Comments on: Debate thread https://thenewneo.com/2020/09/29/debate-thread-2/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:27:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2020/09/29/debate-thread-2/#comment-2517374 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:27:04 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100349#comment-2517374 huxley:

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2020/09/29/debate-thread-2/#comment-2517368 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:08:08 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100349#comment-2517368 If you stir muddy water enough, get it swirling, clarity emerges. –fghdcp

There’s a Negro Spiritual (I guess you can’t use that label anymore), which may go back to the Underground Railroad, as well as John 5:4, “For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.”
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Wade in the water
Wade in the water
Children wade, in the water
God’s gonna trouble the water

–Eva Cassidy, “Wade in the Water”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-hKDYQ6F54
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Love that song and Eva.

I think of this song when I am disturbed about current events. I hope all that is being stirred up is prelude to the healing to come.

]]> By: fghdcp https://thenewneo.com/2020/09/29/debate-thread-2/#comment-2517332 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:20:20 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100349#comment-2517332 Jefferson’s reference to the “roiling seas of liberty” is helpful here. Just drawing Biden out of his bunker and into the discussion, the macro take from the debate, redounds to Trump and the side he represents in the pitched battle of political visions that is Election 2020. It will now be difficult for Biden to lie low, a strategy that has worked well for him until last night. If you stir muddy water enough, get it swirling, clarity emerges.

]]> By: OldTexan https://thenewneo.com/2020/09/29/debate-thread-2/#comment-2517319 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 13:30:43 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100349#comment-2517319 Drinking coffee and reading the reviews of the Grumpy Old Men special last night. No surprises at all, it appears Biden was given a smooth ride and Trump was, as expected, treated by the moderator like a zoo keeper throwing chunks of red meat to a lion. Today Trump is making headlines because he had bad manners being interrupted over 30 times and just as he did four years ago in debates Trump was Trump. Negative headlines from the mass media do not hurt Trump, they put is name front and center and lots of us groan and then know we will vote for the person we dislike the least who is Trump.

]]> By: I am Sparticus https://thenewneo.com/2020/09/29/debate-thread-2/#comment-2517315 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:53:43 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100349#comment-2517315 The best debate summary is from Bill O’Reilly. You have to go about 15 minutes in and then find the starting point. This is the Bill of old before he got content with his “Killing series” I am starting to watch him again.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bill+o'reilly+debate+

]]> By: Robert Engler https://thenewneo.com/2020/09/29/debate-thread-2/#comment-2517308 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:43:29 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100349#comment-2517308 They both were as dignified as monkeys in a pooh flinging contest.

]]> By: Minta Marie Morze https://thenewneo.com/2020/09/29/debate-thread-2/#comment-2517293 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 04:47:03 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100349#comment-2517293 Newt Gingrich, on Laura just now, said that Telemundo did a poll, and the watchers went for Trump 66% to Biden 34%. If I heard this rightly, it’s tremendous!

Also, it is still true that “antifa.com” takes you directly to “donate to the Biden/Harris campaign” pages.

]]> By: Oliver T. https://thenewneo.com/2020/09/29/debate-thread-2/#comment-2517292 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 04:39:01 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100349#comment-2517292 It was ugly….I hate it when people interrupt and Trump was hateful in that way tonight….but Trump is Trump. I sometimes think about how furious I would be, if I were treated like he has been for four years.

Too bad he didn’t hold his fire more and give Biden enough rope to hang himself. Early on it looked like Biden would shatter from the attacks but then the tide turned.

]]> By: aNanyMouse https://thenewneo.com/2020/09/29/debate-thread-2/#comment-2517284 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 03:44:40 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100349#comment-2517284 “him parroting the planted story about calling soldiers losers.”
I don’t recall DJT clearly calling out that BS, which would’ve been an interruption worth indulging in.

]]> By: MBunge https://thenewneo.com/2020/09/29/debate-thread-2/#comment-2517279 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 03:33:43 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=100349#comment-2517279 “I think he’s usually one of the few journalists left.“

I won’t pretend Wallace had an easy job but not pressing Biden on his refusal to answer the filibuster/court packing question and asking a question based on the PROVABLY FALSE “fine people” hoax were completely inexcusable.

Mike

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