Completely Unnecessary

And his remarks are pretty spot-on:

Some highlights:

I will tell you, it does not get much more fun than these debates. They are inspiring events. I mean, last night, I think we set a new record because it took us 45 minutes before we even started talking about a single issue that matters to the American people. It took us 45 minutes!

Noting that ‘Senator Clinton looked in her element’ when asked by the moderators to attack him, Obama said:

Look, I understand that because that’s the text book Washington game. That’s how our politics has been taught to be played. That’s the lesson that she learned when the Republicans were doing that same thing to her back in the 1990s. So I understand it and when you’re running for the presidency then you’ve got to expect it.

You know, doing research on Australian elections - as dumb as they are sometimes - really helps put the American political process into perspective. I saw a clip yesterday with the now-Deputy PM Julia Gillard congratulating ALP supporters for raising ‘tens of thousands of dollars’ during the election. I chuckled, and then felt a little dead inside.

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