Yay for YouTube!

Seriously, the CNN/YouTube debate last night was vastly superior to any of the other debates we've had so far. How entertaining was that? People are so funny and creative, which was such a nice contrast to the cookie-cutter candidates on stage.

And even Anderson Cooper was good as moderator. I appreciated his attempts to really press the candidates to Answer The Fucking Question!

I'm also surprised to say that the debate helped change my mind a little bit about some of the candidates. Take, for example, Joe Biden, who really seemed to rise above the other candidates on the Iraq questions and, especially, the Darfur questions. He totally shredded Bill Richardson on the Durfur question. Richardson was all, "We need diplomacy!," and Biden was all, "Fuck diplomacy, we need to send troops!" Of course, Hillary chimed in with the appropriate follow-up to Biden, "Too bad all our troops are tied up in Iraq."

Speaking of Bill "This Is What I Would Do" Richardson, who I've had high hopes for. He sucks as a candidate. I don't think he gave one good answer the entire night. Fortunately, he had Mike "It's Not Fair!" Gravel and Dennis "Text Peace" Kucinich to steal the I'm-Stupid spotlight. I mean, come on, "Text Peace"???? WTF? How is a text message going to change anyone's mind? That's gotta be the dumbest campaign gimic I've ever seen.

As for the Big 3, I felt that Edwards surpassed the others, although Hillary really didn't do too bad. Obama, however, not so much. Hillary really spanked him in questions about diplomacy. I really like how Edwards kept hammering at the need to take on the special interests. Good
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I really cannot wait until the Republicans get to do this. I'm sure the questions will be real winners. How many unborn babies have you saved, Senator McCain? Senator Brownback, can you tell us just how much you hate gay people? Governor Romney, I think we can all agree that the French people and everything they stand for is an abomination, but what would you do to address this crisis? Rep. Paul, why are you a Republican?