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November 28, 2007

CNN/YouTube Debate: Reactions…

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  1. Awful. The first 10-15 minutes were stupid videos without questions.

    Comment by randy — November 28, 2007 @ 10:16 pm

  2. CNN does it again.When are you leftist going to learn?This is a Christian Nation.Change or DIE!

    Comment by SHANE — November 28, 2007 @ 11:14 pm

  3. a christian nation? now we force religion on the people. this country is headed straight towards hell and bush can be partly blamed.

    Comment by Me — November 28, 2007 @ 11:16 pm

  4. CNN is just fine… the candidates are what made this debate horrible. They are nasty, arrogant and aweful!

    Comment by LR — November 28, 2007 @ 11:23 pm

  5. Romney may be a worse flip-flopper than Kerry. But the loser tonight was Anderson Cooper, who allowed the debate to go more than ten mintues over because he let them talk and talk, while only softly saying time every ten seconds, which was very annoying. And yet again, CNN needs to get control of their audiences.

    Comment by randy — November 28, 2007 @ 11:29 pm

  6. #3-Read the Constitution ME. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

    Comment by SHANE — November 28, 2007 @ 11:40 pm

  7. Thought the format, questions and AC were all good.Answers? So-so.

    Comment by myview — November 29, 2007 @ 12:02 am

  8. Much to my surprise the debate was fair and balanced.
    Until, of course, that trembling old general showed up.
    In addition to that fool, Anderson pressed and pressed the candidates for an answer. He wouldn’t let it go.
    He went over the line in that incidence.

    Comment by Cella — November 29, 2007 @ 12:25 am

  9. Cella, check out Drudge. The gay general was a plant of the Hillary campaign! Details are here: http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/d91f3cba-6a87-4686-92ce-70a16edc311b .

    But as a Duncan Hunter supporter, I was furious that he was called on so little! The debate was basically highlighting the four frontrunners (Giuliani, Romney, McCain and Thompson), plus Mike Huckabee. Hunter and Paul were called on very little, but Tancredo managed to get himself in there a little bit more. I just resent the fact that the media is choosing our candiates for us, because as a conservative, Duncan Hunter has it all. Yet he is featured very little by the MSM.

    Comment by Missy — November 29, 2007 @ 12:42 am

  10. The General may have worked for Hillary, or still does (Which he never should have been there for that reason), but Cella, dont you dare call him a fool.

    Comment by randy — November 29, 2007 @ 2:14 am

  11. I don’t mind the “you tube” format. I like the idea of ordinary citizens asking the questions…even if, in the end, CNN chooses them.

    What I didn’t like was the latitude that CNN gave to the crowd. At the beginning Cooper said (paraphrasing) that the network wasn’t going to restrict the audience, but it becomes a distraction when candidates are limited to 30 second responses and the audience is cheering/booing after every other sentence. I think it’s better to ask the audience to hold their applause/boos until the debate is over and listen to what they have to say. Otherwise it starts to turn into a Jerry Springer episode (as when Romney and Giuliani were sparring about immigration).

    Overall, a decent format but an overly raucous atmosphere

    Comment by FishOil — November 29, 2007 @ 3:11 am

  12. SHAME ON CNN! SHAME ON AC360!

    I was wondering if John McCain received any electric shock while being a POW? Because when he basically equated Ron Paul to Hitler last night.. my jaw hit the floor! What a DONKEY!

    Comment by Terance — November 29, 2007 @ 7:24 am

  13. Terrance You must not listen to answers McCAIN WAS NOT EQUATING PAUL TO HITLER. He was saying Paul is taking the same stance of isolation as Never Chamberlin did taking the view that Hitler was not a threat.

    Comment by Kirk G — November 29, 2007 @ 7:34 am

  14. ^ Ok thanks for translating that for me. Nevertheless, did McCain get hooked up to the jumper cables or not?

    Comment by Terance — November 29, 2007 @ 7:37 am

  15. Mitt Romney won the debate, period.

    Comment by RJ — November 29, 2007 @ 9:06 am

  16. What i liked about the format was that it was lively…interactive…and not boring. I actually like hearing the reactions of the audience…because I’m reacting with them. Normally, I can never get through an entire debate because it’s so dry and controlled. But for this debate, I was at my friend’s house and I was shocked that my other twenty-something-year-old friends were watching it with me…and actually got into it.

    Comment by Juvie3 — November 29, 2007 @ 10:02 am

  17. Randy,
    And you are?????
    And I care about your opinion because?????

    Comment by Cella — November 29, 2007 @ 10:11 am

  18. This is a Christian Nation.Change or DIE!

    Change the word ‘Christian’ to ‘Muslim’ and you have an IslamoFascist. What does that make SHANE? A Christo-Fascist?

    Comment by Arthur — November 29, 2007 @ 10:39 am

  19. ^
    Ouch. Talk about hitting the nail on the head.

    Comment by Shaun — November 29, 2007 @ 10:49 am

  20. Thompson’s commercial using Romney and the Huckster’s own words against them was awesome.

    Anderson Cooper was dreadful. CNN got conned with several plants… or allowed them in willingly.

    Rudy & Mitt struggled big time.

    Comment by bigred — November 29, 2007 @ 11:22 am

  21. #18-So that make the founders of this country Christo-Fascist.Remember Artie HATE AMERICA FIRST! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

    Comment by SHANE — November 29, 2007 @ 12:37 pm

  22. Does anyone know what was going on on Headline News. They were playing the debate with graph graphics over the picture which I guess were men and women’s reactions to what was being said. Who were the people rating the debate? I missed that.

    Comment by chase — November 29, 2007 @ 1:34 pm

  23. Chase, I think Erica Hill said they were registered republicans.

    Comment by Terance — November 29, 2007 @ 2:00 pm

  24. A gay man serves this country honorably, and you call him a trembling old fool. Show some respsect.

    Comment by randy — November 29, 2007 @ 2:12 pm

  25. Terance, for that matter, they were undecided Republicans. The odd thing was one of the ladies in the group said, when they questioned them shortly after the debate, she was even considering John Edwards if I heard right, so you might have some people here asking questions about that also.

    Anyhow, it’s was interesting to watch and wasn’t focusing around the “we’re all going to die and how are you going to stop it” scenarios on FNC’s debates (yeah, I know it was only near the end on FNC’s, but still). Still, it’s more powering to hear questions from the people, especially the ones that touch some of them at home.

    Overall, I thought it was very interesting and brought out the fights between the people, which was kinda nice, with a touch less “Hillary this, Hillary that,” though they did occasionally through in the Regan in their phrases.

    Comment by Chris (clind) — November 29, 2007 @ 3:23 pm

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