Wisconsin Debate

Last nights Democratic debate was interesting to see in the fact that the stark differences between the two candidates was plain to see. Bernie Sanders spoke passionately, openly, and what I thought was in the moment for the most part. Someone who truly believes in what he is saying. I thought he had some good concepts on what to change to make our country better even if I differ on the methods he would use. Hillary, on the other hand, looked like a polished establishment politician who clearly had more experience in the debate forum. Her answers seemed rehearsed, even though the questions were random. I think the reason for this is a candidate like herself has a rote answer for nearly every question out there and it's always mixed with a pitch. She managed during the night to get all of the demographic groups she is trying to appeal to mentioned in her responses. I'm sure her campaign people praised her after last night. After all, she came off as the more poised professional. But is that a good thing in today's political climate? People are voicing their displeasure at political insiders, which make no mistake, Hillary Clinton is, and she presents herself as such. The opponents sparred back and forth with most of the exchanges being clean. Hillary however took what I consider to be the only cheap shot of the night. She miss-represented Bernie in what she called a forward to the book "Buyers Remorse" written by Bill Press. The "mistake" was even pointed out by the panel during the post debate analysis with a reading of the short "blurb" that Sanders said about the book. Hillary's take on what Bernie wrote was vastly different from the truth, and she made it seem like Sanders slammed Obama, not exactly true and after hearing the blurb which reads "Bill Press makes the case why, long after taking the oath of office, the next president of the United States must keep rallying the people who elected him or her on behalf of progressive causes. That is the only way real change will happen, Read this book." I don't see how Hillary can have the impression that's an attack Obama unless you're straw reaching or perhaps outright lying. Clinton also made the claim that Americans haven't had a raise in fifteen years when actually FactCheck.org says weekly income has gone up 9.2 percent in that time frame. Also according to FactCheck Bernie did a bit of exaggerating himself on the unemployment numbers for African American youth. He put the figure at 50 percent and FactCheck puts it at half of that. Hillary did the typical pandering during the night that people are getting tired of, but in fairness, Bernie kept harping on Wall Street even making the argument that going after them would help racism. Not that Wall Street doesn't need reeling in, it does, but your argument has to be more dimensional Bernie. Tying in social media to last nights debate. "Who won the debate" and "Kissinger" were both subjects trending on Twitter this morning. There were supporters and detractors for both sides on the subject of Who won the debate, and clearly at least on twitter, the debate continues on but now it is in the hands of the public more so than the candidates. The Kissinger subject seemed to be, from the tweets I read, mostly in favor of Bernie and I find that amusing because the post debate panel seemed to laugh at Bernie for bringing up Kissinger. They even made reference that the millennials wouldn't understand about Kissinger. Here's what Bernie did in a short span of time last night. He educated people about Kissinger and his roll in trade agreements and regime building, along with the connection as one of Hillary's confidants. They can Laugh all they want, but social media took notice of this and ran with it. One other thing before I give my take on the debate. Sanders mentioned good judgement during the subject of middle east and unintended consequences and I think he is spot on. Good judgement is definitely a characteristic I want in a leader, and I'm not sure Hillary has always used that in the past. Alright so my take is that Sanders took the edge last night, and if he broadens his arguments, he should be able to keep or out pace Hillary, whom I can't even believe is still a viable option to as many people as she is, but that is a subject for another post.