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Does anyone else agree? Several times during the debate there was confusion about who's turn it was to speak, and she seemed to stutter now and then on questions. I remember that at least once she gave Edwards 30 seconds for a rebuttal that he wasn't supposed to have (at the end, when closing arguments were to be made). Am I the only one who thought this during the debate?

Does anyone else agree? Several times during the debate there was confusion about who's turn it was to speak, and she seemed to stutter now and then on questions. Am I the only one who thought this during the debate?
This point has been brought up thousands of times. Welcome to yesterday.

shes not allowed to conduct a debate again, ever

This point has been brought up thousands of times. Welcome to yesterday.

hmm.. hadn't heard. I wasn't sure if this topic had been brought up, so I thought I should do it.

hmm.. hadn't heard. I wasn't sure if this topic had been brought up, so I thought I should do it.
There hasn't been an individual thread dedicated to her yet, but as there is a general consensus with no dissenting views that she did indeed suck, there is no need for a thread...unless we also need a thread to talk about the fact that the sky is indeed blue(ish) (most of the time).

She did a nice job of forgetting the Vice-President was sitting to her left and Senator to her right.

PBS anchors should never be allowed to moderate. They are not the best available nor are they unbiased.

PBS anchors should never be allowed to moderate. They are not the best available nor are they unbiased.
...how can a question be biased? More importantly, how could a human be unbiased?

...how can a question be biased? More importantly, how could a human be unbiased?

Questions can be leading....have you ever watched Dan Rather's interview of Clinton? Dan worded the questions in such a way that he almost answered them too. Questions cannot be biased per se, but the person asking can ask questions in a way that shows their bias.

Even though I usually vehemently disagree with Biff Pileon, he's right this time. :)
PBS tends to be pretty liberal (at least socially). Also, I didn't pay too close attention to how questions were phrased or whatnot, but I wouldn't be too surprised if I went back and double checked, and found she did phrase them in a way that favored Edwards.

Questions can be leading....have you ever watched Dan Rather's interview of Clinton? Dan worded the questions in such a way that he almost answered them too. Questions cannot be biased per se, but the person asking can ask questions in a way that shows their bias.

True. Questions can be biased. However, I don't think Iffel was. Or at least not in a way that could really matter much in the debate.

True. Questions can be biased. However, I don't think Iffel was. Or at least not in a way that could really matter much in the debate.

Maybe not, but PBS is a bastion of liberalism. Walter kronkite would have been an excellent choice.

There hasn't been an individual thread dedicated to her yet, but as there is a general consensus with no dissenting views that she did indeed suck, there is no need for a thread...unless we also need a thread to talk about the fact that the sky is indeed blue(ish) (most of the time).
[Emphasis mine.]

Speaking unofficially, here, I'm curious: How do you figure that there's no need for a thread?

It seems perfectly valid to me to start a thread* stating ones opinion and asking for other opinions; some people don't know a-priori how many other people hold similar or opposed opinions.

shes not allowed to conduct a debate again, ever
Is this a statement of your opinion? ...or did someone with some kind of authority actually decide to prohibit her from conducting a debate ever again?

I assume the former, but wanted to double-check.

--The Democratic States of Cogitation

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* ...assuming that there isn't another thread on the exact same subject-of-discussion, which I don't think there is in this case.

Does anyone else agree? Several times during the debate there was confusion about who's turn it was to speak, and she seemed to stutter now and then on questions. I remember that at least once she gave Edwards 30 seconds for a rebuttal that he wasn't supposed to have (at the end, when closing arguments were to be made). Am I the only one who thought this during the debate?
She was horrible.