Naturally I may be all wrong -- it happens!
-- but I have the feeling that this is no quirk, this is a real moment, a history moment, and I'm calling my son over to take a (slightly bewildered) look at it, much in the same way grown-ups called me over to watch Apollo launches when I was little. I haven't read what the pundits or the populus are saying, but even if it turns out to be a sort of awkward, fumbling step, I find it momentous that we have now had a debate of candidates on the Internet and not just over TV.
And I personally am glad that Democrats did it first -- I think it probably scores them some points in terms of being more modern and forward-looking and so on in a general way, and/or suggests a certain stodginess or overly staid character on the part of Republicans, by contrast. Just vague images, but still, maybe something.
Anyway, I was going to point out that at least Mark gets his answer on the issue of Obama's view on reparations, with a surprise chiming in from Mr K!
I must say that those 3 answers give me typical reactions to those 3 candidates: straightforward, sensible, valuable idea worthy of greater consideration and focus; idea for which something might be said philosophically but which is really out of whack with political reality, imo, and will thus never fly; and just a garden variety, vague, empty-sounding platitude.
Did Hillary not answer this one? I'd be interested...
Steve