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The debate thread; lets live blog
Topic Started: Oct 3 2012, 05:16 PM (2,730 Views)
Larry
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I think the moderator did a fantastic job, the best moderated debate I've seen in ages. The debate isn't about the moderator, it's about the candidates. The more "invisible" the moderator is the better. I didn't see him being "run over" by either one of them - I saw him giving the candidates room to debate instead of forcing them to "submit to mah authoritah"...


As for Obama being distracted by something - I'm sure he was. The debate was about the economy, and Obama has no clue, and his track record proves it. Any attempt he might make to defend his abysmal record makes him look as stupid as the leftwingers who are currently attempting to portray Obama as having "won in the long run"..


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Mikhailoh
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jon-nyc
Oct 4 2012, 08:19 AM
George K
Oct 4 2012, 08:01 AM
Bob Woodward says something was distracting Obama.
I described him as "not quite present".
So he's actually going downhill. He used to be 'Present' most all the time. Votewise anyway.
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George K
Oct 4 2012, 08:01 AM
jon-nyc
Oct 3 2012, 06:49 PM
(3) he gets to prep more because he doesn't have a day job.
Bob Woodward says something was distracting Obama.
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Bob Woodward, America’s preeminent investigative reporter and non-fiction author, joined Brian Kilmeade on Kilmeade and Friends this morning and suspected that something happened in President Obama’s presidential or personal life that distracted him during last night’s debate. Woodward goes on to suggest this “something” could be in foreign affairs with an intelligence report and predicts that as the onion gets peeled we will find out what happened.
I dunno...I'm watching him live now and he seems pretty peppy.

http://www.c-span.org/Campaign2012/Events/Pres-Obama-Campaign-Rally-in-Denver/10737434626-1/
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Mikhailoh
Oct 4 2012, 08:34 AM
jon-nyc
Oct 4 2012, 08:19 AM
George K
Oct 4 2012, 08:01 AM
Bob Woodward says something was distracting Obama.
I described him as "not quite present".
So he's actually going downhill. He used to be 'Present' most all the time. Votewise anyway.
:rimshot:
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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Renauda
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HOLY CARP!!!
Al Gooer blames the altitude:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/gore-on-obamas-denver-flop-it-was-the-altitude/2012/10/04/90994d7e-0e36-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_blog.html


:lol: you just can't make this sh1t up.
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John D'Oh
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At least he didn't blame global warming.
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George K
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John D'Oh
Oct 4 2012, 08:48 AM
At least he didn't blame global warming.
It's pretty sad when Al Gore says you're a bad debater.
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Cheers
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Renauda
Oct 4 2012, 07:02 AM
I thought both debaters were lacklustre.

While most of what they debated was of marginal concern to me (although how the US deals with its health care insurance could have an impact on the future of our health care insurance and delivery) , I am pretty certain that either one of them in the White House would be beneficial to the continued growth of the Alberta energy industry and ecomony.

Well, which one do you think would be more amusing to watch for four years?
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After watching some of the latter part of the debate and their closing statements, it seems to me that Obama was perhaps trying just not to misstep. He could have done a fair amount of attacking things, could have at least mentioned the "47%", could have made hay with the Big Bird comment. But he didn't. Either he was holding himself back or he just doesn't think well on his feet. Maybe without his economic team there to lay things out for him, he just doesn't know what to do or say.
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Oh, and Romney didn't pwn Obama either, but he did look like he was in command of the night, and therefore could be in charge of the country, so in that sense was Presidential.
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Kincaid
Oct 4 2012, 09:27 AM
Renauda
Oct 4 2012, 07:02 AM
I thought both debaters were lacklustre.

While most of what they debated was of marginal concern to me (although how the US deals with its health care insurance could have an impact on the future of our health care insurance and delivery) , I am pretty certain that either one of them in the White House would be beneficial to the continued growth of the Alberta energy industry and ecomony.

