[rlmorel]

Wasn't it...and when you listen to it...just wow.

At the crucial part in the dialogue where Barret asks her to define her terms:

BARRETT: How would you define “super-precedent”?

KLOBUCHAR: I actually might have thought someday I’d be sitting in that chair. I’m not. I’m up here. So I’m asking you.

BARRETT: Okay, well, people use super-precedent differently...

That segment was the key right there. And the impressive thing was...there wasn't any hemming or hawing from Barrett.

It is as if she just knew how that line of questioning was going to go.

Maybe I am giving her too much credit. But, I would think, as a professor with a lot of talented students...this may not be a new thing.

Part of her job as a good professor and lawyer is to evaluate her subject, jury, or opposition...figure out how they accept and process information. Good teachers know how to do this, and the great ones can do it intuitively, in the same way it is said that a combat hardened soldier with experience can size up another soldier in a tight spot and figure out if they can trust them or not.

She has probably had to walk many students and people down that logical path, that this dimwit Leftist Senator was an easy mark for someone a lot sharper the herself.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

I don't understand why so many Freepers seem surprised that she is so deftly handling the Dem Senators.

Have you all forgotten that she spends HOURS each day handling 7 young children?

So tell me, what's the big difference between that and handling 7 Democratic Senators, in terms of the intellectual challenges?

I can picture her being asked last week how much "Debate Prep" time she needed, and her responding, "LOL!"