Although I did not have a chance to see all of the Democratic debate I was struck by the subject matter of the portions I did see. Worried about paying for college for your kids? Lets talk about Reverend Wright. Concerned about the effects of our trade policy on manufacturing? Lets talk about the Weather Undergound. Keith Olbermann called it the “tabloid debate”. I guess the rationale is that these will be the things that the Republicans will want to talk about in the general election, so we better gird the nominee by talking about them now. I could not disagree more on that, although I realize that the Republican hits will be many and below the belt line. These are serious times with real dangers for our country. We need to be talking real solutions, not nonsense. It does not appear that we are heading in that direction by the subject matter covered last night. What is that old Dylan refrain, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”?

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