Baconsammy
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Mitt getting fact-checked immediately by Candy getting tons of play on all news networks. Wow, what an incredible screwup by Mitt.
US Town Hall Debate |OT| When is the election? What are the names of the candidates?
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The Technomancer
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Damn, I wish I could see this
Deified Data
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This is my Republican mother-in-law's favorite pundit. Wonder how she's coming to terms with his assessment.
Weakest segment of the night was gun control. Both sides dodged like hell. What, is Obama afraid he'll come off as anti-family if he doesn't go off on the same weird tangent as Mitt? Was looking forward to criticizing Mitt exclusively for that bit of oddness.
Much appreciated.
Joe Shlabotnik
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He's actually had about ten months.
Souldriver
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Hahahahaha, this focus group thing on FOX NEWS.
How the fuck can anyone fall for this fake ass ordeal. Mother of god.
How the fuck can anyone fall for this fake ass ordeal. Mother of god.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Oh God!
ElectricBlue187
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abort the internet please
Lol. I keep asking myself that.
"Did Obama just land a haymaker... On Libya? Did the crowd just cheer the moderator for calling out Mitt BS... On Libya? Libya?! What!?"
EatinOlives
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What, are they running the whole "IM AN INDEPENDENT DERP" thing again?
Vinsanity.
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LOL, my dinky hometown newspaper is running a poll on who won this debate: http://www.timesreporter.com/
This area is rural and heavily conservative, and it still has Obama winning.
This area is rural and heavily conservative, and it still has Obama winning.
"Why do we fall, Barack?"
"So we can learn to pick ourselves back up."
Wow, that almost made me choke on my veggies. Excellent.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Thank you for your vote.
Barack Obama 50%
Mitt Romney 50%
Total votes: 10
Get on it GAF.
Haha the dude said "shit"
And that's exactly what Obama said, and Mitt tried to be clever, and he looked like a moron.
"Acts of terror" is exactly the phrase Romney tried to claim he did not say. He got it wrong.
plasticpassion
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I turned it to Fox News for a moment to compare to CNN and immediately thought, wow. That channel is full of clowns. Back to CNN.
polyh3dron
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Only after the last debate, do you have my permission to die.
Whether I don't is really irrelevant. And no, I doubt that a full 47% don't take responsibility for their lives. But I do believe that wasting funds trying target them in a close election would be foolish, which is what I believe Romney was implying when he said that.
Romney went for a full on KO punch but whiffed badly leaving Obama free to counter full force.
Of course nobody expected Candy to leap into the ring and smash Romney in the back of the head with a chair... but you know, Romney shouldn't have tried to go after the Rose Garden comment in the first place.
Thank you for your vote.
Barack Obama 44%
Mitt Romney 55%
Total votes: 9
FAIR AND BALANCED
SteveWinwood
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16 now!
Souldriver
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It's just.... completely ridiculous.
All the people on that pannel are Obama haters, plain and simple. And they've all been given a specific role in this play, so as to appear after the debate Obama's support went down.
The answers of those people are so scripted.
The questions of that presenter are so loaded and leading.
My god...
Joe Shlabotnik
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Romney specifically asked--as I watch the exchange again on my DVR--whether Obama called it an "act of terror".
Which he did.
What else would he be referring to as an act of terror the day after? If I said "Disingenuous posts add nothing to the debate" quoting you, would you think I was just making a grand point about keeping it real?
Open Source
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A double-edged sword. A story that is inherently not good for Obama now will get a ton more play. Now that's how you get the press to cover something they didn't want to.
Dude, seriously, you have no idea what you're talking about. Every state where a majority of the voters do not pay income taxes is a Red state.
Joel Was Right
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You remember the "Please proceed, Governor" moment? Of course you do. Obama said that with a condescending tone and I doubt I'm the only one who noticed that.
How would it have been construed had Mitt Romney responded with something like "Do not address me with that tone, Mr President"? I would certainly have been impressed
How would it have been construed had Mitt Romney responded with something like "Do not address me with that tone, Mr President"? I would certainly have been impressed
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/obama-condemns-attack-that-kills-ambassador-to-libya/
After the 4 minute mark Obama goes into generalities and mentions "act of terror." While he definitely did not directly label the consulate attack a terrorist attack it can easily be inferred that the acts of terror he mentions apply. He did not discredit the notion it was by way of an overzealous demonstration nor say the magic words "terrorist attack." So true he did say "acts of terror" and true that it was still under the guise of it being protestors as he refers to rejecting efforts to denigrate religions.
After the 4 minute mark Obama goes into generalities and mentions "act of terror." While he definitely did not directly label the consulate attack a terrorist attack it can easily be inferred that the acts of terror he mentions apply. He did not discredit the notion it was by way of an overzealous demonstration nor say the magic words "terrorist attack." So true he did say "acts of terror" and true that it was still under the guise of it being protestors as he refers to rejecting efforts to denigrate religions.
Fantastical
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As soon as I heard "binders full of women" I knew it would be a major sound bite. Not only is it a weird phrase, it was part of a bad answer to the question.
plasticpassion
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Spin, spin, spin away conservative media. Obama is the winner and has a better vision for this country.
"Why do we fall, Barack?"
"So we can learn to pick ourselves back up."
Dear God. I'm half tempted to show this to my hard-right friend who's nuts about the Nolan Batman films, but I'd rather we stayed on speaking terms.
Sir Garbageman
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Would've made Romney come off as a giant douchebag tbh.
Joe Shlabotnik
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For better or worse, a bad flub is worse politically than the actual political issue.
Edit: Meus we already have a PD, we don't need.. one, really. But definitely not two.
polyh3dron
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Yeah the unofficial name for it among Romney campaign workers is the "Chicktionary".
Souldriver
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Now that the 15 minutes of confusion on FOX News are over, they're in full on spin mode. They're going in haaard. lol!
oneils
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I think you might have just heard a re-hash of their energy policies. I've never really heard them speak about this topic with any substance. They just roll out their energy policies.
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