CNN Democratic Debate

Originally posted by Nemesis X
Q: What would you do about the banks?

A: I ever tell you the time I convinced people to help with climate?

Ever told you obviously tried to change the subject?

Q: What would make you different and not be a third term Obama administration?

A: I think that's obvious! I'm a woman!

And the audience goes wild.

Breaking news, everyone! She's a woman! You don't see them a lot!

This made me LOL, just spit my drink out. It reminded me of her statement on her accomplishments as secretary of state as she danced.......

Sanders looked good, sounded good and people just need to get past that democratic socialist title.

If he leaves it at going after the greedy bankers, pharma companies charging $700-1300 a pill. Im for certain controlled area's of socialism. After all socialism does exist in every society, even America.

Im really glad to see him take a stand for gun ownership and veterans.

That dumb ***** didn't say one thing about veterans. Come to think of it, wtf did she talk about besides the republicans?

I'm for a measure of socialism as well. Health insurance etc. I'm not a believer in trickle down economics. The belief that the rich make the poor less poor is true, but only long enough for the rich to eventually control everything. So, it works for a whilez but at what cost?

We need to get rid of Monsanto as well.

They are basically killing the poor through un healthy food that they make them pay out the ass for.

Yet no one, Including Obama or Hilary will take them on.

I had to youtube it but I grabbed this video:

https://youtu.be/5PaLxOkjvJE

How do I embed videos.

Anyway it talks about what TI and LP mentioned briefly.

It's more in line with Sanders at least. One thing is for certain, out economy is based largely on consumption and without a strong middle class we cannot sprea our tax base and improve our economy.

We need corporations out of govt (lobbyists and pacs) so if thats trump great, sanders perfect etc.

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
We need to get rid of Monsanto as well.

They are basically killing the poor through un healthy food that they make them pay out the ass for.

Yet no one, Including Obama or Hilary will take them on.

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
If he leaves it at going after the greedy bankers, pharma companies charging $700-1300 a pill. Im for certain controlled area's of socialism. After all socialism does exist in every society, even America.

Im really glad to see him take a stand for gun ownership and veterans.

That dumb ***** didn't say one thing about veterans. Come to think of it, wtf did she talk about besides the republicans?

Herself?

So would you say the Debate was predictable?

For the most part, yes. The Democrats continued their strategy of watching passively as the Republicans self-destruct by not making too many waves and not demonizing their own members. Their plans and stated beliefs were largely in line with what you'd expect from a Democrat as well.

LMAO@"republicans self destructing". That's typical democratic wishful thinking. LOL. Dream on. Republicans already have this in the bag. Only one who is "self destructing" is Hilldog.

Gonna screen-cap that assertion for posterity.

Big things to note.

Almost zero questions on foreign policy.

Zero questions on how to grow the economy.

Zero questions about Iran/Israel.

Sanders was the only one with answers on Russia and Syria.

Sec State had nothing, considering her failure as Sec Stare I could see why she chose to keep her mouth shut.

After looking back over the debate Cooper seemed brash in his moderating but lacked substance questions. Which allowed Hilldof to just run amuck blaming everyone but herself.

This debate was handled completely different then the last. Cooper didn't get them into a pissing match where is Jake Tapper did.

Already hearing reports how widely different the two were and he went easy on the questions.

Originally posted by Tzeentch
For the most part, yes. The Democrats continued their strategy of watching passively as the Republicans self-destruct by not making too many waves and not demonizing their own members. Their plans and stated beliefs were largely in line with what you'd expect from a Democrat as well.

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
Big things to note.

Almost zero questions on foreign policy.

This is certainly something to be upset about. The democrat candidates should have the commons sense of hunting questions about foreign policy, because a lack of discussion in that regard benefits Hilary implicitly as she's supposed to have experience dealing with foreign affairs.

Maybe they are waiting for people to forget about that? 😕

http://www.factcheck.org/2015/10/factchecking-the-democratic-debate/

Damn these guys are quick. Opinions?

The overall media reaction is that Clinton did very well. In terms of poll numbers, this debate likely maintained the status quo. And, given the perception that the media is anti-Hilary, and the recent email story barrage, if there were a "Hillary has poor showing, continues to spiral" headline to be found, you can bet the media would embrace it. As it is, she remains the prohibitive favorite.

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
Big things to note.

Almost zero questions on foreign policy.

Zero questions on how to grow the economy.

What debate were you watching?

http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/first-democratic-debate-election-2016/

Those were the two most addressed issues. Scroll down a little ways and you'll see the graph of questions asked, and their topics.

{edit} here it is:

*raises hand*

I know the answer to that question: The one in his head where Hillary was apparently mocked by everyone; on every question and all the questions were easy ones.

Originally posted by psmith81992
Except the Republicans aren't self destructing and if that's the strategy the Democrats are relying on, they're going to lose.

The fact that they had, what, 17 candidates at one point suggests a lack of control from the party leadership. 17 candidates is way too many, even at an early point in the election, and it was the resulting chaos from so many candidates, many who overlap in terms of platform and appeal, that allowed an outsider like Donald Trump to swoop in and absolutely wreck the GOP's status quo. Despite their best efforts, the GOP establishment has been unable to contain him or coopt him--he simply doesn't recognize their authority and he doesn't need to.

Meanwhile in Congress, you have a speaker of the house who's decided to step down because he's sick of the constant opposition and criticism from a vocal radical wing of his party, and his two most likely heir apparents have declined to take the position because they don't want to deal with the radicals either.

Now, this doesn't on its own guarantee that the Republican Party is heading for a catastrophic collapse, but the Republicans are by no means healthy, and if the situation doesn't change a self-destruction is almost inevitable at a certain point.

Originally posted by Digi
The overall media reaction is that Clinton did very well. In terms of poll numbers, this debate likely maintained the status quo. And, given the perception that the media is anti-Hilary, and the recent email story barrage, if there were a "Hillary has poor showing, continues to spiral" headline to be found, you can bet the media would embrace it. As it is, she remains the prohibitive favorite.

What debate were you watching?

http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/first-democratic-debate-election-2016/

Those were the two most addressed issues. Scroll down a little ways and you'll see the graph of questions asked, and their topics.

{edit} here it is:

Who says that source is accurate? You?

The only person that talked about it was Sanders..

Originally posted by Robtard
*raises hand*

I know the answer to that question: The one in his head where Hillary was apparently mocked by everyone; on every question and all the questions were easy ones.

Out of her whole debate, you tell me one thing she said that wasn't flabbergasted bullshit. To think you can even stand to hear her voice, is almost criminal.