via MAL Contends

The campaign reactions tell the story.

You can see the difference in the integrity of the two campaigns by their reactions to this inane, imbecilic forum last night by two manifestly unqualified debate moderators.

There was a serious debate last night and Hillary won, says Hillary's campaign.

Obama’s site offers Americans the opportunity to comment on this travesty, "Post Debate: Any thoughts? If you're tired of a slash and burn politics that trades distraction for real debate, you don't have to sit idly and watch anymore."

Clinton’s site pretends that this was a real, substantive debate, "Hillary's Reviews Are In: 'The Winner,' 'Strong Presence,' 'In Her Element'" [Just like Hillary is pretending there was a primary in Michigan and Fla.]

Hillary is still the same, old, lying politician to which more and more Americans are taking a dislike.

Apparently Fox News did not relish the prospect of having a Democratic candidate debate that did not include any of the front-running candidates. Since Edwards, Clinton, and Obama refused to appear in the debates if held on Fox, it would have been an interesting evening. So they cancelled.

Fox says they are planning on rescheduling the debate, but it's hard to see what will change later on. This is not a "scheduling conflict" as the Congressional Black Caucus is saying, unless "nobody wants to come" counts as a scheduling conflict.

It is heartening to see some of the presidential candidates have enough spine to refuse to play in the court of the conservatives. Now if they would only consistently grow enough spine to stop appeasing the policies of the current administration in their campaign appearances, perhaps they could win back the good will of the majority of Americans who do not support the Bush administration.  And we could get on with the American way of life.