It came on late, 9 PM. We are down to Hillary, Bernie, and O'Malley. Due to the Paris massacre, they opened up with foreign policy. All three tried to sound tough without talking about sending US forces to deal with ISIS. No one mentioned Obama's troop withdrawal from Iraq that turned the place over to ISIS. O'Malley wanted more and better intelligence. He failed to mention that intelligence does us little good without the will to act on it, to strike the enemy. All three were four square for doing something, but they all avoided promising real action. Everyone was in favor of having the locals, Turks, Sunnis, Saudis, Egyptians, anybody except Israel, get in the fight.
After the first commercial break, they changed the subject to free stuff, how much each candidate would furnish, how high they would set the federal minimum wage ($15 vs $12), and how a few harmless soak-the-rich taxes would pay for it all without raising the national debt. Right.
I went to bed before it was over. God help the United States if any one of those turkeys becomes president.
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