Well, which one do you think would be more amusing to watch for four years?
I would think Romney, Obama's stand up routine has lost its polyester sheen. It's time for him stand aside and let a genuine Herb Tarlek take the reins.
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and Paul Ryan will make a great Les Nessman!
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I'll bet he knows how to pronounce Chi Chi Rodriguez.
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Kincaid
Oct 4 2012, 10:15 AM
and Paul Ryan will make a great Les Nessman!
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Just read Obama thought he saw George Bush in the audience,
and was taken aback. And never recovered.
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Renauda
Oct 4 2012, 09:44 AM
It's time for him stand aside and let a genuine Herb Tarlek take the reins.
Oh God, I'm never going to get that image out of my head.
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Margaret and Helen on the debate (h/t Lisa)

HELEN:

Well Margaret, once again I am going to say what the media won’t. Mitt Romney is a lying sack of **** and he wouldn’t know a middle class tax cut if it bit him in the middle of his gold plated ass. Evidently the media seems to think that the person who slings the bull**** the farthest wins the debate. Well if that ain’t the damnest thing.

Who exactly was that man debating the President last night? Clearly somebody finally decided to shake the Etch A Sketch and now Romney is against lowering taxes for the wealthy. He’s also pro choice and for entitlement programs. But what the hell he has against Big Bird is beyond me.

If lying whenever your mouth moves is what they mean by style points then, yes, I would definitely have to say that Romney won the debate. He had to temporarily become a Democrat to do it, but yes he won. And it was clear that even the President didn’t see that one coming.

According to Etch A Sketch Romney there will be no tax cuts for the wealthy. After all, the 14% that Romney has been paying wasn’t so bad once he compared it to what everyone else was paying. Also there will be no government interference in healthcare decisions for Americans. Thank goodness because that government ban on abortion the Republicans want and Romney has promised really was a deal breaker for me. I am also delighted to know that Romney is going to force all of the states to finally implement healthcare reform. Considering they haven’t done it yet, I am not sure what he has in mind but I say bully for him. Yes. Romney needed a game changer and tonight he changed the game alright. He changed parties and became the liberal democrat we all knew he wanted to be.

If anyone out there has any idea of which Romney is running for President, please let me know because I can’t keep them all straight. Is he the guy who wants to end Medicare or the guy who wants to spend more money on Medicare? Is he the guy who wants to control my vagina or the one who believes that government shouldn’t be making healthcare decisions? Is he the guy who thinks that 47% of Americans are victims or the guy who thinks that tax cuts for the wealthy are a bad idea? Is he the guy who wants to work on day one with Democrats in Congress or the guy who on day one wants to reverse everything the Democrats accomplished? Is he the guy who likes Big Bird or the guy who will cancel Big Bird?

Margaret, that man has more faces than I have chins. I can’t keep up with which lie is the real lie. All this would be so much easier if Governor Romney would just do what he says his five sons do: pick a lie and stick to it.

The way I see it, we’re all just a bunch of Big Birds. Romney looks right into the camera and says he likes us, but given the chance, he’ll fry us up and serve us on the closest ironing board Ann can find. I mean it. Really.

MARGARET:

Helen, I couldn’t follow either one of them most of the time. They both seemed a little too angry for my liking. The one I felt sorry for was that poor Jim Lehrer. I’ve left the house many a time and forgotten my teeth too.


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Renauda
Oct 4 2012, 08:44 AM
Of course, Obama has such a massive intellect that he needs more oxygen than the rest of us do...
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Kincaid
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Helen needs to get out more often. Obama was no slacker in mistatement of facts last night. And on both sides, it is so tiring to hear people throw around the charge "liar" all the time.
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Oct 4 2012, 02:33 PM
Helen needs to get out more often. Obama was no slacker in mistatement of facts last night. And on both sides, it is so tiring to hear people throw around the charge "liar" all the time.
Or get the battery charged in her power chair...



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Another bad break for the president.

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Revised:

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