Democrats Debate Important Issues
Like UFOs. Seriously, UFOs. Dennis Kucinich was asked about his reported sighting of one of those wayward craft leftover from our war with the alien horde left over from Independence Day.
In the weird last minutes of the debate (the period, by the way, when The Fix made it onto the basketball court in high school) Rep. Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) gave us a highlight.
Asked about the statement by actress Shirley MacLaine that Kucinich had seen a UFO at her house, Kucinich said that he had. He quickly sought to clarify — an “unidentified flying object” he said holding up his hand — but man oh man.
Let me make one suggestion, make that a request. If Mr. Kucinich is the one who makes peace with our neighbors outside our holey atmosphere can I be the one to rename the UN? I would name it the Galactic United Nations or GUN for short. Maybe then I would support one multinational organization. Wouldn’t it be great if the General Secretary could be from Zephlon Gorg (in the not yet found, by us, Biguda Buda Galaxy) and then he would get embroiled in a galactic Warp Drive for Food Packets scandal? That would be totally awesome.
Beyond that the rest of the debate was about the guys beating up on poor, defenseless Hillary Clinton. One story put it this way:
Obama, the Illinois senator, began immediately, saying Clinton has changed her positions on the North American Free Trade Agreement, torture policies and the Iraq war. Leadership, he said, does not mean “changing positions whenever it’s politically convenient.”
Edwards, the former North Carolina senator, was even sharper at times, saying Clinton “defends a broken system that’s corrupt in Washington, D.C.” He stood by his earlier claim that she has engaged in “doubletalk.”
Clinton, standing between the two men, largely shrugged off the remarks and defended her positions. She has been the focus of Republican candidates’ “conversations and consternation,” she said, because she is leading in the polls.
Basically I think debates are a waste of time. In no other situation would the nation’s intelligentsia give thousands of words to something as ridiculous a concept as Al Gore’s “lock box.” But we’ll just trudge along and muddle our way through a ridiculously long campaign season that is only eclipsed by the frivolousness of having a couple dozen candidates combined between the republicans and democrats. BigT
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