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Mike 03

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1. Remember when Gore debated Quayle and Stockdale?

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Thu Aug 27, 2020, 09:10 AM

Aug 2020

A good comeback for ridiculing someone for taking credit for someone else's accomplishment:

Gore: (I can't recall exactly, but it was something like this: ) Your administration taking credit for the fall of the Soviet Union is like a rooster taking credit for the sunrise.

I always loved that one.

You could fill it in like this: Trump taking credit for the Obama economy is like a rooster taking credit for the sunrise.

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Three responses from previous debates that will work against Trump: [View all] kentuck Aug 2020 OP

Remember when Gore debated Quayle and Stockdale? Mike 03 Aug 2020 #1

That would work. kentuck Aug 2020 #3

Biden should say, "I knew Abraham Lincoln... pamela Aug 2020 #2

Not based on any of those classics chriscan64 Aug 2020 #4

"What's the nuclear triad?" JHB Aug 2020 #5

None of those will be effective. JHB Aug 2020 #6

If he brings up Abe Lincoln... kentuck Aug 2020 #7

Depends on how he brings Abe up, and there's too many ways to reply... JHB Aug 2020 #8

Better for Joe to just destroy him with display of knowledge. radius777 Aug 2020 #9

I still think, Bayard Aug 2020 #10