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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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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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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)

Bullshit. The media questions the candidates all the time. It is the citizens 1 and a half hours to question the candidates without some fat dyke interrupting and running interference for the faggot Obama.

A K A Stone  posted on  2012-10-16   12:53:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: A K A Stone, *The Two Parties ARE the Same* (#1)

It is the citizens 1 and a half hours to question the candidates without some fat dyke interrupting and running interference for the faggot

There WILL be a fat CNN dyke censoring out any good questions, that the citizens asked the D&R faggots.

If it was a true townhall debate, each citizen would get two minutes to ask their question, and at least one followup question. And NO jack booted D&R moderator, except for time. Then you'd see those two NWO globalist puppets dance!

Hondo68  posted on  2012-10-16   13:20:58 ET  (1 image) Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#3. To: hondo68 (#2)

If it was a true townhall debate, each citizen would get two minutes to ask their question, and at least one followup question. And NO jack booted D&R moderator, except for time. Then you'd see those two NWO globalist puppets dance!

The last debate with the VP's revealed that the system* would not allow the upstart Kidd [Ryan].....to shove around the Ole Jesuit Coadjutor [Biden]

the system has rules : )

Tonights debate however may show the Globalists tipping their hat towards the one who will be...
If Romney continues by small incriment....the Elite's could give him a win and say the public was not confident in Obama admins economic and foreign policy.
The media could sell that easily.....and downplay the loss of Obama....so as to reduce the twitter/slap whitey riots which occur upon Barky loss.
Romney could fumble....and the system could just as easily go with the current puppet for 4 more years of Grand chessboard and Austerity as the car goes over the cliff.
Romney win ....Chessboard Continues....but the car explodes,....and then goes over the cliff of Austerity.

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