Debate Live Twitter

Marc Ambinder On Twitter

# HRC admits: with effects of immig, there are job losses. Obama said it was scapegoating. 20 minutes ago
# Finally: a Dem acknowledges Asian-Americans. 22 minutes ago
# With McCain, immigration won't be huge gen elex issue. With Romney, it will. 22 minutes ago
# HRC and Obama are tag-teaming the Dem message on tax cuts... Effective and interesting. 24 minutes ago
# HRC cites bipartisan creds working with gopers dems love to hate: Gingrich and Frist. 27 minutes ago
# Obama swipes at HRC, wants health care negotiations on CSPAN... Also to shame drug companies. 30 minutes ago

# HRC and Obama are tag-teaming the Dem message on tax cuts... Effective and interesting. 6 minutes ago
# HRC cites bipartisan creds working with gopers dems love to hate: Gingrich and Frist. 8 minutes ago
# Obama swipes at HRC, wants health care negotiations on CSPAN... Also to shame drug companies. 11 minutes ago
# Obama helps Romney: "somewhere along the line, the stexpress lost some wheels" and McCain is now in favor of tax cuts 12 minutes ago
# Danny Diaz is showing his pearly whites when Doyle McManus asks about taxes, but Obama's response is awesome. 12 minutes ago
* Obama swipes at HRC, wants health care negotiations on CSPAN... Also to shame drug companies. 5 minutes ago
* Obama helps Romney: "somewhere along the line, the stexpress lost some wheels" and McCain is now in favor of tax cuts 5 minutes ago
* Danny Diaz is showing his pearly whites when Doyle McManus asks about taxes, but Obama's response is awesome. 6 minutes ago
* Obama swipes at HRC, wants health care negotiations on CSPAN... Also to shame drug companies. 8 minutes ago
* Health care is in HRC's wheelhouse 8 minutes ago
* HRC says Dems need to fight for universal coverage and points out that O's plan had mandates too. Again refers to Edwards. 12 minutes ago
* Edwards pander count: HRC-2, BHO-2 18 minutes ago
* Obama ticks off contrasts with HRC, on interest rate freezes, forcing people to purchase health insurance, etc. Good question, good answers. 20 minutes ago
* Ha! Clinton finally gives Edwards his due for her health care plan. 25 minutes ago
* Crowd split between the two.... 27 minutes ago
* HRC is gracious too. Pivots to "stack of problems" waiting for next POTUS. Serious times req serious leadership. 28 minutes ago
* Obama says he'll be friends with HRC before and after ... Counter-Snub... Awwww...... 31 minutes ago

Comments

Hey Marc,
I got ya back. I love this guy and gal. I wish one of them will just agree to VP the other. But who is the woosy who will wanna play the third fiddle in the Bill-Hillary-VP trifecta?

Posted by hey mac | January 31, 2008 8:11 PM

No screaming yet. Looks like they're both trying hard to keep it civil here...

Another debate liveblog:

http://political-buzz.com/2008/01/31/la-democratic-debate-hillary-vs-obama-liveblog/

Posted by matt | January 31, 2008 8:30 PM

Civil, even debate. No one wants to screw up. I think Hillary is just consistently a better debate, she has the advantage right now. 8:36

Posted by Andrew | January 31, 2008 8:37 PM

Hey, there's George from "Seinfeld"!

Love how CNN seeks out the celebs in case we get too bored and feel like changing the channel.

Posted by tinisoli | January 31, 2008 8:40 PM

Damn, Hillary is about as exciting as a block of ice.

Posted by Andrew | January 31, 2008 8:52 PM

Marc, I think twittering the debate is almost as cool as when you used to use like 50 point font and had all the text running all over the place in the early days of primary results.

Which is to say it's not cool. It's annoying. Come on boss, real live-blogging. What the flip is "twitter" anyway?

And to CNN: This debate has managed to be interesting and insightful in SPITE of you. Why you insisted on making these two sit next to each other like they're studying in the law school library is beyond me.

Also, Wolf Blitzer is the WORST debate moderator in circulation. Give me the toplical Brian Williams, the humorous (if totally self involved) Tavis Smiley, the brass balled Tim Russert or even the foppy Anderson Cooper (at least he's smart) over your particular brand of crapola. You only ask layups for Clinton, and you have no sense of tone.

This does not apply to Doyle McManus and Jeanne Cummings, who seem reasonably non-commatosed.

And ... sorry to vent my spleen. No where else to go with my noise. : )

Posted by Format notes | January 31, 2008 9:02 PM

And there's that guy from "West Wing"!

And the mayor of SF!

And Kate Capshaw from "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"!

IT'S SO EXCITING.

Posted by tinisoli | January 31, 2008 9:05 PM

PIERCE BROSNAN!

GOD how I miss Remington Steele.

Posted by tinisoli | January 31, 2008 9:15 PM

HRC was operating at full capacity )up until the Iraq segment), and, until that point was almost keeping up with Obama. What surprised me was that Obama has once again raised his game. This is not the syncopated, sometimes slow Obama of the earlier debates. He finally has achieved the combination of style he's been looking for which was being relaxed while being forceful.

But when Hillary hit the Iraq segment, she was clearly rattled. Twice. And each time it triggered a meandering verbal outpouring, and in addition, a sad and downcast look on her face. What we learned from this, is that she entered the political campaign intending to never fully resolve her position on Iraq. You have to admit that was not smart. Because look, she finds herself still--at this very, very late stage--unable to do anything but hide from herself, from her own failure to tackle mentally her own history on Iraq.

This brings me to my final point about Hillary, and Iraq. There is an enormous and I think incorrect agreement that Hillary's vacillation on Iraq is because of opportunism. It's not. It's actually because she doesn't have the kind of mind that can play in the realm of the uncertain. In other words, she has not talent for the pulse, of a thing. She has no talent, for the future. She is a very linear, close to the ground thinker. And she's smart. Well, that's just the way it is, sometimes.

Posted by Gregor | January 31, 2008 9:53 PM

Marc,

Please don't twitter anything ever again. It's like reading a broken teletype which keeps spitting out the same lines.

Posted by Doug | January 31, 2008 10:42 PM