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Gogirlgo
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 Posted: 09/30/04 - 09:18 Post subject: Presidential debates
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Dancinghomer
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Posted: 09/30/04 - 09:22 Post subject:
Yay! I learned something new today!
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Cappy
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Posted: 09/30/04 - 09:23 Post subject:
Why bother, having the debates at all. Under these rules, will anything ever really be discussed
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Pug
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Posted: 09/30/04 - 09:35 Post subject:
| Cappy wrote: | | Why bother, having the debates at all. Under these rules, will anything ever really be discussed |
Exactly! That's my problem with this whole thing.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 09/30/04 - 09:37 Post subject:
No wonder people vote on looks
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gretriever
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Posted: 09/30/04 - 09:43 Post subject:
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No wonder people vote on looks |
I knew I should have run! 
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Dancinghomer
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Posted: 09/30/04 - 09:44 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | I knew I should have run! |
No one can turn down a cute puppy face
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Gogirlgo
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Posted: 09/30/04 - 09:47 Post subject:
Right, I think it's important to remember that while this looks like the two candidates coming together, it's actually totally staged.
I did read that both parties had tried to demand that the cameras would only shoot them from certain angles, a request which was promptly ignored.
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rolling rock
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Posted: 09/30/04 - 09:48 Post subject:
in fact, that's my whole reaction to this entire election. all day, every day:
i dare one of them to do something that gets my attention. something i'd actually endorse. something that impresses me.
so, where was i? oh yeah:
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cherylpf
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Posted: 09/30/04 - 09:57 Post subject:
| Gogirlgo wrote: | Right, I think it's important to remember that while this looks like the two candidates coming together, it's actually totally staged.
I did read that both parties had tried to demand that the cameras would only shoot them from certain angles, a request which was promptly ignored. |
They talked about that on GMA this morning, showing examples of camera angles in the past that didn't catch the most ideal moments for various candidates: Gore rolling his eyes and sighing in 2000, George H. W. Bush looking at his watch while Clinton spoke, etc.
I just don't like the power each of the two major parties have.
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Pug
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Posted: 09/30/04 - 09:59 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: |
They talked about that on GMA this morning, showing examples of camera angles in the past that didn't catch the most ideal moments for various candidates: Gore rolling his eyes and sighing in 2000, George H. W. Bush looking at his watch while Clinton spoke, etc.
I just don't like the power each of the two major parties have. |
Yeah, maybe they should try paying attention for the two hours the cameras are on. That's the sort of thing i WANT to see.
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Cappy
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Posted: 09/30/04 - 10:00 Post subject:
I could see in the middle of the debates one of them stopping, and asking is this in the rules.
Why bother having an audience either.
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Posted: 09/30/04 - 10:00 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: |
No wonder people vote on looks |
I disagree. How do you think Clinton got elected? It wasn't the men in this country, it was the soccer moms of America that put him over the top.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 09/30/04 - 10:00 Post subject:
| Pug wrote: |
Yeah, maybe they should try paying attention for the two hours the cameras are on. That's the sort of thing i WANT to see. |
That's what I think. Dude, you're trying to win over America, think about the fact that you are being watched. 
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Gogirlgo
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Posted: 09/30/04 - 10:01 Post subject:
I think sock puppets would be just as effective.
Edited to say, I mean as audience. Although perhaps on stage too.
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