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Things To Do In A Presidential Debate: - Don't sweat - Don't sigh - Don't be dispassionate - Don't look at your watch - Say witty things Is it any wonder that nothing of substance comes from these debates?
Should of just dodged that loaded death penalty question. There was no right way to answer it anyone can make you look bad by making up a ridiculous scenario and asking what would you do,
+Scotty Peterson Jr You can tell the questioner that "What you're really asking me is would I let a personal feeling of vengeance cloud my judgement and affect my policy views? That answer to that is no"
+Scotty Peterson Jr Yeah, I remember Ronald Reagan making a quip about how much of a bad idea it is to answer hypothetical questions. They're designed to make you look bad one way or the other or discredit your policy position.
+Shock Not sure if it would have worked then, but in today's climate you could gain a ton of support by going ape shit on the moderator for asking the question.
Dukakis was a punk and got treated like one. its his own fault and it exposed a complete lack of judgement as well as a lack of being a grown ass man. he showed that he can be easily pushed over and set up to look stupid. Go ask Trump that question in a debate. See if you even get the entire question out of your mouth before he de-balls you right on national TV. Go ask Bill Clinton that and see how that goes for you. live Bill or hate him, he was no idiot or no pushover. I remember that debate and Dukakis lack of fortitude is really what caused him to sink in the polls. I won't say it cost the election though because he was never going to win that anyhow. not vs cowboy Ronny anyways.
+Hunter Reed but people will always complain no matter what he says. If he agrees on the death penalty then the media and people would be like.."he always be changing his mind".....
At the time it wasn't necessarily about the fact that he didn't support the death penalty, Dukakis seemed dispassionate because he didn't seem at all disturbed by the question itself. But yes, since the death penalty is an emotional issue, he wasn't seen as emitting any emotion.
When I first watched this debate when I was 21 born in 1999. Just saw this. But I’ve seen the mondel vs Reagan. Bush shouldn’t have won the 2005 election. Worse president in history by far. I hate trump.
Marcus Mührmann-Lund That may be true. But as a president candidate, you shouldn't do that for the sake of diplomacy. Let's look at this year presidential debates, Hillary did a great reaction, which showed her as a veteran politician, after being accused and highly criticised by Trump. She barely changed her attitude, she even made fun of it (please rewatch the first debate). But I guess that's not good enough for America.
Hai Le Quang Yeah, you may be right that it's not super presidential in a traditional sense of the term. And nah, not going to watch the first debate again. It'll just make me more depressed and anxious over the results of the recent election. No, Americans don't like professionalism, apparently. They wanted someone who wasn't fit for the job. Like a doctor or a pilot without certification.
The Gore sighing thing I've never heard of before and I doubt it made any difference, especially since Gore won the popular vote. But Dukakis' gaffe, despite the extremely unfair question, did actually make a difference in polls.
+Amit Bhanot All you have to do is look at the voting for/against the Iraq and Afghanistan war. Gore would have gone to war; JFK, Nixon, Carter and everyone in between would have gone to war after 9/11.
+Victor Villari We don't know what JFK and Nixon would have done as they would have been died prior to 9/11. Yes, going into Afghanistan was almost a given under those circumstances, but Iraq was a little less clear. Maybe some of those guys wouldn't have gotten phony information regarding WMD and inadvertantly created ISIS 10 years later
Amit Bhanot You admit it was faulty information... So what makes you think another president (who had little or nothing to do with faulty intelligence) would have acted differently when both Congress and the people were asking for war?
Amit Bhanot And did you just say we inadvertently caused ISIS..? If not ISIS, it's just some other radical Islamist group in the Middle East causing havoc, as has been proven over centuries.
While Howard Deans scream should've made him win seemed like a true American more than trump especially with this rough voice which is something that trump doesn't have
+Omar Khan People didn't really care about the sighs until the media talked about it nonstop. Polls right after the debate showed Gore winning, several days later they had Bush winning.
+Omar Khan It most likely still would have happened. Al Qaeda started plotting it back in the 90's. Bin Laden almost succeeded in killing Clinton! So, they really didn't care who won, they still would have done it.
