Gaah! From Gail Collins: "Clinton is not a very interesting speaker, and her failure to say anything stupid made her side of the debate all the more unexciting."
Look, I'm sorry, but the point of a debate is to discuss issues and to inform, not to entertain, not to be more "alpha" than the other candidate. Secretary Clinton has a masterful handle on all of the many issues that she will face as President of the US. And she can articulately describe them. That is a feature, not a bug!
Almost any random person off the street could have done what Donald Trump did tonight (in terms of information or lack thereof). Very few people, if anyone, could have done what Secretary Clinton did.
So stop with the "she was wonky" or "she was dry" or whatever. Because, first of all, she wasn't. Second, and again, we want an intelligent, informed, thoughtful President (like we have now). She isn't going to be the entertainer in chief, she is going to be Commander in Chief. She needs to be elected and we need to put this whole sorry reality-show spectacle of a WWF election behind us -- and never do it again. Ever.