Transcript of the First Debate

[pnwmom]

Source: New York Times


Following is a transcript of the first presidential debate on Monday, as transcribed by the Federal News Service.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/us/politics/transcript-debate.html

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Trump's word salad is even worse in print.

[truthisfreedom]

1. He just shit all over the debate. Anytime that Hillary was about to introduce new information Trump

went nuts. He can't hear anything and he can't focus on anything and he always has to be the center of attention. Hillary was making some pretty interesting points about Trump's history and his tax plan and the Trump Loophole and he definitely couldn't let that get out. Lester should have been on top of that and shut Trump up so Hillary could start over and be allowed to speak. Trump is a ridiculous bully and boor. When he took over during rebuttal (you may have 10 seconds) he repeated his nonsense over and over. Someone should measure the exact number of minutes he spoke compared to Hillary.

[AmericanActivist]

2. Thanks for the link to the transcript.

You are right his word salad is worse in writing.

[njcpa1978]

4. Maybe it is an intelligence thing.

Remember how the Queen of Word Salad, Sarah Palin, would wind the crowd up with disjointed half sentences and the cheering crowd all stood in awe, while the more intelligent observers would ask 'What did she frickin' just say'. Donald must have been taking speech prep from her. Maybe we were expecting sentences like Hillary put together last night. Coherent, paced, cogent, rational. I can only guess what the next debate will sound like. Maybe instead of taking coke (Sniff-Sniff) they will give him valium.

[ronnie624]

3. "we have to stop these countries from stealing our companies and our jobs"

That is a truly bizarre way of charactering the dynamic of American companies moving their factories to other countries, to exploit impoverished labor and avoid environmental regulations. The notion also assumes Trump has never done the same thing.