Can Biden Avoid the Debates?
Spectator | USA,
by
Charles Lipson
Original Article
Posted By: Warren Pease,
7/9/2020 5:02:01 PM
In an opinion column for the New York Times, Thomas Friedman proposes that Joe Biden debate Donald Trump only if the president meets two conditions. Trump must release his tax returns and agree to a non-partisan panel of fact-checkers. The fact-checkers, he says, should point out the debaters’ errors in real time and conclude the event by summarizing their findings. Among really bad ideas, this one is a prize-winner.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/9/2020 5:07:16 PM (No. 472665)
Thomas Friedman is one of the many idiots at NYTs. Most people don't ask for, or publish, the ideas of an idiot, but the NYTs will do it.
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Biden is now declaring he wants to end the era of shareholder capitalism.
You think your 401-k is safe under a Biden administration?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mathman 7/9/2020 5:15:54 PM (No. 472675)
Yes.
He can stay in the basement forever.
He can't read from the teleprompter, so what would be the point?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/9/2020 5:27:26 PM (No. 472690)
For at least 80 years - - the Slimes has been giving the demonrats their marching orders.
This time - - they used Loopy Friedman to convey the message. Loopy is their second most delusional columnist. He was tapped because Slug Krugman was not available.
Avoid the debates - - that's the plan - - and you can take that to the bank.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ocho reales 7/9/2020 5:27:39 PM (No. 472691)
Friedman has been as wrong on political issues as many times as Biden has been wrong on foreign policy. Friedman is a "has been" who long ago abandoned common sense to appeal to the New York liberals to whom he owes his loyalty and livelihood.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ronniethek 7/9/2020 5:42:31 PM (No. 472701)
To paraphrase Monty Python "I (pass gas)in Thomas Friedman's general direction"!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Norway 7/9/2020 5:52:44 PM (No. 472710)
Can Biden avoid the debates? Depends (TM).
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
seamusm 7/9/2020 6:02:46 PM (No. 472723)
The Dems already have the floor AFTER debates conclude. They don't need 'fact checkers' running real-time interference as if legitimately a part of the debates themselves. We already had that problem in 2016 with moderators thinking they were also running for office.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Mauigirl 7/9/2020 6:06:08 PM (No. 472728)
Let me help you Joe.
Just announce there will be no debates until Trump first performs a forward two and a half somersault, one twist in the pike position from the Golden Gate Bridge with a panel of MSNBC judges scoring him straight '10's' on style points.
After that, we can discuss thinking about the possibility of a debate using CNN moderators.
I'll have my people call your people.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/9/2020 6:11:48 PM (No. 472736)
NO
WAY
JOE
Why should the citizens of this country want to hear you two jabber away before they vote on who will be President of the United States of America ?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/9/2020 6:17:16 PM (No. 472739)
If Biden does not debate Trump three times, with Biden winning those debates going away, there will not be a President Biden. After all Biden has been a liberal Democrat DC lawyer-Politician for forty five years, so if Biden is not suffering from old age dementia, he should be able to wipe Trump out with complex, eloquent, and learned debate responses, as Trump, a career businessman, has only been a DC politician now for three and a half years.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/9/2020 6:28:22 PM (No. 472756)
OK, Joe. But only if you produce every single document which is being kept under seal at the University of Delaware.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 7/9/2020 7:52:37 PM (No. 472837)
There is no way Biden can do a debate so he will have to have some lie to cover for his inability. Only question is what will be their lie?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
janjan 7/9/2020 8:14:31 PM (No. 472861)
The Democrats are panicked over the debates and are looking for a way to stack the deck. Biden can’t string two coherent sentences together and they know it. Trump has nothing to gain by agreeing to their stupid demands. Let Biden attempt to be a man and step up.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
janjan 7/9/2020 8:16:23 PM (No. 472863)
And #6 try to keep it classy. Give a thoughtful opinion Instead of sounding like a 5 year old.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 7/9/2020 8:48:20 PM (No. 472891)
The “fact checkers” will be there as Biden’s proxy debaters. No way they can let Joe go one on one with Trump.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 7/10/2020 11:55:43 AM (No. 473503)
His team is desperately trying to help him dodge them.
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