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Saturday, January 5, 2008 12:00 AM

A Democratic donnybrook

The debate was rich in sound and fury, but did little lasting damage to unruffled frontrunner Barack Obama.

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  • Sunday, January 6, 2008 08:00 AM

    "Donnybrook"? "Snoozer" Is More Like It!

    Ok, I confess to having fallen asleep in front of the tube showing the Democrats debating last night. It was late and I was bored beyond tears listening to the juvenile hair-splitting and quibbling about when who said what. Sorry if substantive positions were enunciated in the second half; most of those watching would have turned it off or fallen asleep by then anyway.

    Too bad Dennis Kucinich was un-Democratically excluded, as he is an articulate speaker with firm convictions and positions that differ sharply from the corporate-friendly mush the "front-runners" are all spouting. The only candidate allowed in the debates (the Republican side this time) who recognizes that we already live in a fascist state is Ron Paul, who said so Friday night on Bill Moyers' Journal on PBS.

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