Mike Gravel, Health Care, Candidates Getting a Few Digs...

Is sweet. He's ashamed that America is building a fence along our border and says that's not the America he fought for. Maybe I'll vote for him out of affection.

But really, I'm most likely voting for Hillary. A lot of people I respect really disagree when I translate things into practical terms about how things actually get done in Washington, how policy moves forward and gets enacted, how compromise typically has to occur, how the most effective president is one who is committed to a set of values but also understands that they won't be successful unless they work with the people across the aisle. I know it's every progressive's fantasy to have a president who inspires them with their own progressiveness. But I really think such a person would fail to actually enact much of their agenda...I want someone effective.

Dude. Biden was just smart. He complimented HC on her hard work on universal health care and talked about how it's not her fault, she's fantastic, that because she's been fighting special interests for so long and has been a lightening rod for the right that it would be far harder for her to pass universal health care than it would be for others. He stressed that it wasn't his fault.

'Kay. Chattin' about health care now. Edwards is actually trying to say that he is not a Washington insider. And Tim Russert just called him on the fact that four years ago he said we couldn't afford universal health care and it would be a bad idea to do it. Edwards is bugging me right now.

Hee hee. BO just complimented HC and Edwards for their work on health care, and then dug at them both, saying 'I know John wants credit for issuing a plan first. Harry Truman had a plan years ago." Then he told Hillary that health care failed for her because the American people did not feel welcome into the conversation. Sorry, but that's bull and anyone who followed what happened at the time knows it.

Oh. Mike Gravel just said that when he went bankrupt earlier in life, he stuck the credit card companies with $90,000 of bills that they deserved. It was kind of funny. Kucinich is now being asked about how he managed to bankrupt Cleveland.