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Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-08 11:13 PM
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The one thing that bothers me the most about these debates
It's a given that the Repukes ALWAYS pile a heap of lies and half-truths and mischaracterizations in their answer, so much so that there's never the opportunity to call them on all of them. I see this happen every single time. Even tonight, at one point after Palin indulged in this tactic, Biden's response was "I don't even know where to begin" which is exactly how I felt!!

It's a shotgun approach and it seems to be an actual strategy that they deliberately use, and it drives me frikken nuts! They must figure that if they can pack a half dozen lies into a short statement, that at least half of them will go unchallenged, which of course then equates with it having been true, otherwise it would have been challenged.

I HATE those people! They make me physically ill!!!!
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2Design Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-08 11:28 PM
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1. Most people only see this and the news and therefore only see the lies
the debates are ineffective, especially if the person is unwilling or unable to answer the questions and it is consider good debating - I would think in a debate that is judged, they would lose - I was thinking of the recent move Debaters with Denzel Washington - that is what I consider a debate - this crap is just more advertising except Joe Biden actually had facts
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