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Even with the bias, the debate blew up in the face of the administration when Romney did not walk out in tail, horn and pitchfork...
Sometimes, it is quality over quantity.
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9 minutes total across 4 debates, half of which came in the first debate where it didn't matter. Oh noes! BIAS BIAS BIAS there was no way Romney and Ryan could say what they wanted to say!
They only had three hours to say things.
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We'll just add these 9 minutes to the growin' list of pre-emptive excuses that the RWCJ seems to be compiling.
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These people would have complained it it was three minutes spread out over six hours.
And if it happened to be that Romney/Ryan got more time they'd shift the argument to the number of interruptions. Or the number of minutes the camera was focused on each candidate. Or the lighting.
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Because if any moderators were conservative and not affirmative action mediators, liberals would simply not debate...
Not too hard to figure out.
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The moderator does not matter in an age where the first impression is no longer the one that matters; with new media and Social tools it is the discussion after that makes the difference.
It is no longer a venue of separate individuals linked only by the Big 3 Nets and the Times...
You and I both know, if demanded, it would lead to name-calling, hysteria and the refusal to debate unless it were on a "fair" playing field, but in doing so, Democrats ensure that Republicans are better prepared to win votes by making all their "games" away games.
This has been Obama's problem. Not only does he need home field advantage and crooked refs, he needs for the oppositions bus to break down en route...
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That would explain how I got stuck with them too.
"Now I would have gone after Obama on Libya like a baseball bat, but that's why Romney has won elections and I've never had to even contested them."
He's won once in three tries. That's not even good if you're the Browns.
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The Chief has excuses for everything. Everything.
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As you have demonstrated for years, you believe any media figure who is not expressly conservative is therefore liberal. The debate moderators are picked by a commission that's half Republicans. The moderators are perfectly acceptable to them.
You whine too much.
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Exactly. Their idea of a "nonpartisan" moderator would be someone like Megan Kelly.
Still not sure where all the hatred for the moderators is coming from, unless one really wants to defend the idea that saying a false statement is false is now "bias."
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Ryan: The Stimulus didn't create jobs.
Biden: Congressman, I have not one, but two letters from you asking for stimulus money for your constituents where you state that the stimulus funds would create hundreds of jobs in your district.
Raddich: That's right congressman, you did send request stimulus money, didn't you?
Ryan: Yes I did.
Vette: OMFG RADDICH IS SAYING LIBERAL CRAP THIS THING IS SO FREAKING RIGGED!
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He's a well known liar. No one believed him in the first place.
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He was just havin' it both ways. If Obama won he could boast about how he was right - if Romney won he could laugh and say his prediction didn't matter.
