She looked like a kid who couldn't contain her happiness for having all of the answers. It was not her real reaction.
Spot on. Also knowing they were going to "fact check" Trump and lie about the true facts was a huge advantage as well.MouthBQ98 said:aggiedent said:
There wasn't a single question asked that the folks prepping Harris and Trump wouldn't have expected. Both of them should have had answers ready for every single question.
It's such a ridiculous excuse.
Knowing there would be no objection on the facts from moderators gives incentive to boldly lie or spin or be loose with the facts without reservation. That is an advantage if the opponent doesn't have that assurance.
dreyOO said:aggiedent said:
There wasn't a single question asked that the folks prepping Harris and Trump wouldn't have expected. Both of them should have had answers ready for every single question.
It's such a ridiculous excuse.
I'll tell you why it matters. Kamala is not very smart on her feet. But when she had scripted responses for specific questions that she RECOGNIZED , she was able to at least pretend to be coherent. Without that huge aid, she would have stumbled and bumbled the word salad answer after answer.
Maybe you want to rewatch the debate and be critical this time.aggiedent said:dreyOO said:aggiedent said:
There wasn't a single question asked that the folks prepping Harris and Trump wouldn't have expected. Both of them should have had answers ready for every single question.
It's such a ridiculous excuse.
I'll tell you why it matters. Kamala is not very smart on her feet. But when she had scripted responses for specific questions that she RECOGNIZED , she was able to at least pretend to be coherent. Without that huge aid, she would have stumbled and bumbled the word salad answer after answer.
Of for God's sake.
If she was able to answer some random question on the safety of Thorium reactors, I'd agree.
But let's be honest here. These were basic questions. Questions that both candidate's teams HAD to know were likely to be asked. I'll guarantee you both candidates were prepared for every question asked.
The only difference was Harris managed to get under Trumps skin (probably another sign of good preparation) and got him sidetracked off what was important.
It's that simple. Put the conspiracy crap back in the closet.
Kamala is asked what specific plans she has to bring down prices. She says she grew up in a middle class neighborhood with lots of people who cared about their lawns. Holy hell, this is a mess: pic.twitter.com/dko1xMlt5G
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 13, 2024
Philip J Fry said:
Then what's your explanation for this?Kamala is asked what specific plans she has to bring down prices. She says she grew up in a middle class neighborhood with lots of people who cared about their lawns. Holy hell, this is a mess: pic.twitter.com/dko1xMlt5G
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 13, 2024
Very basic question of how to make life more affordable.
So with respect to my post above, I'll stipulate for argument's sake that perhaps Kamala was not given the specific questions ahead of time, if you'll stipulate then that the strategy was something along the lines of "Ok, Kamala, when they ask you an immigration question, regardless of what it is, respond by saying you were an incredible prosecutor, attack Trump on the immigration bill, and see if you can get him to bite on something silly like his rallies, as we know that he'll take that personally."aggiedent said:dreyOO said:aggiedent said:
There wasn't a single question asked that the folks prepping Harris and Trump wouldn't have expected. Both of them should have had answers ready for every single question.
It's such a ridiculous excuse.
I'll tell you why it matters. Kamala is not very smart on her feet. But when she had scripted responses for specific questions that she RECOGNIZED , she was able to at least pretend to be coherent. Without that huge aid, she would have stumbled and bumbled the word salad answer after answer.
Of for God's sake.
If she was able to answer some random question on the safety of Thorium reactors, I'd agree.
But let's be honest here. These were basic questions. Questions that both candidate's teams HAD to know were likely to be asked. I'll guarantee you both candidates were prepared for every question asked.
The only difference was Harris managed to get under Trumps skin (probably another sign of good preparation) and got him sidetracked off what was important.
It's that simple. Put the conspiracy crap back in the closet.
jrdaustin said:So with respect to my post above, I'll stipulate for argument's sake that perhaps Kamala was not given the specific questions ahead of time, if you'll stipulate then that the strategy was something along the lines of "Ok, Kamala, when they ask you an immigration question, regardless of what it is, respond by saying you were an incredible prosecutor, attack Trump on the immigration bill, and see if you can get him to bite on something silly like his rallies, as we know that he'll take that personally."aggiedent said:dreyOO said:aggiedent said:
There wasn't a single question asked that the folks prepping Harris and Trump wouldn't have expected. Both of them should have had answers ready for every single question.
It's such a ridiculous excuse.
