I know what you're thinking -- who reads anymore? Especially an entire debate! Why don't I just look on YouTube for the highlights? Or read Phillip's awesome coverage! :)
Well, for historical purposes, a written transcript is important. Here you go -- let me know if you see any errors, I just copy and pasted what was sent to me.
Talk in those threads, talk in these. So you know -- we wanted to keep each topic in its own thread, if nothing else, to record this historic event. Here's what we recorded -- and talk tonight this in the comments:
Clinton says it will sort itself out and we won't need it. Quick and simple. Obama says its important that the primaries and caucuses count for something, then goes on to speak about the importance of people entering the process for the first time.
Senator Clinton had the line of the night ("that's not change you can believe in, that's change you can Xerox"), but it came after Senator Obama made a beautiful argument about bringing people together. What are others saying?
Hillary just said, "If your campaign is going to be based on words, I think they should be your own." Best line of the night. She added, "If you talk about change, it's not change you can believe in, it's change you can xerox." It's a good line, but... ooh. Ouch. Even the media didn't like that one.
Does she have a tin ear? Or do people just love Obama and don't want to hear it?
When she starts saying things like that, the first reaction is "there's a good line;" the second thing you think is, "ooh, I'm glad my wife isn't like that."
More than one person here at the Metro Grill in Dallas appeared to send a French fry down the wrong way when Hillary Clinton, suggesting Barack Obama had plagiarized passages in his speeches
About 15 minutes to go -- I can feel the excitement from Somerville, Massachusetts! We, of course, will be liveblogging the debate -- here are some other great sites who will be providing continuous updates as well:
P.S. -- If there's one thing we can all agree with, it's that Lou Dobbs is a fear-mongering blowhard that gives a bad name to, well, America. It's amazing that so many Hispanics are coming back to the Democratic Party specifically because of blowhards like Lou Dobbs. It was interesting, after the editorial mocking Dobbs in the NY Times, listen to him go after them this evening.
