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Official First Debate Thread

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by rimrocker, Sep 25, 2016.

  1. Realjad

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    Accidental Double Post
     
  3. Major

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    Debate moderators don't exist to just give airtime to candidates for infomercials. They are there to ... moderate. And that means interrupting, probing, challenging, etc. It's weird that you just want them to sit back and let candidates just have free air time, as though that is the purpose of a debate.
     
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    I am working, so I am going to miss it. Not that it matters, I am by no means an undecided or swing voter.

    I am voting for Hillary in 2016 because I agree with a lot of her platform.
     
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    Yep, I'll wake up the next morning and notice a bottle thrown through my TV, but I'll feel OK about it.
     
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    While you may think everyone is out to get Trump, it is simply because Trump is a pathological liar and Clinton is not. Add in, Trump campaign do not want debate moderator to fact check, while Clinton campaign do. You wouldn't be afraid of fact check unless you are always lying.
     
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    This is the main reason to vote for Trump. They are both awful, but the media and entire government apparatus will enable, cover up, and be complicity in Clinton's lying and corruption, whereas Trump is hated by those institutions and they might make some effort to check him.
     
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    Whether anyone likes it or not, during this campaign, Trump has told far more demonstrable lies than Hillary. That's just the way it is, and it has been documented.
     
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    Your justification for voting for Trump is that he lies a lot and therefore the country would be mired in scandal after scandal because he'll keep getting busted?
     
  14. Commodore

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    My point is checks and balances might apply to him, whereas they will certainly not with Hillary.

    still debating whether to vote 3rd party or Trump
     
  15. leroy

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    With the likelihood that Congress will still be GOP led (at least for the 1st 2 years of her presidency), what makes you think there would be less checks? It's been said that she would likely have the shortest grace period for any new president ever.

    What sucks is you're having to convince yourself with b.s. reasons to vote for him. Being the biggest liar is not a reason to vote for someone for anything other than....I'm not sure. What award is there for being the most untruthful person in the history of anything?
     
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    What part of the last 7 1/2 years of Congressional obstruction and Supreme Court rulings under a Democratic Administration did you miss?
     
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  17. Amiga

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    This is very illogical and delusional. The media and entire government does not enable, cover up and be complicit to anyone lying and corruption. There may be some media and some government folks or even entire agency that do that, but no where is there any evidence that it is the media as a whole and the entire government.
     
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    He has literally missed all of it because it was a noble effort by the scrappy Republicans to block Emperor Obama's mandates. However, this didn't stop the emperor from being the "most lawless" and "most power hungry" president we've ever known, as evidenced by the portrait of him we are all forced to display in our homes where we've been forcibly gay married to our dumbocrat neighbor.
     
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