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From sidelines, debate moderator Crowley becomes part of story - Yahoo! News
funny, but the Dems and in particular, Obama's campaign didn't complain, when Romney rolled over the moderator Jim Lehrer. Republicans whined over Martha Raddiche even though she kept the debate interesting and moving along.
I suppose the Republicans will whine over the polls, when they start to favor the President. Which they had been, even before this second debate, the President was doing well in the polls.
 

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Candy's questions were tougher. This is seen as having a "liberal slant."

Romney couldn't dominate Crowly as he did Lehrer. Bob Scheiffer will hopfully be tougher than Lehrer also.

Romney won't be thanking them for the debate as he did with Lehrer. It might look more like this: Romen warehouse interview, or this: Romney fights with reporter after being exposed

Some questions just can't be answered with talking points.
 
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The problem with Candy was that she re-worded questions and bailed out Obama specifcally in regaurds to the Benghazi cover-up. What the hell? Is she a moderator or an Obama campaign official? She took sides and protected the president. She didn't allow Romney to prosecute the situation. I was shocked!
 

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The problem with Candy was that she re-worded questions and bailed out Obama specifcally in regaurds to the Benghazi cover-up. What the hell? Is she a moderator or an Obama campaign official? She took sides and protected the president. She didn't allow Romney to prosecute the situation. I was shocked!
When you can't win based on the merits of your arguments then attack the moderator.
 

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The problem with Candy was that she re-worded questions and bailed out Obama specifcally in regaurds to the Benghazi cover-up. What the hell? Is she a moderator or an Obama campaign official? She took sides and protected the president. She didn't allow Romney to prosecute the situation. I was shocked!

Why so shocked?

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In all three debates, the Democrats have spoken much longer. Some moderation.

Both candidates went over on time. Romney tried to intimidate Candy Crowley, by walking up to where she was, and tried to stand over her, and He wouldn't stop talking. He was pushy, and bossy. And she stood up to him. Even at one point told Romney to sit down and shut up. Romney tried to bulldoze his way though the debate, and tried to out talk the President. So I don't see it the way you do, I could never ever see it, the way you do.
 

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There wasn't a problem with Candy Crowley. So it's a false equivalence. She did her job the way she was supposed to.


The problem with Candy was that she re-worded questions and bailed out Obama specifcally in regaurds to the Benghazi cover-up. What the hell? Is she a moderator or an Obama campaign official? She took sides and protected the president. She didn't allow Romney to prosecute the situation. I was shocked!
 

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Both candidates went over on time. Romney tried to intimidate Candy Crowley, by walking up to where she was, and tried to stand over her, and He wouldn't stop talking. He was pushy, and bossy. And she stood up to him. Even at one point told Romney to sit down and shut up. Romney tried to bulldoze his way though the debate, and tried to out talk the President. So I don't see it the way you do, I could never ever see it, the way you do.
You don't look at the world through Kock(ed) up eyes:biggrin1:

Video Mashup- Romney walked all over moderator & debate rules | Liberals Unite

Republican post debate:
Let's not focus on the fact that Ryan and Romney got their butts handed to them . Let's focus on Biden smiling too much and the moderator, yeah we can always blame the mods.:rolleyes:
 

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The problem with Candy was that she re-worded questions and bailed out Obama specifcally in regaurds to the Benghazi cover-up. What the hell? Is she a moderator or an Obama campaign official? She took sides and protected the president. She didn't allow Romney to prosecute the situation. I was shocked!


I agree
 

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Is it my imagination or have the cable news networks lost any semblance of fair and balanced? Faux News, an extension of the RNC that cannot remotely be called a news network, are bravely attempting to negate last night's performance by Dudley-Mitt Do-Right, the programmable human robot. How? By lambasting the moderator Candy Crowley. Even now Fox anchor Megyn Kelly's sharp chin and face are looking more and more like Margaret Hamilton's in The Wizard of Oz.

By contrast MSNBC looks much happier. I expect Chris Matthews to be dancing with euphoria later today and his guests proclaiming "that's right. We baaad!! We wupped your ass real good!!!"

Politics as it exists in 2012. :rolleyes:
 

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Bullshit....I listend on XM, and didn't watch TV..and I got the impression that Romney was a bully. He kept trying to make his point even as they moved on to other discussions. Nice try...show your TRUE colors, Mitt!

And I DO concede that Romney won the first one...once again, by only listening. Obama seemed ill prepared in the first debate....but this one was different.
 

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I never said I thought Romney lost the debate. I felt Obama did better in this debate than the last because he was much more assertive. Overall, when a challenger stands toe to toe with the president and his presence is as strong as the president's, it is a win for the challenger. We saw that last night.

