Live Thread: Iowa Forum w/ 8 of 9 Dem Presidential Candidates (no Lieberman) - C-SPAN, 8:30PM EST

C-SPAN

[summer]

Moderator is "Gerlad McEntee of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees."

Gov Dean is the first candidate to speak, and he is now making his opening statement.

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Dean is getting lots of applause.

[Miss Marple]

I can't watch this...hubby has the TV. Please give commentary when you can.

Is Dean still arrogant and using his fake smile?

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Dean: "the president has increased the tax burden of $10,000 on every child in America -- and we can do better than that." [? - More taxes per child???]

Graham is now speaking: "This nation is on the fundamentally wrong track."

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Graham: "As president I will ensure we will not have corporate greed, which are paying bonuses in the suites, while workers are being fired in the basement."

[Miss Marple]

Oh, snooze. Class warfare at its finest.

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Graham looks healthier than I've seen him look lately.

BTW, the backdrop of this debate is quite interesting -- the Dems appear to be taking some cues from the GOP. THere is a phrase written on the backdrop, "Fighting for WOrking Families."

John Edwards is now speaking. He is saying we should all work harder or something like that.

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Edwards looks like he uses a blow dryer on his hair.

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Edwards: "We can't play defense with George Bush; we must play offense..."

[Cagey]

(No Lieberman)

Until the day Lieberman sold his soul to run on the Gore ticket I have to say I had a fair amount of respect for him. There are a few things about him I still do respect and the fact that he will not campaign on his Sabbath is one of them.

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Your favorite, Carol Mosely Braun, is on now.

[Miss Marple]

I wish he would go bald.

Summer, if you are the only one watching this, you don't have to give me the blow-by-blow all by yourself. That's too much work.

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Sometimes I think Lieberman would do better with more voters if he was not a Dem.

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ROTFLMAO! Just getting it started here... :)

[onyx]

I guess it's a-l-l up to you --- I can't wrestle away the TV from a 3 year old family member!

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Actually, I am waiting for a memorable quote from Al Sharpton. :)

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Moderator: "No pun intended but we're going to turn to our left here...we're now going to hear from Deniis Kucinich."

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Kucinich: "One of my first acts in office will be to cancel NAFTA and WTO."

[onyx]

"A" left turn? The whole damn forum is so far left, that they're in a perpetual counter-clockwise circle!

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OK, here comes AL Sharpton. "Next January, the Iowa caucus will take place on the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr...for the last 35 years, not only have I stood FOR workers rights, but I've been there...I've been in more jail cells than anyone else in this race."

[onyx]

ROFLMAO! Kucinich will NRVER see "his first day in office." Ditto for the others.