I'll tell you why it matters. Kamala is not very smart on her feet. But when she had scripted responses for specific questions that she RECOGNIZED , she was able to at least pretend to be coherent. Without that huge aid, she would have stumbled and bumbled the word salad answer after answer.
Of for God's sake.
If she was able to answer some random question on the safety of Thorium reactors, I'd agree.
But let's be honest here. These were basic questions. Questions that both candidate's teams HAD to know were likely to be asked. I'll guarantee you both candidates were prepared for every question asked.
The only difference was Harris managed to get under Trumps skin (probably another sign of good preparation) and got him sidetracked off what was important.
It's that simple. Put the conspiracy crap back in the closet.
Maybe it's an effective redirect, but I'm not interested in a President who is only good at redirecting and deflecting questions. If she answered that way in a real job interview, she'd never get the job.
And any interviewer worth a damn would give her an opportunity to try again to answer the question, rather than accepting the deflect and moving on to something else.
When there are 20-30 questions that could possibly be asked, and you know that it will only be 6 of those questions, it helps to focus on JUST those six....aggiedent said:
There wasn't a single question asked that the folks prepping Harris and Trump wouldn't have expected. Both of them should have had answers ready for every single question.
It's such a ridiculous excuse.
"Lets see the evidence that the Hunter Biden laptop was real"Rocag said:Yeah, I can't remember any question asked of either candidate that was unexpected or a "gotcha" question in any way. All topics they should have seen coming if they did any preparation at all.aggiedent said:
There wasn't a single question asked that the folks prepping Harris and Trump wouldn't have expected. Both of them should have had answers ready for every single question.
It's such a ridiculous excuse.
If ABC was giving out the questions beforehand lets see the evidence that shows it.
Of course it did. She had the support of the ABC moderators, who were helping her score irrelevant political points rather than DOING THEIR JOB and informing the American people what they will get should Harris win the presidency. This wasn't a debate generally lacking in substance. It was a debate devoid of substance from the Democrat side.aggiedent said:jrdaustin said:So with respect to my post above, I'll stipulate for argument's sake that perhaps Kamala was not given the specific questions ahead of time, if you'll stipulate then that the strategy was something along the lines of "Ok, Kamala, when they ask you an immigration question, regardless of what it is, respond by saying you were an incredible prosecutor, attack Trump on the immigration bill, and see if you can get him to bite on something silly like his rallies, as we know that he'll take that personally."aggiedent said:dreyOO said:aggiedent said:
There wasn't a single question asked that the folks prepping Harris and Trump wouldn't have expected. Both of them should have had answers ready for every single question.
It's such a ridiculous excuse.
I'll tell you why it matters. Kamala is not very smart on her feet. But when she had scripted responses for specific questions that she RECOGNIZED , she was able to at least pretend to be coherent. Without that huge aid, she would have stumbled and bumbled the word salad answer after answer.
Of for God's sake.
If she was able to answer some random question on the safety of Thorium reactors, I'd agree.
But let's be honest here. These were basic questions. Questions that both candidate's teams HAD to know were likely to be asked. I'll guarantee you both candidates were prepared for every question asked.
The only difference was Harris managed to get under Trumps skin (probably another sign of good preparation) and got him sidetracked off what was important.
It's that simple. Put the conspiracy crap back in the closet.
Maybe it's an effective redirect, but I'm not interested in a President who is only good at redirecting and deflecting questions. If she answered that way in a real job interview, she'd never get the job.
And any interviewer worth a damn would give her an opportunity to try again to answer the question, rather than accepting the deflect and moving on to something else.
I think your first paragraph is an excellent explanation of what happened during the debate. And since it was a political debate (which in my experience are generally lacking in substance anyways) and not a job interview, because he kept biting on the silly stuff, worked in her favor.
You have waaaayyyyy more intestinal fortitude than I have to be able to rewatch that farce perpetrated by ABC.aggiehawg said:This.Maroon Dawn said:
It actually makes Muir's statement make more sense
"We didn't TECHNICALLY give Kamala the exact questions, just some "sample" questions that openly telegraph what topics will be asked!"
And yes, being assured you won't be fact checked and your opponent will changes the whole strategy to what we saw: Kamala refusing to answer questions and instead going full bore on attacking Trump with debunked sound bites that we saw instead
When I rewatched the debate the next morning, it became even more obvious what was happening.
