Keep on rockin' the vote in the free world: Here's the transcript of last night's Rock the Vote. It is actually pretty funny in the beginning when CNN puts together this montage of the candidates and their stock phrases. It then gets pretty inane. Pandering to the "Youth" so you can seem with it. They don't vote anyway, so why bother? Only Gephardt understood this and was eating at a diner in Iowa.

STILL READING IT: My favorite part is Dean playing Neil Young in "Southern Man" and then Edwards coming back in "Sweet Home [North Carolina]". Priceless pandering.

FAVORITE SHARPTON LINE: On why he's an "authentic" politician: "I've gone to jail ... I've been stabbed."

EDWARDS AGAIN: On how to create jobs. First, identify areas that need jobs, then dole out money to people as "seed money". Also, give "help" to businesses that will re-locate to areas that need it. Hmmm, this sounds like "handouts" to me.

KUCINICH: Also on job creation. Undo the Bush tax cuts on the rich. Then take 15% of the Pentagon budget and put into universal kindergarten. How this helps the economy is left unsaid. What a loon.

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