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Originally Posted by Groundhog
Man, that was an invigorating, insightul debate!
Oh wait, no it wasn't.
What a rhetoric-filled waste of time. I declare nobody the winner (though at least Obama appears human and some-what genuine), and declare the two-party system and us poor suckas stuck under it as the losers.
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i was gonna chime in, but this sums it up. i turned it off after the 124th "my friends..." answer that wasn't filled with any substance.
the answers they give are akin to the answer you give a kid when they ask how can they be successful: "just work real hard and your dreams will come true." really? that's all? there's no substance, no concrete answer in "work real hard".
those are the answers to the questions we heard in this debate. no one speaks in particulars, only generalities. for once i really would like to see a debate where the moderator interrupts the candidate to say "you are verring off-track and are now starting to not answer the question. please stay on course instead of trying to answer the question with campaign rhetoric". or if the candidate steps around the answer with a political non-answer, i'd love the moderator to chime in at the end and say "you still haven't adequately answered the question with specifics, we're not going to continue until you come up with something better than 'we all have to change' or "we, the american people, can bring about change if we all work together'".
until then, i am now refusing to watch any more debates. tonite was my last one.