Latest Democratic debate the
dullest political event in years
by
John Podhoretz
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
1/15/2020 4:34:14 AM
When the Democratic debate started Tuesday night, I was young, carefree, merry. Two hours later, when it ended, I was praying to the Almighty for a swift end to my suffering. I felt like I was 103 years old — or even older, like one of the early patriarchs in the Bible. All the life had been sucked out of my body.
This, the seventh debate in seven months, was the dullest major political event in years.
And there is no excuse for that, since there were only six candidates on stage and, therefore, a real possibility that the Democrats could explore their differences with one another and draw sharp divisions.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/15/2020 5:12:49 AM (No. 288885)
I do not watch or listen to a Democrat for any reason. I will not honor the impeachment process with any of my attention. I will condemn the Republicans for allowing the Democrats to take over Congress. I do not consider the Democrats a legitimate party as they do not support our constitution, or our republican form of government.
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FTA: "President Trump may have degraded our national discourse with his debate hijinks in 2015 and 2016," ....I quit reading at that point.
I will say that after reading about the "debate" elsewhere this morning I have to wonder if any of the candidates actually WANT to win. They are all so lackluster, so boring, so disingenuous and flat out moronic that I cannot imagine any of them attempting to defeat President Trump's second term.
I am however, looking forward to the pummeling that Trump will give to whoever does get the Dem nomination. Those debates will be hilarious!
I am so glad to be alive in the Trump era of politics. After Trump's second term (which he will win in a landslide) the next president is going to be so boring!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Bazi 1/15/2020 6:59:34 AM (No. 288949)
The debates are Kabuki theater. What treachery is going on behind the scenes?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Red Jeep 1/15/2020 7:13:14 AM (No. 288958)
Since the Democrat (not Democratic) "debate" was held on CNN, it must have been because the Democrats didn't want anyone to watch it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 1/15/2020 7:16:59 AM (No. 288961)
Consider the difference of a tedious, depressing, and stupid block of dems and the miasma they produce versus the energized, happy, positive Trump rallies backed by Trump's actual accomplishments.
The dems claim that people are miserable and suffering and they require the dems to save them. I am sure a few people are. There will ALWAYS be some for whom the current conditions, as good as they may be, do not reach. Help for some is out of reach because of their own faults. Others for fairly rare or temporary situations. When the Great BO was in office, I am sure there were many who didn't have jobs and for who government help was insufficient or who had serious medical conditions that BOCare wasn't enough help for.
The economic conditions now are better than they have been in 50 years. Better than under BO, BJ Clintoon, and obviously Carter. Better than under Bushes, Ford, and Nixon. Better even than Reagan. If the dems have the answer, WHY haven't they produced it in the past? They are pushing the same failed policies they have for the last 50 years. How come they never work? Instead, the Leftist answer to their failure is, as it always is, we didn't spend enough money, pass tough enough laws, or have the right person (remember BO WAS the right person, the one "we" were waiting for? He gave us the "answer" of BOCare.). The dems answer is always to ignore their incompetent, corrupt, and failed past and wait for their glorious future that never seems to come.
We have Trump's solution NOW. It is working on fantastically on many fronts. The American People have real, personal benefits and the Country is stronger and more just. WHY should we drink the dems century old Kool Aid that we KNOW tastes bad, is bad for us, and we DON'T NEED?
No, I did not listen either. I was busy hitting myself on the head with a hammer and found that to be of higher priority and less painful.
A guilty admission. I do get a chuckle of Steyer mimicking Greta Thudblob's scold. He has had his climate act on the road for years and no one is paying to see his show. He is a legend in his own mind.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/15/2020 7:20:43 AM (No. 288964)
I was traveling and doing something vastly more enjoyable - stuck at an airport waiting for a delayed boarding.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/15/2020 7:21:09 AM (No. 288965)
I just got up and have not finished my first cup of coffee yet so don’t know - what were the television audience comparisons between this snooze-fest and PDT’s Wisconsin rally?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/15/2020 7:25:46 AM (No. 288969)
Cry’s of “Draft Hillary” can’t be too far down the road......
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I’m sorry, I forgot. I was busy breathing.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
worried 1/15/2020 7:58:40 AM (No. 289003)
#9, do you think the media would dare print a comparison of the size of Trump's rally and the tv audience of that boring debate? They wouldn't dare!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jacksin5 1/15/2020 8:02:51 AM (No. 289010)
I did not watch the debates, watched the Trump rally in Wisconsin instead. I'm sure it was a much better way to spend my time. The local news herein Orlando showed clips from the debate, but skipped reporting on the rally entirely. No surprise there.
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Trump was much more fun to watch. But I saw the replay of Lizzy refusing to shake hands with Bernie.
I'm pretty sure she lied about him, so he should have been the one refusing to shake her hand.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/15/2020 9:13:25 AM (No. 289080)
It is just starting to get light here in western Colorado and I see there was a dim "debate" on last night. I refuse to dignify these so-called dim debates by watching them. At our house, we watched a few episodes of Gunsmoke last night and thoroughly enjoyed our evening.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/15/2020 9:27:49 AM (No. 289095)
People just can't get behind a bunch of boring old socialists who promise us the world of unicorns and dancing bears but can't possibly deliver.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/15/2020 9:45:05 AM (No. 289113)
Clearly the entire leftist and liberal Democrat political agenda is based upon identity politics, as almost every answer the Democrat candidates give is rooted in either race, ethnicity, or some sort of gender related phony issue. Last night the big headline is whether a female can win the presidency in November.
So if you want more of Obama’s “Hope and Change” that never actually happens you will vote for whoever the Democrat nominee and his or her running mate turns out to be. But if you want a job and the ability to earn money for yourself and your family, and believe in an effective national defense, both at America’s borderline, and anywhere in the world where the American military personnel are stationed, you will cast your vote for President Trump and the Republicans. Remember with an entire bucket full of “Hope and Change” you can’t even purchase a chicken sandwich, but with the money earned from a job in the Trump economy, you can, both for you and your family.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 1/15/2020 10:39:29 AM (No. 289149)
I guess boredom is what you get from a bunch with nothing but destruction, hatred of us and nothing but freebies combine with a bunch of candidates who are trying so hard to not make a misstep. Right now they are more preoccupied with trying to avoid being the next one to lose at political musical chairs.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
lakerman1 1/15/2020 10:56:35 AM (No. 289164)
Old Jo seems to believe our Special Forces troops are not combat forces.
And not one of the three questioners followed up on that.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
kono 1/15/2020 12:36:27 PM (No. 289254)
These seem less like debates than auditions to see who can do the most-persuasive job of demonizing PDJT. Or a series of campaign speech summaries to generate sound-bite material for both the campaigns and the network campaign-coverage program promos.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 1/15/2020 1:11:34 PM (No. 289296)
There is nothing “democratic” about jackass rats.
NOTHING!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
planetgeo 1/15/2020 4:55:31 PM (No. 289476)
I have to confess that I'm having exquisite, perverse pleasure asking my still somewhat-reasonable liberal friends (yes, I still have some) who they're leaning toward and why...and trying hard not to bust out laughing.
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JPod and the other NTers can’t order dinner without taking a side kick at Trump.
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