This is what I heard, clear as a bell
[QUOTE=CheckMate1;2926075]Previous debate between these two, Biden looked good. Last night, he was terrible. People get old and he looked more like 101, and not 81.
Calling him a fake president though is nonsense. He delivered a lot of what he said from his last election campaign. You can certainly disagree with those policies, but he got through a lot of legislations.
I stand corrected though, that I thought he would be better than he's shown last night.[/QUOTE]For anyone interested in substance in a debate, right off the top of my head, this is what I heard in those 90 minutes:
1. Biden will veto any ChristoFacist Repub attempt to outlaw Sex For Pleasure / a National Abortion Ban.
2. Biden will work to make Roe v Wade the law of the land.
3. Biden will raise taxes slightly on the wealthy (likely on greater then $400,000 in taxable income) to keep Social Security solvent for decades with no other changes necessary.
4. Biden will again reduce child / family poverty by extending the Child Tax Credit.
5. Biden will veto any attempt to abolish the Affordable Care Act.
6. Biden will continue to cut costs for many necessary, life-saving drugs.
7. Trump will do none of the above.
8. Trump told 1-2 lies in virtually every sentence he uttered.
9. Trump had to he chased around the horn by the moderators, repeatedly asking the same question for him to at least say something remotely related to the question asked.
10. Trump did not reveal this, Biden did, but Trump plans to raise taxes on everyone in America by slapping tariffs on practically everything.
11. Trump apparently does not know what a tariff is or who pays them. He still thinks China paid his tariffs.
12. Sixteen Nobel Prize Economists have explained that Trump plan will most assuredly trigger a huge Repub Recession and spike up inflation beyond his own Trump's Pandemic Inflation.
13. Trump mentioned no other plan if he gets a second term.
Should Trump have bowed out after his 34 Felony Convictions?
Biden is up 1 point in this poll vs his pre debate rating in it.
I get this is what 60% "want". But even if they don't get that, there is no indication (yet) that they will not still vote for him over Trump.
[B]60% of voters want Biden replaced as candidate after debate, poll says.[/B]
[URL]https://www.axios.com/2024/06/29/biden-democrat-candidate-replacement-poll[/URL]
[QUOTE]When the survey asked respondents to choose between Biden and former President Trump, [b]45% chose the president and 44% chose the former commander-in-chief.[/b]
The results were similar to those from a poll following Trump's criminal conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records linked to a $130,000 hush money payment.
[B]That shows "President Joe Biden has lost no immediate ground to Trump," per Morning Consult's findings.[/b][/QUOTE]Oh, Fun Fact: it turns out not many people watched that debate:
[B]TV Ratings: Biden-Trump Debate Draws 51M Viewers, Way Below 2020[/B]
[URL]https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/biden-trump-first-2024-debate-tv-ratings-1235934892/[/URL]
And it is likely very few of them were undecideds anyway since they are not known to be so into politics that they bother to watch debates.
Sure, if they didn't watch even a minute of the debate, they will certainly be exposed to plenty of sound bite ads taken from that debate.
And on that point, I could easily identify a dozen sound bites from that debate of Biden touting a planned policy for his 2nd term that would be very popular with voters.
I can not recall even one from Trump.
However, there are many, many easy sound bite lifts from that debate of Trump proclaiming that "America SUCKS"!
Just sayin'.
Russia and China are with you all the way!
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2926116]LOL. You are blind. Look at what Dems are saying. The New York Times op-ed page was an unbroken mass of calls for Biden to step down. "President Biden, I've Seen Enough," declared Nicholas Kristof. "Joe Biden Is a Good Man and a Good President. He Must Bow Out of the Race," agreed Thomas Friedman. "Biden Cannot Go on Like This," was Frank Bruni's offering. The Times "Matter of Opinion" podcast saw Ross Douthat, Michelle Cottle, and Ezra Klein unite under an "I Don't Think Joe Biden should be running" headline. Calling Biden "ancient," Michelle Goldberg added, "There will now be a new chorus of cries for him to drop out, and I'll be joining it. ".
It was the same thing all over. The Atlantic headlines were "Time to Go, Joe" by Mark Leibovich, and "Dropping Out is Joe Biden's Most Patriotic Option" by Jerusalem Demsas. At the Washington Post Ramesh Ponnuru's construction, which will be popular, was, "Trump is too dangerous for Democrats to stick with Biden. ".
IOW, you do not vote for your candidate. You just go with whomever the party bigwigs select, kind of like China or Russia.
This is the best description of a Democratic douche I have ever heard. You do not give a damn if a person is mentally competent to do the job of being a president. You literally want a system like Russia or China with one party rule where the head of the party, even if he is incompetent, rules. You douches talk about saving Democracy when you would not know what Democracy is if it bit you in the ass.[/QUOTE]I assure you neither the authoritarian system in Russia nor the authoritarian system in China have the least bit of affinity with an American who intelligently chooses to only vote for candidates from the one Party that has produced the best results in America and none of the Great Repub Disasters rather than any person willing to vote for a member of the Party that has led directly to every Great American Economic Disaster of the past 100 years AND the corrupt justices bent on eliminating American freedom and rights instead of protecting and expanding them.
You do know that the very countries' evil systems you cited are not now and never have helped Biden or the Dem Party win elections but do actively hack, spin and help Trump and the Repub Party, right?
If, as you appear to be saying, you really are against what evil Russia and evil China want to spread around the globe you too would never vote for THEIR beloved Repub Party candidates and only vote for Dems.
That's right. I have actually done more to prevent the spread of Russia / China-style authoritarian rule in America all the way here in Thailand with my mail-in ballots than you have with any vote for any Repub at any time and especially for Donald Trump in your home town in America.