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**LIVE THREAD** Second Presidential Debate - Mitt Romney vs Barack Obama (9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern)
C-SPAN ^ | 10-16-12 | Live Thread

Posted on 10/16/2012 2:13:41 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat

Edited on 10/16/2012 3:04:16 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

You can watch the debate online here: http://www.youtube.com/politics?feature=inp-hp-ype-26

Town Hall debate.

Admin Moderator notes: (We changed the main link to C-SPAN from You Tube as it is more reliable.)

The debate can also be watched at these links:

Places to watch the debate:
http://live.foxnews.com/
http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/
http://www.politico.com/livestream/



TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012debates; debate2012; presdebate2live; presidentialdebate2
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981 posted on 10/16/2012 8:44:34 PM PDT by Mozilla
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To: Art in Idaho

I said that the Democrat primary from 2008 would produce either the third term of Hillary Clinton or the second term of Jimmy Carter.

It turned out to be BOTH Clinton and Carter.


982 posted on 10/16/2012 8:46:26 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (PSA. As of 10/16/12, 21/97 days 'til we vote out/take out the trash. (11/6/12, 1/21/13))
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To: DJ MacWoW

I wrote early on this thread, that Crowley would pick questions to please the Marxist and put Romney on the spot or in a poorer light and she did.

She also played Biden’s Martha. Refereeing inappropriately and incorrectly.

The GOP will never learn. Libtard moderators make the debates two against one.

Jim Lehrer got out of the way.

The Marxist hogged 3 more minutes of debate time and yet he complained and whined about it.


983 posted on 10/16/2012 8:48:51 PM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: DJ MacWoW

I wrote early on this thread, that Crowley would pick questions to please the Marxist and put Romney on the spot or in a poorer light and she did.

She also played Biden’s Martha. Refereeing inappropriately and incorrectly.

The GOP will never learn. Libtard moderators make the debates two against one.

Jim Lehrer got out of the way.

The Marxist hogged 3 more minutes of debate time and yet he complained and whined about it.

(Sheesh = Don’t know if this is posting - another OOOPS message from google chrome)


984 posted on 10/16/2012 8:50:34 PM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: paudio

Candy was awful.The word terror was used as Obama referenced 9-11. He DID NOT say the Benghazi attack was an act of terror!!


985 posted on 10/16/2012 8:50:40 PM PDT by cookcounty ("When I speak, I say what I mean and I mean what I say!" ---Joe Biden, 10/11/2012)
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To: onyx

I thought bought Romney and Obama were gonna take a punch at each other for a while.
Bottom line?
I think Mitt could take Obama’s narrah ass.
And I think Romney was less combative.


986 posted on 10/16/2012 8:55:59 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: wolf24

To the American people: What do YOU think the Obama Administration said for two weeks after the Benghazi attack? What did YOU hear them say?

Mr. President, if you had determined that the Benghazi attack was terrorism, why then did you and your other principal spokespeople try to convince us for two weeks afterward that the attack was due to a YouTube video? Are you in that little control of your own administration?

Mr. President, in regard to stepping up security at our Embassies after the Benghazi attack, I believe most people would have to refer back to an old saying about closing the barn door after the horse is gone.


987 posted on 10/16/2012 8:56:09 PM PDT by Paul R. (We are in a break in an Ice Age. A brief break at that...)
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To: onyx
Well, well, well.

Look at this, Onyx:
Michelle Malkin ‏@michellemalkin

Well. MT @NY4Mitt Anderson Cooper says Obama/Crowley were wrong on #Libya statement. #Benghazi not called act of terror in Rose Garden.

Stop the presses! Romney vindicated by Anderson Cooper!

988 posted on 10/16/2012 8:59:29 PM PDT by Darnright ("I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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To: onyx
... and I guess in Libtard land you win if you can make up crap faster than your opponent can rebut it.
989 posted on 10/16/2012 8:59:40 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (ObamaCare is an assault on the unborn, infirmed and elderly. GOP, repeat this as necessary...)
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To: onyx
... and I guess in Libtard land you win if you can make up crap faster than your opponent can rebut it.
990 posted on 10/16/2012 9:01:47 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (ObamaCare is an assault on the unborn, infirmed and elderly. GOP, repeat this as necessary...)
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To: onyx

She interfered. She said she would and we knew who she’d favor.


