Racketboy Political Discussion Thread

[Stark]

You're just now realizing this?

Of course not, but now more than ever.

The fact there was so much disrespect during the "debate" made my skin crawl. High school kids running for class President show more class than Biden and Paul.

Billions of dollars to campaign, and not a penny going towards the deficit. But "Ain't that America?". It's as annoying as that Alica Keys song where all she does is repeat the word Fire.

High school kids also get bad debate grades if they lie half as much as Ryan did. Biden might tend towards impoliteness, but give the disrespect Ryan was showing voters it didn't bother me in the least.

This implies that Ryan is the only liar or that he lied more, seemed like there were half-truths and lying on both sides.

Example 1 (Biden lying): "We weren’t told they wanted more security there. We did not know they wanted more security again"

Example 2 (Ryan lying): "[The administration] shouldn't have called Assad a reformer."

[MrPopo]

Idea for a movie: Liar Liar 2. A political candidate is forced to tell the truth for a week long period that includes a fund raising dinner and a debate.

[Stark]

Idea for a movie: Liar Liar 2. A political candidate is forced to tell the truth for a week long period that includes a fund raising dinner and a debate.

As long as it doesn't star a stupid kid with a stupid haircut, I'm there.

[o.pwuaioc]

Idea for a movie: Liar Liar 2. A political candidate is forced to tell the truth for a week long period that includes a fund raising dinner and a debate.

Romney had half of that down...

[Luke]

I wish the Presidential debates were set up more like a stand up comedy show. If you go over your time your mic gets cut off, and everyone in the audience is half tanked and allowed to heckle.

[Stark]

... everyone in the audience is half tanked and allowed to heckle.

As opposed to the moderator?

[prfsnl_gmr]

I wish the Presidential debates were set up more like a stand up comedy show. If you go over your time your mic gets cut off, and everyone in the audience is half tanked and allowed to heckle.

That would be awesome. I think an improv routine would also work...

"Mitt Romney, you are on Air Force One, talking to your your national security advisors, when you learn that a consulate in a middle eastern country has just been attacked and a major Chinese financial institution is failing. Also, you are not wearing any pants, your left foot is asleep, and you cannot say the words "terror" or "Asia"...You have five minutes...Go!"

[BoringSupreez]

Two weeks left! All the debates are over, all's that's left are campaign rallies and ads. Unfortunately for Obama only the first debate seemed to have an impact, but on the flipside polls still show Romney behind in Ohio even as national tracking gives him a small lead in the vote count. This really could go either way, no joke.

[Luke]

This really could go either way, no joke.

Think the writing is on the wall and I could never see Obama losing this election. Popular, shmopular, the democratic heavy electoral college will keep our current commander in chief.

[J T]

I'm voting Obama. That probably doesn't surprise a lot of you.

I just can't get behind these old "trickle down economic" plans like what Romney/Ryan are proposing. I also just don't trust Romney or Ryan. They are rich people with rich people problems and are out of touch with the rest of America.

Obama's not perfect, but it's also hard to entirely put the blame on him when so many of his plans and ideas are always being trashed by a Republican congress. It's harder to create than it is to destroy.

That being said, the two were remarkably similar on many of their positions in the debate. They both talked gruff and threw jabs at each other, so it looked like an argument, but it was mostly just loud agreement (at least in the general ways one can talk about issues in a debate like this. I know they disagree on specifics).

We put all of our "Hope" in Obama when he was elected, and so he has struggled to meet those expectations ever since and failed on numerous occassions (again, often due to Republican meddling, but sometimes due to his own shortcomings). Nevertheless, Obama actually has done a lot while in office. I recommend browsing through the PolitiFact website, which has some great features for tracking which promises the president delivers on and for fact-checking the points that are made in the presidential debate (which had a lot of inaccurate info and lies on both sides).

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter ... -promises/