2012 Presidential Debate Master Thread

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Bullseye

Biden aimed to throw the Obama base a lifeline. He fed the Kos Kidz desperate need to see some fight, but at the cost of his remaining (and mostly notional) dignity. If you want a gibbering, snorting, mumbling clown with a rictus-grin locked on his mug a heartbeat away from controlling America's nuclear arsenal, Joe Biden's your guy.

Ryan aimed to meet the standard of gravitas and presence, to demonstrate to the fabled female/suburban/swing/moderate voters that he's not a scary granny-killing Terminator sent from the future to throw seniors into the snowbank. He had to demonstrate steadiness, stature and knowledge. Done and done.

The conventional wisdom this morning is that the debate was a tie. That conventional wisdom is (as is so often the case) dead wrong. Biden played to his base, trying to dig Obama out of the hole he's been trapped in since last week's debate trainwreck. Ryan played to the center, to the swing and to the late-engagers. The post-hoc coverage won't factor into their decisions: the pictures and Biden's mugging, drunk-uncle affect will. (Also, Biden opened several new, Costco-scale cans of worms for the Administration on the Libya scandal.)

[Dugout DickStone]

Rick Wilson?

http://ricochet.com/main-feed/The-Edge-of-Panic

[felix rex]

Joe Biden would be the most badass hilarious president ever.

[SdK]

Biden 2016!

[steve dave]

Joe Biden would be the most badass hilarious president ever.

Yes

[ednksu]

lulz at the people who think Ryan won. At times he looked like the college freshman speaking out his ass back from college for thanksgiving break sitting at the adult table (foreign policy, economy, tax cuts).  At worse he looked like the same old neocon ideologue who can't explain how their partisan assault on American values actually plays to middle America (tax cuts, economy, personal freedom). 

[Brock Landers]

Biden "won" this debate in the same way Gore kicked Bush's ass in their first debate back in 2000.  He dominated his opponent but came across as an unlikeable dickface.

[kstatefreak42]

lets talk about the war machine......lets talk about our debt and how we are going to solve it instead of telling us how much you love america and we need to adress our debt.......lol we all know another debt ceiling increase is on the way.. if not implosion is imminent. as ron paul said......with qe3 its the begining of the end.

[felix rex]

Oh man. Hillary bomb. The clintons are almost as awesome as the Bidens.

[steve dave]

Oh man. Hillary bomb. The clintons are almost as awesome as the Bidens.

Yes

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

Oh man. Hillary bomb. The clintons are almost as awesome as the Bidens.

The buck stops down below all of them, way down there, somewhere, not sure with whom.   

[Dugout DickStone]

Oh man. Hillary bomb. The clintons are almost as awesome as the Bidens.

The buck stops down below all of them, way down there, somewhere, not sure with whom.   

We knew the attack was coming but let it happen so we can later bomb someone and explain it away as being the guys who planned the attack.

even I can see that and I don't read Richochet

[Kat Kid]

Took a nap, what did I miss.

[Kat Kid]

Mitt sounds terrible on this tax policy question.

[puniraptor]

I don't like them not answering the question. eff these dildos. JILL STEIN 2012

[puniraptor]

I hope they fight. Standing next to each other makes it possible.

[Kat Kid]

Mitt just got owned.

[jmlynch1]

Romney said we need to bring down cost of college. Did he say how?

[puniraptor]

He did not answer the how in any way.

[06wildcat]

Romney said we need to bring down cost of college. Did he say how?

His whole campaign is saying things people want to hear and not providing the how.

[p1k3]

Romney said we need to bring down cost of college. Did he say how?

His whole campaign is saying things people want to hear and not providing the how.

Welcome to politics in the United States in 2012

[8manpick]

Romney said we need to bring down cost of college. Did he say how?

His whole campaign is saying things people want to hear and not providing the how.

Let me tell you, I talked to a woman last month as I was out campaigning and she said [insert talking point that fits whatever they are talking about]

[Cartierfor3]

If  I was a question reader, I would say something different than what the original question is.  I'd be like "Governor Romney, if you are elected, what would you do to make sure that we can have drinking fountains that have Hawaiian Punch in them, just like in that movie Mr. Deeds, and that all Americans have access to them?"

[puniraptor]

If  I was a question reader, I would say something different than what the original question is.  I'd be like "Governor Romney, if you are elected, what would you do to make sure that we can have drinking fountains that have Hawaiian Punch in them, just like in that movie Mr. Deeds, and that all Americans have access to them?"

Get money.  eff bitches.  Pizza Hut.

[06wildcat]

If  I was a question reader, I would say something different than what the original question is.  I'd be like "Governor Romney, if you are elected, what would you do to make sure that we can have drinking fountains that have Hawaiian Punch in them, just like in that movie Mr. Deeds, and that all Americans have access to them?"

Mic would be cut...apparently this can't be done for Obama or Romney...would love for their mics to just cut out when their time is up.