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VP Debate... & The US election in general.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:55 am
by Nick H.
Anyone watch this?

I agree with the general consensus, that "Biden wiped the floor with Paul Ryan at Wednesday night's debate".

Also, Paul Ryan strikes me as a gigantic asshole.

Re: VP Debate

PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:07 am
by macrae11
I concur with your Ryan assessment, but I was busy receiving awards last night so I missed the debate.

Re: VP Debate

PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:11 am
by Mathieu Benoit
I was busy watching Grey's Anatomy with Joline.

Did it go better than the presidential debate?


PS - Congrats to you and everyone at Outreach Productions, Andrew! Danny must be very proud of you guys!

Re: VP Debate

PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:13 am
by macrae11
Yeah it was a great night. I'll see if I can't catch up on my political watching this weekend. I'm taking a long weekend since I worked Thanksgiving for said awards.

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Re: VP Debate

PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:34 pm
by Nick H.
Mathieu Benoit wrote:Did it go better than the presidential debate?


Far better. Biden could be criticized for his frequent application of condescension as a debate tactic, but personally, I thought it appropriate. Watching Ryan squirm under the open invitation to present specifics of his magical 'everyone pays less tax; nothing loses funding' budget was wonderful; and given Obama's passivity, Biden laughing out loud at Ryan and interrupting him constantly was great.

On another note: congrats, Andrew!

Re: VP Debate

PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:38 pm
by Mathieu Benoit
Nick H. wrote: Watching Ryan squirm under the open invitation to present specifics of his magical 'everyone pays less tax; nothing loses funding' budget was wonderful; and given Obama's passivity, Biden laughing out loud at Ryan and interrupting him constantly was great.


Seems I missed a good one. Obama needs to pull his balls out of Michelle's purse it seems. I would have loved to see Clinton against any of them. Clinton would have sent Ryan running off the stage in tears...

Re: VP Debate

PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:44 pm
by Malcolm Boyce
Which Clinton? :lol:

As far as Obama... As crazy as it sounds, I don't consider it entirely out of the question to have been a strategy how he played that debate performance. It sounds ridiculous, but the US political system is so split in the middle, him getting a little too far out in front might have been a bad thing on election day. We'll probably never know the truth about that night.

Re: VP Debate

PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:48 am
by Nick H.
Mathieu Benoit wrote:Obama needs to pull his balls out of Michelle's purse it seems.


He certainly seems to have done that last night. Did anyone see the debate last night?

Re: VP Debate

PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:55 am
by macrae11
I watched a few minutes here and there. It was nice to see Willard get called out for being a liar.

Re: VP Debate

PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:59 am
by Mathieu Benoit
I caught little bits of it on the re-runs. I watched the part where they were talking about the investments in China and Romney asked Obama if he's looked at his pension. Obama responded by say something like "Yeah, it's not as big as yours though." I was satisfied with that so I turned the TV off and went to bed.

Next debate on foreign policy will be fun.

Re: VP Debate... & The US election in general.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 1:15 am
by Malcolm Boyce