Article

2016-10-20 --Tech & Moderator Notes

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-10-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 As the Missus sez, looks like a Debate #1 re-run.

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-10-19 21:53|| 2016-10-19 21:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Only worse for Donald.

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-10-19 22:04|| 2016-10-19 22:04|| Front Page Top

#3
Think "I, for one, welcome back our ~~new~~ ~~insect~~ Clinton overlords

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-10-19 22:41|| 2016-10-19 22:41|| Front Page Top

#4 I won this debate.

Because I didn't watch it.

Posted by Iblis 2016-10-19 22:43|| 2016-10-19 22:43|| Front Page Top

#5 #1-4 Such amazingly intellectual comments.

Posted by jvalentour 2016-10-19 23:18|| 2016-10-19 23:18|| Front Page Top

#6 My brain cells lost. Bigly.

Posted by European Conservative 2016-10-19 23:45|| 2016-10-19 23:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Bigly? It was Yuge. I lost a billion brain cells watching it! I feel no pain!

Posted by newc 2016-10-20 02:23|| 2016-10-20 02:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Any Rantburg regular would have debated her into the ground without preparation.

Posted by European Conservative 2016-10-20 02:30|| 2016-10-20 02:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Especially any Rantburger, but any Layman could possibly lay them out too. Especially her.
Embrace the suck, I guess.

Posted by newc 2016-10-20 02:32|| 2016-10-20 02:32|| Front Page Top

#10 A few days ago I laid out the major flaws of Trump's debating skills. He can't focus on one topic. Hillary is vulnerable, and quite a view vulnerabilities came up. Take your finger and dig in.

What about Haiti and the Clinton Foundation? Golden opportunity to expose corruption. But no, Hillary gets him to fumble the whole thing by bringing up Putin. His team MUST have alerted him to that.

Posted by European Conservative 2016-10-20 02:39|| 2016-10-20 02:39|| Front Page Top

#11 “I will look at it at the time,” Trump said. “What I have seen is so bad. First of all, the media is so dishonest and corrupt and the pile-on is amazing.” The media, he said, has “poisoned the mind of voters.”

If you look at voter rolls, you will see millions of people registered to vote who should not be registered to vote. Let me give you one other thing: She should not be allowed to vote; she’s guilty of serious crime,” Trump blasted Clinton. “She should not be allowed to run and, in that respect I say it’s rigged. She should never have been allowed to run for president, based on what she did with her emails and so many other things.”

Wallace appeared stunned, explaining the peaceful transition of power, no matter how hard-fought an election, calls for the candidate who loses to concede “for the good of the country.”

“What I’m saying, I will tell you at the time. I will keep you in suspense,” Trump said, seeming to bask in the spotlight.

“That’s horrifying,” Clinton interjected.

THIS is what I wanted my candidate to say to these corrupt people. If the count goes to the Beast, the hunt is on.

Posted by Victor Emmanuel Henbane8340 2016-10-20 03:24|| 2016-10-20 03:24|| Front Page Top

#12 She's a lawyer and a politician. He is neither. She's been at this game for decades. He's obviously a political outsider. Did he do better this time than the last two? Yes, probably so. Was it a TKO? Sadly no.

He did VERY well on the abortion issue, which is IMHO, the central driving force of her candidacy. Creds to Wallace for bringing it up. He missed the opportunity to discuss Planned Parenthood and body parts. He did well on the 2nd Amendment issue also, but missed the opportunity to bomb her with the 'increased gov't regulations' piece.

No mention of her health issues which could have easily been done by siting his own 'good' health and stamina. No mention of Benghazi or her lies to families at Dover, AFB. No mention of developing story of Bob Creamer's 300+ visits to the White House. His not accepting the election results was an overblown issue.

Could I have done better? I doubt it. I'm praying for him and our country, but it does not look good.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-10-20 04:32|| 2016-10-20 04:32|| Front Page Top

#13 He missed so many good opportunities. But he is easily distracted, can't focus. And often he doesn't seem to understand what exactly Hillary did wrong.

He needed to explain to the public what exactly is wrong with the emails, what went down with pay for play, what exactly went down in Benghazi etc.

He needed to explain how Hillary would gut the Second by nominating liberal judges.

The election system may be flawed but he won't lose because of that.