Obama spent most of the night defending his last 4 years and that hurt him as well. Dems will be satified by the red meat and 'not true' statements but it didn't help Obama.

The mod was continuously interupting romney, rarely interupting obama. She paraphrased almost every question and even some of obama's answers! When she wasn't doing that she was offering answers for him and setting the table for him! She was like a human teleprompter at times, lol. Despite all of this Obama still didn't hold the evening!

And when we woke up this morning all the talk was about the whole Benghazi thing where the mod cut off Romney and backed up Obama. But everyone knows the truth is that Obama blamed the attack on a video for two weeks! Doesn't matter what the mod said. This will be talked about all week and into the next debate where it will take center stage as foreign policy is the focus.

Last night did nothing but help Romney.
 

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I never said I thought Romney lost the debate. I felt Obama did better in this debate than the last because he was much more assertive. Overall, when a challenger stands toe to toe with the president and his presence is as strong as the president's, it is a win for the challenger. We saw that last night.

But this all changes when the president has been beaten previously and now is playing catchup. In a sense, Obama was the underdog last night and he came back and exceeded expectations.
Last night was far better for Obama than for Romney.
I do concede that Romney is every bit the debater than Obama is ... and maybe better. And he is a far more formidable candidate than I had been assuming.
That said, and though, as a Canadian, I don't have a dawg in this fight ... I hope Obama goes on to win the election.
My hunch is still to put money on him.

Obama spent most of the night defending his last 4 years and that hurt him as well. Dems will be satified by the red meat and 'not true' statements but it didn't help Obama.

It's unavoidable that he defend the past four years. The question is how creditably he did so. I think he did pretty well.
And, because of the catchup factor, Obama's performance helped him a lot.

The mod was continuously interupting romney, rarely interupting obama. She paraphrased almost every question and even some of obama's answers! When she wasn't doing that she was offering answers for him and setting the table for him! She was like a human teleprompter at times, lol. Despite all of this Obama still didn't hold the evening!

This is an exaggeration. Crowley was a pretty good moderator.

And when we woke up this morning all the talk was about the whole Benghazi thing where the mod cut off Romney and backed up Obama. But everyone knows the truth is that Obama blamed the attack on a video for two weeks! Doesn't matter what the mod said. This will be talked about all week and into the next debate where it will take center stage as foreign policy is the focus.

The post-debate polls are far more telling than discussion of one of many topics touched on last night.
And it seems the president impressed viewers and listeners more than Romney did.

Last night did nothing but help Romney.

No. Romney lost ground. He seemed a full head taller than Obama after the first debate, he seemed only the same height during the debate and, given what we now see in polls, he's now shrinking in size compared to the pres.
 

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I never said I thought Romney lost the debate. I felt Obama did better in this debate than the last because he was much more assertive. Overall, when a challenger stands toe to toe with the president and his presence is as strong as the president's, it is a win for the challenger. We saw that last night.

Obama spent most of the night defending his last 4 years and that hurt him as well. Dems will be satified by the red meat and 'not true' statements but it didn't help Obama.

The mod was continuously interupting romney, rarely interupting obama. She paraphrased almost every question and even some of obama's answers! When she wasn't doing that she was offering answers for him and setting the table for him! She was like a human teleprompter at times, lol. Despite all of this Obama still didn't hold the evening!

And when we woke up this morning all the talk was about the whole Benghazi thing where the mod cut off Romney and backed up Obama. But everyone knows the truth is that Obama blamed the attack on a video for two weeks! Doesn't matter what the mod said. This will be talked about all week and into the next debate where it will take center stage as foreign policy is the focus.

Last night did nothing but help Romney
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Don't you get claustrophobic within that bubble?:rolleyes:

Your guy loses the argument so attack the moderator. Ask yourself why the focus is on that one moment. Could it be because it was a moment where a candidate was caught in a lie and the lie was exposed? Instead of accepting that your guy was wrong you wanna blame the moderator for pointing it out.
 

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Ask yourself why the focus is on that one moment. Could it be because it was a moment where a candidate was caught in a lie and the lie was exposed? Instead of accepting that your guy was wrong you wanna blame the moderator for pointing it out.
I don't think Romney was lying. He sincerely believed that Obama never connected the Benghazi attack to terrorism. And the truth is that Obama really didn't, for quite a long time, except that one reference in the Rose Garden.
Romney here is only guilty of making an error ... one that most people would have made.
 

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I don't think Romney was lying. He sincerely believed that Obama never connected the Benghazi attack to terrorism. And the truth is that Obama really didn't, for quite a long time, except that one reference in the Rose Garden.
Romney here is only guilty of making an error ... one that most people would have made.
We'll see if it was an error on his part or a lie as the week progresses. If you check out most right wing sites they are all trying to rewrite history to make Crowley appear wrong and Romney right.