Yes I will be blogging the next debate

Right here.

9:00–Citizen questioners. This is going to be a train wreck. And this debate is going to be entirely about sex. Man, we’ve come a long way from the Lincoln Douglas debate.

9:01–Of course, Hillary must be prepared for this. There is no question in my mind of that. There is no way that she’s going to be caught off guard. The thing is, how is she going to handle it. She must have SOMEthing prepared. God, I hate this…but at the same time, you can’t look away, like a jackknifed tractor trailer.

9:03–This will be a new low no matter what.

9:04–HOW IN THE HÊLL CAN YOU NOT HAVE COMMITTED TO A CANDIDATE AT THIS POINT?!? JESUS CHRIST!!

9:05–They did not shake hands. I’m not surprised.

9:06–I like that she immediately asked if the questioner that was a teacher.

9:07–I can’t believe I’m saying it, but..I really like her outfit.

9:08–And he goes immediately to attack talking points rather than answer the question. He’s off and running. At least she addressed what she was asked.

9:10–Locker room talk. Jesus. I’ve been in plenty of locker rooms and I’ve never heard anyone talk like that. Quick! Deflect the question! Yup…he is. Drag in ISIS which has nothing to do with the question.

9:11–Yeah, he’s never done those things. And I’m positive that right now woman he has attacked/molested are grabbing their phones.

9:13–God, he looks like Alec Baldwin.

9:14–At least he’s not interrupting her.

9:15–It’s not just words. No one believes that for a second.

9:16–He knows he has zero support from blacks and Hispanics which is why he keeps mentioning them. And boy, the journalists are not backing off.

9:17–Here we go. She knew he was going to say this. She must be prepared.

9:18–He’s fighting to keep his voice flat and monotone. Hillary needs to send him off the rails.

9:20–So so far she’s not responding to his charges against Clinton and her. Interesting choice.

9:21–NO, CLINTON’S CAMPAIGN DID NOT START THE WHOLE BIRTHER THING.

9:22–So it’s gone from “Secretary Clinton” to “Hillary.” Well, she called him Bill, so it could be argued that she opened the door for that. Signing on with the devil? Seriously? So now she’s Satan? Boxes of emails? What the hëll are boxes of emails? And now he says if he wins he’s going to prosecute her? Jesus Christ.

9:23–She needs to slap him down. She needs to slap him down as hard as she can.

9:24–Well, the Trump supporters must have loved the “you’d be in jail” line.

9:26–He’s shifting a lot. He can’t just stand and listen.

9:27–Why are they letting him just respond endlessly? He keeps using the word “liar” just trying to get it to stick.

9:27–Drinking game challenge warning: Do NOT drink every time he sniffs because you’ll suffer from alcohol poisoning.

9:29–He keeps trying to interrupt and they keep stopping him. Oh my God, one on three.

9:29–No, he is not a gentleman. That fools no one.

9:30–She’s handling the health care question quite well so far.

9:32–Great answer. Best so far.

9:32–The biggest expense? Bigger than the military? Can anyone check that?

9:33–Whoa, whoa. Is he nuts? Everything I’ve heard is that Canada’s medical care is the best. At least that’s what Canadians have said.

9:35–Dude, stop trying to dismiss Anderson Cooper out of hand. It’s not working and it’s just going to piss him off.

9:36–Cooper keeps trying to get him to answer questions and Trump keeps dodging or interrupting or complaining.

9:37–THAT’S A SHAME?!?! HE PROMOTES IT!!

9:38–What is he SNIFFING?!?

9:38–He’s completely off the rails. Why in the hëll is everything regarding Muslims related to terrorism?

9:40–Yes. Yes. She’s nailing this one.

9:42–Oh my God. Oh my freaking God, he’s screwing himself to the floor.

9:42–They don’t interrupt her and demand she answer the question because she IS answering the question. That’s why, you jáçkášš.

9:44–Why does he keep pacing? To upstage her?

9:48–Boy, that’s a loaded question.

9:49–Seems a reasonable explanation regarding what she said.

