Showing posts with label debate. Show all posts
    Showing posts with label debate. Show all posts
  • I know, I know. I haven't even offered an analysis of the last presidential debate. So many people have done a better job of that, that it seemed like it wasn't worth doing.

    In short, President Obama followed Crazy Joe Biden's lead and dragged Mittens around the stage by the ears on a great many issues, especially on Benghazi. I'd like to see more of that in this debate. After all, it deals largely with foreign policy.

    And because yours truly is dealing with a monumental work load outside of the blogosphere, I most likely won't be attempting anything resembling a live tweet of the debates. Instead, I simply leave you with this live broadcast of the final 2012 presidential debate (which will soon be replaced with an archived version after the live broadcast ends).

    We can only hope that the verbal blunders keep rolling in on Mitt's side. I wouldn't mind seeing "binders full of women" being turned into an autotuned rap song at some point.



  • A certain group of liberals complained about Joe Biden's drubbing of Paul Ryan during the VP debates. Not because he won the debate, but because of the way he won it. By derisively mocking the living daylights out of the Republican congressman and VP candidate, he crossed a line that these folks can't bear to see crossed.

    "The smile, the laugh, I think a lot of people maybe view that and think that he was a little too hot, too aggressive, maybe condescending," said NBC's David Gregory of Joe Biden's debate performance.

    A little too hot. Too aggressive. Perhaps condescending. These are traits that are perfectly acceptable in GOP candidates but anathema to Democrats. If the situation was reversed, everyone would be wondering why Biden couldn't have been a bit more aggressive. As I said before, you just can't win.

    President Obama couldn't afford to be anywhere above lukewarm, anywhere near aggressive or even the least bit condescending, lest he be deemed an "Angry Black Man" or worse, an "uppity negro/ni*CLANG*."  Crazy Joe had to harness that "Angry Black Man" on his behalf, essentially.

    Hopefully, the president won't let his past performance dictate what happens during this debate. President Obama has to bring his A-game this time, otherwise the results could have disastrous consequences.

  • You have to give the Republican National Committee credit for knocking out a new attack ad straight after the Vice Presidential debates. While Vice President Joe Biden's derisive chuckling made for lovely Twitter fodder, this was probably why so many people wanted ol' Crazy Joe to mask his contempt for veep hopeful Paul Ryan. Then again, there are a million things the RNC and others could use to create an attack ad.

    Perhaps Joe Biden should have been as somber and as stone-faced as possible. I'm sure people will ding him for being too "aloof" or "unresponsive." One way or another, you just can't win.

    Keep in mind the RNC haven't yet found anything substantive to bang Biden on, hence the above. Meanwhile, Think Progress was keeping tabs on the entire debate with a series of wonderful live posts. Great for calling out the loads of malarkey Ryan tried throwing at Biden and the audience.
  • Poor President Obama was not a trial lawyer; he was a law professor, and it showed last night. When Mitt was telling lie after lie in the thin air of Denver, (28 and counting) all he could do was stare at him like a deer caught in the middle of the night on a country road. And, to his credit, the more Mitt got away with it, is the more he lied. The shady narcotics cop had the law professor on the run.
    In so many words, the Field Negro lays down how President Obama wound up looking outgunned during the Denver debate. Personally, I don't think the president was prepared for the never-ending stream of bullshit that came his way during the debate, nor was he quite ready for the jaw-dropping speed and tenacity of Romney polka dancing his way towards dead center.

    As for winners and losers, there weren't any. Romney's forceful performance, much of which consisted of the well-heeled Massachusetts governor running roughshod over debate moderator Jim Lehrer, might have convinced the media, Teabaggers and low-information voters that he was the winner, but the metric fuckton of lies and half-truths dispensed during the debate will be his undoing down the road. At best, Romney's performance earned him a Pyrrhic victory.

    Meanwhile, Obama's performance seemed factual, but feeble. As many others mentioned, President Obama isn't much of a tenacious debater and his performance trended more towards the Field Negro's quoted description. Perhaps he was trying as hard as he could to keep his inner Angry Black Man's black ass from booking an instantaneous flight from D.C. to Denver. Some people don't like it when that guy shows up.

