Speaking of the usual suspected pieces . . . . Here are a few thoughts about Wednesday night's rasslin' match, which provided a few boy-howdy moments.
• We have to start somewhere, so how about this: Amy Klobuchar, responding to Bernie Sanders' answer on anonymous attacks from Internet users, said this: "I have an idea for how we can stop sexism on the Internet: We can nominate a woman for a candidate for president of the United States."
Question: Has anybody told her about 2016?
• Elizabeth Warren spent the night hurling insults at the other candidates. Some of them even worked. But then she compared Mayor Pete's health care plan to a PowerPoint presentation, and Senator Amy's plan to a Post-It note.
Does that mean their plans are easy to explain? We'll take it. So will most Americans, especially over a Medicare for All scheme that takes away millions of private and employer-based health insurance policies.
• When Sen. Warren wasn't sharpening her knives, she often stopped to mention specific people she'd met on the campaign trail, and their problems--and how she'd fix them. This annoying tradition might have started back in the 1980s. Supposedly it shows that these politicans are listening to mere voters. But it really only proves that they're good at memorizing a person's name, if their handlers remind them of it, pre-debate.
• A large portion of the debate focused on Amy Klobuchar forgetting the name of Mexico's president. Not only did that question ping-pong around the stage for much too long, but the moderators kept serving back to the players on the court. Proving once again that those asking the questions at these debates sometime have hard day's nights, too.
Editorial on 02/21/2020