9:50–Kathleen may have to leave the room because her blood pressure is beginning to skyrocket.

9:52–Once again he tries to change the subject so that he doesn’t have to answer it.

9:52–Whoa whoa whoa. He pays hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes? I thought he boasted about how clever he was for NOT paying his taxes.

9:53–Okay, so…it’s Hillary Clinton’s fault that tax laws weren’t changed that he took advantage of? So his taking advantage of tax laws is HER fault? Is anyone else having trouble tracking that?

9:55–What’s the sniff count up to?

9:56–That MAYBE enabled him to avoid paying taxes. Remember, we still don’t know for sure.

9:58–So he finally flat out admits that he hasn’t paid taxes for 18 years. Outstanding.

9:58–I don’t give a šhìŧ about Hillary Clinton’s friends because THEY ARE NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT.

10:00–And of course he interrupts again and again and again.

10:02–Anyone know if this is 90 minutes or two hours?

10:02–My God, he will NOT SHUT UP.

10:06–He thinks nukes are the answers to everything. Yes, we’re old and tired–of listening to him.

10:07–WHOA that was a big sniff.

10:08–Someone cut his microphone.

10:08–Oooo she’s hurling Pence at him.

10:09–Wait, they HAVEN’T SPOKEN? Since THE DEBATE?! Good Christ, and some people were snarking on Clinton because she didn’t speak to Kaine until the following DAY.

10:10–Yes, she assumed he couldn’t think of it; that’s why she was citing some.

10:11–Clinton is trying not to break up.

10:11–“I’m going to go to Secretary Clinton”…for some sanity.

10:12–Next debate I’m going to keep track of the number of times he interrupts her.

10:13–Definitely, arm the Kurds. Give them whey.

10:14–For the record, no, she didn’t go over. Two minutes.

10:16–He’s running over.

10:17–I feel like she’s doing a better job connecting with the questioners in the place.

10:17–Also next time I’m actually going to time every single response to see who is going over.

10:19–But they ARE deplorables. That’s the problem. They really are. I mean, I’m sorry that they feel upset because she said that what they are makes them deplorable, but it really does.

10:20–Fast correction: She said “some” of them were irredeemable.

10:21–No, that IS what he said. Sex tape.

10:21–Cooper keeps desperately trying to get him to answer a single dámņëd question.

10:27–No, he did NOT die recently, you idiot. It wasn’t recent at all. That’s the point.

10:27–Please, SOMEONE ask him how specifically Clinton has been attacking the 2nd Amendment.

10:28–And she flat out said she wasn’t against it. Not that his base will believe her, of course.

10:31–And then the Lollipop guild will come in to help.

10:31–By startling coincidence, he cites several of the swing states to praise.

10:32–So far this debate isn’t even close. Not only has she seemed far more presidential, but her answers were quite simply better, more detailed and more knowledgeable than his.

10:34–Ooooooo…

10:34–My God, what a BRILLIANT answer. That is the SINGLE best answer to a question I’ve heard tonight.

10:35–His response isn’t bad either.

10:37–Who would have thought this screw fest would end on a positive note.

141 comments on “Yes I will be blogging the next debate

  1. 9:21–NO, CLINTON’S CAMPAIGN DID NOT START THE WHOLE BIRTHER THING.

    Birtherism started because one man (a now deceased anti-Mullah [that being the name of one of his several blogs] Iranian ex-patriot named Ali R. Pahlavan) posted the full birther hypothesis for the first time as a rumor (not claimed as fact, but as “I was told today that…” followed by three wild claims, the second of which was Birtherism) as an off-topic comment at Free Republic, on March 1, 2008. He did that under the username “FARS” (note that the native Persian dialect of Iran is called “Farsi”). At first he was roundly condemned for posting such wild unfounded rumors, but subsequently in that thread started getting some support.
     
    Apparently encouraged by that, he posted under his blogger identity of “Alan Peters” on his Alan Peters’s Ruthless Roundup blog an expansion of the birther hypothesis (as well as one of the others he had promulgated with his “FARS” Freeper comment) and this time stated as somewhat more than a mere rumor. This was just four days later, on March 5.
     
