CNN Debates: First impressions solidifying

The ProConPundit doesn’t want to give these debates more attention than they deserve. As much as I love that the 08 season is off and running, it really is WAY too early and a lot is going to happen to shape the races. Both the Democratic & GOP debates were well done by CNN as was the Fox GOP debate. So far, MSNBC has put forth the worst of the debates. Incidentally, the Fox Democratic debate should be a great experience because Clinton, Obama, and Edwards won’t participate in them. In some goofball statement that Fox News is too conservative, the hypocritical top tier on the Democratic side won’t participate in it. That’s great news for Joe Biden, who the ProConPundit believes is the best that the Democrats have, and the other second tier candidates to get some oxygen. Clinton, Biden and Dodd are the only ones on the Democratic side with the experience and competence to serve as president. Since Dodd is a pompous hypocrite and Clinton is well, Clinton, the ProConPundit supports Biden. Biden was right on when he said that the next president will have zero margin for error and must be smarter than their advisors
Some other observations from the debates:
–Obama is not only pompous but obnoxious. He has no record of accomplishment and is heading for a fall.
–John Edwards and Hillary Clinton are playing strange roles in this race. He is pretending to be more liberal while she is pretending to be less. Edwards correctly chided the incredulously poor leadership of Clinton and Obama for voting against funding the troops. Edwards is something of an expert on the voting for being voting against quagmire. Clinton and Obama both voted against putting a time line on the war and on its funding. They both voted at the very last moment so that they could argue that their vote was a protest vote only made knowing that the bill would pass and, supposedly their vote didn’t count. Being president does not allow the luxury of protest votes and pandering votes–it requires leaders to say and do what they believe is right. Clinton and Obama have fallen below the competence and character test. Edwards, meanwhile thinks the war on terrorism is a bumper sticker. He is quickly earning the most likely to pander award but a leader and a president he is not.
–While all of the Democrats are against English as the official language in the US and all the Republicans are for it, Hillary was the only one to explain the difference. English is currently recognized as the national language, that is the language spoken by the majority of the people within a nation. The official language is a language that has been declared by a government to be the language of the governed nation. While the ProConPundit strongly supports immigration reform, I don’t see how the official language argument rises to a pressing issue with all of the other problems facing America.
–The ProConPundit was actually impressed with Hillary when she got in touch with her inner Goldwater Girl. Before she met Bill Clinton, she was a Republican and a supporter of Barry Goldwater, who lost to LBJ in 1964. Goldwater was the John the Baptist of the modern American conservative movement. As conservative as Goldwater was, he supported gays in the military saying: "You don’t have to be straight to shoot straight." All of America’s military allies allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military. It was good of Clinton to resurrect Goldwater’s line. All of the Democrats support gays and lesbians serving openly while all of the Republicans oppose it. Can you say P-A-N-D-E-R?
– Former Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) provided a reality check when he said that our economic prosperity of the 90's was due, in part, to raiding the SS trust fund