South Carolina Democratic Debate

Some live-blogging action

8:05- Comrade Hillary is going to centrally plan the mortgage industry to make it more efficient.

8:15- John Edwards is clearly bordering on irrelevancy. He sounds even more moronic than normal.

8:16- Obama: Repealing NAFTA would be good for the economy.

8:18- Hillary: Raising taxes on rich people will create jobs.

Message to the Dems- if you really want to help the economy for more than a year, cut taxes and cut spending. A 100 billion dollar spending spree on obscure technologies in a 12 trillion dollar economy isn't going to do shit besides create even more debt.

8:19- John Edwards makes first mill reference.

8:22- Democrat on Democrat fighting!

8:25- Clinton asks how Obama is going to pay for his spending programs. Clearly Senator Clinton hasn't read her own proposed spending orgies.

8:27- Finally, the most pressing issue of the campaign is being touched on: Ronald Reagan.

8:29- John Edwards: "Hey guys, please notice me and my 5 year plans!"

8:38- Bankers have accomplished something I thought impossible: the Democrats hate them more than George W. Bush.

8:43- Hillary slaps Obama. This is very entertaining.

8:54- Edwards will strengthen the healthcare market through central planning. Brilliant.

8:56- I applaud Senator Obama for acknowledging that sane healthcare policy should seek to make healthcare more affordable rather than mandating or handing out coverage. Unfortunately, his plan does this in the worst possible way.

8:58- Wow does John Edwards sound like a moron. Why shouldn't people be able to get out of something they don't want to be in?

8:59- Hillary Clinton will "go to the mat" for universal healthcare. Very disturbing image.

9:04- Obama has a bizarre "I need to take a shit" squint and posture while Hillary talks about Iraq.

9:15- The Wolf pumps us up for the second half of the debate. I believe they will release the tigers.

9:20- Senator Obama correctly points out that John Edwards is, in fact, a white man.

9:24- Is it just me, or is Hillary mentioning her husband more than usual?

9:31- Finally the media has the balls to ask the all-important question of this election year: was Bill Clinton a black man?

9:39- Second mill reference. How working in a mill relates to racism, I don't know.

9:44- Obama makes a good point about how the Bush administration crippled the Republican Party.

9:45- Edwards predicts a McCain nomination. He must know something I don't.

10:00- What a question to end the debate with: who would Dr. King vote for?

Final thoughts- entertaining. Very entertaining. A great deal of hot air but, hell, it was a hoot.