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Commission: Both Candidates Must Stand for First Debate
Breitbart ^ | September 22, 2016 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 09/22/2016 4:32:36 PM PDT by TennTuxedo

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump will stand behind lecterns for the first debate on Monday at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, the Commission on Presidential Debates confirms.

The commission told Breitbart News on Thursday that the first debate will require both candidates to stand. The second, to be held Oct. 9 at Washington University in St. Louis, will be in a town hall format, meaning that candidates may stand when it is their turn to speak, and sit when they are done. (In 2012, the second debate, also in town hall format, featured some infamous exchanges where both Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama were standing and arguing with each other).

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: debates; election; hillary; presidentialdebate; trump
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To: Covenantor

“U.K. bookmaker William Hill is now offering 5-to-1 odds that Hillary Clinton bails on the U.S. presidential election.”

Wow. Five to one odds, eh? If I read that right, he figures there’s a one in five chance she’ll drop out.

Sounds about right.


181 posted on 09/22/2016 7:46:28 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Viking2002

I can’t. I just can’t. And I am a Viking, too. That was just so ( gotta go vomit)


182 posted on 09/22/2016 7:52:26 PM PDT by Slip18 (Pickles was her name. She always got always got the blame for all games she played. It was a shame.)
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To: Alberta's Child
Yep, more entertaining and a good show, Trump is 100 times more likable too, on personality alone.
If one candidate tries to constantly blow smoke up the collectives ass while the other comes off more sincere it matters a lot.
This all plays into Trumps hands.
We saw it when he took out 16 others.
183 posted on 09/22/2016 7:53:58 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: right way right
We saw it when he took out 16 others.

That's exactly right. He wasn't the best politician on the stage, he didn't know the issues better than anyone else, and he probably said a lot of things that the audience knew was B.S.

But he showed a tremendous gift for making the other successful, intelligent adults on the stage look like complete morons ... without coming across like an A-hole himself.

184 posted on 09/22/2016 7:56:21 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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To: Gideon300

No, he’s not big enough to do that.


185 posted on 09/22/2016 8:05:59 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs......same thing.)
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To: Farmer Dean

Lol! She’d be a Cat on a Hot Tin Roof!


186 posted on 09/22/2016 8:09:02 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Jim Noble

“You remember the end of Tombstone? When Doc Holliday kills Ringo, and says to Wyatt Earp, “Oh, I wasn’t quite as sick as I made out...””

Yeah, but just before he said that he said this:

““You’re no Daisy, you’re no Daisy at’all”. ... “I guess the pressure was more than he could bear.” .”


187 posted on 09/22/2016 8:12:20 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Bill and Hillary for ADX Supermax!)
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To: Rebelbase

The strain.

I guess the strain was more than he could bear.


188 posted on 09/22/2016 8:26:17 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Rise)
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To: Slip18

Noticed a similar thing at the press conference at the airport 2 days ago. The airport scene and the noise of the engines seemed to be a movie backdrop. The press were her handpicked group who asked a few easy questions. She walked off like on a movie set, not to her plane. Very controlled set. But that was Ms. Clinton, definitely. There are good days and bad days with chronic illnesses. I still say she’ll do fine because she’s a pro and the set will be controlled enough to keep her symptoms at bay.


189 posted on 09/22/2016 8:38:15 PM PDT by The Westerner (Will Free Republic exist when ICANN controls the web?)
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To: stilloftyhenight

50 minutes. Long commercial break... “Technical issues”.


190 posted on 09/22/2016 8:40:15 PM PDT by GuitPicker
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To: Slip18
Hold your mead, boy. Stay strong. We need you.


191 posted on 09/22/2016 8:57:14 PM PDT by Viking2002 (I.......am.......Deplorable!!! Bring me my basket!)
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To: digger48

Hillary will be sleeping. Her body double will respond via teleprompter like a good puppet.


192 posted on 09/22/2016 9:50:02 PM PDT by TheNext (Hillary Hurts Children & Women)
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To: TennTuxedo

So, if she passes out, does she lose the debate?


193 posted on 09/22/2016 9:53:01 PM PDT by tioga ( Not my monkey, not my circus.)
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To: TennTuxedo
Something like this might aid Hillary in standing up for 90 minutes; of course you'd have to briefly remove the anti-biting facial apparatus during that time, you know, so she could "debate":


194 posted on 09/22/2016 10:18:12 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: P.O.E.

hahaha, perfect! Thanks!


195 posted on 09/23/2016 12:35:00 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: DollyCali

“ME! partially erotica and partially hallucinatory.

Correct. We hope they checked for splinters before applying applying the broomsticks.

I learned that from a book called “Napoleon’s Buttons” which discusses a dozen or so chemicals that have had a major effect on our lives. Look it up on Amazon. Most of the reviews are near 5 stars.


196 posted on 09/23/2016 4:22:53 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: djpg

She can not leave the podium, there will be no breaks, and if she starts coughing for 4 minutes at a time, the debate must continue, with no delay.


197 posted on 09/23/2016 11:00:11 AM PDT by TennTuxedo
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