Obama vs. Romney: The first 2012 presidential debate
Obama vs. Romney: The first 2012 presidential debate
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God I wish we had two sane non-geriatric candidates again. I’m a huge Bernie supporter and I would never vote for Trump in a billion years. I’d literally vote for a turd before casting my vote for Trump. But between Romney and Biden…. especially after that abysmal performance by Biden… I’d be struggling. This is not the best this country has to offer. It’s very very sad actually.
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Isn't it insane that out of 330 million people, we have these two to pick from?
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Yeah. But that was Obama. And it was back before the entire right wing lost they damned minds
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It was a few years into them being pissed at the audacity of a black man becoming President.
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And Obama trainwrecked that debate. Incumbents usually do at their first one. We thought we were fucked. Total panic among Obama volunteers. He did better in the next ones and won so it was ok in the end.
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“The audience behind me has promised to stay silent.”
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Remember when we had functional adults running for president?
Feels like lifetimes ago, but it only stopped being a thing when Trump showed up and Dem leadership decided we don't need to find a good candidate anymore.
There were moments during the debate last night where I just sat there dumbfounded at the absurdity of our current reality
You mean when they started to argue like children who the better golfer was? The people don't give a shit who is better at golf. Unless we can end wars with a golf-off between world leaders.
The worst part is trump has been exactly the same the last three elections.
His bullshit is normalized to most voters.
Biden wasn't great in 2020, but he's a hell of a lot worse now. Which is why we never see him compared to other presidents when they were in office.
So for Republicans last night went fucking perfectly. And for Dems, it went about as bad as it could have.
There's just no reason to run a candidate voters don't like or agree with just because the other candidate is so much worse. Even if we stop the worst, we still don't get what we want.
None of it makes logical sense, which is probably why Biden's few supporters only want to talk about how dangerous trump is. It's really really hard to come up with a reason Biden should be the candidate. Even being an incumbent doesn't matter when you have terrible approval ratings, those make incumbency a hindrance not an advantage
People had Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg, and Klobuchar to pick from. Voters picked Biden.
Lol, this guy thinks primaries are fair...
The thinking people picked Bernie. The masses picked who the superdelegates said to pick, which was Hillary and then Biden. That is why the DNC created the superdelegates, so that they have more control over the primaries.