Live Blogging ACORN's Presidential Candidate Forum

This afternoon I'll be live blogging from ACORN's presidential forum, which is being held in the best city in America-- Philadelphia (hey, stop laughing, before I show you what we mean by "Brotherly Love"- think older brothers and noogies). Only three of the candidates--Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Dennis Kucinich-- are attending, but it still should be an interesting time.

The forum will be webcast on ACORN's site, and there will be a number of other bloggers there as well, including a few from some of the bigger liberal political blogs. For a full list of bloggers check ACORN's Candidate's Forum blog.

Update: there's no wireless here, and typing too much on my blackberry kills my thumbs, so I won't be able to really write much. It's packed here, and after a long wait and lots of call and answers/chants, Hillary just came on.didn't take long for the first screaming nut to start, and nobody is stopping him. This is really weird. Now they're trying to talk to him. And now, after two or three awkward minutes, he's leaving, screaming and singing all the way.

Update 2: I just left the Forum, after listening to Hillary's speech and the Q&A session. The Senetor from New York gave a really impassioned speech which was met by loud cheers, though I have to say that every time I hear Hillary talk about health care or a living wage or predatory lending (hello bankruptcy bill!). The more I see, the less I like, though I still think she'd be a formidable Democratic candidate, and she definitely shares her husband's ability to work a crowd

Either way, there was just no way I was going to wait around for Kucinich and then stand for an hour while he speaks, and I heard Edwards speak two weeks ago.

Update 3: Edwards just finished, and as usual I really like what he has to say about issues effecting the poor and working class in America. He didn't seem to get the same amount of cheering and applause as Hillary, though it could have been some combination of the fact that he went on over 3 hours after the event began and the cheering could be a lot less audible over the interwebs, but I was really surprised that ACORN member aren't going gaga over a guy who seems to be running mainly on their issues. I did think that Edwards statement that "I don't need to read your position papers... Because they're already my positions!" was a bit clumsily worded, and in general his orating abilities aren't at the same level as Clinton or Obama, but I definitely think he has more substance than either of them.