{"id":9134,"date":"2016-01-17T23:02:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T04:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=9134"},"modified":"2024-09-11T20:49:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T00:49:58","slug":"democratic-debate-hoots-huckstering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/17\/democratic-debate-hoots-huckstering\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Debate Hoots &#038; Huckstering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s Democratic candidate debate was everything a cynic could have wished for.\u00a0 Government retained its power to perform miracles, though no one explicitly promised that it could raise the dead. It is amazing to see how far &amp; easily both Hillary Clinton and Martin O&#8217;Malley ran from their records in office.\u00a0 Following are some of my tweets tonight &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is it true that the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemDebate<\/a> sponsors hired extra security guards to make sure <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MartinOMalley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MartinOMalley<\/a> didn&#39;t carry off any furniture?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/688904445795680257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">at 9:38 pm <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HillaryClinton<\/a>&#39;s smugness officially reaches the Neon Light Level <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemocraticDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemocraticDebate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/688913568117448709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DemsDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DemsDebate<\/a> Hillary wants a billion more dollars for the drug war &#8211; makes as much sense as her lust to bomb Libya<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/688916349171675136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MartinOMalley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MartinOMalley<\/a> boasts on MD having best schools in nation for 5 years &#8211; 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it did nothing to stop Baltimore carnage<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/688907982994821120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BernieSanders<\/a> says Saudis need to start &quot;putting skin in the game&quot; for fighting extremists &#8211; bankrolling 9\/11 attackers was not enough??<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/688925092722667522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MartinOMalley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MartinOMalley<\/a> has faith in  &quot;a new generation of foreign service officers&quot; &#8211; sounds more plausible than &quot;magic beans&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/688926267933102082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MartinOMalley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MartinOMalley<\/a> boasts about 1984-style Fusion Centers for Homeland Security surveillance &#8211; which audits have condemned as flops <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/demdebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#demdebate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/688929428102098944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HillaryClinton<\/a> blames Iraqi Prime Minister Malaki for shafting that nation&#39;s military &#8211; 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