bush’s war.” As opposed to America’s, I guess. [...]

By: gekkobear

gekkobear — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:23:51 +0000

Ok, if English shouldn’t be the official language, all future Democratic Party debates should have each question asked in a different language.

Senator Clinton, the question and answer will be in Mandarin Chinese…

Senator Obama, please respond in Swedish …

Mr. Edwards, in Russian …

Actually, that could be quite amusing. Especially if we have a list of what languages they know ahead of time to avoid anyone getting a language they know… or maybe a lotto-picker with all the world’s languages.

By: Halley

Halley — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:32:47 +0000

Jihadists all over the world are using these YouTube clips as entertainment today, I betcha. It’s stand-up comedy of the highest order: Dem candidates claiming they’ll keep the country secure! They must be splitting their sides in the caves right now…

By: manwithblackhat

manwithblackhat — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:28:23 +0000

And another thing about Hillary, everytime she got in trouble, she blamed Bush.

How come that never works for me?

By: csdeven

csdeven — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:19:16 +0000

I think Ian started his own blog. There’s a link crediting Ian in one of the updates in this thread.

By: Allahpundit

Allahpundit — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:05:27 +0000

He resigned. Michelle mentioned it in the housekeeping post last week.

By: John

John — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:04:28 +0000

What happened to Ian? I thought he was part of Hot Air. Did I miss a memo?

By: csdeven

csdeven — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:51:45 +0000

And another thing about Hillary, everytime she got in trouble, she blamed Bush. I guess they figured not having a plan other than bashing Bush worked so well in 2006, she might as well keep riding the wave. But she really was at a loss for precanned responses from her handlers when Gravel put the Iraq war squarely on her shoulders.

hahaha. I love it!

By: Right Voices » Blog Archive » Fred’s In, Dems Debate Who Hates War The Most, Murtha Says We Asked For JFK Terror Attack

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:35:02 +0000

[...] Hot Air has: Open thread: Democratic presidential debate; Update: Iraq slapfight video added; Update: English as official language video added; Update: “Assassinate Osama?” video added, which has a good roundup of the Democratic debate. Me? If I were Hillary or Obama, I would have looked at Edwards and simply asked him which America he was speaking for when he went off on them…then proceeded to point out all of his hypocricy…and then reminded him of the ticket he ran on: FLIP/FLOP! [...]

By: tomas

tomas — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:21:06 +0000

So much for equality for candidates…all three together hmmmmnn.

I just hope we have Rudy in the whitehouse for you guys to beat up on.

By: amerpundit

amerpundit — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:13:28 +0000

So, the Democrats now think CNN is unfair to them? Apparently, everyone’s unfair to them. They need to do a pow-wow and decide who’s being unfair to them.

They don’t want to answer hypothetical? What, should we wait for it to actually happen, for them to tell us how they’d handle it?

By: IMAO

IMAO — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:41:04 +0000

Thoughts on the Debate I Didn’t Watch Last Night…

Do they broadcast the Democrat’s primary debate to our troops overseas? If they do, it has to hurt their morale……

By: The American Princess

The American Princess — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:37:01 +0000

On A Lighter Note: The Dems Debate…

There’s really nothing you need to know about the Democratic debate last night. They competed to see who hates the Iraq war the most, and who would be most diligent in defying international sovereignty agreements to chase down and assassinate……

By: csdeven

csdeven — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:05:55 +0000

Hillary looked completely contrived and unwilling to speak up without permission. Gravel really blasted them and exposed them for their political game playing with our troops lives. I never realized that the dems could defund the war by doing NOTHING. What a bunch of cowards.

By: csdeven

csdeven — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:01:59 +0000

flipflop on June 4, 2007 at 9:58 AM

The spin room is where they have discussion where they admit they are partisan hacks as opposed to their regular broadcast where they lie about being partisan hacks.

By: csdeven

csdeven — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:59:40 +0000

Now the buttons aren’t there. What gives?

By: flipflop

flipflop — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:58:53 +0000

OK…am I the only one who doesn’t know what a “spin room” is?

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:57:10 +0000

I feel like I have just been awarded a doctorate…maybe an honorary one. A multimillionaire and two-time Presidential candidate (with admirable hair!) just finished a series of questions (”did you say ’shotgun’”? Yeah, why?), and got every f**king question wrong*, hilariously, while I got every one right.

AP, what do I win?

(*Note: on my scorecard, he got no points for his pandering nonsense about “having to earn citizenship”, so one year is not enough, but five years definitely entitles you to citizenship.)