The second in the series of three Presidential Debates will take place tonight featuring a "town hall" style format from Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. This debate will be 90 minutes long and will featured pre-screened questions from a group of undecided voters. The topics will range from domestic to foreign policy and everything in between. We will have the live stream embedded so you can watch the debate right here on this page.
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Air Time: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 @ 9pm et / 8pm ct / 7pm mt / 6pm pt
Channels: ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and more including CNN Espanol and others
Moderator: Candy Crowley (CNN Chief Political Correspondent)
Format: The second presidential debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which citizens will ask questions of the candidates on foreign and domestic issues. Candidates each will have two minutes to respond, and an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate a discussion. The town meeting participants will be undecided voters selected by the Gallup Organization.
As always, we'll have the live embedded feed as well as the full video once the debate is complete.
Why do people have to bring Racism into the picture ? First of all Obama Drama was Elected by all RACES ! Number two , If Obama Drama Loses its because of his FAILED POLICYS ,not the color of skin !! IF, that was SO, HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ELECTED FOR PRESIDENT IN THE FIRST PLACE !! People are upset with MR. Obama Drama For the Economy , Jobs and going DEEPER in DEBT ! If, they were not UPSET there would be NO WAY a person could RUN Aginst HIM and WIN..BUT, because ,of his FAILED ADMIN. People are tired of FALSE PROMISSES ,Tired of his LIES ..That is why PEOPLE want a NEW PRESIDENT !! They , want to CHANGE the Direction America is going !!
i vote for obama all the way and he did not make that much much mistakes back in his 4 years of staying and the mess that bush caused is going to take a long time to clean up because he messedd up a lot just give him some more time and get of his case
Dream up something or someone new to blame. That dog don't hunt no more!
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Drawer:
I agree. To use the name "Bush" makes no sense. Republicans have turned Bush into an "unperson," the way the Soviets turned Kruchev into an "unperson."
Bush simply does NOT exist, so it makes no sense to mention his name.
It makes more sense to just say we were in the middle of a total economic collapse and panic. It doesn't matter who "caused" it. In matter, to his credit, Bush tried to stop the collapse.
If something had not been done firmly and quickly, we would have been into another Great Depression, in which unemployment went from 3% to 25% in Hoover's term. AND the stock market lost 90% of its value. Luckily, we had Obama's cool hand to stop the collapse.
So the question should not be "are you better off," but rather, "aren't you glad you're not in a bread line?"
@Goethe
So we should all be glad we're not worse off in an economy made ever worse and living in a land of continually depleted liberties? Gee! Now THAT has me grateful for "Cool Hand" Bummer "firmly and quickly" squeezing my private parts! NOT!
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Drawer:
Obama didn't squeeze your parts as tightly as Bush did.
Obama's problem is the same as Bush's in handling a crisis. After 9/11, we had the ENTIRE world on our side. His father wouldn't have squandered that. And on the home front, he could have and should have said YES we have a crisis and we will have to work TOGETHER, they way we did during World War II. Instead, he said, "go shopping and don't worry your pretty head, this is my chance to profit from the crisis." And he put the entire war efforts on our credit card–in addition to continuing the tax cuts–which were ONLY instituted because we thought we had a "surplus."
Likewise, Obama was too cool about the economic crisis. He should have told us how BAD it looks, but that we can lick it together. Instead, he only tried to reassure us, and underestimated how bad things really were.
In both cases, someone like Jesse Ventura would have gone on TV and said, Look, we're in a PILE of crap here. Let's show 'em what America can do.
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VOTE for Gary Johnson (do not write-in Ron Paul, please)!
Here is why:
The Establishment fears Ron Paul so much that they will do anything to stop him and his (our) movement for Liberty on the election level (since so far they have not been able to control the internet, and thus shut us down completely)!
The Major Networks will show after the election NOTHING for Ron Paul (not even that he got ANY of the Vote, for that would be admitting that some actually dared to write-in his name).
The Apparatchiks have been instructed to shred all write-in ballots where Ron Paul’s name appears (for proof just watch after the election and see if Ron Paul is even mentioned, let alone how many votes he got)!
Gary Johnson is on the ballot in all 50 States — so a vote for him is a vote COUNTED against the wannabe despots of America! (Plus, if he breaks the 5+% level, the Libertarian Party (Ron Paul’s original party) will be eligible for federal funds to the tune of about 90 million dollars for the next election — and no longer will be a financial shoe-string operation!!!).
VOTE GARY JOHNSON (or write-in Ron Paul if you must) — as long as you vote for what you realize is BEST for our Nation, and NOT get bamboozled into voting again for the “lesser of two evils”: the Kenyan Barack or Mitt the Mormon (this path only leads to more and bigger evil, for the next election cycle…should there be one)!!!
This would seem — even to the casual, intelligence-impaired observer — to be off-topic. Go peddle it elsewhere.
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Drawer:
We don't look kindly on thought control in these parts.
http://www.thedebate.org/thedebate/afghanistan.asp . The real reason they don't want to abandon Afghanistan is, because of the Exxon Mobile's pipeline pumping oil from Afghanistan. George Bush Jr. brags he went to Iraq for the oil, to show off to his affluent friends. So instead of half the national deficit, we have it double, they want to build permanent bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, so big oil, and the Republican's can get rich. So why do they want to make Afghanistan a permanent duty station so they can protect the interest's of big oil and the pipeline, before they started drilling and pumping oil out of Afghanistan, the country was considered the largest untapped oil resource in the world. They don't talk much about the pipeline now because the Billionaire's and corporations have silence everyone. I don't vote and support neither party. George Bush Jr and the Republican party wanted to control the oil infrastructure of Iraq, and Afghanistan to enrich themselves, Billions traded for the corporations, while America accumulated Trillions in national debt, not such a good trade off, but it was for 1% of the population. The people of Afghanistan live simple lives as farmers and ranchers, living off of mountain goats, and sheep's, and simple crops, too stupid to realize what they have an abundant source of natural resources that they do not benefit from, while Hamid Karzai hordes over 100 Billion in secret accounts for himself. The people of Afghanistan use horses and donkeys, and pick up trucks, as their main weapons, while military contractor's keep building new weapon system's for themselves and get richer, America goes down hill in debt. China owns 11% of the national debt, and Japan owns 10% and they are over 200% over GDP in national debt. So who owns most of the national debt Private Security Firms profiting off the national debt of the U.S. Corporate raiders interested in maximizing profit margins and corporate gains overseas, while the U.S. economy suffers at the expense of the people.