9:15 PM: I’m trying to get a handle on what I think of how Anderson Cooper is handling this debate. My immediate take is that he’s stylistically being very, very aggressive. But the facts he hits people with, they seem to be able to dispatch pretty quickly – even when the candidates don’t have great arguments on the facts. Like he’s talking an aggressive game but he doesn’t seem that well prepared. Thoughts?
9:25 PM: Lincoln Chafee is so damn earnest and old line New Englandy and appealing. Not vote appealing – for me at least. But really appealing. And Hillary … wow, that was an inspired response (Obama made her Secretary of State). Without being aggressive at all, in political terms, she just made Chafee’s question go up in smoke.
9:29 PM: Asking staff to research whether Rick Perry handed his glasses off to Anderson Cooper after he got out of the race.
9:32 PM: Interesting that Webb signals opposition to Iran Deal.
9:33 PM: I’m not as much of a China hawk as Jim Webb but he’s very, very right about our myopia on the Middle East. There is more going in the world than the eastern Mediterranean and the Muslim Middle East.
