It’s amazing to me how unified the progblogs are in bashing ABC over the debate questions last night. It appears – remember, no TV in the house, so didn’t see it – that ABC did a pretty good job of asking the candidates the questions that the GOP will be asking the nominee.<\/p>\n
That strikes me a good thing; given that the intention is to select a nominee who can win, I’d like to know who can stand up to the inside fastballs rather than just hit the hanging pitch over the center of the plate.<\/p>\n
Who can bash Bush the loudest or hardest – or who has memorized the more exhaustive set of briefing papers – doesn’t tell us much about who the best candidate will be.<\/p>\n
So while the bloggers are beside themselves that tough questions mean the media isn’t keeping it’s 15% tip going for the Democrats, in fact asking those questions was the most favorable thing the commentators could do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Armed Liberal thinks ABC helped the Democrats by asking hard, if petty, questions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}