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On October 04 2012 11:39 kmillz wrote:Show nested quote +On October 04 2012 11:37 seiferoth10 wrote:On October 04 2012 11:35 rogzardo wrote: Obama: appearing weak because he tells truth.
Romney: appearing strong because he lies.
GG US presidential debates! Sadly, there's a lot of truth here. On October 04 2012 11:37 TheTenthDoc wrote:On October 04 2012 11:34 Craton wrote:On October 04 2012 11:34 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:On October 04 2012 11:32 xDaunt wrote: Good closing argument by Romney, particularly when compared to Obama's rambling mess.
8-4, Romney. That's because he got the last word lol. He can say anything he wants and he can't get countered. He pretty much did say anything he wanted. Politico having a field day. I think the closing was emblematic of the debate: Romney didn't say a single positive thing about what he would do, only hypotheticals about how Obama was going to cause everything short of nuclear war. Wait until foreign policy day, then we'll 100% have Romney dooming the US to nuclear destruction concerning Obama's handling of Iran. Politifact, who usually favors Obama in truth-telling, seems to think Romney is telling more truth than Obama in this debate.
The first 40 minutes was saying Romeny is telling a lie and Obama telling a truth but ok i guess
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i didnt like how romney avoided answering any question with conrete statements.
still, i think romney performend better than expected and slightly won the debate in the eyes of the american public. at the same time, my impression is that the margin of victory was way too small to close the gap.
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On October 04 2012 11:39 BluePanther wrote:Show nested quote +On October 04 2012 11:38 Schvitzer wrote: When MSNBC says the Republican won, how can you even argue the fact? ^^ so true Even Chris Mathews is tearing into Obama, calling him too passive with his head down, blaming him for letting Romney get away with points.
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On October 04 2012 11:38 Deathmanbob wrote:Show nested quote +On October 04 2012 11:36 BluePanther wrote:On October 04 2012 11:32 Deathmanbob wrote:On October 04 2012 11:31 BluePanther wrote:On October 04 2012 11:29 MWY wrote:On October 04 2012 11:25 BluePanther wrote:On October 04 2012 11:24 MWY wrote: grading schools? wtf does he think this will solve... school choice. think amazon.com customer feedback. but for schools. I understood what he wants to do.. but seriously this will never do any good. Bad schools get no kids? Or just the poor kids? Whos rating how?... The idea behind it is that poorer children can go to more affluent schools if they choose to. It prevents richer neighborhoods from having significantly better schools than poorer neighborhoods and telling those poor kids they can't go to the better school. It allows the poor families choose to send their child to the better school. the question i think people have is how are these kids getting to these better schools? generally the same way they get to their school now. it's pretty advanced in the state of wisconsin, my niece goes to a charter school. my aunt and uncle picked it because it teaches some of the material in spanish and they want her to be bilingual. it's a solid program if you ask me. Okay, well i live in a city in California, we have highschools in my city because we have a decent size population. I went to North highschool despite the fact that West highschool had better programs, if i was able to attend west, how am i to get there? we dont have a good buss route, if im poor and dont have a car i cant walk the 10+ miles to get to the other school when my school is only one mile away. There is a logistical problem to getting to better schools for the poor
if it's so far away you can't find a way to get there, maybe you shouldn't be attending that school? It's not a perfect system, but it's a definite improvement over mandatory schools.
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I really don't think that Romney changed his platform tonight. This is the same stuff that he has been saying for months.
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On October 04 2012 11:39 kmillz wrote:Show nested quote +On October 04 2012 11:37 seiferoth10 wrote:On October 04 2012 11:35 rogzardo wrote: Obama: appearing weak because he tells truth.
Romney: appearing strong because he lies.
GG US presidential debates! Sadly, there's a lot of truth here. On October 04 2012 11:37 TheTenthDoc wrote:On October 04 2012 11:34 Craton wrote:On October 04 2012 11:34 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:On October 04 2012 11:32 xDaunt wrote: Good closing argument by Romney, particularly when compared to Obama's rambling mess.
8-4, Romney. That's because he got the last word lol. He can say anything he wants and he can't get countered. He pretty much did say anything he wanted. Politico having a field day. I think the closing was emblematic of the debate: Romney didn't say a single positive thing about what he would do, only hypotheticals about how Obama was going to cause everything short of nuclear war. Wait until foreign policy day, then we'll 100% have Romney dooming the US to nuclear destruction concerning Obama's handling of Iran. Politifact, who usually favors Obama in truth-telling, seems to think Romney is telling more truth than Obama in this debate.
From what I can see they're leaning towards Obama slightly on truth; most of Obama's hits on their current live update came from broken promises, which aren't quite the same thing as falsehoods.
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Romney "won" I guess, but only because he rewrote his whole platform. But he attacked from the left, right, the center and from pretty much any angle, which Politifact is calling him out for now.
