PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE WAS A TRAIN WRECK. GET RID OF DEBATE COMMISSION.
THE KUHNS REPORT
LAS VEGAS - Hello America, and how is the world treating you?
Wow! The long awaited Presidential debate finally rolled around and it turned out to be nothing but a sad, sad, dog and pony show. Both President Trump and Ex-VP Biden should be totally ashamed of their performance. Both men failed to talk about their policies or issues. All they did was talk over and interrupt each other and tried to insult each other. It was like two 5-year-old children fighting among themselves over an ice cream cone, or, "I dare you to knock this chip off my shoulder." This first presidential debate fell as flat as pancake. And moderator Chris Wallace was no better. He appeared to be biased against the president and scolded him a number of times like a child and seemed to favor Biden when presenting questions. True to form, Wallace always presents "got ya" type question to stir the pot and cause conflict rather than having the participants respond to clear, clean issue questions.
Wallace should not be allowed to moderate a debate of any kind in future. I mean how hard it is to formulate actual policy and issue questions to present to the debaters, instead of "got ya" questions? Example sample questions:
BIDEN: What will you do as president to improve the economy? And then Wallace should keep quiet and let Biden respond for his two minutes on how Biden would do that.
TRUMP: How have you improved the economy since being elected and what will you do to improve the economy in the next four years if you are reelected? Then again, Wallace should be quiet and allow Trump to respond for his two minutes.
Biden began interrupting Trump first.When he did that, president Trump should have just ignored Biden's interruption and went on responding for his two minutes. And Trump should have remained silent for the two minutes Biden was responding to the question put to him and when his turn to have his two minutes he could have rebutted Biden's view and then pivoted and said what he would do. For example, as to the subject of COVID-19, he should have let Biden give his view without interrupting then responded with something like: As to COVID-19, this is what I did and then proceed to run the list of all the things that he did he did to combat COVID-19, and then go on to say, in my next four years I will do this, etc., etc., --
When Law and Order came up the president should have let Biden answer(without interruption), how he would handle the situation and then when it came his turn he could have rattled off what he did (i.e.) asking the Governors if they needed federal assistance and say he begged the Governors and Mayors to let him put the riots down. He would have had the opportunity to point out the mobs are supported by the Democrats and the riots are mostly in the Democratic run cities, after which he could move to what he would do to stop the riots in the next four years.
President Trump missed the opportunity to use his two minutes to solidify what he has done in each area of questioning (Economy, Law and Order, COVID-19, etc.,and how he would handle and improve the situation in the next four years. During his two minutes he could have found opportunity to throw a few digs and jabs at Biden as he answered the question at hand. Both he and Biden squandered their two minutes by interrupting, insulting, making funny faces(Trump), or snickering and laughing (Biden.)
The supposed debate coaches for Trump, Chris Christie, and Rudy Giuliani receives a grade of (F) as debate coaches if that is how they instructed the president to respond and rebut Biden. How difficult would it be to call on an expert debate coach from one of the famed colleges or universities who actually teach and show students how to debate The person could give the president a few pointers on what to do and how to react to his opposition. Bad debates and knowledge of debates is why Christie and Giuliana are not the president of the United States. If they were good debaters they would be the ones sitting in the Oval Office.
If both Trump and Biden kept their mouth shut while the other person was talking the viewing audience would have had an opportunity to evaluate each candidate accordingly.
My personal feeling is that the debate could be much better without a moderator interjecting their views into the debate. Why not have the Democratic and Republican party representatives get together and agree on what the subject issues will be in the debate-Example: Economy, COVID-19, Law and Order, etc., then allow both participants, in an agreed to amount of time for each, go head to head, even arguing with each other and express their views and policy on each issue. Then, they move on the the next block(subject) until all blocks of the agreed to subject matter is covered. Who needs a moderator?
I also have problems with this looney-tune idiotic debate commission. It should be dismantled. What's with this group of 8 0r 9 old " has beens"making up the rules for these debates. Who needs them? No one, is my answer. The debate format could be an agreed to set of protocols put together by both the Republican and Democratic party representatives and using only a "host," (no moderator), who's only duty is to introduce the participants in the debate at the start of the debate, and announces time for the next block and issue at hand. The host can use a bell and/or buzzer to alert the debaters time is up and that he/she will introduce the next subject matter to be discussed. Then, when the debate is concluded the host thanks the two debaters and makes any announcement of the next debate. Folks, it's a simple and clean format which allows the two debating persons to get their points across on each issue at hand without some idiot interjecting "got ya" questions. CLEAN and SIMPLE.- And, that's my opinion. I suggest you look at the situation and come to your own conclusions. You decide.
