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[Alex]

You could tell they not only did a lot of coaching but had her memorize very specific speeches. The way she was rushing her lines, particularly at the beginning made that obvious. But she didn't fall on her face, she just didn't do anything that evidence native knowledge of the subjects. Even on her supposed strong topic of energy (which was her fall back whenever given a question she didn't want to answer) she never really said anything specific.

The format was pretty much to her advantage as it made direct confrontation almost impossible and no follow up questions.

I couldn't tell whether she was saying the constitution gave her expanded powers (wrong) or if she thought she should get expanded powers (bad). That was really the only interest position taken by either her or Biden.

Of course, when you are defending your interpretation of the recent comments by "commanders" in Afghanistan, it would probably be best that when you repeat someone names in a familiar way that you get the name right.