991 posted on 10/16/2012 9:02:02 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: American Constitutionalist
I understand from the CSPAN intro, the 11 [or so] cams belonged to FoxNews. So wouldn't they be operated by FoxTechs?

I really missed the split-screen on CSPAN from the first debate.

Was disappointed in the camera work.

I'll bet the *fact checkers* are busy tonight. :)


992 posted on 10/16/2012 9:02:04 PM PDT by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
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To: mylife
I think Luntz is an idiot because he has no blacks, hispanics, asian or native americans in his group.

Since Luntz's group was composed of undecided voters, it would have been much more difficult to find undecided blacks and Hispanics, maybe less so Asians. And they were also restricted to Nevada voters.

And there were one or two who were Hispanic or lighter skinned blacks.

993 posted on 10/16/2012 9:02:17 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Will88

I still think Luntz is skewed.


994 posted on 10/16/2012 9:04:48 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: PghBaldy
I clicked on link at the WH, and got the WRONG statement. Obama did IMPLY it was an “act of terror.”

Romney might have gone overboard with that exchange.


Overboard? NONSENSE!

The Marxist's Speech to the UN General Assembly-

September 25, 2012


~snip~ That is what we saw play out in the last two weeks, as a crude and disgusting video sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world. Now, I have made it clear that the United States government had nothing to do with this video, and I believe its message must be rejected by all who respect our common humanity.

It is an insult not only to Muslims, but to America as well -- for as the city outside these walls makes clear, we are a country that has welcomed people of every race and every faith. We are home to Muslims who worship across our country. We not only respect the freedom of religion, we have laws that protect individuals from being harmed because of how they look or what they believe. We understand why people take offense to this video because millions of our citizens are among them.

I know there are some who ask why we don’t just ban such a video. And the answer is enshrined in our laws: Our Constitution protects the right to practice free speech.

995 posted on 10/16/2012 9:04:58 PM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: Darnright

OOO make a thread. I think it needs to be called attention to that Cooper called out Obama and Crowley. Lying deceptive wench trying to throw the debate for zerO.


996 posted on 10/16/2012 9:05:04 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: snarkytart

More on Romney being right on target (hat tip to Breitbart):

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/14/The-Big-Lie-Obama-Did-Not-Call-Libya-Attacks-Terrorism-on-September-12


997 posted on 10/16/2012 9:07:24 PM PDT by Darnright ("I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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To: Jim Robinson
Well, we can give it a try. If there’s a chance that hundreds of people trying to post to the same thread at the same time is causing a deadlock on the db, it’s worth a shot to try to split the load. John says the load avg on the web server was low, the cpu’s were not busy and the db sever was mostly idle last time, but we couldn’t get any throughput. Could be a logjam in the db caused by record locks making it hard to get anything in or out.

Jim

At first I thought the problem was here. I thought maybe people were refreshing the thread too often. Now I am not so sure.

When posters mentioned twitter, I tried to log on. Overloaded and no response. Then another Freeper mentioned that he did a ping to Freerepublic. The response was over 20 iterations that went through a Chicago server.

Then I tried to go to the Frank Luntz website. Again it was hammered.

I think the problem is elsewhere. Funny how google worked just fine until you hit the threads on any of the trending sites. It struck me as an intentional bottleneck.

A possible suggestion in the future would be to have an autoupdate feature for a selected thread. I am just do not believe the problem is here. I saw it on many other robust sites tonight.
998 posted on 10/16/2012 9:09:31 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: CedarDave

“At the half-past the hour, both FR and the Dick Morris Twitter site timed out.”

I gave up on FR and went with https://twitter.com/markomalley/newspeople

Never faltered. He’s got 122 newspeople (mostly conservative) and it’s a lot of fun.


999 posted on 10/16/2012 9:10:39 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Daffynition
You mean Spin checkers....
Now Buzzard Crowley admitted she was wrong and Romney was right... yeah, right, AFTER the debate is over when 80 million people turned it off and back to American Idol.
No, she needs to go on all networks ( since this is a major issue of Benghazi and has election implications ) and admit in front of all America that she was wrong and Romney was right and give a apology...
1,000 posted on 10/16/2012 9:11:37 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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