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The poor guy probably won't have a chance. He'll come across as stilted and uninspired, which is exactly how he comes across on the campaign trail. He'll be up against a very glib and personable opponent who can speak off the cuff better than he can.
The poor guy probably won't have a chance. He'll come across as stilted and uninspired, which is exactly how he comes across on the campaign trail. He'll be up against a very glib and personable opponent who can speak off the cuff better than he can.
Will we have a repeat of Kennedy/Nixon?
Were you even alive during the Kennedy/Nixon debates? As for approving the sitting candidate is the one that does or does not approve the debates, not the other way around. As for speaking off the cuff: Obama is a great speaker but not a great debater: there is a difference. when things are presented to him ahead of time and he had his teleprompter as his friend he is a charming, speaker. When he is speaking off the cuff,he says things that often come back to bite him and he makes serious mistakes. I think Romney, whether dynamic or not will hold his own very well.
So what? They both spout the same crap so why even watch them? Now if they let Johnson in I would watch them to see the crowds reaction to truth and honesty.
“He said that, while he respects both men, President Obama will “smoke” Romney in the presidential debates in the fall and the best that Romney can hope for is that he does not “come out looking like a fool.”
The poor guy probably won't have a chance. He'll come across as stilted and uninspired, which is exactly how he comes across on the campaign trail. He'll be up against a very glib and personable opponent who can speak off the cuff better than he can.
Really? Do you remember the McCain/Obama debate with Rick Warren?
"WARREN: That was a freebie. That was a gimme. That was a gimme, OK? Now, let's deal with abortion; 40 million abortions since Roe v. Wade. As a pastor, I have to deal with this all of the time, all of the pain and all of the conflicts. I know this is a very complex issue. Forty million abortions, at what point does a baby get human rights, in your view?
OBAMA: Well, you know, I think that whether you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade. "
The part I don't get is "undecided voters" on October 16. They get to ask questions. These people who don't know squat and haven't been paying attention (because the choices are pretty clear) get the privilege of asking questions. Either they are shining people on about being undecided or these are the clueless dopes who, for example, when stopped on the street can't name the Vice President when shown a photo of him.
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The part I don't get is "undecided voters" on October 16. They get to ask questions. These people who don't know squat and haven't been paying attention (because the choices are pretty clear) get the privilege of asking questions. Either they are shining people on about being undecided or these are the clueless dopes who, for example, when stopped on the street can't name the Vice President when shown a photo of him.
You have a point there, and I have as little patience with the "undecideds" (aka, clueless) as you. Although assuming they reasonably screen for true "undecideds", at least they wil cut down on the chances of the loaded "strawman" and partisan questions of the sort like, "so when did you become a Muslim, lose your birth certificate, and stop beating your wife?"!
With the race a dead heat right now, I think the whole thing could now hinge on the debates. A lot of people who don't follow the race closely do tune in for the debates.
The moderators are all lefties, but there is one interesting twist. The debate commission chair was Mike McCurry, who was press sec'y to Bill Clinton. I tend to think that Bill Clinton never quite got over having Team Obama play the race card on him in SC. Sure he'll get up on stage tonight and say all the right things in support of Obama. But is it possible that he might have already run a back door play thru his old pal McCurry? Sure it's a conspiracy theory--just something to keep an eye on, though.
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