Here we go! Getting closer and closer…
Via the Wall Street Journal.
President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney will meet for three prime-time debates in October, a schedule released by the Commission on Presidential Debates shows.
The first, which will focus on domestic policy, is set for Oct. 3 at the University of Denver in Denver, Colo., the city that hosted the 2008 Democratic convention. A second meeting in a town-hall format will take place Oct. 16 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., and the final meeting, focusing on foreign policy, will be held Oct. 22 at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla.
The vice presidential contenders – incumbent Democrat Joe Biden and the not-yet-named GOP candidate–will debate only once, on Oct. 11 at Centre College in Danville, Ky., over domestic and foreign policy.
Each debate will be moderated by one person, and the moderators will be announced in August, the commission announced. Candidates will be allowed to make closing statements, but not opening ones. They will be broadcast from 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. ET.
My first thought was, “Pass the popcorn,” but really, I will be too nervous to eat. The future of our country is at stake… Mitt, we are counting on you!
My question is.,…WHO ARE THE NETWORKS THAT WILL BE RUNNING THEM,……. MSNBC?
Anyone know who the ” moderators” are?
The most interesting part will be who Obama’s parter…er, I mean, the moderator will be. Anderson Cooper? Maybe Soledad or Chrissy Tingles? So many good choices!
I don’t remember if the DB debated McLame in 2008. Any time DB gets off-teleprompter hilarity ensues. Should be entertaining unless the lapdog media does his talking for him.
Hmm, uber lib moderators on networks nobody watches.. what could go wrong?
Why have a debate? There’s nothing in the Constitution that says presidential candidates have to have one. They’re not really an electoral tradition either. They began in 1976 when incumbent Gerald Ford, trailing badly in the polls, challenged opponent Jimmy Carter to a series of debates. Since 1976, the debates have evolved into a farce with moderators going out and trying to play a game of “Gotcha.” I also question whether the debates have any effect on changing or making up the minds of voters. The only election where I think that happened was in 1980 between Reagan and Carter.
Time to take off the mittens Mitt! You need to be a street fighter against this low life. Obammie Commie will do every underhanded scheme imaginable to win a second term. If you use the McStain playbook of being a gentleman and making comments that o’stupid is a nice guy, you are gonna lose and America will lose. You need to… well as Mickey tells Rocky,
“This guy don’t just want to win, you know. He wants to bury you, he wants to humiliate you, he wants to prove to the whole world that you was nothing but some kind of a… a freak…” (Rocky 2)
And as Mickey tells Rocky in Rocky 1 how to train to kick some o’bum-ass:
“You’re gonna eat lightnin’ and you’re gonna crap thunder!”
Words of wisdom from a old boxing coach, Mitt!
Oct 16 debate at Hofstra ( here on Long Island) will be a “town meeting” format. Gallup will help select those who will offer questions to the candidates. Those chosen will be classified as undecided. IMO anyone who is still “undecided” on Oct 16 should probably just not bother to vote.
I think it was Dick Morris who explained what “undecided” means: It’s like asking someone’s spouse, “Are you planning to be married to your spouse next year?” If the answer is, “Um, not sure,” well, that pretty much sums it up. 🙂