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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Poor poor deadbeat media. So afraid their power is being diminished.
:: Mr. Trump has amply demonstrated his unworthiness to occupy the Oval Office ::
Yet, amply demonstrated his WORTHINESS to occupy a multi-billion-dollar corporate Board Room and CEO position.
Trump accomplishes in a day more than most politicians do in a lifetime.
Pray America wakes
Trump v the queen of crime and Trump is unfit to serve as president? LOL! Projecting, projecting, projecting..........
Please raise your pay-wall a few notches higher. Then, no one will read it.
No one cares about WaPo's opinion.
Regards,
Depolorable
They are looking at the real polls not the ones they publish.
“It’s ALL about who spends the most money on the campaign.”
If so then why isn’t Clinton ahead by and substantive margin 9f she is ahead at all? She has out spent Trump 15-1 and ass of this morning is trailing in a growing number of polls.
When candidates are otherwise equal in how they are perceived, money can decide the race. But when you have someone like Clinton who is known for 30 some yrs all the money in the world will not change peoples opinion of her.
Trump OTOH has had his persona manufactured by a hateful and biased media and while that may work in the beginning it does not hold up when Trump makes himself available for the folks to actually see and hear. Trump actually sells himself and his plan for America in the main while Clinton has spent her 150 million dollars doing little else except trash Trump. There is a reason why her rallies go mainly unattended while Trump draws 1000’s.
Yes. We are redundant. Clearly, one of us must die.
Geez, talk about hyperbole. These Washington Composters have jumped the shark on this one.
How this anti-American propaganda sheet manages to have enough readers to stay in business is incredible and sad. And of course the same can be said for virtually every daily newspaper in every major city in the country.
“It’s ALL about who spends the most money on the campaign.”
If so then why isn’t Clinton ahead by and substantive margin 9f she is ahead at all? She has out spent Trump 15-1 and ass of this morning is trailing in a growing number of polls.
When candidates are otherwise equal in how they are perceived, money can decide the race. But when you have someone like Clinton who is known for 30 some yrs all the money in the world will not change peoples opinion of her.
Trump OTOH has had his persona manufactured by a hateful and biased media and while that may work in the beginning it does not hold up when Trump makes himself available for the folks to actually see and hear. Trump actually sells himself and his plan for America in the main while Clinton has spent her 150 million dollars doing little else except trash Trump. There is a reason why her rallies go mainly unattended while Trump draws 1000’s.
LA Times, NYTimes, and Washington Times all at once are endorsing Hillary. When they say there’s no debate, they’re proving how biased and corrupt they are.
It’s beyond debate that Donald Trump is unfit to be president
But Hillary is?
I think I am going to enjoy the news coverage after Trump wins.
The meme election night is..yes liberals it is that bad, but don’t point the barrel to your temple, that could leave you cognitively impaired and someone would have to take care of you,... in the mouth, angled a little up back, hit the brainstem, dead before you hit the ground.
Okay, Wapo, call your thugs to the streets to intimidate people into voting for Hillary. Go ahead, do it.
My Tactic would be...if Lester starts in then Trump should start calling Lester “Hillary” and Hillary “Lester”. When the objection starts my reply would be...”Well I’m supposed to be debating Hillary..so which of you is the true Hillary?”
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If Lester starts “fact-checking” Trump should say “Lester, in what field of expertise is your degree?”
Lester dropped out of college in his junior year and never completed college. If he were a conservative he would never be allowed near a stage by the liberals. I think it is great someone can earn $4.5 million a year by being a talking head.
WaPo is unfit to be a newspaper.
All depends on what the definition of "is" is...
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"At this point, what difference does it make?"
"We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
""Frankly, Mr. Mayor, I think your new hairstyle is the right way to go. After all, in Washington, the coverup is always worse than the truth."
"The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not."
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
Screaming... "I’m sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we’re Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration."
Call out your street thugs and get it started. Do it.
Imagine the Media we have today in elections past. What candidates and Presidents could live up to the hype and fish bowl atmosphere of today?
Teddy Roosevelt comes to mind as one that would be absolutely pummeled as someone who was immature and certainly not Presidential. I am sure there are many others.
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