The Facebook Debate, Part the Second

Now that it's over, some final reactions before the Entertainment correspondent challenges us all to Halo 3:

1.) Bill Richardson wants to ask Musharraf to step aside? Will this polite request take the form of an engraved invitation delivered upon a silver platter? The only leverage the U.S. could have in a scenario like that is military leverage. Unfortuantely for Bill, the military is tied up leveraging something else at the moment.

2.) While we're on Bill, we like his proposed energy policies, but we think he's too sentimental when it comes to war and terrorism to be a strong leader. And if we hear him say that he's the only Democratic candidate who's balanced a budget, we may lose our pizza and beer.

3.) Hillary wishes she had death rays for eyes. We just know it. But even while she was tearing into Obama like a starving kid at Thanksgiving, she appeared much more personable than usual.

4.) Hillary and Bill make good points about the troop surge. The fact that it has been successful in lessening the violence makes McCain look good, but the whole point was to prompt the Iraqi government to take responsibility for its own affairs, and it simply has not done this.

5.) John Edwards might never have "taken a dime from a special interest" but he certainly didn't mind taking plenty of dimes from malpractice lawsuits as an ambulance chaser. Furthermore, he's resurrected the ghost of Teddy Roosevelt to show that he's against the special interests....but Teddy "Carry a Big Stick" Roosevelt is probably not the best image for a Democrat to adopt.

6.) Biggest joke of the night? Charlie Gibson's hypothetical family of two college professors that makes $200,000.00 a year.

7.) On the whole, the Democrats were far more civil and mature than the Republicans. That said, we're going to have to declare McCain and Obama the winners. Both were on point, defended themselves effectively (even McCain during Romney's invective about immigration policy), and (a key issue for the Facebook folks judging by the polls) looked good in their suits.

8.) The real victim tonight was the Associated Press. Almost every one of the candidates blamed their position shifting on the AP misquoting them.