Holy crap! Is anybody else watching this? This debate is INSANE.
But also hilarious, so it's not like I'm complaining. I have to hand it to Hillary for knocking Obama off his post-partisan high horse. The comments about not knowing which Clinton he's running against were funny but not in line with the image he's trying to project. And I kind of died when he called her a corporate lawyer for Wal-Mart. (Which is sort of correct, but not exactly fair and entirely irrelevant.) So I don't blame her for countering (also unfairly) with his own career history. WELCOME TO THE NEW POLITICS OF HOPE, YOU GUYS.
I still can't decide who to vote for, sigh. I really like them all. I guess this is a good problem to have!
ETA: TPM has the best
roundup, and I completely agree with Josh Marshall. I really do like Hillary, but it does bother me when she goes for the cheap shot, like misrepresenting Obama's (admittedly vague, but still) statements about Reagan or his Present votes in the Illinois legislature. But it's not like the Obama camp hasn't done the same thing to her. The difference is that Hillary has shown herself to be much more effective at defending herself. Obama bungled both responses (How could he have not brought his actual quote?! He had to know it would come up! He had TWO chances to explain his Present votes, and I didn't get it until I read the NYT article Josh linked.), and he'll have to stand up to tougher and much nastier attacks if he's to go on to the general election. And because he is so caught up in this rhetoric about New Politics, he's going to have to be able to do it without getting his hands dirty. And if the candidate is John McCain, he's going to have to do it without getting schooled by someone who has a billion years of policy and military experience.