    This is just one debate out of many. Next up: Joe Biden takes on Paul Ryan. Without any Angry Black Men around to gum up the works, that debate might have more of the satisfying knock-down drag-out scrapping many people were expecting.

    If you want more commentary on the Presidential Debate, look no further:
  • Courtesy of Getty Images

    Unfortunately, yours truly cannot be arsed to create a blog post about the boring hilarious antics of Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul. So I'll point you to others who have done just that. Yay you.

    Field Negro - CNN Laughfest.
    Angry Black Lady Chronicles - Shit! I Have to Tidy Up the Place for Yet Another GOP Herp-Derpbate! – Now with Bonus Chirpstory!
    Molly Ball @ The Atlantic - That Was Not the GOP Debate Rick Santorum Needed
    The Political Carnival - Video- CNN Debate: GOP Candidates Attack Leniency With Contraceptives And ‘Legalizing Infanticide’

  • President Barack Obama just finished watching the Iowa GOP debate on ABC. You wouldn't blame him for bawling out, not with the competition he has to face next November. If the current selection of brain trusts are any indication, this will be an easy walk for him. The only thing he really has to fear is if the dumbasses from the "Professional Left"/Emoprog/Villager contingent decide to primary him with a "purer" candidate. That has the potential of effectively splitting the vote between Village-minded Dems and fencesitters and everyone else, allowing the GOP candidate to waltz in with no trouble whatsoever.

    The biggest gaffe of the night?


    Perry had accused Romney of altering a paperback version of his book to delete a line that had Romney wanting to make his Massachusetts healthcare plan a model for the rest of the nation, suggesting that Romney is a champion of an individual mandate to force people to purchase health insurance.

    Romney said that wasn’t true.

    “I'll tell you what. 10,000 bucks? Ten-thousand-dollar bet?” Romney said.

    “I’m not in the betting business,” Perry replied.
    Perry might be lying when he says he's not in the betting business, but at least he's smart enough to realize than when you're pandering to the small-town 99%, you have to look and play the part at all times.

    By the way, $10,000 represents at least four months of an average U.S. citizen's yearly salary. Not something you want to be tossing around when the rest of the country's in economic turmoil. Seeing Romney proffer that bet was as big of a "let em eat cake" moment as any.

    Aside from that, the GOP debates had all the usual. Gingrich continued to push child labor as America's solution to its economic woes, called Palestinians "an invented people," broadsides Romney by saying he would have been a career politician if he was able to beat Ted Kennedy in 1994 and locked horns with Ron Paul over Gingrich's own connections to Freddie Mac. Santorum begs to be Gingrich's VP, only to see the honor go to Rick Perry. And what was Rick Perry doing? Being Rick Perry. Bachmann claims to have spent 50 years in the private sector, but if she's 55 years old.....hmmm....perhaps she was one of those poor inner-city child janitors Gingrich keeps trying to hire.

    All the candidates tried playing up the "we grew up poor" angle, but it didn't work. At least Santorum admitted he was born into some rather middle-class trappings. And not a single one has any idea of what its really like to be poor.

    In other words, the debates turned out exactly as anyone would have expected them to. Zero substance, plenty of empty calories. People would have been better off weaving baskets than watching the debates, but at least people got to see exactly how unfit these candidates are for the presidency. That has to count for something.

    Oh, and Herm wasn't there. His campaign's in shambles after pimping one too many white women, but he would have added some well-needed...."colour"....to the debate, if you get my drift. As one Tweeter mentioned, there were only two or three black folks in the entire audience, and they were all sitting together. A great metaphor for America, if anything.



  • I'm guessing good ol' Gov. Goodhair thought his George W. Bush charm would let him play the "aww shucks" card and weasel out of what was one hell of a bomb in last night's GOP candidate debate. We'll see as the news reports roll in.

    Too bad there's a distinct difference between being human and being astonishingly ill-prepped and half-assed. There's a sprinkling of good ol' fashioned "dumbass" in there, too.
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