Part III:

Kucinich wants people to “text peace.” How hip: geek peace.

Now to education: “Who is your favorite teacher and why?” OK, sweet question. But I’m not sure what it can tell us. Edwards uses it as his excuse to mention his “daddy in teh mill.” Never miss a chance.

We get a music video about no child left behind. Once again, I can’t read it but the question is clear. Richardson would scrap it. The crowd cheers. Biden blames voting in favor of it in his friend Ted Kennedy but he, too, would scrap it.

Next, a question about sending kids to private or public school. Cooper lists the candidates who, he says, sent their kids to private school. All those candidates tell Cooper he’s wrong.

Next, we want to hear about the candidates talking birds ‘n’ bees with their kids. Do we?

Now to the Red State Update guys: What about Al Gore?

And a snowman asks about global warming.

Can we make the voters of American look any twinkier?

Kucinich talks about “global warring and global warming.” Can he make the candidates sound any twinkier?

At last we come to the dutiful energy question. Gravel answers on taxes. I’m confused. Dodd brags that he has a hybrid. Cooper asks who took a private jet. Clinton quite properly says that we have not seriously addressed climate change. Cooper interrupts once more: That’s the next question.

That next question: nuclear power. The questioner says he hasn’t heard the candidates on the issue and so it’s at least a fresh topic. Edwards is against nuclear power. Obama is in favor of exploring nuclear power. Clinton says she’d take away tax breaks for oil companies for a strategic energy fund; she’s “agnostic” about nuclear power and says Edwards is right about problems of waste and cost but also says that technology might solve it.