Hullabaloo's dday is appropriately impressed by Brokaw's failure to cover new ground

[BurtWorm]

:eyes: Dday says it much better than I:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/rerun-by-dday-big-ups-to-tom-brokaw-for.html

Rerun


Big ups to Tom Brokaw for structuring the debate in the same order, with practically the exact same questions, as the first debate a week and a half ago. Thanks for spending 90 minutes providing the same information that Jim Lehrer did. Great work, Tom.

The only things that stood out to me, that weren't practically the same canned responses as last time, were these:

• Obama called health care a right and not a commodity, and brought a moral dimension to the issue that calms my nerves about him on the topic.

• Darfur got mentioned, which was one of the few new ones.

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• Fountains of conventional wisdom like Brokaw still think there's a problem with entitlements completely out of proportion to the actual problem. Social Security is not in crisis and Medicare's crisis has directly to do with skyrocketing health care costs and should not be viewed in a vacuum.

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[Egnever]

1. Medicare's crisis has directly to do with skyrocketing health care costs and should not be viewed in

an important point and one that is missed by many

[BurtWorm]

2. It was telling that McCain, while denying he was ordering anything, put entitlements first

It was the last thing Brokaw mentioned, but the first thing McCain focused his attention on. There was a lovely little opportunity there for Obama to remind the audience that McCain's proposed "reform" of SS was to dump it into the stock market.

[Egnever]

3. Obama lets him slide on a lot

its infuriating at times to watch. But I cant argue with his success so far so...