The long-awaited debate between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney took place Wednesday night and Patch solicited comments from readers in a live blog.
The blog is closed now, but you can still see what people were saying as the debate progressed by viewing this replay.
In order to re-elect Obama you must pretend this is his first time running.
Obama/ Biden are the disease....Romney/ Ryan is the cure.
You should have waited three hours before you opened your mouth- don't you agree? Brandt?....Brandt????
I flipped to MSNBC after the debate and saw the nightly marxists hosts sitting there stunned at what they just witnessed. That was priceless.......................................
The field of journalism (if you check the credentials of the Patch editors, many have degrees in or studied journalism) has always been populated predominantly by those on the left. There really is no logical argument against it, as it's been proven in studies time and time again. In the days when newspapers ruled the field, express bias was forbidden. With the new media comes new rules - or less rules if you like. Patch "encourages" its editors to express their political leanings. I think that's a mistake if you're intending to pass yourself off as an unbiased quasi-news source. I think it's obvious in the transcript from the "live blog" that some of the editors take that encouragement to mean they can attempt to spin an event in a fashion that suits their political leaning. The result is content, intermingled with and not really differentiated from other articles here that are supposed to represent news reporting that demonstrates a very clear bias. The assumption is that the reader will accept that this bias never finds its way into the reporting. I don't think that's a fair, or even a reasonable, assumption on the part of Patch management.
At long last all America, & the world, got to see the real, unfiltered Obama !
I love your default assumption that If Obama is re-elected peace will rain down from a rainbow filled sky and Iran will fall into line and never pose a larger threat. Your entire ideology on foreign policy is based on an assertion that America is the problem, yet you have no proof the world would be better with out us. If you want a neutered America helpless to defend the world against an Iran and Muslim Brotherhood wishing to roll over Israel and the rest of the Middle East most likely starting WWIII, then vote for Obama.
What is it, Brian?
Iran has been an ongoing issue and BO's plan is do nothing until it is too late- then offer them flowers and rainbows. (because it worked so damn good in Africa) I think your smeller is faulty. Mitt's $2.1 Trillion is to replenish what was used up in Iraq and Afghanistan. Remember it was unfunded wars. We used supplies, had equipment blow up- it is time to replace them; we need to do that to protect American Security. We can't afford to do it under Barry because the economy still sucks, and with no plans to fix it- Obama is a failure. Mitt laid out a plan for us, it included fixing the economy,and replenishing the military (so our kids don't have to take a knife to a gun fight).
Where's the lefties condemning such envy, contempt, and bigotry coming from their side, as all Hoffa hears from the left are crickets!
What 'mandates' on women's health care is Mitt proposing exactly? Making crap up again?
Excellent observation and analysis, as usual!
For four years, the media has refused to call him out on this and finally Mitt Romney did! Of course, the left will still act in denial about this very real FACT and continue to point the finger at Congressional GOP obstructionism - after all, LYING is pretty much all they know!
To the contrary - that was Romney's point - a real leader finds way to work together with the opposition. 87% of the legislative body was opposed to him in MA and he managed to make it work. Romney = leadership Obama = divisiveness
Obama's paranoia of the opposition is far worse than Nixon's was!
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/10/04/958801/at-last-nights-debate-romney-told-27-myths-in-38-minutes/ This guy will say anything in order to try to get elected! We simply can't trust him! Learn more about these Romney lies at the Washington Post's Fact Checker Blog, MediaMatters.org and FactCheck.org.
Once again, the sources you cite are all known for their extreme liberal bias - especially ThinkProgress. Not that any of the so-called 'fact-checkers' have ever proven to be all that accurate, but most of the somewhat reputable ones seem to concur that both Obama and Romney equally misrepresented the full truth during the 90 minute debate, with Obama actually doing just a bit more 'lying' than Romney! Even then, much of the assertions of the so-called 'fact-checkers' are premised upon interpretations, assumptions, conjectures, projections, suppositions, etc as opposed to hard objective truth! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor/fact-check-presidential-debate-missteps-155346190.html Perpahs you need to learn how to research the primary sources for youself, peform your own analysis, and come to your own conclusions instead of being a lemming to the liberal media opinion makers! Don't believe the self-declared 'fact-checkers' - do your own research of the primary sources and come to your own conclusions!