Re: First Presidential Debate
That might be true of a more moderate branch of conservativsm but it hardly fits in with this modern wave of warmongering, climate denying, migrant bashing neo conservatism.
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Bullshit logic, betting markets are just people speculating based on opinion polls, commentators and idiotic "instinct." Opinion polling is a far better indicator.
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Disagree with the widespread msm consensus that Obama won the debate. I'd say it went narrowly to Romney but expectations were much higher for Romney.
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This is pretty unusual, Rupert normally likes to back a winner. Tends to hold off making a call till it's pretty much all sewn up. Helps cultivate the mystique of his influence. Nice piece on the Murdoch myth here...
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Imo he didn't do too badly, he was as you say ineffectual but hardly set the campaign back in any sense. You'd expect Biden with thirty years in the senate and four as vice president would have a bit more debate swagger than a 42 year old. I actually think Ryan...
The social media today is pretty furious with the men on Qanda last night interrupting Kate Ellis. Most folk here will know I tend to bandy the term sexist about without much restraint but I was surprised by some of the commentary. I thought Piers Akerman was repugnant as he always is but I...
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Probably because it's a rousing rhetorical device to be able to say that you support the troops more than the other guy does.
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Kerry did come very close which given the nationalist fervour that was running around the Iraq war was pretty impressive.
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I'm torn, I personally like Obama more but I accept that invariably, roughly half the time we are going to have Republican Presidents in the Whitehouse and Romney seems to be far and away the most progressive, moderate republican candidate for the Whitehouse in...
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Anyone who says Obama performed better in the debate is either a liar or a fool but at the same time anyone who thinks he performed so poorly as to have seriously shaped the result of the election is delusional. For months there has been this narrative crafted...