1st Presidential Debate thoughts...

pineinthegrass wrote: I'd like to see the time each one spoke. To me, it looked like Romney spoke much more and dominated both Obama and and the moderator Bill Lehrer.

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Not sure if this is official: Final talk time: Obama 42:50, Romney 38:30.

Soulshiner wrote: Romney attacked. It's what he needed to do. He was skilled at not answering questions. President Obama looked perturbed. Seemed like he didn't want to slam Romney.

Debate was iffy due to terrible moderating. No control and Romney took advantage of it and came off a little rude. He showed more passion, but was evasive. President Obama didn't have that fire he had at the convention. Came off more like a professor.

The best moments - Romney telling Lehrer he was going to fire him and Big Bird. Romney's sons seeming like they really wanted to meet the President.

Agree the moderating was poor. But that's pretty normal for the debates. The mods tend to go overboard not to seem biased. But again, I'd like to see the time each candidate had to speak. And both candidates avoided the questions, and I didn't see any one more rude than the other. Romney just took over in general. He seemed much more confident and looked glad to be there, as he should. Again, Obama looked very uncomfortable.

I too laughed at the Big Bird remark. Negative for Romney. But I think he had plenty of good quips to make up for it.

Blazer Bob wrote:

pineinthegrass wrote: I'd like to see the time each one spoke. To me, it looked like Romney spoke much more and dominated both Obama and and the moderator Bill Lehrer.

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Not sure if this is official: Final talk time: Obama 42:50, Romney 38:30.

If accurate, that surprises me. I remember Romney starting a question and having the final answer a couple of times.

A question. I know that anyone on this board could follow the debate, but I also tried to treat it as being a newbie and follow what was being said. I don't have twitter so don't know what others thought but do you think a lot of people tuned out or got lost in the exchange?

67% to 25% for Romney on CNN right now.

Most tweets ever for a presidential program. Over 4 million..
I think people paid close attention tonight.
The stakes are high for the entire nation. I am gonna sleep s little better tonight.

Becky wrote: Most tweets ever for a presidential program. Over 4 million..
I think people paid close attention tonight.
The stakes are high for the entire nation. I am gonna sleep s little better tonight.

Thanks. So glad people are paying close attention.

I think Clint Eastwood chair would have done a better job. Sorry, it is hard not to crow a little.

College students intervied before the debate was a dumb idea by the media.

"Oh I don't kow if i will support owmever, but I love America, America it's great." Bitch slap da fool.