First Democratic Primary debate watched on TV

(All photos link to something because I'm compulsive.)

The first Democratic Party primary debate was held last night in South Carolina. There was a gathering of Obama supporters at Sputnik, a swanky Soviet-themed lounge in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

There were about 20 people there as the broadcast began at 7pm and by the end there were easily 40. I hope that is representative of the overall TV audience (in the sense that people don't usually gather in bars to watch political primary debates like it's a football game).

Richardson looked a bit nervous and stumbled verbally but weirdly that wasn't until the 4th or 5th question asked of him. Clinton is a total screecher (seriously; there's a mic right there and she can't seem to get out of outdoor-rally-voice mode; apparently, and ironically, Chris Matthews agrees with me). That ugly thing called The Consensus says Obama won, but overall I thought all the candidates did quite well and they were all strong and knowledgeable and electable.

(of course, the bar having been
lowered to the level of a municipal
sewer over the last six years,
that was of little surprise).

Well, maybe not all the candidates. These two guys
probably deserve the presidency more than the
rest of the candidates combined; will they get it? No....

...unfortunately...	... and unfortunately.
click here and here to make dennis speak	and here to hear mike

This is Jordan, our main Brooklyn organizer.

He runs a grass-roots pol org called Brooklyn4Barack.

We were also joined by a news crew from the CBS Evening News who interviewed a few of us afterwards (myself included). I was told that if they use it it will be on tonight's (Friday) broadcast. Set your Tivo's to "stun".

There was also a leprechaun, helping to elect the second Irish-American to the Presidency.

(that's a four-leaf clover in place of the apostrophe; very cute)

they also had these great lamps there
that took me exactly 15 seconds to
find in the ikea web site