Biden turned in his usual fine debate performance.

And your suggested closing argument does capture the emotions of so many non-Trump voters and citizens.

One question. I'm not going to watch the debate, for obvious reasons, so maybe this question is out of place.

But did the Debate Commission say that the two candidates would be on shut microphones during their opponent's 'closing arguments'? As I read it, the closed mics apply only to their two-minute answers to the host's prompt questions. Trump hates this, of course, and one can only imagine that the 'debate' on open mics after the two-minute questions will be non-stop Trump outbursts and disruptions of whatever Biden tries to say. Call me nutty, but I don't see the president suddenly and respectfully quieting down just because Uncle Joe is, at the end, delivering his "closing arguments".

Do you really want this for the next four years? [YES, ALL REAL AMERICANS DO!] Is this really the best America can do? [LIKE YOU COULD DO BETTER, YOU LOSER!] Do you really want to keep having to explain to your children why the president of the United States can get away with saying things that a kindergartener would get punished for? [I'M NOT THE KIDNER .. KINDEG .. KINDER .. LITTLE KID -- YOU ARE!]

Of course, this typical performance will tend to prove Joe's point, but it's not the Classical Oration that you have tried to postulate.

Are we to understand that you're pledging four more years of whatever it is that you seem hung up on in every thread since the before time, Don Harris?

I have to admit, it's as consistent as it is banal in it's tireless quest for recognition herein, the land-o-Wegantia.

Blessed be, the status quo.

LL&P

The 60 Minutes interview is going to be sheer fun. :-)

Heh. Poor Donald couldn't handle the questions, and he's intimidated by strong females so he walked out like a toddler:

"Sir, you have no call to get snippy with me. I'm just doing my job here." ;)

I just need to see Biden give as well as he gets, Trump is probably the easiest person on earth to unhinge with whataboutisms and glass-house rock-throwing. I suspect Trump would whither to apoplexy after three minutes of well-executed shadowy thuths about his hypocrisy... Biden has the time to kill once he's outlined the few hundred reasons why Trump isn't fit to run a bath, let alone a country, and that leaving CV19 and a vibrant economy to Trump's supervision is akin to leaving your baby with a pack of hungry Dingoes while you nip down the pub for a swift half of Watney's Red Barrel and a packet of Pork Scratchings.

It would beat 'that's a damn lie, man...'

Chutzpah is required in any debate, more so when Trump is on the other side pushing for 21,000, and a new presidential record, heapings of manure from the undisputed 'stable genius'.

PS. We can add ironic sarcasm to atheist on the light-list of Trump's positive attributes. Playing John Fogerty's Fortunate Son at rallies is definitely someone's idea of a brilliant chuckle.

LL&P

"He's fleein' the interview. He's fleein' the interview!"

Heh. :)

And I would really like to see a president in the Oval Office for the next four years who isn't compromised and a counterintelligence risk to the United States because he has a secret bank account in China.

Indeed!

Hoo boy... "there's no difference between the two parties' candidates!"

That takes me back to, like, the year 2000. Remember the Gore/Bush campaign and the naysayers then?

Ah... nostalgia...

Heh.

Of course, today it's even less true than back then -- obviously -- but hey, nice to hear a blast from the past once in a while.

-CW

he wishes he were andrew jackson, but he's really warren harding

Oh, snap! I just love a good historical putdown.

Well done! I doff my hat in your general direction...

:-)

-CW

The ad shows McConnell laughing at her in the debate as she talks about him refusing to do any pandemic relief. And then, at the end of the ad, the video just shows him saying "she's a Marine, she's a mom, and I've been here for too long."

Ditch Mitch / Dump Trump

I think you are almost spot on with this closing statement. I would just Biden-ize it a bit more.

"Come on people"....dismissive arm sweep directed at the Trump Podium..."Do we really want four more years of this?"

Trump's face is to failed strong man leadership is as Chef Boyardee's face is to canned spaghetti.

God is love.

The End is near.

Donn Deutsch says the orange one is actually focused (consciously or not) on his next act. That will be his subscription TV channel.

i love that quote. even better is frances mcdormand's delivery. for pete's sake.

“IT IS A GREAT HONOR TO BE HERE WITH ALL OF MY FRIENDS — SO AMAZING & WILL NEVER FORGET!”

Seriously, I hope he delivers that rant, too!

The 60 Minutes interview is going to be sheer fun. :-)

People are exhausted and sick of the orange one's omnipresence. American's generally don't pay a lot of attention to what the president does (or doesn't). The pandemic is an exception, though. It's also omnipresent.