    The earliest claims about anyone even remotely connected to Hillary doing anything Birtherish dates only to April of 2008.
     
    Thing is, there are three key elements to Birtherism, and the “FARS” comment is the earliest known occurrence of all three:
     
    1. Obama was born in Kenya (or some other overseas nation)
     
    2. Obama’s mother quickly transported (usually said to be by plane) Obama back to Hawaii as a newborn, and—
     
    3. (This is key to making it a conspiracy hypothesis) —either fraudulently registered his birth there, and/or decades later when running for office, a couple of fake birth certificates were forged on his behalf.
     
    It’s not Birtherism without all three elements. But imagine that a well-meaning comment on some other forum that Pahlavan read (if not participated in) had the first two elements as an hypothetical scenario posted as an analogy in a The Volokh Conspiracy blog post on the subject of the question of John McCain’s Natural Born Citizenship! And that Pahlavan read this comment (or a friend read it and told him about it), saw a golden opportunity, added the third element to make it a true conspiracy hyposthesis, tested it as a rumor on Free Republic mere hours later (a day at most), then posted it as an assertion on his own blog four days later.
     
    Aaand, such a comment exists, posted by one “Dave N” on that The Volokh Conspiracy blog. On Leap Year Day of 2008, just one day before the “FARS” “I was told today that…” comment on Free Republic.
     
    Check out the research of one Loren Collins, the world’s expert on the subject of the origin and spread of Birtherism, for the full story, including quotes from and links to all three blog articles and comments mentioned above (with date stamps visible), still online in their original form (no need for the Internet Wayback Machine, though once Pahlavan’s domains expire [not likely to continue to be renewed after his death in 2013] we may indeed need to resort to that for the Ruthless Roundup post). See also Part 2 of his research for how Birtherism spread from there, and the key event in early June, 2008, which caused it to explode.

  2. For any who are curious, Hillary’s full comments about having a public and private policy. It’s what I told a number of people it meant when the partial quote came out- a simple, easy to digest policy for public consumption and the complicated, gritty, down and dirty one for behind closed doors.
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    She also did in fact reference the film Lincoln when she gave the original speech, so Trump was once again full of it when trying to act like she did no such thing.
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    *CLINTON SAYS YOU NEED TO HAVE A PRIVATE AND PUBLIC POSITION ON POLICY*
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    *Clinton: “But If Everybody’s Watching, You Know, All Of The Back Room Discussions And The Deals, You Know, Then People Get A Little Nervous, To Say The Least. So, You Need Both A Public And A Private Position.”*
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    CLINTON: You just have to sort of figure out how to — getting back to that word, “balance” — how to balance the public and the private efforts that are necessary to be successful, politically, and that’s not just a comment about today. That, I think, has probably been true for all of our history, and if you saw the Spielberg movie, Lincoln, and how he was maneuvering and working to get the 13th Amendment passed, and he called one of my favorite predecessors, Secretary Seward, who had been the governor and senator from New York, ran against Lincoln for president, and he told Seward, I need your help to get this done. And Seward called some of his lobbyist friends who knew how to make a deal, and they just kept going at it. I mean, politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be. But if everybody’s watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So, you need both a public and a private position. And finally, I think — I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are. I mean, it’s like when you guys go into some kind of a deal, you know, are you going to do that development or not, are you going to do that renovation or not, you know, you look at the numbers. You try to figure out what’s going to work and what’s not going to work. [Clinton Speech For National Multi-Housing Council, 4/24/13]
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    https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927

  3. One thing I don’t get: When Trump keeps saying that Hilary was “not nice” to Obama or that Bernie Sanders said she was unqualified (I think), why doesn’t Hilary just remind Trump that Obama and Sanders are both endorsing her for the presidency?

    For that matter, why didn’t she mention the 12 Republicans who pulled their support for Trump following his latest video scandal? Their non-endorsement would seem his assertion that it’s just “locker room talk.”

  4. So, once again, my new standard political greeting “So, which third party candidate are YOU supporting?”

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