Posted on 10/15/2012 6:01:39 AM PDT by mrs9x
In a rare example of political unity, both the Romney and Obama campaigns have expressed concern to the Commission on Presidential Debates about how the moderator of the Tuesday town hall has publicly described her role, TIME has learned. While an early October memorandum of understanding between the Obama and Romney campaigns suggests CNN’s Candy Crowley would play a limited role in the Tuesday-night session, Crowley, who is not a party to that agreement, has done a series of interviews on her network in which she has suggested she will assume a broader set of responsibilities. As Crowley put it last week, “Once the table is kind of set by the town-hall questioner, there is then time for me to say, ‘Hey, wait a second, what about X, Y, Z?’”
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So Romney has to debate two clowns?
Not only that, but the left-wingers will be sure to have their left wing plants in the audience.
If Obama pipes off about Bain, Romney should let him have it about Solyndra and its litany of brethren and how he successfully ran Bain while Obama never even ran a lemonade stand.
Since this debate is on foreign policy, be sure to beat the Benghazi drum hard and don’t forget Fast & Furious - we had to rely upon a Spanish language station to report on that disaster that resulted in the deaths of dozens of Mexicans.
Sorry, next debate is foreign policy... :)
She needs to be excused and put in her place a fair and honest moderator.
Does it really matter who the moderator is or what role they play? Obama is now akin to Hitler coming out of the bunker at the end of WWII to debate Eisenhower on whose leadership will be better for Germany.
I’m not a fan of Town Hall debate formats either, they lack substance imho.
Obama will do better as he’ll seemingly connect with the questioner during his responses, it will give him a place to focus rather than a Camera which seems to intimidate him.
I also think that Obama will start every answer with a hyperbolic anti-Romney statement and then try and contrast himself as the better of the two.
Finally, I’m suspect that Obama will pull a prop out of his pocket — which I believe is against the debate rules.
Romney should come out and present Crowley with a big bag of halloween candy. That will keep her quiet the whole debate.
Yep....Barackwards is a Narcissist.... AND..... Of course, the media is doing everything in it's power to inflate the poll numbers coming out before the debate to make Obozo even more confident.
I often wonder if Romney was really good at playing "War" in the snow with the neighborhood kids when he was young.......
Well, Crowley is nothing if not broader. My wife laughs at the way she stands sideways to give her reports, no doubt thinking that it makes her look thinner.
I hope we’re all prepared to see Romney attacked by obama, Crowley, and the crowd. Expect to see the MSM declare obama the loser and expect a rash of polls showing obama ahead...at least until the next debate.
Put a couple racks of ribs in front of her and she won’t care about interrupting.
That's better...
Puhleeze be my daddy!
This debate will be a "townhall" with CNN's Candy Crowley advocating for Obama so expect the "War on Women," 47%, "fair share," Bain Capital, tax returns, homosexual agenda and even Romney's Mormonism to appear.It WILL be ugly for Romney. Pray he handles himself well.
Looks like I had Crowley's role defined even though I was posting 'tongue-in-cheek'.
I fully expect the additional minute of facilitated discussion will go something like this:
Crowley: Mr. President, when you said XYZ, didn't you mean 123?"
Putzident: 123, yes, Candy, 123.
Crowley: And you really meant to imply ABC, correct?
Putzident: Correct, Candy, ABC.
Crowley: Because you believe so-and-so, isn't that right?
Putzident: Absolutely, Candy, I believe so-and-so.
86 posted on Sunday, October 14, 2012 11:38:26 AM by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
The image of the unrestrained arguments carrying on while the moderator is buried in ribs just tickles me for some reason. Maybe she could throw bones at them when they exceed their time...lol
"Just keep feeding them the rope.......eventually they'll hang themselves with it."
.........when I wrote that. It's a technique I employ often with the spouses relatives. I don't call them in-laws I call them my "out-laws"......
Is this Alan Colmes’ wife? He is married to Monica Crowley’s sister but I don’t know if this is her sister?
R: “B, how fortunate for you that you have Ms. C here to come to your assistance.”
“Put a couple racks of ribs in front of her and she won’t care about interrupting.”
Well, we know that works on Moochelle
See #39
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