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Title: Leaked Debate Agreement Shows Both Obama and Romney are Sniveling Cowards
Source: Gawker
URL Source: http://gawker.com/5951977/leaked-de ... d-romney-are-sniveling-cowards
Published: Oct 16, 2012
Author: John Cook
Post Date: 2012-10-16 12:50:05 by Hondo68
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Keywords: a "predesignated area", Obama and Romney campaigns, may not leave
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Comments: 10

Leaked Debate Agreement Shows Both Obama and Romney are Sniveling Cowards

Time's Mark Halperin has made himself useful for once by obtaining, and publishing, a copy of the 21-page memorandum of understanding that the Obama and Romney campaigns negotiated with the Commission on Presidential Debates establishing the rules governing this month's presidential and vice presidential face-offs. The upshot: Both campaigns are terrified at anything even remotely spontaneous happening.

They aren't permitted to ask each other questions, propose pledges to each other, or walk outside a "predesignated area." And for the town-hall-style debate tomorrow night, the audience members posing questions aren't allowed to ask follow-ups (their mics will be cut off as soon as they get their questions out). Nor will moderator Candy Crowley.

Most bizarrely, given the way the debates have played out, the rules actually appear to forbid television coverage from showing reaction shots of the candidates: "To the best of the Commission's abilities, there will be no TV cut-aways to any candidate who is not responding to a question while another candidate is answering a question or to a candidate who is not giving a closing statement while another candidate is doing so." The "best of the Commission's abilities" must be rather feeble, seeing as how almost every moment of the two debates so far was televised in split-screen, clearly showing shots of a "candidate who is not responding to a question while another candidate is answering a question."

Which means some of the rules below that both campaigns stipulated to in a desperate attempt to wring any serendipity out of the events may be honored in the breach:

  • "The candidates may not ask each other direct questions during any of the four debates."
  • "The candidates shall not address each other with proposed pledges."
  • "At no time during the October 3 First Presidential debate shall either candidate move from his designated area behing the respective podium."
  • For the October 16 town-hall-style debate, "the moderator will not ask follow-up questions or comment on either the questions asked by the audience or the answers of the candidates during the debate...."
  • "The audience members shall not ask follow-up questions or otherwise participate in the extended discussion, and the audience member's microphone shall be turned off after he or she completes asking the questions."
  • "[T]he Commission shall take appropriate steps to cut-off the microphone of any...audience member who attempts to pose any question or statement different than that previously posed to the moderator for review."
  • "No candidate may reference or cite any specific individual sitting in a debate audience (other than family members) at any time during a debate."
  • For the town-hall debate: "Each candidate may move about in a pre-designated area, as proposed by the Commission and approved by each campaign, and may not leave that area while the debate is underway."

Here's the full document:

The 2012 Debates - Memorandum of Understanding Between the Obama and Romney Campaigns


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#10. To: hondo68, ALL (#0) (Edited)

The debate was a family argument
Like 2 Family members leaving the airport in a Cab in a unfamiliar city,...asking to go to the city center,

But the cab driver takes them around the airport in circles....and they don't even catch on.

Did UN Agenda 21 come up in the debate?
There is no greater weight of leverage cast upon America via a compromised,and dumbed down education system...than for this
and here to...UN Agenda 21 and the EPA are killing the middlesclass of the US on numerous levels,....they will stuff your ass into a 6x4 box in the inner city and keep you from having a vehicle.
Thats serfdom.....and thats the future unless UN Agenda 21 is stopped dead in its tracks.

The Outrageous Military spending on these Fake Wars on terror...money for IsraHell,...the f'ng Muslim Brotherhood Egyptians...the Al qeada Jihadi psycho's in Syria...on and on,
The useless F-35 which has quadruppled in cost and still can't defeat a 3rd gen Russian fighter...which can outturn it,outclimb it...and outrun it.
The gaddamned Bush wars and the Banker loot athon put the nation into the hole so many Trillions of dollars,....and all you heard was we are going to smoke em out and hunt them down BS again.
Romney did say North America a few times.....a hint that North American Union is already ON*....and underway.
Thats not so bad.... a North Am energy policy would actually be a better thing anyways,...except....except its captain obvious the Utility cartells will just continue to gut you in that reality as now...
At every turn...the middleclass gets stomped by each party and lied too,...and manipulated by the Media into all the Congress excuses,...Banker excuses,...and Foreign war entanglements.

each side will be cheering that their Tribe won tonight...

but America lost.....and the Globalists agenda.....doom....continues.

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