Posted on 09/26/2016 6:58:14 AM PDT by Zakeet
DEMOCRAT HILLARY CLINTON and Republican Donald Trump will debate on national television for the first time Monday night, and the stakes could not be higher. The presidency and, by extension, the country's future - maybe the world's - could hinge on what they say and how they say it.
Or so we have been told - in breathless pre-event speculation about everything from whether the moderator, NBC's Lester Holt, will intervene to correct a candidate who strays from the truth, to whether one candidate or the other will be able to goad his or her opponent into a campaign-altering gaffe before an audience expected to reach 100 million.
Permit us to dissent from this conventional wisdom, vigorously. Yes, Monday night's clash, and two additional debates to follow, will add drama to the election, and a bit more data to the massive pile of it already available to voters. In a fundamental sense, however, there is nothing much at stake, or shouldn't be, because there is not much more to learn: Mr. Trump has amply demonstrated his unworthiness to occupy the Oval Office. It's beyond his capacity in the upcoming 90-minute question-and-answer sessions to reverse or even substantially modify that conclusion.
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I hope you meant Washington Post, as I searched Washington Times but found no endorsement there.
Imagine what they would call “Old Hickory” if he were running now.
I consider it a certainty that it has been considered! As to what the final decision is I don’t know but I plan to look closely at whoever might show up calling herself Hillary.
Yes, thanks.
53-1? Where did you get that statistic? Just curious.
It was on a freeper thread a few days ago. I don’t have the link.
Also, all the hype impresses those, mostly, who DON'T vote. The people who vote consistently in this country are older, whether they are conservative or liberal.
The worst voters are the teenagers; the second worst, the 20-something and so on. As people MATURE, they realize the importance of doing their duty as citizens.
I CAN'T imagine that there are ANY "undecided" voters left.
“Beyond debate” is reserved for when liberals can’t use “it’s settled science”.
Coming from idiots who think that Barack Obama is fit to be President, this means less-than-nothing.
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