Did she want Ranch or Vinaigrette dressing with that answer.Philip J Fry said:
Then what's your explanation for this?Kamala is asked what specific plans she has to bring down prices. She says she grew up in a middle class neighborhood with lots of people who cared about their lawns. Holy hell, this is a mess: pic.twitter.com/dko1xMlt5G
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 13, 2024
Very basic question of how to make life more affordable.
jrdaustin said:Of course it did. She had the support of the ABC moderators, who were helping her score irrelevant political points rather than DOING THEIR JOB and informing the American people what they will get should Harris win the presidency. This wasn't a debate generally lacking in substance. It was a debate devoid of substance from the Democrat side.aggiedent said:jrdaustin said:So with respect to my post above, I'll stipulate for argument's sake that perhaps Kamala was not given the specific questions ahead of time, if you'll stipulate then that the strategy was something along the lines of "Ok, Kamala, when they ask you an immigration question, regardless of what it is, respond by saying you were an incredible prosecutor, attack Trump on the immigration bill, and see if you can get him to bite on something silly like his rallies, as we know that he'll take that personally."aggiedent said:dreyOO said:aggiedent said:
There wasn't a single question asked that the folks prepping Harris and Trump wouldn't have expected. Both of them should have had answers ready for every single question.
It's such a ridiculous excuse.
I'll tell you why it matters. Kamala is not very smart on her feet. But when she had scripted responses for specific questions that she RECOGNIZED , she was able to at least pretend to be coherent. Without that huge aid, she would have stumbled and bumbled the word salad answer after answer.
Of for God's sake.
If she was able to answer some random question on the safety of Thorium reactors, I'd agree.
But let's be honest here. These were basic questions. Questions that both candidate's teams HAD to know were likely to be asked. I'll guarantee you both candidates were prepared for every question asked.
The only difference was Harris managed to get under Trumps skin (probably another sign of good preparation) and got him sidetracked off what was important.
It's that simple. Put the conspiracy crap back in the closet.
Maybe it's an effective redirect, but I'm not interested in a President who is only good at redirecting and deflecting questions. If she answered that way in a real job interview, she'd never get the job.
And any interviewer worth a damn would give her an opportunity to try again to answer the question, rather than accepting the deflect and moving on to something else.
I think your first paragraph is an excellent explanation of what happened during the debate. And since it was a political debate (which in my experience are generally lacking in substance anyways) and not a job interview, because he kept biting on the silly stuff, worked in her favor.
Maybe that's another difference between Dems and Republicans. I DO view the debates as a job interview. Apparently Dems seem to only care about the production value and the optics. Respectfully, that's a dangerous metric to use to evaluate/select your leaders.
a pathetic excuse for a journalist.jrdaustin said:
FTR, let's review the timeline of that specific exchange.
…,,,
So Muir is
aggiedent said:MouthBQ98 said:aggiedent said:
There wasn't a single question asked that the folks prepping Harris and Trump wouldn't have expected. Both of them should have had answers ready for every single question.
It's such a ridiculous excuse.
Knowing there would be no objection on the facts from moderators gives incentive to boldly lie or spin or be loose with the facts without reservation. That is an advantage if the opponent doesn't have that assurance.
Why is it, that every single time Trump loses/gets out performed/looks bad/etc.; there is always a host of excuses as to why it's not his fault? Usually because somebody cheated the poor man.
It's just getting farcical.
aggiedent said:MouthBQ98 said:aggiedent said:
There wasn't a single question asked that the folks prepping Harris and Trump wouldn't have expected. Both of them should have had answers ready for every single question.
It's such a ridiculous excuse.
Knowing there would be no objection on the facts from moderators gives incentive to boldly lie or spin or be loose with the facts without reservation. That is an advantage if the opponent doesn't have that assurance.
Why is it, that every single time Trump loses/gets out performed/looks bad/etc.; there is always a host of excuses as to why it's not his fault? Usually because somebody cheated the poor man.
It's just getting farcical.
Philip J Fry said:
Why would they do anything to make her look bad?
aggiedent said:
There wasn't a single question asked that the folks prepping Harris and Trump wouldn't have expected. Both of them should have had answers ready for every single question.
It's such a ridiculous excuse.
As said above, the Steele Dossier says hello. Tackle that one first then get back too usOpalka said:
First the moderators were "fixed". Then Harris was given the questions ahead of time. Then her earrings were claimed to be earbuds. The conspiracy nonsense never stops with the MAGA crowd. At some point, you would think that they'd be embarrassed by their gullible nature. As long as there are excuses for Trump, you can bet they'll buy into it. What's especially sad is that the questions that were asked were so predictable. There were no big surprise questions. How can people allow themselves to be so played, I don't understand. Trump failed bigly. No one had to cheat, he's just that bad. END OF STORY.