Gabe Zorbas Perhaps but remember, his administration ignored their intelligence by not looking at the document titled "Bin Laden determined to attack in the United States" perhaps gores administration having worked with clinton wouldnt skip over it..
True, very good point, Although it is also possible he still wouldn't have done anything. Clinton had multiple chances to kill Bin Laden and still didn't.
It's amazing how the littlest of things could hurt a candidate in a debate. Nowadays candidates can do and say anything and it wouldn't change a thing.
Fun fact: Michael Dukakis is the father of John Dukakis who is the actor that played one of the teenagers that was part of the sailing group in jaws 2.
I hope you know Al Gore approved Bush's heading into Iraq. It's like the morons in this comments section just choose to believe what they want to believe.
OkayNiceOne I hope you know that is utter rubbish, and I find it hilarious that you talk about "choosing to believe what you want to believe". There is zero record of Al Gore approving Bush's invasion of Iraq. One, he left politics after losing the presidency. He had no formal vote to offer. Two, his first comment on the Iraq War involved him explicitly stating that he did not believe there was enough justification to violate international law, As a matter of fact, he even went on to recommend a UN resolution to build international consensus. So don't give me that horseshit about Gore supporting Bush's invasion when you've clearly either read that rubbish off some Info Wars-esque manure, or pulled it directly out of your ass.
+Mikhail Kalashnikov Wow. I completely make a fool out of you, and you delete my comment. Typical Liberal child who doesn't know how to form coherent thoughts.
1:58 did that person lose poll votes just because he was against death penalty? That's crazy, I didn't know this guy before but he has my full respect now.
He lost poll numbers not because he opposed the death penalty, but because of the context of the question. He was asked specifically if his wife were raped and killed, if he would support the death penalty, and because he answered it like a robot, without emotion, people saw that and did not like it.
Basicaly it was the definition of a gotcha question, losing his cool would make him look like he had poor temperament, his best chance was calling Bernard Shaq out for such an inappropriate and rude question. It was 1988 though and the demographics were different, opposing the death penalty now isn't controversial and par for the course for a Democratic candidate.
Justin Bowen Since when is moral revulsion and righteous indignation immature? Thankfully not everyone is as mindlessly susceptible to leftwing propaganda as you happen to be. You swallow it, don't you (pun intended) ? Disgusting.
Visda58 Do you think that simply asking the question "what's wrong with this?" is an adequate moral compass? If so, you may deserve more pity than contempt.
Asking the question "what's wrong with this?" is definitely not an adequate moral compass, it's part of the application of one. I notice you did not answer the question but rather notified me of your emotional reaction instead. I can't blame you for taking the easy route, it's just RU-vid, after all.
@@markrubin1259 What's the big deal here? Sighing and sweating (which is fucking involuntary) seem pretty calm to me. Oh well that's just me, let's look at the retards who do care that much!
+Douglas Grooms When a Liberal argues with you, it's "puss out or be pussed out". Because Bush 43 refused to puss out of argument, Algore had no choice but to puss out himself. Because Liberals typically don't argue for the sake of the exchange itself, to put their ideas in competition vs. the ideas of others. That's not why Liberals argue. I've seen this firsthand, particularly on Facebook and the Google+.
Agent1W How does it feel knowing the republican party is best known for putting forth outdated bible thumpers and complete retards, directly influencing the millennial SJW liberals who would rather be ANYTHING but what the party portrays itself as, and as a result won't be taken seriously again for a very long time? You and me, let's vote third party next time
thagrammarnazi Fringe is fringe. Kook is kook. Whether it's the Right or the Left, it doesn't really matter. The evangelicals and the Nugentines are useful idiots for the Republicans in Washington. I'm fully aware.
2:30: Al Gore was upset because for the past 30 years he was insisting that Global Warming would destroy the world in 10 years, and nobody believed him.
Because it's completely incorrect and really surprising for a possible president to think that. The Soviet Union did control Eastern Europe and forced their communist government on them. They were not independent countries. It's like if someone today tried to claim North Korea is not a brutal totalitarian government.
