John Podhoretz says the Kaddish for Hillary. It was a bad night for her.

The Contentions gang liveblogged the debate, so plenty more over there. It has gotten harder to watch these things, though, and it doesn't help that the Dems invariably open with 20 minutes of debate on the minute difference between their respective health care plans.

Hillary was outperformed again. She set him up perfectly on Farrakhan--only a Clinton would parse the difference between denouncing and rejecting. The faux outrage she mustered over what she and Tina Fey perceive as unfair treatment came off as pathetic whining (shouldn't she have embraced the other message from SNL?), and then there was the obfuscation on her tax returns, the BS response to how she wasn't able to conjure 5 million jobs out of thin air, etc. etc. Russert didn't make it easy on her, but then she hasn't made things easy on herself either.

The Obama/McCain debates will be a nice change of pace.