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I agree, it looks like any regular debate. He's talking over her, but every politician does that. She asked him what he'd do on terrorism and illegal immigrants
by electromagnetic 18y ago
I agree, it looks like any regular debate. He's talking over her, but every politician does that. She asked him what he'd do on terrorism and illegal immigrants, he went to answer and then she starts arguing in the middle of his reply.
How political debates are handled in the UK where I grew up and found my interest in politics are: you stand up, ask the question you've got, they reply and, I've seen this numerous times, the questioner will stand back up and say "that's not what I asked..." I remember it with Tony Blair, he did it 3 times in a row to the same guy and it was like WTF you're showing everyone on national TV that you fully ignore people when they ask a question you don't like. I believe the question was on why we entered the Iraq war after it had come out that there weren't WMD's and that (IIRC) MI5 had declared they highly doubted the existence of any WMD's in Iraq months before the war. Tony Blair basically kept saying they did it because Saddam Hussein had WMD's.
Obama in that video was asked a question, but the woman tried to stop him from answering, obviously she'd already made up her mind that whatever he said wasn't the answer she wanted because she never even listened.