MB Civic

By Eugene Robinson | Friday, April 18, 2008 | The Washington Post

“…Once the meaningless inquisition about loose semantics and questionable acquaintances was done, Wednesday night’s debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton got interesting.

Granted, it’s likely that only the most intrepid viewers made it to the Promised Land of actual substance. For some reason, ABC News moderators Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos — smart and skilled interviewers who, to put it mildly, had an off night — spent what seemed like an eon grilling Obama and (to a lesser extent) Clinton about verbal gaffes they had already corrected and problematic entanglements they had already disentangled. You know the litany: the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the “bitter” working class, sniper fire in Bosnia, blah, blah, blah….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041703166_pf.html