I had hoped for some admission of validity about the many complaints - NOT just here at DU - of the insubstantiality of the "debate" that aired this week.
Here is what I predicted in another post here on DU a couple days ago, well before today's Roundtable aired: "Three provocative outside-the-beltway, middle America types - Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson and George Will - are roundtable panelists to breathlessly declare how wonderful George did at the debate, and how his opening questions were vital to single mothers with no health care and 19-year-old soldiers with their legs blown off in Iraq."
OK, I was wrong about the last part. They didn't bring up health care or Iraq on today's show; George Will only brought up the importance of capital gains tax cuts, and Cokie and Sam just thought it was stupid that folks would complain about George's questions. Sam said it wasn't the questions that are important(!!), it's the answers. They all felt quite important about themselves, and protected one of their own. At the end, George Stephanopoulos aired some footage ridiculing his perfomance, to show what a "good guy" he is. Go to ABC News and check it out for yourself.
http://abcnews.go.com/thisweekI came away more convinced than ever how tough it is going to be to get any attention drawn to single mothers with no health care and 19-year-old soldiers with their legs blown off in Iraq.Peace.