As I mentioned a couple of times already, Tom Brokaw was just awful in his performance as debate moderator Tuesday night. He was, as I so artfully and politely said, pissy. But beyond that, his questioning showed a level of presumptuousness and condescension that barely covered up the cluelessness behind his questioning. So, he insisted on a commitment to solve the social security and medicare problems within two years, with no understanding that there is no institutional problem with social security other than the fact that the current administration has been robbing the social security fund in order to support the government's overspending elsewhere, or that if a comprehensive health care solution is created by an Obama Administration, the medicare problem would be resolved in concert with that.
Even worse, he continued the foolishness from the first debate of insisting that the candidates tell what programs they would cut as a result of hard economic times, showing a complete lack of understanding that economic hard times are the absolute worst time to cancel or cut back on essential, progressive programs.
But Tom Brokaw is revered and must be right because he is serious.
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