29 People Watched Dem Debate on MSNBC, 27 Were Bloggers

Townhall.com's Matt Lewis notes Senator Joe Biden had the best "one liner" award of the evening:


And Townhall.com's Dean Barnett joined the millions of other normal Americans who didn't watch the debate. Barnett opines:

The one thing I really wish I saw was John Edwards scolding Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, braying “Highfalutin language is not enough.”

I know exactly what Senator Edwards was getting at. He is but the simple son of a simple mill-worker. When Obama and Hillary use their sophisticated big-town Babel, he just can’t keep up. Edwards personally eschews all things “highfalutin.”

This much we know. Perhaps he should use as his slogan, “John Edwards: A Simple Man for Complex Times.”

And Captain's Quarters' Ed Morrissey also didn't watch the debate: "I have a deep skepticism about televised debates in any case. It's usually a forum for posturing and gotchas, where the only insight one gets is whether candidates have a quick enough wit to keep pace. It tells nothing else about a candidate that one couldn't glean from a campaign website and a little research, and often tells less than nothing at all. This appears to be the case with last night's debate, where America got to see nine varieties of political vanilla."

NRO The Hillary Spot's Jim Geraghty didn't appreciate Chris Matthew, who' was lobbying softballs to Mrs. Edwards before asking a crowd of mostly African-American college students if President Bush handled the Virginia Tech tragedy differently than flooding in New Orleans. GOP Bloggers' Matt Margolis provides the video:



National Review's Byron York opines that Barack Obama and John Edwards stumbled on a very basic question about defending America.

Slate's Mickey Kaus reports that the AP filed its story about the debate 45 minutes before it started!

Lincoln Logs' Matt Dole opines, "Anyone feel a little less safe this morning knowing Dennis Kucinich has, and may still, own a gun?"

Tigerhawk liveblogged the debate, and opined, Mike "Gravel is a loon." Ankle Biting Pundit's Patrick Haynes agrees, and adds, "I think Mike Gravel should not have been invited to the MSNBC-sponsored debate. He is not a serious candidate and he is personally insulting to his opponents."

Ranger Gets Emotional About the War

Hotair's Allahpundit posts this emotional video from the Neal Boortz radio show:



Believe in the Mission

RedState's Jeff Emanuel blogs live from Iraq, and the troops he has talked to are all all fairly unanimous that Iraq is winnable, but the Democrats aren't helping things.

Oklahoma U. Bomber Honored

Michelle Malkin is outraged by this report from KOCO:

The University of Oklahoma has put up a memorial to a student who died when a homemade bomb exploded near the OU football stadium.

A stone with the name of Joel Hinrichs III was placed outside the OU student union by the student affairs division.

Hinrichs died Oct. 1, 2005, when the bomb he built detonated as he sat on a campus bench near Memorial Stadium while a football game was under way. University officials ruled the death an accidental suicide. Hinrichs' father -- Joel Hinrichs Jr. -- said the university offered to have the stone placed.