Enough is Enough Dept. - Debate Mod Gwen Infill's in the tank for Obama

[Antibubba]

He's not going to make a judgment on "that," he says.  He believes she'll be scrupulously fair.

What is he supposed to say?

[MicroBalrog]

He's not going to make a judgment on "that," he says.  He believes she'll be scrupulously fair.

What is he supposed to say?

"Get a new moderator"?

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

Might be smarter to wait until after the debate to pitch a fit. 

If Palin does well, he can say somrthing like "hey, look how good she did, even a stupendously biased moderator couldn't throw her off stride."

If she doesn't do well he can say "well, whadya expect, with a moderator like that there's no way she could have won." 

[longeyes]

That's called reactive, not pro-active, and it's too clever by half.

We don't need to be clever.  Obama is there to be had--by someone who isn't afraid to take him down. 

[S_O_Laban]

He's not going to make a judgment on "that," he says.  He believes she'll be scrupulously fair.

What is he supposed to say?

"Get a new moderator"?

Mac said what he should have said. 

The problem here is not with the either party vetting the mod.... The problem is with the lack of personal ethics shown by the mod.  She should have told both campaigns right out of the gate that she had a personal conflict of interest with this situation, (she stands to make several hundred K is Obama is elected, if not, much less.)  Just another example of leftist ideology (she feels she is above the law) as any ethical journalist would have said something right away.   

[seeker_two]

He's not going to make a judgment on "that," he says.  He believes she'll be scrupulously fair.

What is he supposed to say?

"Get a new moderator"?

!!! IT'S A TRAP !!!

[doncol]

In case you haven't figgered out, this is a another set up which the republicans have evidently contracted with democrats to accept.  I can think of no other reason for their repeated stupidity.  You don't get that stupid by accident or genetics.  They have to be paid for it.

You know, I am starting to wonder about that.  There is just way too much tail tucking by the Republican party lately.  I can't really come up with another excuse for the wussish behavior. 

[Unisaw]

I was vehemently in favor of a change in moderator -- the appearance of a conflict was too much to overlook.  That said, I actually think the moderator did a fine job.  A couple of her questions could have been stated more clearly but I didn't detect any bias.

[Northwoods]

I was vehemently in favor of a change in moderator -- the appearance of a conflict was too much to overlook.  That said, I actually think the moderator did a fine job.  A couple of her questions could have been stated more clearly but I didn't detect any bias.

Agreed.  She didn't play powder puff with Biden and full contact with Palin.  She seemed to actually be reasonably even handed.

[ronnyreagan]

The moderator wasn't perfect - but certainly could have been worse. There were a few points where she cut Palin off but she was rambling and it didn't seem she was going anywhere coherent anway.

[lacoochee]

The only place in the debate I thought the moderator stepped completely outside of fair, was when she asked Biden "The Hood" if taxing the rich and giving to the poor was class warfare (totally paraphrased btw) and then asked Sarah "The Sheriff of Nottingham" why she wanted to steal from the poor and give to the rich (also totally paraphrased). 

Sarah also passed up the opportunity given to her after Biden's partisan attempt to blame the current financial crisis on the Bush Administration.  She should have pointed out the problem originated long before the Bush administration with Community Reinvestment Act etc. and that the top four recipients of Freddie Mac campaign largess are Democrats with Obama being second.   She would have owned the rest of the debate and had just pointed it that out.

Why do I feel like this all a charade?  And that before long all of these rich politicians (rich from selling influence) and their  Wall Street cronies will be waving from their private helicopters as the fly away from the economic and moral ruin that once mankind's greatest achievement? In other words, Thanks for all of the fish!!!