Posted on 09/28/2016 7:31:02 AM PDT by C19fan
The most momentous thing about Monday night's presidential debate wasn't anything Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton said. It's what they didn't say.
Not a word was spoken about abortion, same-sex marriage, religious freedom, "family values," or any other issue championed by the religious right over the past few decades. True, those issues didn't fit naturally with the economic, race, and national security topics on the agenda Monday night. But in previous presidential contests, that wouldn't have stopped the Republican nominee from inserting a comment somewhere about protecting unborn life or the importance of traditional families. On Monday night, we heard nothing about that from the debate stage and the silence was deafening.
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What a waste of valuable time Lester Holt took up.
The birther issue?
Who CARES?
Whether Trump supported the Iraq war from the beginning?
It doesn't MATTER.
He didn't vote on it.
Hillary voted for it.
Whether Trump called Rosie O'Donnell a pig?
90 minutes of this kind of asinine minutiae!
Holt could have asked substantial questions.
Instead he just wasted everyone's time.
I think that's why Trump was thrown off a bit, because he was ready and prepared to take on *real* issues.
I hope the next two debates talk about some things that actually matter.
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