What Time Is Tonight's Presidential Debate? [Schedule]

Frank T October 23, 2012 at 12:28 am

Your on a roll NF boob. Keep making up new lies. Watch the debate maybe you will learn something. By the way it's on foreign affairs. Maybe they will discuss birth control in Pakistan.

North Fork Bob October 23, 2012 at 12:35 am

Sane women got together to oppose Romney a long time ago.Why do you think Rush had no advertising for quite a while? Women got together and called the advertisers.Very effective. By the way Bain owns Clear Channel that broadcasts Rush,Glenn Beck and other right wing talkers

Underdog October 23, 2012 at 12:37 am

Ah yes, the "inherited Clinton surplus" myth; makes it sound like there was leftover "money in the bank", as it were, when Clinton left office. Tell me Bob, if Bush inherited a surplus, then how could there have been a national debt to double?
The fact is, there were only individual surpluses in the annual budgets for Clinton's last three years, '98, '99, and 2000; not a total surplus that could be "inherited". While Clinton deserves tremendous credit for continually reducing the amount that was added to the debt, overall he added $320B to the national debt, which stood at just over $5.6 Trillion when he left office. In 2008, as Bush was leaving office, the National Debt stood at a bit over $10.4 Trillion, an increase of $4.8 Trillion. Not quite double, but admittedly pretty close. HOWEVER, with the National Debt now sitting at over $16 Trillion, an increase of $5,6 Trillion, it cannot be denied that the Obama administration has added more debt in 4 years than the Bush administration did in 8 years. Obama has not had a single year where the budget deficit has not been more than double Bush's worst year.

North Fork Bob October 23, 2012 at 12:38 am

There is one party Wall St. and the major corporations call the shots.They own the President,Congress and us.

Underdog October 23, 2012 at 12:50 am

Jessica - Did you really take Paul's post as fact? If so, then yes, please vote for a 3rd party candidate... my personal suggestion would be for the Heaven's Gate candidate.
Two words: "sarcasm" and "satire"... please look them up.

North Fork Bob October 23, 2012 at 12:56 am

Google Union Bank 1942 Bush held Nazi money in his bank and was censured for it.Google Bush crime family and get an eye full.Google Tarpley and get a whole book of Bush crimes Google Guardian UK and get 2 Auschwitz survivors who are suing Bush they were partners with IG Farben that ran Auschwitz and supplied the gas for the killing chambers.Neil Bush ran Silverado during the Savings and Loan crisis that cost us a ton of money.

Jaguar-Guy October 23, 2012 at 01:01 am

Wow - I do not know what to write about this one - at a loss for words - first in a long time.

Bob October 23, 2012 at 01:02 am

Underdog - Your "inherited Clinton surplus" myth is no myth. By definition, a budget surplus is an annual event where the govt takes in more than it spends. Your saying if I made extra payments to reduce my mortgage, I should have no mortgage left. If Bush didn't cut taxes, start 2 wars that he did not pay for, and offer seniors a drug plan not paid for, annual surpluses would have continued and the national debt would have gone down. Why didn't any Republicans complain when Bush was running up the debt?
Yes, Obama has increased the national debt. But the Bush recession and tax cuts left a structural budget deficit. If Obama didn't add stimulus spending and save the auto industry, we would still be in a depression. So he took the right steps. It is now time for both parties to get together to reduce the budget deficits by a combination of tax increases (yes, I mentioned the tea party dirty words) and spending cuts.

John Gruber October 23, 2012 at 01:34 am

I can also google and find morons who think Obama is an illegal Muslim immigrant.

Jessica Horvath October 23, 2012 at 01:50 am

What difference does it make? Watching the debate right now and neither man is doing anything for me. Get a clue and look at the other options. We dont need these two rammed down our throats. Again do your homework........research ALL CANDIDATES running for president that for some reason are not included in these nationally televised debates. Ask yourself why we are not able to see anyone else's view on how to run this country. How is it possible that there are other parties and candidates that no one wants you to know about.....why? Because they dont have the backing of these oil lobbyists? Wake up! Think for yourselves and dont let them ram this crap down your throat. Everyone is just too lazy to give a sh*!t and this is why we are going downhill......

Jaguar-Guy October 23, 2012 at 02:11 am

I am glad they are being quite civil to one another. I think they are BOTH dead-dog tired and just want the last 20 minutes to be over already. It is a snoozer - but I loved Obama's line about there not being cavalry horses and bayonettes any more, when speaking about the decimation of our Naval Fleet. Not very accurate since we will have the smallest navy since 1917 and Admiral Mullen did say it IS the greatest threat we have to our national security - but it was pretty funny.

mary wellbourne October 23, 2012 at 02:14 am

You won't have to worry about women's right if we do not have jobs in this great country. Also if we continue to run up the deficit our children will be working for nothing but to pay higher taxes. Forget about the side issues and let's fix the economy. NOW

North Fork Bob October 23, 2012 at 02:17 am

Your choice is 2 sides of the same coin.One bad the other worse.They are both owned by Wall St It's not going to change until 330 millions of Americans shake the 3 generations of propaganda they've been inundating us with.The News is actors in makeup reading propaganda.The Stations are owned by the 1%. Sad state but true.

