Posted on 10/16/2012 11:54:48 PM PDT by rawhide
In the runup to the second presidential debate, CNN’s Candy Crowley declared that ... she would step in whenever she chose...
And boy did she, cutting off Republican Mitt Romney repeatedly and often throwing the floor to President Obama with an open “let me give the president a chance here.”
She even chose this question, directed to both men: “I do attribute much of America’s economic and international problems to the failings and missteps of the Bush administration. Since both of you are Republicans, I fear the return to the policies of those years should you win this election. What is the biggest difference between you and George W. Bush, and how do you differentiate yourself from George W. Bush?”
Ms. Crowley, who called Mr. Romney’s selection of Rep. Paul Ryan as running mate a “ticket death wish,” asserted her unilateral power at the outset, telling the audience before the cameras went on that she planned to “give the debate direction and ensure the candidates give answers to the questions.”
After both candidates answered Question One, she blurted: “Let me get a more immediate answer” — whatever that means. But when Mr. Romney sought to correct falsehoods told by the president, she cut him off: “We have all these folks here.” In the end, Mr. Obama would get 9 percent more time.
At Question Two, Mr. Obama, asked by Mr. Romney how much he had cut federal oil permits, took over the floor — with Ms. Crowley’s silent approval. “Here’s what happened,” he said as he filibustered for a full minute. Mr. Romney sought to get the last word — as the president had the question before — but the moderator shut him down: “It’ doesn’t quite work like that.”
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-——coexist——
I saw a car with a MITT sticker on the left rear bumper and a COEXIST sticker on the right. I couldn’t make it compute
How nice. They’re celebrating God’s promise that He will never destroy the earth by flood again.
I noticed the same thing. He had an almost orange glow with the white hair becoming more obvious. He didn't look as healthy.
Bill O’Reilly said Cathy would be fair. FAIL.
O Wind Bag interviewed Barry before the 2008 election and never pressed him.
Candy did the same.
Will be interesting to see his take , and you know it will be HIS , on the fair
moderator.
Candy “ Eat some Crow” Crowley after her Bengazhi intervention.
His and hers?
In Asheville NC it could be His and His or more likely Hers and Hers
“Bill O’Reilly said Cathy would be fair.”
So did Dana Perino and Sheppard Smith — and a few other conservative info chicks.
Hussein was whiney. He was yellow — yellow with blue lips. (I just finished a yellow and blue quilt. The combo works for a quilt. For a president... not so much.)
Axelrod face has been blue lately.
Hussein is AIDS-esque scrawny.
If the previous, feckless GOP somehow nominated the RINO dinosaurs to the Commission and the Commission rules make it too difficult to get better representation and results, then I think it would have been up to Reince Priebus and his RNC to insist on some other mechanism before Romney was even the nominee.
And yet, I fully expect them to lumber on with the Democrat tilt into 2016 and beyond. This IMO is an example of where simple ineptness doesn’t explain the consistent, once-sided results. I believe it is yet another bit of evidence of perfidy by the ‘Stupid Party’.
Yes, I’ll say it: the GOP is the ‘Perfidious Party’.
This is just more of the same.
This is why I think it will actually take another Civil War to break us out of this cyclic ennui...
“I saw a car with a MITT sticker on the left rear bumper and a COEXIST sticker on the right. I couldn’t make it compute”
I saw a similar car with hippy stickers like Coexist. At the far right side of the car was a pic of an AR and “From my cold dead hands.” I figured the car was a metaphor of a voter who one time supported obuma. Then the car owner’s political philosophy evolved over four years, and the car reflected that change.
She became the second FEMALE to give him cover on Libya, Hillary! being the first.
I was furious nevertheless.
Good point.
I have been trying to figure this out for a while.
And its not just his TV appearance.
Going back through photos taken at different times in his lifetime his skin color seems to change.
Sometimes he appears looking quite white and other times much more negroid.
The same can be said of Michelle Obama as well.
Maybe they have some salamander DNA and can change color to match their surroundings!
Bill O’Mouth is nothing but mouth. I quit watching him years ago. Same ole same ole out of Mouth’s mouth.
Semi-rational guy with an idiot wife.
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