Last Night, I watched the first night of the first Democratic Debate. The only negative performance, came from DeBlazio, who was aggressive and rude. Most of the 2nd tier candidates did little to distinguish themselves. The biggest exceptions were Inslee and Castro. Among the top tier, both Klobuchar and Booker held their ground. O’Rourke’s performance was weak. But the hands down winner was Warren. She was a rock star, but she did make one major mistake.
Elizabeth Warren came into Wednesday night’s debate as the candidate to watch most closely, the only one of the 10 onstage who had double-digit support in polls, with an apparent momentum that none of those rivals could claim.
Her performance over two hours in Miami probably strengthened that position.
During the first hour, Warren was crisper than most of her peers. She was clearer. I didn’t always like what she said. But she said it well, leaving no doubt about the direction in which she’d pull the country and giving voters a fair amount of detail, within the crushing constraints of time, about the map that she’d use to travel there.
Warren left no doubt, too, about the great villains in American life, at least in her view: “giant corporations.” She said the phrase repeatedly, with force and derision, and she never strayed far from it, framing just about every ill in American life as something caused or exacerbated by greed.
She has bet her entire bid for the presidency on that argument’s resonance with American voters, and on Wednesday night she doubled, tripled and quadrupled down. Elizabeth Warren was unswervingly true to Elizabeth Warren, which is precisely why she has caught fire and why she’ll continue to burn relatively bright. Her passion and confidence should petrify Bernie Sanders, whose song she sings better than he does… [emphasis added]
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Warren’s mistake was making Medicare for All mandatory. That may keep Sanders from getting to her, but Big Insurance, Big Pharma, and the Republican Reich millions on adds that Democrats are taking away voters’ insurance. She should adjust her position to Medicare for All Who Want it, while also making it available for Companies to and Unions to pay premiums for employees and members. Private Insurance would soon be reduced to supplemental policies and advantage plans.
Here’s a link to the entire debate.
Here’s Key Moments from the NY Times.
Here’s Best One Liners from the Washington Post.
Here’s coverage from MSNBC.
I shared my take. What’s yours?
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Two white men over the weekend were caught on camera brutally beating a black man and his friend while yelling racial slurs.