The Goat Pen

Jon Stewart would be great, but he's a bit partisan and he's used to being the center of attention.

No, you need....me. AlabamAlum.

Stewart would kill it, if he agreed to do it, because he would respect the job.

However, he would never do it, because he does not see himself as a journalist (and he's largely right...which doesn't say much about how people view journos nowadays).

She kept a lot more control than Jim Lehrer

Jon Stewart would be great, but he's a bit partisan

I doubt it would be a factor. Liars with a non-partisan persona have been doing the job for years under a guise of professionalism that I have confidence Stewart could match. And at least we would know anyway.

I liked the format and I wish the moderators would be more direct - with much more - "but you didn't answer the question" type follow ups

I don't think there was a clear winner - both had opportunities to step on the neck of each other and missed them.

At one point Romney said "I'm talking now, you'll get your turn" - Ronald Reagan would have reminded him that he was the most powerful man in the world and leader of the free nation -he'd talk when he damned well please. Obama just sat back down and smiled uncomfortably.

Romney missed a chance to capitalize on the terrorist thing not pushing Obama to answer as to why he sent our rep to the U.N. to say it was a demonstration, not a terrorist act - but in the big picture, no one gives a shit either way.

Obama's strongest moment probably came during the closing because he got last say and did a decent job of contrasting his vision with Romney.

Anyone also notice that days after Paul Ryan gets "workout" photo's released to the public, Romney gains points with women voters?

The debates reminded me of the old 70's SNL skit of Pete Tagliani and Winfred Adcock played by Al Franken and Tom Davis...

Stewart gets a bad rap but the guy is respectful of every politician that shows up on his show even when you know he hates what the guy stands for.

I'd love for Stewart to moderate a debate but he'd have to do something beforehand to get credibility with politicians.

Plus Fox News would do all they could to shut it down and discredit him. Hannity would devote 3 weeks to talking about how unfair it is to the GOP that Stewart is.

It would be hard for Stewart to not slip to comedy and directly call bullshit on some of what he heard. It would be great fun, though.

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Awesome...even down to the St. Paddy's day coif.

This Bobby Kennedy documentary on HBO is really engaging. I have fucked around watching it and missed dinner.

Is that the one his granddaughter made? The woman whose wedding killed John John Kennedy?

Bklyn wrote:Is that the one his granddaughter made? The woman whose wedding killed John John Kennedy?

this one is new, it was made by his youngest daughter Rory. I didn't know he had 11 kids.

Even if you didn't agree with his politics, he was an exceptional man. Of course he lived in exceptional time under exceptional circumstances. Whose to say that one of us wouldn't step into the role he took because of our surroundings, access and influence.

It was Rory's wedding that killed John John. Ethel was pregnant with her when RFK died.

RFK was an interesting person. He was ruthless and mean as hell but had a real heart for the less fortunate.

Americans For Prosperity had their massive bus come to Goldsboro for a "rally" today. Early voting started here on the 18th, and the main early voting place that people use--especially African-Americans and urban votes (i.e. people more likely to vote Democrat)--is at the public library. The public library has a horribly designed parking lot with only one main point of exit/entry. There is another point, but you have to go through the parking lots of other buildings to get to the library. People generally don't use that entry for the library. The AFP bus shows up, blocks off the entrance for the early voting area and creates a horrible snarl of traffic (early voting has been busy so far, most waits are at least an hour and usually ninety minutes). The AFP folks come out and the local GOP/Tea Partiers (the county GOP is run by Tea Partiers) circle around the bus for their "rally." When confronted by law enforcement, they said that they had a permit, which was a blatant lie. When confronted about that, they admitted that they didn't have a permit and were told to leave. They then asked if they could remain parked there for their rally without the permit, but they were rebuffed and went to the local park down the street. It was obvious they were trying to block access to the polls. These are the same ilk that are pushing these voter purges and voter ID laws. Their masters/sources of funding will stop at nothing to suppress votes, and the rubes that believe their shit (mostly old, bitter whites) will keep going along with this shit.

So McDonalds was too crowded again?

I voted today. I can't think of anybody who the repub party would have as their candidate that I'd vote for over Obama. Certainly not Romney's non-drinking mormon assface. He's actually not all that bad comparatively, but he's still a non-drinkin' mormon assface. Seriously, I wouldn't vote for anybody who claims, as Romney did last night, that he has never had a drink in 65 years of life. I'm sorry, but that's just taking it too fucking far. That's just too weird, even for me. I'm pretty sure I would've voted for Obama in any case, but Romney's non-drinkin mormon assface made it very easy...

LOL...I think you've made up for Mitt's sobriety...in that post alone.

That brown sugar Ryan rubbed up on in college...

http://www.zimbio.com/Paul+Ryan/article ... pe+Picture

DooKSucks wrote:Americans For Prosperity had their massive bus come to Goldsboro for a "rally" today. Early voting started here on the 18th, and the main early voting place that people use--especially African-Americans and urban votes (i.e. people more likely to vote Democrat)--is at the public library. The public library has a horribly designed parking lot with only one main point of exit/entry. There is another point, but you have to go through the parking lots of other buildings to get to the library. People generally don't use that entry for the library. The AFP bus shows up, blocks off the entrance for the early voting area and creates a horrible snarl of traffic (early voting has been busy so far, most waits are at least an hour and usually ninety minutes). The AFP folks come out and the local GOP/Tea Partiers (the county GOP is run by Tea Partiers) circle around the bus for their "rally." When confronted by law enforcement, they said that they had a permit, which was a blatant lie. When confronted about that, they admitted that they didn't have a permit and were told to leave. They then asked if they could remain parked there for their rally without the permit, but they were rebuffed and went to the local park down the street. It was obvious they were trying to block access to the polls. These are the same ilk that are pushing these voter purges and voter ID laws. Their masters/sources of funding will stop at nothing to suppress votes, and the rubes that believe their shit (mostly old, bitter whites) will keep going along with this shit.

I'm sick of this country. Fucking GOP is just a bunch of gangsters.