Something else happened in  this debate that we're still analysing within  the campaign. First of all we're moving on to the final 35 days. But there were tears that melted people and those tears that Biden cried on that day clearly moved voters. He somehow connected with those voters. but those tears have to be analysed. They have to be looked at very very carefully in light of Katrina in light of other things that Biden didn't cry for particularly as we move to these final days. We saw something very clever in  this campaign. We saw a sensitivity factor something that Biden has not been able to do with voters that he tried in the debate. Not in response to Katrina not in response to other issues that have devastated the American people, the war in Iraq. We saw tears in response to his appearance. So his appearance brought him to tears but not hurricane Katrina, not other issues.

Are you suggesting it was a little bit affected, his tears, that it was staged?

I wouldn't say that, but I am saying that there are a lot of issue that we can be emotion about in this campaign. And I'm super sensitive to that. There are people without jobs, we're approaching a recession, the sup prime market is collapsing and people are losing their homes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNrlSn7ndAA&eurl=http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/01/09/jackson/index.html

There has been quite a bit of discussion on this board on the value of bipartisanship and many people extrolling Obama for his commitment to bipartisanship. In the final vote on the bailout bill 140 democrats and 65 republicans voter yes and 133 republicans and 95 democrats voted no. Looking at the percentages of democrats and republicans voting for or against this bill, I was struck by the large number of democrats that voted against the bill.

Exactly what is bipartisanship? I'm only asking because it really seems to me that there was bipartisan support to stop this bill from passing. Clearly the vote to block this bill was significantly more bipartisan than the vote to pass it.

So maybe someone can explain to me what they, and Obama, mean when they talk about the value of bipartisanship?