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On October 04 2012 11:41 Black Gun wrote: i didnt like how romney avoided answering any question with conrete statements.
still, i think romney performend better than expected and slightly won the debate in the eyes of the american public. at the same time, my impression is that the margin of victory was way too small to close the gap.
well, there isn't a huge "gap" to start with. They are only a few points apart.
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Chris Matthews is pissed.
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On October 04 2012 11:39 HazMat wrote:Show nested quote +On October 04 2012 11:35 I_Love_Bacon wrote: I still say we institute the British style of floor debate for Prime Minister's Questions type of shit for presidential debates. I'd watch it every day. I say we have the nominees answer questions they're not expected to know and give them points for being interesting. I think Stephen Fry would be a great host for it.
With Alan Davies as the side host? Haha I like how there are fans of that show here
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What was up with that moderator....
He let Obama take so much extra time, and let Romney and Obama both talk over him when he tried to switch topics or cut them off.
I was totaling extra time past part 2 (Above 2 minutes) and got Romney : 0:47 extra Obama: 7:02 extra
Yes, I think Romney is the winner of that one.
I'm surprised how well Romney did. I expected Obama to destroy him, given how bad Romney was before this debate. He must have been practicing a lot o.O
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It seems that while Romney did win, did he win enough to make any significant headway? Obama knows he is in the lead so he played it safe while Romney tried to be aggressive and did win the debate but Obama can just be like....so? I'll just continue to outspend you and its fine ezpz.
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On October 04 2012 11:38 xDaunt wrote: Romney clearly won. It wasn't even close. I'm not surprised either. I'll write more in a bit. I support Obama but I agree.
If we look at things objectively in terms of what they were saying, sure a lot of what Romney was saying wasn't grounded in truth and was vague in most areas but he looked and sounded like a winner. And looking and sounding like a winner matters a HUGE amount in the debates.
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On October 04 2012 11:42 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Chris Matthews is pissed. lol totally, I'm laughing at him rage on MSNBC. He's yelling at the screen that Obama let Romney win. Interesting.
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I wish Republicans were actually fiscally responsible and willing to cut military spending instead of harping on entitlement programs that don't make a dent on the budget.
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On October 04 2012 11:40 Shelke14 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 04 2012 11:39 kmillz wrote:On October 04 2012 11:37 seiferoth10 wrote:On October 04 2012 11:35 rogzardo wrote: Obama: appearing weak because he tells truth.
Romney: appearing strong because he lies.
GG US presidential debates! Sadly, there's a lot of truth here. On October 04 2012 11:37 TheTenthDoc wrote:On October 04 2012 11:34 Craton wrote:On October 04 2012 11:34 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:On October 04 2012 11:32 xDaunt wrote: Good closing argument by Romney, particularly when compared to Obama's rambling mess.
8-4, Romney. That's because he got the last word lol. He can say anything he wants and he can't get countered. He pretty much did say anything he wanted. Politico having a field day. I think the closing was emblematic of the debate: Romney didn't say a single positive thing about what he would do, only hypotheticals about how Obama was going to cause everything short of nuclear war. Wait until foreign policy day, then we'll 100% have Romney dooming the US to nuclear destruction concerning Obama's handling of Iran. Politifact, who usually favors Obama in truth-telling, seems to think Romney is telling more truth than Obama in this debate. The first 40 minutes was saying Romeny is telling a lie and Obama telling a truth but ok i guess
Care to cite something from politifact that back that up? I see one claim that says Romney said something mostly false, and that was only because he said 6 studies said, in regards to Obama's tax plan, that "its completely wrong", and they could only find 2 independent studies about it. Other than that, everything has been half true, mostly true, or true by romney, including the broken promise to lower premiums on seniors by 2,500$ being a broken promise by Obama.
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I think Romney came across better during the debate, but I feel over the next few days/weeks that he has opened himself up to a lot of criticism over changing his platform whenever he changes audiences.
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On October 04 2012 11:42 BluePanther wrote:Show nested quote +On October 04 2012 11:41 Black Gun wrote: i didnt like how romney avoided answering any question with conrete statements.
still, i think romney performend better than expected and slightly won the debate in the eyes of the american public. at the same time, my impression is that the margin of victory was way too small to close the gap. well, there isn't a huge "gap" to start with. They are only a few points apart. yes, but even a few points can be quite a lot in the end. and i actually really meant "the margin of victory was too small, relative to the current size of the gap".
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All i know is that the ACA for a fact raised the shit out of premiums so that i had to drop my PPO insurance and buy a high deductible HSA.
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On October 04 2012 11:43 Slaughter wrote: It seems that while Romney did win, did he win enough to make any significant headway? Obama knows he is in the lead so he played it safe while Romney tried to be aggressive and did win the debate but Obama can just be like....so? I'll just continue to outspend you and its fine ezpz.
I'm going to hold off until the foreign policy debate.
Romney is stronger with domestic policy, but I think Obama is stronger in foreign policy.
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