Dem Debate

Go see Steve Benen for a good wrap-up. For my money, though (and I may be prejudiced, growing up in an Indiana steel town as I do, where, when I was a kid, the most popular occupation of my friends' fathers was "laid off"), this was the defining moment of the debate:


If you can watch that without getting choked up, you've a stronger constitution than I do. Think Progress has a partial transcript.

That, by the way, is precisely why the Republican candidates will always have "scheduling conflicts" when this debate format is suggested. Spineless shitbags.