North Fork Bob October 23, 2012 at 02:23 am

Cut Defense drastically.Do you know our Military is in 148 Countries!Why are we in Germany or Japan? Those wars ended in 1945

John Gruber October 23, 2012 at 02:24 am

I agree with the size of the navy argument but we spend more on military and defense than any other country in the world and adding $2-$3 trillion in unasked for funds is not going to help lower the debt

North Fork Bob October 23, 2012 at 02:35 am

John you have a point.However I think our Military misused the Iraq Vets.15 month deployments back to the States and another 15 month deployment.It leads to plenty of cases of PTSD that The Military treated inadequately.Here's some pills get back in the field.You only have to look at the suicide rate to realize there is something drastically wrong.It's the highest it's ever been.

Preliator October 23, 2012 at 02:59 am

Too bad for Obama that our military still uses bayonettes...who does know anything about the military same as it is Corps and not corpse.

Jaguar-Guy October 23, 2012 at 03:21 am

Well done Mary. Thank you for stating something so obvious that many left leaning women voters miss - that if you have a job, you can afford $9 a month for birth control (managing and taking control of your own body) thereby removing Government out of women's issues entirely. Sheesh !!

Justin Time October 23, 2012 at 12:32 pm

Remember: If you are undecided DON'T VOTE! ! America has enough problems with uneducated people, don't add to the problems by casting a vote. STAY HOME or go shopping that day.

Greg Hofstra October 23, 2012 at 12:44 pm

Please. That's insane talk. We need a president that moves us forward on our own two feet. You don't need the government to be successful.

Christina October 23, 2012 at 12:53 pm

Why did Obama not discuss why he does not attend his cabinet meetings? He also doesn't attend his security meetings, he gets "briefed". He has plenty of time to hang with Jay Z and Beyonce. Also, why wasn't it discussed that he had NO foreign policy experience when he came from Chicago as a "neighborhood organizer". Is Chicago a foreign land?

SashaK October 23, 2012 at 01:17 pm

Go ahead with your liberal motto...Hug a tree but kill a baby..Thats how your group rolls Jackie M.

Diane M. Pape October 23, 2012 at 06:04 pm

i plan to vote GOP too many criminals running around too many left wing judges give out Parole like water time to crack down on crime can y'all dig it?

John Gruber October 23, 2012 at 06:30 pm

funny thing is Frank, if it was up to Romney, women in America would have the same amount rights women in Pakistan have to get an abortion, and that's none.

John Gruber October 23, 2012 at 06:32 pm

except when a baby is not a baby, but rather a fertilized egg...

Underdog October 23, 2012 at 06:51 pm

"Yes, Obama has increased the national debt."
DING-DING.... we have a winner in the "Understatement of the Decade" award!!! And yes Bob, a budget surplus is an annual event, so please explain to us all how it can be "inherited". "structural budget deficit" - I must admit, I had to look that one up but it makes sense. However the definition in the Finacial TImes Lexicon includes this: "Structural deficits will eventually pose a problem for any government. Deficits are financed by borrowing, and continued borrowing leads to an accumulation of debt. The ability to pay off this debt is measured by a country’s debt relative to its GDP, referred to as its debt-to-GDP ratio. If a country’s debt-to-GDP ratio gets too high, investors will worry that the government will either default on this debt, or will deflate its value away by monetising the debt and thereby engineer a high inflation rate." So it's worth noting that thanks to Obama's nearly $6 Trillion, 4-year contribution our National Debt now exceeds exceeds our GDP for the first time in our history... and what is the administration doing about it? Monetising the debt by printing more money - brilliant.

Frank T October 23, 2012 at 07:09 pm

JG, Obama has nothing positive to run on and has not laid out specific plans or ideas for the next 4 years so they can only demonize Romney and it is not working. The faster Obama drops in the polls the more desparate he has become. People are smarter than you think and will ignore your nonsense and non issues.

Jim Crownover November 4, 2012 at 03:25 am

What about red states? Don’t Americans say “better dead than red”.

Dee from Riverhead November 5, 2012 at 12:23 pm

John, you don't ever have to worry about it, your a man!

2 Turn Tables November 5, 2012 at 12:42 pm

Spare me the BS please. "Women's Reproductive Health" = "Abortion" = "Killing the unborn". I love this gender voters. The economy is falling apart, we have a "fiscal cliff", we have an enormous deficit and all some of you narcissistic women care about is who is going to pay your $9 a month pill and who will ensure your right to kill the unborn for convenience. Rape and incest are a different matter. Late term abortions, advocated by NARAL are criminal.