Senators Obama and Clinton faced off for the last time in this long campaign tonight. The result? Boredom and a tiny bit of learning. Despite the anchors best attempts to play gotcha, both of these seasoned pros fended off efforts to answer any questions that might come back to bite them later on.
We learned that Obama doesn’t feel that Clinton has to do anything to prove to America that she would be a worthy candidate to lead the Democrats this Fall. OK. That must be why she’s lost ten straight primaries/caucuses. Seems like voters need a little more convincing to me.
We learned that Clinton is really busy. She’s working day and night (she “hardly has time to sleep”) to get her current tax returns and travel schedule as First Lady released. Somehow it sounded like we should not hold our collective breath.
We learned that Hillary Clinton feels it’s been an honor campaigning against Barack Obama. But, in her closing answer to the final question, we also learned that she couldn’t quite bring herself to return Obama’s compliment that Hillary Clinton didn’t have to prove her worthiness as the potential Democratic Nominee.
We assume that Barack Obama was really glad he didn’t get asked the question about what he knew about Russia’s next president first. His answer, which was not too far from “what she said” brought back high school memories of slacker kids echoing answers of kids who actually bothered to study a little.
Finally, I think we found out that this debate didn’t help Hillary Clinton. She was fine. Fine isn’t going to be good enough. Tonight was her shot and nothing that she said tonight is likely to change the momentum flowing in Barack Obama’s direction.
