~*Official Debate Thread for all DUer's.*~ PART 3

[retrowire]

Thanks for considering our dial up DUer's and smartphone users.

Let's continue.

ANNNND thats that! Thanks for joining me in this discussion, it's been a great night, we'll probably all be digesting this better tomorrow. I'm getting some sleep! Goodbye for now DU.

Debate thread 1: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251673219

Debate thread 2: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251674277

[hrmjustin]

1. How long is the debate?

[SummerSnow]

3. Ends at 11

[hrmjustin]

5. Thanks.

[virtualobserver]

8. they are required to continue until the moderators empty their brains

[Spitfire of ATJ]

62. That was in the beginning.

[SummerSnow]

2. Thank u Bernie. Vote the obstructionist out.

[demwing]

4. Bernie calls for Revolution again...and BREAK

[retrowire]

7. This is excellent!!!

Bernie's message is literally the last thing people get to hear before they tune away from the debate and the commercials. That is SUCH a good advantage for him.

[riderinthestorm]

6. Yay!! K&R!

Link to first thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251673219

Link to second thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251674277

[Feeling the Bern]

9. DWS must be shitting her pants. Her girl is getting smoked.

[retrowire]

14. Where there is smoke, there is bern. n/t

[Renew Deal]

10. The final stretch

[Renew Deal]

11. Enemies they are most proud of...

[Renew Deal]

13. Chafee: Coal Lobby

[Renew Deal]

15. O'Malley: NRA

[Renew Deal]

17. Clinton: Republicans

[tawadi]

23. That was funny. Hope it doesn't cost her, when it shows up in political ads though. nt

[Renew Deal]

19. Sanders: Wall St.

[Renew Deal]

21. Webb: A dead Vietnamese soldier that threw the grenade that wounded him

"He's not around."

[winter is coming]

31. Weird thing to say. Made me wonder if he's in the trunk of Webb's car. n/t

[Renew Deal]

35. lol

I didn't think of that.

[demwing]

12. I'll admit Bernie had a rough start, but he's cooking with steam now

[longship]

16. Thanks retrowire. No broadband/cable here.

And your thread is the most respectful debate thread tonight.

[retrowire]

25. Hey thanks, I appreciate that. :) n/t

[Renew Deal]

39. Good job

[retrowire]

46. D'aww you guys. Shucks!

I'm just happy to help encourage the togetherness that this primary season tends to take away from us.

We must stay united.

[Feeling the Bern]

18. Webb's statement is pathetic.

[tawadi]

20. Webb's remark about his enemy

[Renew Deal]

26. He should be voted off the island tonight.

[tawadi]

43. Yes, and not let back on. Ever. nt

[retrowire]

22. Webb just gave the most republican answer ever.

"I'd say the greatest enemy I had was the soldier that threw a grenade at me but... he's not here anymore."

VOMIT.

[Renew Deal]

27. Is that even a republican answer?

How many current candidates have served?

[retrowire]

28. i dunno. n/t

[bklyncowgirl]

32. No Webb actually served in Vietnam--most top Republicans not so much. nt

[90-percent]

59. Vietnam Top republicans

Only one that comes to mind is John McCain. Oh, also Chuck Hagel.

And, remember, Trump likes servicemen that WEREN'T CAPTURED!

-90% Jimmy

[geardaddy]

61. And then he smiled creepily.

[AtomicKitten]

24. Chafee is my second choice.

Watch this space.

[in_cog_ni_to]

29. GREAT, GREAT DEBATE. Bernie killed it! O'Malley was great too

[sinkingfeeling]

30. Webb has no personality at all. He's my least favorite.

[TransitJohn]

33. O'Malley's closing is great

He's a team player.

[elleng]

36. Yes, a great closing.

He's a LEADER!

[retrowire]

34. O'Malley giving a nice speech for the democratic party as a whole.

I applaud you O'Malley!!!!

"You saw no racism on this stage, no attacks on women."

