October 14, 2015
By: Linda Case Gibbons
"Wait a minute. I'll get to that."
The "that" is the four dead Americans killed in Benghazi. The speaker was Hillary Clinton during the Democratic Debate. She never got to the "that" in her answer.
They say Hillary won the debate, but it's debatable.
How could she miss against four guys nobody knows?
Except for Bernie. Everyone recognized Bernie because he looks like Larry David. Plus Socialists are mind-stickers when they're running for president of the U.S.
And it was debatable whether the debate was a debate at all. There was no competition from people who were supposed to be contenders, so the lackluster event turned out to be more like a "Saturday Night Live" skit and a Hillary love fest than anything else.
Moderator Anderson Cooper tried his best, asking hard questions, but the guys and Hill were having none of it.
Hillary and her e-mails were protected by Bernie, which she loved, and the guys just gave up. The candidates knew Hill was the frontrunner and so they didn't even try.
They did not present as a very formidable bunch and they certainly weren't fighters. Remember, O'Malley and Bernie had both timidly surrendered their microphones to "Black Lives Matter" during their campaigns, and Lincoln Chaffey remained near tears for most of the debate because of what he considered his misguided vote on Glass-Steagall.
And, when asked, none of the candidates voiced an opinon about whether or not all lives mattered.
But what difference does it make? Even though Clinton denies that she's entitled to the presidency because of her last name, she thinks she's entitled to the presidency because of her last name.
Even though she has jumped on the Congressional hearings on Benghazi as a Republican attempt to sink her in the polls; even though she thinks it'll fly that she didn't have an opinion about the Keystone Pipeline until she had an opinion about the Keystone Pipeline, these aren't the only pressing national issues this presidential hopeful ducks wherever she is.
And yet they said she won the debate.
One thing became clear from watching, Hillary and Bernie are on the same page. They both hate everything: Republicans, colleges, the rich, the banks, Wall Street. To use a cliche, everything looks like a nail to these two hammers.
And they both want to give 'til it hurts: Free college, free healthcare, you name it and they think it should be free, especially for illegal immigrants so that their children can realize their full potential.
Through it all, there was nary a mention of the national debt, ISIS or Obama.
There was no mention of the president's role in why, according to the candidates, the middle class is taking a hit or why there is rampant inequality everywhere, and why this would change by electing another Democrat after having a Democrat in the White House for nearly eight years.
Obama's name never came up as a possible reason for the fine mess America finds itself in.
In the end, all you could really say about the Democrats on that stage was they might have been a little less energetic than Jeb Bush, or less exciting than Donald Trump, and that we liked Larry David's Bernie better than we liked the real thing.
Hold the line, America.