Dems Debate: In Case You Missed It, So Did I

The Democrats had another joint press conference last night at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. I watched only bits and pieces of it; it was up against the season premiere of Criminal Minds, which has replaced Mandy Patinkin with Alberto Gonzales.

Michael Scherer of Salon.com covered it with comparisons to your favorite TV shows of the 1970's since the debate was up against NBC's resurrection of The Bionic Woman. Joe Sudbay of AMERICAblog has a thread as well.

From what I could see, nobody really cratered, nobody really surged, and Mike Gravel earned the vote of anyone who'd like to tell their credit card companies to go jump in the lake. Tim Russert pulled one of his famous "gotcha" questions by citing an unnamed source who said that under some circumstances torture was acceptable if lives were at stake. All of the candidates, including Hillary Clinton, condemned the sentiment. Then Mr. Russert revealed that the source of the quote was Bill Clinton. Hillary allowed as that she would have a talk with him.

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