Anybody see the Democratic Presidential debate last night?

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GAVol

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All the questions were asked via Youtube. It was utterly ridiculous that the candidates stood there for that train wreck. The questions were all over the place and at times just plain goofy and it forced the candidates to stand there awkwardly and pretend this was a legitimate debate.

Note to GOP . . . Avoid, avoid, avoid this format.
 
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Did not see it, but heard one of them on the radio. I think it was a snowman asking them about global warming. It really sounded stupid on the radio.
 
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allvol123 said:
Did not see it, but heard one of them on the radio. I think it was a snowman asking them about global warming. It really sounded stupid on the radio.
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It looks even more stupid when they switch the shot from a Youtube of a talking snowman to a shot of Barack Obama in a suit behind a podium.
 
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The Democrats long term plan of creating a large stupid mass of people that are captured by lights and shiny things and then getting them to vote, is well on its way to working.
 
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If that is their goal, last night's debate was a rousing success. Replace Anderson Cooper with Jon Stewart making fun of everybody and they could have aired it on Comedy Central.
 
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vader said:
Like this?
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:)Sort of.

I still wonder about the day a big group was around a table and they said "I know . . . To make people feel better, we'll color code their fear levels." :good!:
 
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Limbaugh just opened his show suggesting that the debate was so absurd that the next Democratic debate should be moderated by Shrek, Homer Simpson and Eric Cartman.
 
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GAVol said:
Limbaugh just opened his show suggesting that the debate was so absurd that the next Democratic debate should be moderated by Shrek, Homer Simpson and Eric Cartman.
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GAVol said:
Limbaugh just opened his show suggesting that the debate was so absurd that the next Democratic debate should be moderated by Shrek, Homer Simpson and Eric Cartman.
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I guess he did. What would you expect him to say? that he though it was a good forum. Joe Scarborough had positive things to say about it;however, he isn't out there on the far right with the rest of the talk radio conservatives. Aside from the idiot Kucinich(sp?), almost every one of the candidates are ten times more competent than our current president. Sorry, just an observation
 
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Shrek and Homer I can see, but Cartman wouldn't be allowed to ask Hillary if she banged Vince Foster the night before he was murdered.
 
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I think that if the questions are asked in the right way, then you can sometimes get a more honest answer out of some of the candidates. With a little better editing my CNN concerning which questions are asked, I think this format could be productive. But, that just my opinion...
 
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TennTradition said:
I think that if the questions are asked in the right way, then you can sometimes get a more honest answer out of some of the candidates. With a little better editing my CNN concerning which questions are asked, I think this format could be productive. But, that just my opinion...
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I think you are probably right. But last night just came off as awkward to me . . . and I'm not really commenting on the candidates' performances at all. They were doing the best they could in the format.
 
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MG1968 said:
Shrek and Homer I can see, but Cartman wouldn't be allowed to ask Hillary if she banged Vince Foster the night before he was murdered.
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That act would have actually led to his death. So, no, I don't think she did.
 
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truefan said:
I guess he did. What would you expect him to say? that he though it was a good forum. Joe Scarborough had positive things to say about it;however, he isn't out there on the far right with the rest of the talk radio conservatives. Aside from the idiot Kucinich(sp?), almost every one of the candidates are ten times more competent than our current president. Sorry, just an observation
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competent at what? what has any of them done to warrant being called competent. It is a herd of career politicians with no experience whatsoever in being a very public chief executive. The leader of the herd has done little more in her career than be married, pitifully, to a president.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
competent at what? what has any of them done to warrant being called competent. It is a herd of career politicians with no experience whatsoever in being a very public chief executive.
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...aside from Bill Richardson.
 
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GAVol said:
...aside from Bill Richardson.
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Good point. I didn't realize he was in the debate. Gov Richardson, who has no chance of winning the primary, has experience as a chief executive, competence therein could probably be debated.
 
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GAVol said:
I think you are probably right. But last night just came off as awkward to me . . .
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Well you better get ready, because the GOP is going to do the same format and I guarantee you that it's going to be 10 times worse with those personalities.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
Good point. I didn't realize he was in the debate. Gov Richardson, who has no chance of winning the primary, has experience as a chief executive, competence therein could probably be debated.
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For that matter, Dennis Kusinich has more pertinent experience if you count his stint as Mayor of Cleveland. :crazy:
 
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OWB said:
Well you better get ready, because the GOP is going to do the same format and I guarantee you that it's going to be 10 times worse with those personalities.
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That was my point when I started this thread. This is a bad format no matter who is standing at the podium.
 
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I'm kind of split on it. In a way, it was kind of refreshing to get away from the same old tired format. But it was kind of in a cutting your jeans to make jorts sort of way.
 
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