Ok, I'll break the ice on the presidential debate.
I watched it from home last night on my iPad, carrying it around the house with me while I admittedly did other things like the dishes.
I liked the president's poker face this time around. Last debate I thought there was too much furrowing.
Governor Mitt Romney was powerful and eager, but Obama was confident.
Twitter thought Bob Schieffer looked like a pug, which I thought was mean. And people thought Romney's tie was ugly.
I didn't think Obama's arguments against Romney warranted his pointing out multiple times that the president was attacking him and not the issue.
Seemed like fair play since they're both vying for the same job.
I didn't get a sense that Romney has a stance on foreign policy that differs much from Obama's. Neither apparently believe killing other people is the answer.
Romney seemed to endorse Obama's views quite often, only adding that he's more zealous about them.
That situation doesn't provide for much animation in a foreign policy debate, so I guess Romney as a challenger is at a disadvantage from the start.
What did you think?
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I did enjoy watching Obama make snippy little sarcastic remarks like our military not using bayonets or how he makes big decisions void of any politics. Bayonets are quite certainly still used by our military as are horses for that matter. And you're going to have a hard time convincing me the President ever does anything without thinking about the politics involved. EVER.
Fact check
Actual quote:
"I think Governor Romney maybe hasn't spent enough time looking at how our military works. You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military's changed."
Fewer. Not no horses and bayonets. Fewer. Details, details.
And Eddie Munster's retort:
"10:50AM EDT October 23. 2012 - Count GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan among those who didn't appreciate President Obama's debate line that the U.S. military has fewer "horses and bayonets."
"To compare modern American battleships and Navy with bayonets, I just don't understand that comparison," Ryan said in an interview that aired Tuesday on CBS' This Morning."
No, I am sure he does not understand. And that is either very sad or very disingenuous.
well
Obama has also blamed unemployment on ATMs.
We get what we vote for. Elections have consequences.
More actual highlights from the debate - poor Willard
"And then, only a few short minutes later, the Republican candidate for President of the United States of America, in a debate on foreign policy, said exactly this: "Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea."
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Willard Mitt Romney - a man who has been running for president since the Mesozoic Age, who has spent an enormous amount of money to surround himself with people who are supposed to explain stuff like geography to him - sat there on national television and showed us all that he still does not know how to read a map. Almost all of Iran's southern border verges on the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea, giving them plenty of access to, y'know, the sea...but even if that were not the case, Syria would not be Iran's "route to the sea" because of the giant chunk of land between them called Iraq."
I Said It Before
And I'll say it again
It is a shame that with 250 million people in the USA that these 2 are the best choices we can come up with to be POTUS. And it seems since the Nixon era the choice as been the lesser of two evils like who can do the least damage to the US in the next 4 years.
James Carville
To paraphrase James Carville, the 500lb gorilla in the room is still the economy, stupid! Both of these candidates have a record on economic issues, and it seems clear that the current direction is "not optimal."
I thought the third debate was boring and irrelevant.
remember folks
It's only the "other" political party that tells lies and makes mistakes.
Whichever party you support is flawless. Just remember that fact.
YEAH, RIGHT!"Lies and the
YEAH, RIGHT!
"Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them"
Fact: There are more ships being built under Obama than under THE G.W. BUSH.
And so on and so on...I LUV the so called fact-checking " Mostly True" "Half True" and "Mostly False"...B.S. bovine excrement.
'The whole party's been using the new fact set. The MSFC are simply beside themselves!
The MSFC?
Mainstream Fact-Checkers.'
-- DOONESBURY