Do you honestly think these debates are worth the time to watch?

Question

I sure didn't see much from the parts I saw. Just two big bullshitters.

Answer 1

The latest news here had quite a lot of uneasy matters to report about, and they seem to have neglected the debates since a day or so. So, I'll start first with commemorating late Shimon Peres, with one of his quotes, reminding us to think also by ourselves - and you are very right to do so:

"Don’t listen too much to your parents. Don’t listen too much to your teachers. Don’t listen too much to your friends. Listen to yourself."

Shimon Peres

and I would add: "... open your eyes and inform yourself well."

Seen from Europe, I can only refer to the British media and to Euronews, and they are more or less sceptical:

http://www.euronews.com/2016/09/27/world-responds-to-first-us-presidential-debate

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37481070

Answer 2

You are quite right.  Their comments were perfectly predictable, and had been repeated 100 times before.

That, coupled with the distinctly NON-neutral moderator, made it a waste of time, as far as I was concerned.

The Establishment fix was in, as it was in the FBI "investigation." Corruption at the highest levels of government and broadcasting.

In Trump and Hill's ho-hum debate,

On which may hang the nation's fate,

The Lying Empress had no clothes,

And Blust'ring Donald had the slows.

Comments

Congratulations on the word of the day: ho-hum!

I think that I can understand your feelings - and that of many other people - humph (for the rhymes, one may galumph or deal with bumph, feeling frumph and grumbling mumph) ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smurfs

If people make too much ho-hum,

participants are looking glum,

while everything seems too dum-dum;

promoters try to beat the drum

and stir up masses with cheap rum ...

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Especially dum-dum are FBI Director Comey's answers (or lack thereof) to questions put to him regarding the destruction of e-mail evidence.

Comey might as well have been Hillary's defense attorney.

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@TheOtherTink

Thank you for the info.

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One amusing factor about these YouTube clips is that in the comments by viewers, I did not see a SINGLE comment that tried to defend Comey's performance.  He has disgraced himself and the FBI.

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That is really saddening. I have the impression that quite a few people in higher ranking positions are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.

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It's quite obvious that Comey did not want to decide the election by recommending an indictment, even if he had to ignore the clear intent of the laws Hillary brazenly violated.

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Well - he is in a very uncomfortable position.

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It would not surprise me at all if he had been paid off or blackmailed.  His arguments are Kafkaesque nonsense.

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Kafkaesque - you said it.

He should have had the alternative: "I don't want to talk about it".

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/b20dd37e-465c-44d5-b90b-ed76702fac5d

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Lol!  Well, he did his best to say as little as possible.  I'm mildly surprised he didn't plead the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination. 

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Well, I don't think that pleading against self-incrimination would have been a good idea.

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No, of course not; it would have made him look even more ridiculous/dishonest than he already did.

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Lol - I think that you could also "sing a song" (or write a tragedy about dishonest and deceived people at all levels of society, whether acquaintances or strangers).