O'Malley, keep it clean against my man Bernie from now on, you've redeemed yourself to me tonight.

O'Malley's exit speech was excellent.

[sinkingfeeling]

38. +100

[Daemonaquila]

42. He did the best.

He's running for Veep, though.

[demwing]

37. I'm a Bernie guy, but I think O'Malley did well for himself

[Feeling the Bern]

40. Sanders/O'Malley 2016!!!

[TexasBushwhacker]

52. I would be cool with that

I like his ideas and he's young, which I think is important. He certainly wouldn't be a fiasco for the ticket like Sarah Palin was for McCain. ButvI would prefer someone who wasn't another East Coaster, and it would be great if it wasn't another white guy. But you can't have everything!

[retrowire]

44. totally agree.

I'm proud of that guy.

[New Earth]

50. I also thought O'Malley was really good

and he seemed to actually have a lot of the same ideas as Bernie. Glad it wasn't just me!

[JudyM]

41. I really hope a lot of "independents" are watching this. Nt

[Feeling the Bern]

45. HRC's ending speech: Polished words that sound good but are nothing but platitudes.

[Renew Deal]

47. If only she spoke like Trump she'd be electable.

We don't need intelligence.

[Feeling the Bern]

48. I didn't say it was insincere. Don't get unhinged. I said it doesn't sound sincere.

[Renew Deal]

51. Read what you just wrote

[Overseas]

53. I liked her closing statement. Don't want to fall for the quick smearing going on in the media.

There's quite a bit of pushing of the She's Not Sincere meme. She changes positions with the polls. So many people are jumping on to that.

The emails were investigated. Other officials had done the same at the time she was Secretary of State. Done and answered. So they need more smears because gosh, we don't want a coronation.

But come on fellas!

She is sincere about her political convictions and aspirations. She speaks with passion. She's been working on her issues for years.

I think the main corporate media are doing their best to criticize her without a comparable critique of the cockamamie Republicans. And not just the Trump. They let the GOP get away with so many lies and failures in their careers and policies. But oh gee, Hillary changes her mind...

I guess if the media really get into the issues and which candidate is really going to transform our system, they'd have to discuss the disastrous plans of the GOP to make our income inequality much worse and send our seniors back into greater poverty and ignore millions suffering in favor of their billionaire buddies who say that this time, after 40 years of waiting, goodies really are going to trickle down from the Top One Percent.

[2naSalit]

55. +1

[mdbl]

57. While I agree with your statements on the media,,

I still wonder how much working across the isle Hillary will be willing to do. I will vote for her if she wins the primary, and I respected her positions in the 1990's, but she's a pretty wealthy person now and has been entrenched in this system her husband helped create "working across the isle". That is what I fear will keep changing her mind and shifting her to the right. That's why I can't vote for her in the primary. If she wins the GE, I can only hope she sticks to a few of her original convictions all the while being thankful we don't have Trump completing our march to Idiocracy.

[Separation]

49. I wish

But not likely, that somebody would address the fact, that in the first hour of this debate. More policy and real substance have been covered than all of the Republican debates so far. Republican debate goes like this, " oooo I heard so and so said this about you." And then "we'll so and so should stop being a poopey head."

Gah it makes me sick!

[zentrum]

54. Went to CNN's poll

….to see who "won" in one of of those informal opinion surveys. Bernie did by a huge margin. 74% to 24% at the point I voted.

Then the same thing happened on TIME, SLATE, and other sites, too many to remember. I just kept clicking through them after typing into google "Who won the democratic debates?" It was always Bernie by double digits.

Try it yourself.

[retrowire]

58. yep. but remember, everyone will believe their candidate "won" n/t

[McCamy Taylor]

56. Clinton has been studying Obama's style. It works for her.

[Autumn]

60. It's a shame she can't be herself.

[glinda]

63. +1

[Autumn]

64. I liked Hillary, when she wan't afraid to be herself.

Now she has to remake herself in a mans image because it "works for her"? That's just sad.