The Debate Begins

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Luke Ford

Both candidates look dialed in.

* Trump needs a tissue.

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Just by remaining on her feet for more than 90 minutes, Hillary Clinton won the debate with her freak-flag flying high. Since her Sept. 11th collapse in New York, her candidacy has been bleeding profusely. Tonight, she managed to apply a fresh bandage to her electoral prospects – – – she’s upright and fighting and back in the game! But if she disappears for several days, her physical resillency will once again become a matter of pressing concern. The palsy or Parkinson’s was evident in various facial ticks at about 9:50PM and became more aggressively pronounced between 10:15PM and 10:20PM. But for most of the debate, Trump was diffuse while Mrs. Clinton was focused.

Trump was the usual Trump – – – jumping all over the place and getting lost in the weeds. You’ve got to hand it to Hillary : she knows how to lie and go down with her ship of lies, if need be, without batting an eye. An average debater (Trump is sub-par by any measure) would have been able to easily expose her prevarications but Trump is all wrapped up in himself, as ever the blind egotist, sweating and sweating to get an irrelevant word in at all costs.

Mrs. Clinton, tonight, may not have managed to appear likable but at least she managed to appear tolerable. Trump’s incredulous glance kept darting in her direction the whole time. He seemed to be hoping for the physical collapse of his opponent but Hillary Clinton’s medical staff was in top form tonight. Whatever Frankenstein concoction Mrs. Clinton took in the hours before 9:00PM, it kept her going until 10:35PM! BRAVO, Hillary! Risen from the political dead and back from the flim-flam grave! Try not to stumble, though, before November 8th, otherwise you’ll find yourself falling right back in!

* They say the extended release version of Adderall lasts about four hours. But even with instant release, once you’re “in the zone” you can sometimes stay there long after the effects should have worn off- especially if you’re a tad (or more than a tad) hypomanic to begin with.

* The choice of a moderator was interesting. I’d not seen him before. A black AA hire is generally going to be a loyal Democrat. He was obviously anti-Trump, and did not hide it by going after Clinton in even a token fashion. This was the usual MSM we have come to know and resent.

Although Trump did win on trade and crime, it was a bit like a soccer game where the striker gets an open goal several times and can’t convert. When Hillary mentioned as part of a demonstration of her stamina, her ability to withstand congressional hearings for 12 hours, she was a sitting duck although that was practically an own goal on her behalf. It was as if Nixon or Clinton were to argue about their stamina to go through the impeachment process. Sometimes the lemons are so bad one should not even consider making lemonade. The openings were there to nail her on several occasions, and he didn’t.

Trump did nail her on other occasions. I agree that one of his most effective points was that she has been part of the government for a while now, with nothing but failure to show for it.

Overall I think Trump came out looking better. Hillary’s health is still questionable. Towards the end there was a moment where she came dangerously close to the “I should be 50 points ahead!” tone. And it’s always easy to criticize from the sidelines.

* That’s the media’s love hate relationship with populist politicians. On the one hand they hate Trump from an ideological point of view, but on the other hand they find him entertaining and newsworthy.

Your critics seem to forget that we live in a capitalist society where the media needs ratings to attract advertisers and make money. The MSM may be biased but it isn’t a government funded sociology department.

* I have no doubt this debate took a supreme effort from Hillary and her doctor. If she is as sick as some pointed out, this debate took a lot out of her and something she can’t recover from very rapidly.

Remember right after the DNC convention, Hillary and Veep were planning on touring the mid-west in a converted Greyhound bus. FoxNews even made a big show of it. It didn’t happen, she just vanished.

I just wonder if Hillary will do the same again. Or go to ground for about a week then show up for fund raisers and rigged TV shows for a 20 minute sit down.

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I've written five books (see Amazon.com). My work has been covered in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and on 60 Minutes. I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).
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