Details Regarding Monday's 3rd Presidential Debate - 9pm Eastern (Updated)

[Tx4obama]

Monday
October 22, 2012
President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney Topic: Foreign policy
Air Time: 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney
Moderator: Bob Schieffer (Host of Face the Nation on CBS)

The format for the debate will be identical to the first presidential debate and will focus on foreign policy.

More details here: http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012-debate-schedule/2012-presidential-debate-schedule/

Topics for third debate announced

The 5 topics:

The Changing Middle East and the New Face of Terrorism
Our longest war – Afghanistan and Pakistan
Red Lines – Israel and Iran
The Rise of China and Tomorrow’s World
America’s role in the world

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/13/topics-for-third-debate-announced/comment-page-1/

Edited to add...

No podiums. They will be 'sitting down'.
Here's a photo of the TABLE: http://features.rr.com/photo/0chf7Ri7BTczz?q=Barack+Obama

[dsc]

1. shows how ME centric our foreign policy has become

Three of the five are specifically ME and one will likely be. Only China is non ME. Nothing on Europe, nothing on Latin America, nothing on Japan and oceania and nothing on Africa.

[Wednesdays]

11. You'd think at least ONE question would be about Russia

After all, rMoney sez it's our greatest enemy.

[Tx4obama]

13. I betcha Obama will bring Mitts' statement up during the debate :) n/t

[Cha]

2. The first question in my mind is..

will Bob S be as be a Pushover as Jim Lerher?

What will romnesia be on?

[helpisontheway]

3. I hope the president goes last. Nt

[Tx4obama]

8. We will probably know sometime tomorrow afternoon who wins the coin toss.

Usually the the announcement of the coin toss winner's decision of if they want to go first or last and which side of the stage they will be on
is talked about by the TV talking heads in the afternoon before the debate.

[s-cubed]

4. Please fix time discrepancy between title and body of post. nt

[Tx4obama]

5. Thanks for catching that. I'm in Texas and I had my local time in my head while typing :( n/t

[Hutzpa]

6. Who gets to answer first or goes last?

do you know?

[Tx4obama]

9. See comment #8. n/t

[jenmito]

14. Romney answers first AND gets the last word. There were 2 coin tosses:

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/oct/22/questions-and-answers-on-third-presidential-debate/?print&page=all

[boingboinh]

15. Jesus, how many coin tosses does this guy keep winning.

I wonder why he chose to go first again this time. You'd think going 2nd and having the last word would always be the best positions.

[jenmito]

16. Maybe OBAMA won the first coin toss. n/t

[Hutzpa]

17. How can Mitt gets the first question and then gets to answer the final question?

*scratches head*

[jenmito]

18. There were 2 coin tosses. Link at my post above. n/t

[Hutzpa]

19. I saw the two coin toss

why not one coin toss, whomever won the toss goes first and the loser answers the last question. Why make it complicated with two coin toss?

[jenmito]

20. The loser would be the winner if he got the last question.

I'm not sure the winner would want to go first, either. I hate it, too.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

7. I rather dread being once again subjected to . . .

Romnesia's ignorant, belligerent, narcissistic bullying of the President and the moderator. But I do hope Obama SLAMs him on China.

We're going to be in a heap of trouble if outsourcing pioneer, knuckle-dragging, lying-ass MittShit is in charge of this country and our diplomatic relations. Because there will BE NO DIPLOMATIC anything with that royal asshole in charge. HE will talk and INSIST that anyone else listen. He won't allow anyone to have a conversation with him, to disagree with him, or even to get a word in edgewise. I suspect a lot of hee-haw, chest-beating redneck Repubes in this country love that - but it won't work for international diplomacy. It will get us into WWIII.

[Tx4obama]

10. No podiums. They will be 'sitting down'. Photo link below

Photo of the TABLE, here: http://features.rr.com/photo/0chf7Ri7BTczz?q=Barack+Obama


I was afraid of this.

Talking heads a few weeks ago were saying that when sitting down during debates candidates are usually more friendlier to each other,
and normally do not get as aggressive with other as they do when they are standing up.

Damn! I wish they were going to be standing at podiums.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

12. Joe "Bulldog" Biden didn't have trouble with it but...

...Obama isn't Joe Biden. Fingers crossed.