{"id":1689,"date":"2003-09-04T16:47:15","date_gmt":"2003-09-05T06:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/04\/debate-wrapups\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:28:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:28:36","slug":"debate-wrapups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/04\/debate-wrapups\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate wrapups"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13537,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2003\\\/09\\\/05\\\/politics\\\/campaigns\\\/05DEBA.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13538,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/archives\\\/004048.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/archives\\\/004048.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13539,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.deanforamerica.com\\\/archives\\\/001354.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050524210334\\\/http:\\\/\\\/blog.deanforamerica.com:80\\\/archives\\\/001354.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 11:35:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 04:15:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 04:15:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13540,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.deanforamerica.com\\\/archives\\\/001355.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20041215041928\\\/http:\\\/\\\/blog.deanforamerica.com:80\\\/archives\\\/001355.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 11:35:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 04:15:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 04:15:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13541,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.deanforamerica.com\\\/archives\\\/001357.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>While I didn&#8217;t get to watch tonight&#8217;s Democratic debate, there&#8217;s a good wrap up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/09\/05\/politics\/campaigns\/05DEBA.html\" title=\"Democrats seeking Presidency denounce Bush Iraq policy\">from the New York Times<\/a>, and some very interesting discussion in comment threads to posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/archives\/004048.html\" title=\"Talk about the debate\">Daily Kos<\/a> and Blog for America (in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.deanforamerica.com\/archives\/001354.html\" title=\"The New Mexico Debate\">three<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.deanforamerica.com\/archives\/001355.html\" title=\"New Mexico Debate (Continued)\">seperate<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.deanforamerica.com\/archives\/001357.html\" title=\"More New Mexico Debate Reaction\">threads<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>From the gist of what I&#8217;ve read so far, it seems that while Dean wasn&#8217;t at his best, he did hold his spot at the top of the pack, while Lieberman came off like a complete ass. Some of the most interesting comments are on the Blog for America threads &#8212; hardcore Dean supporters who realize that Dean wasn&#8217;t at his best, and rather than either despairing or blindly declaring him the &#8216;winner&#8217;, they&#8217;re offering lots of constructive criticism and ideas on how to approach later debates. Neat to see, it&#8217;s a much more real form of support that one usually sees in the political arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the gist of what I&#8217;ve read so far, it seems that while Dean wasn&#8217;t at his best, he did hold his spot at the top of the pack, while Lieberman came off like a complete ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}