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I'm going to sidestep my morbid curiosity and get some reading done tonight.
Mitt will do his best to come across as the compassionate, caring individual we all know he isn't, whilst attempting to cast a more aggressive Obama as the "angry black man". I don't care if Mitt is able to pawn his newfound faux-charisma off on the pundits - I've already seen how utterly incompetent his people skills are when it really matters. The debate will go over topics I already know by heart (as you do, too) and watching it will probably just raise my blood pressure.
There is absolutely nothing Mitt Romney could say or do to tempt me to vote for him. He's a liar, a thief, and a tactless political slut who would say anything to get elected.
Rambis
(7,774 posts)Just pisses me off more-
morningglory
(2,336 posts)newspeak
(4,847 posts)with mittens (bush redux) and with the president. in order to maintain the health of my telly (can't afford to buy a new one), I won't be watching. you can only scream so many times "liar, liar pants on fire" until the urge to kick the telly comes into play. especially when the talking bubble heads start talking afterwards, attempting to convince the plebes what they did or did not hear.
I will, however, come on line to get an overview.
Nay
(12,051 posts)through the new TV. I will check in on DU after the debates to get the general zeitgeist, but there's no need to enrage myself by watching the actual thing.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)be as soon as you learned he is a REPUBLICAN??????
wtmusic
(39,166 posts)It's getting harder.
In my lifetime the word "Republican" has taken detours that would have Ike rolling over in the grave.
raven42
(88 posts)I didn't watch last week's VP debate either. After Romney's "performance" in the first debate (all the lies and the goofy-looking fake smile), and the media's gushing about how "presidential" he looked, well that was enough for me. I'll sit the rest of them out. I'll come here to read up on the aftermath, to find out if anything noteworthy took place, but that's about it.
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)I'll watch the recaps when I get home & maybe I'll watch a re-broadcast on C-Span.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)I am not going to watch any of the after-crap.
thevoiceofreason
(3,440 posts)Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)I expect a spirited and vociferous discussion here afterward, with the following sides and everything between. (pro vs. con, the world is ending vs Obama kicked butt, MSNBC is a closet Republican butt licker vs. MSNBC is the greatest Liberal supporter, etc., etc., etc.) We liberals are not of the same mind about anything, otherwise we would be windup RomBots posting at Freepervile or more Cthonic realms.
We will all watch the polls in horripulation or orgasmilation until November 7, when we will celebrate 4 more years of President Obama.
Thanks to Taekwondo, I will continue to lose weight on my HMR diet. (56 pounds and counting.) My health must come first.
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Then I will go to bed.
I need no more information. I vote next week then I am done with this thing.
This is the worst election of my lifetime. I have invested nothing in it and I will do nothing more.
mike_c
(36,270 posts)...but that's it. Neither party represents my politics or civic interests, so I don't much care what either of their candidates has to say.
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)I can't take one lying syllable out of willards lying Goddamned mouth......I'll read about it in tomorrows funny papers....
maryellen99
(3,785 posts)But I'll be watching my boy Justin Verlander kick some Yankee Ass!
GO TIGERS!
Whisp
(24,096 posts)but no MSNBC for me, no sireeee. or CNN, and a given no FOX.
same shits, different piles.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)won't watch any of the media's analysis after either. Pisses me off how they twisted and misrepresented every thing Al Gore said to further the "Gore can't tell the truth" meme, but romney can just spout off lie after lie and the press refuses to call him on it!! I'll read the recap on Daily Kos in the am.
sinkingfeeling
(51,438 posts)Response to wtmusic (Original post)
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texanwitch
(18,705 posts)I think everyone knows who they are voting for.
Even if President Obama fell on his face I would still vote for him.
Being good with a debate doesn't make you a good President.
I am voting straight Democrat period.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Liars really bother me. I just hope somebody points out the lack of detail in everything Romney says. All oratory, no substance.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)Presidential debates happen every 4 years...ALCS doesn't.
maryellen99
(3,785 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)I might rather vote for a Republican than support the Yankees, though in my mind it's kind of the same thing.
maryellen99
(3,785 posts)I'm rooting for the Tigers too- because I live in the area.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Poiuyt
(18,118 posts)I like being surrounded by my friends here.
RedSpartan
(1,693 posts)Will hang out here as much as I can and read what people are saying instead.