The Debate Thread

Fee · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:22 am

Mumbles is getting too good at this

FootFace · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:54 pm

Biden's subtext: Paul Ryan is a punk. I was in the room when shiitake went down!

missdelaney · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:38 pm

I'm halfway through the first one, but Jesus effing Christ, Romney is such a bully. I needed to get that off my chest.

nickvicious · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2012 3:06 pm

lavawitch wrote:

I feel that Biden got his biggest score over Afghanistan and the 2014 timeline.

Yeah, that was epic. And the Iran nuclear program / sanctions was a big score, too. Biden owned on foreign policy. Too bad that happened so early in the debate.

And Ryan's closing speech was SO practiced in the mirror countless times. The facial expressions, the pauses. Biden's on the other hand seemed totally off the cuff. I think he was actually playing with his pen for part of it. Good debate all in all. I think Biden won this one, but Ryan did a damn good job at being cautious and side-stepping questions (where's the friggin deets on the taxes, bro?).

seitanicverses · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:57 pm **Posts:** 3873

I know when he talked about their fetus being a bean, I thought of Frances Bean Cobain.

starrynight87 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2012 8:46 pm

alden wrote:

seeing as all the GOP's media outlets are whining about the moderator and Biden "bullying" Paul Ryan, I'm left to assume that Joe Biden "won" last night.

Yep, this is what Fox is saying:

Nebraskalaska · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:04 pm

They switched ties!

starrynight87 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:16 pm

Mr. oil, Mr. gas, and Mr. coal? what the fizzle is he talking about?

sisterlegume · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:17 pm

The presidential debates are painful to watch. I enjoy watching the vp debates, and just cringe during the presidential ones. We don't need more coal plants Romney! Energy independence in 8 years by drilling more in North America? Right!

starrynight87 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:17 pm

No, Obama, don't insist that we're doing more drilling. That's not a good thing.
edit: can we talk about solar power? wind power? hydroelectric power?

edit: good lard, Romney's being an asparagus tonight.

edit: way to go, Candy! Put him in his place!

alden · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:28 pm

Oh giddy, Romney is gonna cap my deductions at some arbitrary number costing me thousands but he's gonna let me go tax free on that $50 I made in interest with my savings account all year! Because that's what the middle class needs, no taxes on the bajillions of dollars they have in capital gains and savings interest; they can totally forgo all those deductions.

Hardcastle McCormick · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:29 pm

because what is crippling the middle class more than all those burdensome taxes on their capital gains?

starrynight87 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:31 pm

"I'm not going to cut taxes for wealthy people." Since when, Romney?!?!

kimba · **Joined:** Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:44 pm **Posts:** 1921

Obama is sometimes a little long winded when explaining his points.

sofrito · **Joined:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:09 am **Posts:** 250

Sit the fork down governor. It's not your damn turn.

sisterlegume · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:34 pm

kimba wrote:

Obama is sometimes a little long winded when explaining his points.

Agreed.

starrynight87 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:35 pm

Ooo, good question, Candy.

sisterlegume · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:38 pm

https://mobile.twitter.com/politifact/tweets

They should have these scrolling across the bottom of the screen during the debate.

sisterlegume · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:42 pm

Romney answered nothing about women getting equal pay. And he's way over time.

alden · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:43 pm

Hardcastle McCormick wrote:

because what is crippling the middle class more than all those burdensome taxes on their capital gains?

Seriously, I am not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but last year...even before we had our first kid, we had nearly double Romney's arbitrary $25k number in deductions (not loopholes, standard deductions)...maybe he's just spitballing but that is a ridiculously stupidly low number to throw out there. Cutting our deductions by $20-25k would have cost us at least $3k...but we wouldn't have to pay taxes on the whopping .5% I made on my savings all year! Jackpot!

starrynight87 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:49 pm

It wasn't possible for us to be energy independent during the Bush years? WE'VE ALWAYS HAD SUN and WE'VE ALWAYS HAD WIND.

kimba · **Joined:** Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:44 pm **Posts:** 1921

Birth control for all! (Time for another one of those Romney debates himself videos...)

FabulouslyFierce · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:54 pm

I'm about 30 minutes behind...but it seems Obama grew a set of balls since the last debate.

Dude, Romney is such a rude dick.

Thessaly · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:58 pm

aaah, this format is so awkward it makes me cringe. Especially when the both stand there calling each other liars.

kimba · **Joined:** Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:44 pm **Posts:** 1921

yeah, it seemed to be getting out of control there for a while.

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