crossposted at Quiet Clown

I've been here on DK a number of years, but this is my first diary. So please be gentle.

There is a lot of talk on and off the 'net about the ABC News Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton debate a couple nights ago in Philadelphia, the last debate before the important, but probably not critical, Pennsylvania primary now just four days away. The consensus at the progressive political sites I frequent — and in the nearly 20,000 (at this writing) comments about the debate at ABCNews.com — is the questions chosen by moderators Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos did not address most of the issues of pressing concern to ordinary Pennsylvanians and their fellow Americans. Furthermore, the consensus is most of the questionable questions, if you will, were directed at Obama. "Appalling", "degrading", "debacle", "execrable", and "tabloid" are among the common choice words debate viewers have used to describe it at ABCNews.com.