Two Twitter takes on Marianne Williamson's debate performance last night

[Dennis Donovan]

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Matthew Dowd ✔ @matthewjdowd

Though she is unfortunately being dismissed by many, Williamson made some important points last night including: love is what conquers hate, and that we don’t have a healthcare system in US, we have a sickness care system. These are key to understand to rebuild our country.

7:54 AM - Jun 28, 2019

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Michael Ian Black ✔ @michaelianblack

Marianne Williamson for Secretary of Crystals.

10:40 PM - Jun 27, 2019

Dowd's take is spot on, and Black's take is funny!

[hlthe2b]

1. And another:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marianne-williamson-2020-democratic-debate_n_5d15994fe4b03d61163931ce

Stationed at the far end of the stage, Williamson, an author and activist, didn’t make a peep for the first 15 minutes as everyone else climbed over each other to get on camera. When she was finally asked about her plan for lowering the cost of prescription drugs, her answer was... unexpected.

“I’ll tell you one thing, it’s really nice if we’ve got all these plans,” Williamson began, speaking in her unusual Mid-Atlantic accent. “But if you think we’re going to beat Donald Trump by just having all these plans, you’ve got another think coming. Because he didn’t win by saying he had a plan. He won by simply saying, ‘Make America great again.’”

What? Having actual policy ideas matters less than #MAGA?

“We’ve got to get deeper than just these superficial fixes,” she continued, referring to Democrats’ fleshed-out policies on immigration, health care, education, student loans and whatever else you can think of.

The moderators moved on. They asked the panel what would be your priority issue as president? Gun violence, said Rep. Eric Swalwell (Calif.). Climate change, said Sen. Michael Bennet (Colo.). A family bill of rights, said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.).

“My first call is to the prime minister of New Zealand, who said that her goal is to make New Zealand the place where it’s the best place in the world for a child to grow up,” said Williamson. “I would tell her, ’Girlfriend, you are so wrong!”

Uh. What about the first international relationship you’d like to reset as president?

“One of my first phone calls would be to call the European leaders and say, ‘We’re baaaack!’” said Williamson.

It’s not that Williamson didn’t make any substantive points as the two hours rolled on. She accused the Trump administration of child abuse for ripping migrant kids from their parents at the border and loading them into unsanitary detention facilities. Trump is attacking “America’s moral core” with his immigration policies, she said. “We open our hearts to the stranger.”

And it’s not that emailing reporters a video of yourself dancing to “Runaround Sue” with a guy in a cowboy hat and urging them to “JUST DANCE,” hours before going on national television as a presidential candidate, is completely off the wall. Neither is emailing reporters to recommend that they de-stress from the debates not by drinking vodka but by doing yoga poses.

“Instead of downing a shot, do a downward dog,” reads the campaign email. “Every time someone talks about the green new deal, strike an eagle pose.” (Eagle pose looks hard!)

[IluvPitties]

2. Marianne is a positive voice.

There are venues for her. Politics is not one of them.

[LeftInTX]

3. I like her natural gray hair

As someone who wishes they could gray naturally, her hair is perfect.

Mine looks like "wall of skunk", so I keep dying...LOL

That is the one thing I like about Williamson.

[handmade34]

4. I discovered last night

that I REALLY like Marianne Williamson... just not as my President

[thesquanderer]

5. This was her best point:

we don’t have a health care system in the United States, we have a sickness care system in the United States. We just wait until somebody gets sick and then we talk about who’s going to pay for the treatment and how they are going to be treated. What we need to talk about is why so many Americans have unnecessary chronic illnesses so many more compared to other countries and that gets back into not just the big Pharma, not just health insurance companies, it has to do with chemical policies, it has to do with environmental policies, it has to do with food policies, It has to do with drug policies.

Good point that, in the bigger picture, all of that stuff is part of healthcare.

And she was right that Trump won more by reaching people on an emotional level ("MAGA!&quot than on any set of policies, philosophies or beliefs.

She came off a little better than I expected, but only because my bar was so low. I still won't miss her.