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...and who won the debate? More

...and who won the debate?

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  • Joe (Score:1)

    by gmhowell ( 26755 )
    Angie turned on the TV while I was teaching. For various reasons, it wound up on the debate. When I got home, Joe was watching intently.

    Me: Joe, do you like Kerry?
    Him: No.
    Me: Joe, do you like Bush?
    Him: No.
    Me: Uhhh... Do you like the guy asking questions?
    Him: Yes!

    From the mouths of babes. Of course, when I asked if he liked Ralph Nader, he said 'Yes'. Perhaps he thought I meant 'Darth Vader'. If so, I have to remind him that that's Cheney, and he's not talking until next week.
  • Kerry won! *station gets fuzzy*
    oh wait, out of range... *changes stations*
    Bush won! *brain gets fuzzy*

  • I think the winner is mostly determined by tone and attitude, since most people probably don't really understand the issues and besides they didn't have the chance to go into the issues in any kind of depth.

    On that metric, I think Kerry won by a significant margin. He seemed confident, poised, articulate, and statesmanlike. Dubya, on the other hand, was clearly having trouble remembering all the things Karl Rove told him to say, and came off as nervous, shifty, and on the defensive. The body language spok

    • "I think the winner is mostly determined by tone and attitude, since most people probably don't really understand the issues...

      I think the winner was, uh, the tall guy with the red tie. But why did one candidate get to sit down while the other two had to stand?

  • But i haven't posted the episode yet, i'm going to post it tonight or tomorrow.

    Last one standing wins, right?
    • Despite the founding fathers' attempts at erecting a New (and Improved) Rome in the New World, they almost completely neglected one very important aspect: decadence. Sure, Washington (or was it Jefferson) might have grown hash on his farm, and Lincoln did get shot in a theater, but this was still far too little. Hollywood? Hell, even the Victorians were less chaste. Hollywood wouldn't know decadence if it hit them between the ears!

      Should, however, an animal be elected/appointed as the President one day, i'

  • I mean that seriously. What's the point of these debates? I was reading an article about them in the newspaper the other day, and was stunned and more than a little disappointed to find out that they're all scripted. Both sides meet in advance, and come up with a mutually acceptable list of topics, and rules about what can and can't be discussed, which boundaries shouldn't be crossed etc. There's no spontaneity, which is half the point of a debate. If you can't unsettle your opponent with a surprise questio
    • A fair question to ask. The substance of presidential debates seems to have pretty much died ever since the Commission on Presidential Debates was started by the two main parties, so now the debates are little more than a joint press conference.

      That said, there is still something to the debates: you can at least get an idea of what the candidate is like and how able he is to think on the fly (especially in coming up with a rebuttal). Kerry did particularly well at that in the debate, I thought, but both w

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