I have to come clean from the start. I did not watch the first hour or so of the debates. Like most of America I watched The Biggest Loser and Dancing With the Stars. I have watched like twenty of these debates this year and frankly I have come to find them amazingly boring. I DID however switch back for the last hour or so and I did watch the post debate coverage and a bunch of clips and so I have some further thoughts.

I saw all the exchanges between Edwards, Obama & Clinton. If you watch the coverage you would think there was a caged death match going on. I personally did not see it.

There was absolutely NOTHING in the Edwards-Obama-Take-On-Clinton-Three-Way that wasn’t in any of the other debates. Their arguments were almost 100% the same, their tactics were almost 100% the same. You could easily have shown me the last five debates and woven them together with last nights and I wouldn’t notice a difference in style or content.

But again the framing hype of television made it out to be something so special Americans missed out by not watching it. The immediacy was made up and the debate was framed in the traditional black/white vision television frames everything in, but again, it was pretty much the rehashing of the same arguments and tactics of every other debate.

Frankly can I ask, when did Hillary Clinton ever answer a question straight? I like how this is something new. Hillary Clinton dodges questions, we know this. So does her husband and every other politician and so does everyone else on that stage. I have to be honest with you, I’ve watched a ton of these debates. She almost never gives a straight, easy to understand answer. It is always blah blah blah bipartisan committee blah blah blah unilateral study blah blah blah fourteen point plan.

I loved that Chris Dodd attacked Clinton for giving double answers. Do you know why I loved it? Because he did so after answering the same question by saying something along the lines of “I am not sure if this is the right move, but it might be the right move because we need to do something, if it isn’t the right move we need to find out what the right move is, we haven’t done our jobs in Washington which means states now may make what is not the right move, but at least it is a move, whether it is right or wrong, I support making a move even if I don’t fully support this move or any move made, but making moves is good, but we shouldn’t race to make a move, however I want to see the move made immediately. SHE DIDN’T ANSWER THE QUESTION!!!”

When Chris Dodd talks my mind becomes incapable of processing information. It literally becomes incapable of taking information in, comprehending it and storing it for later. The reason is because it hears that someone is saying words but there is absolutely no information presented when those words are put together. Chris Dodd speaks like a politician, they ALL speak like politicians. Do you know why? BECAUSE THEY ARE POLITICIANS!

Meanwhile Barack Obama and John Edwards are just as bad if not worse because they are trying to pretend they are not politicians. But they are and they sound like ones. It takes Obama ten minutes to make any point and he has usually started four other thoughts along the way. Edwards meanwhile sounds like he is running for mayor of Candyland and just wants to present people with a sunny picture of all the treats he will give people with taxpayer money. He doesn’t so much answer questions as make promises about spending other peoples money and raising taxes on the wealthy.

BUT we know all this already. We heard it all in the previous twenty debates and we will hear it in the next twenty. So let’s stop jumping up and down like there is something new going on here. There really is not.