What in the holy @#$% is this @#$%?

[Mitera Nikkou]

I decided to watch one of the debates for once, and I'm now convinced that the mainstream media in general is both completely stupid and biased. For one, I can't fathom how they came up with the conclusions after the debate and also in the above article. But that's not even the worst of it... About how much "yap" time each candidate had acquired is almost directly proportionate to their poll and/or social standings. It's easy to tell it's a complete reflection on how Clinton has already attained the Democratic nomination before being nominated. I can see it in how they perceive her responses as one-upping the others *COUGH!*bullshit*COUGH!*, that is unless witty remarks and dancing around the blows are the rhyme and reason of the universe all of a sudden. Heck, let's just "happen" to pick the last "undecided" person in the debate who just "happens" to ask the dumbest question ever, which is, of course, directed toward Hillary: do you like diamonds or pearls better? And then said person just "happens" to mention afterward how Clinton's the only "shiny" person up there.

What I really want to say is this... Let's just blow the ever-living @#$% out of all of this crap and nonsense and forget about government altogether. It's not like things could get worse. >.<#

(Yes, in part I'm upset because Kucinich barely got any time despite numerous assurances that everyone would get enough time. Uh-huh... I mean, yes, sir, may I have another? -_- But, yes, now I'm completely convinced that everything's screwed so badly that only an apocalyptic event could do something about it; you know, like destroying it? And if not that... Watch out world; here I come! ;/)

[Stellar]

I see no apocalypse in sight! Go Nekkid, go =D

I dunno about all this stuff still, but i'd say Hillary Clinton is a more familiar name to the masses so the media would focus on her so people feel like they relate better. Works in movies, songs, comercials, etc, why not drag it to our governmental circus too? I don't see a different outcome in the end anyway, we'll still get to live our lives, four years will pass then we can gripe about the next set of candidates when the popular black rap artist somehow makes it into the main light of the government circus.

I dunno, I'm probly talking nonsence, and in that case, just ignore me =)

[Sophia Anieri]

Well, in the particular debate in question (which I watched on C-Span's web archive last night), it took them 8 minutes to get to anybody but the "top two" candidates, and 10 to get to any but the "top three..."

Even more of a problem in my mind was the leading questions CNN asked, seemingly calculated to encourage the Democratic candidates to snipe at each other. Wolf Blitzer has lost a lot of my respect after his biased moderation of this.

You're right that Kucinich wasn't really given any sort of chance. I thought Dodd came across well, was considering voting for him until his one-word dismissal of driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants later in the debate. But this debate convinced me more than ever that Barack Obama has all the right positions, even if he might not have much experience. (Bill Richardson, the other candidate I've considered voting for, said that Obama was "trying to start a generational war" in his first sentence. What's up with that?)

Anyway, that's my take.