Posted by European Conservative 2016-10-20 05:01|| 2016-10-20 05:01|| Front Page Top

#14 So, does it matters?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-10-20 06:16|| 2016-10-20 06:16|| Front Page Top

#15 It was a Mexican stand-off--a draw. Both sucked for different reasons; both were unprepared despite the topic areas being publicized beforehand. What were they doing in the days prior to the debate(?); supposedly they were preparing. Hillary had an easier strategy than Donald--she used her usual strategy--she lied about everything. Donald or his team must have also had trouble wading through the voluminous Podesta emails as there was considerable ammunition in them. The best I can say is that we are done with the debates. I'll go over to Drudge where the polls say Donald won by a landslide--makes me feel a bit better. I believe we are (bigly, big league, or biggly) better off with Trump and his NYC mannerisms than with the Clinton corruption. The latter would present a danger for our allies as well as for our citizens. Trump has actually built something in this lifetime and not spread death and destruction in the Mideast.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-10-20 07:01|| 2016-10-20 07:01|| Front Page Top

#16 After watching some of the replay vid clips this a.m., I might give Trump the edge--he had some good moments such as where did the $6 billion go when Hildabeest was SoS. There were a few others as well. It doesn't really matter what I think. It's what the voters think on Nov. 8th. Hopefully, there won't be too much fraud going on in this election. If there is, can the voters just shoot the fraudsters?

Posted by JohnQC 2016-10-20 08:27|| 2016-10-20 08:27|| Front Page Top

#17 Too bad Chris Wallace couldn't have moderated all of the debates.

I thought Trump did much better last night than he has in the previous two. Maybe some of that was because Wallace kept both candidates in line.

Hillary was lying through her teeth the whole time but I'm afraid most voters who limit their information intake to the MSM didn't notice.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-10-20 10:59|| 2016-10-20 10:59|| Front Page Top

#18 When Trump wouldn't say he would accept the results from the erection, everyone got their panties in a wad. I still haven't accepted the results from the last election.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-10-20 12:09|| 2016-10-20 12:09|| Front Page Top

#19 When Trump wouldn't say he would accept the results from the erection, everyone got their panties in a wad.

Reminds me of my last visit to Epstein's island.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2016-10-20 12:36|| 2016-10-20 12:36|| Front Page Top

#20 Wallace was the best mod in a long, long time.

Mrs. Bill did a lot of reading off of her podium.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-10-20 12:40|| 2016-10-20 12:40|| Front Page Top

#21 @#5: Gotta have a sense of humor, else this election could drive one over the edge. Last I looked, this site was not a written PhD dissertation exercise (unless it is for a PhD in Moonbat Inoculation.);)

Had DJT hit a triple or better last night, it would have been better, but he didn't; I call the debate a tie (For various reasons, the abortion discussion did not help him where he needed it.).

At this point, all one can do is (1) Talk with those willing to listen and (2) Vote.

Powder dry, no sense of inevitability and a touch of pessimism to keep myself motivated. That's how I do it.

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-10-20 13:28|| 2016-10-20 13:28|| Front Page Top

#22 The brilliance of Hillary's campaign is she basically refused to even mention the Project Veritas videos. If you were unaware of them Trump sounded like he was rambling. Trump should have posted the videos and then asked people to watch them and decide for themselves.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-10-20 14:37|| 2016-10-20 14:37|| Front Page Top

#23 The finer points of debate and logic really don't matter: the free government cheese crowd's minds have already been made up for them.

The only satisfaction we can look forward to among the smoldering ruins of the West is to say "I told you so."

Posted by regular joe 2016-10-20 15:39|| 2016-10-20 15:39|| Front Page Top

23:45 European Conservative
23:32 jvalentour
23:18 jvalentour
22:43 Iblis
22:41 Blossom Unains5562
22:04 Blossom Unains5562
21:53 Blossom Unains5562
21:49 Whiskey Mike
21:45 Whiskey Mike
21:42 Whiskey Mike
21:36 Bobby
21:14 lord garth
20:42 JohnQC
20:40 JohnQC
20:39 Frank G
20:36 Frank G
20:34 Frank G
20:30 Frank G
20:29 Frank G
20:18 Thereck Chutle5003
20:10 Jack salami
19:57 M. Murcek
19:52 Pappy
19:42 Frank G