My assessment of the debate:
Hillary Clinton destroyed Donald Trump!!!!!!!!!!!!
-It reminded me of the infamous Muhammad Ali-Chuck Wepner fight, where Wepner got pummelled all night long and managed to stay on his feet to the end. In a boxing analogy, let's just say that Trump nearly was decapitated by his opponent.
-Trump supposedly didn't prepare much for the debate and it showed. Badly. But don't blame his people for not preparing him. During the primaries, some of them confided that they tried and tried to get him to sit down with them to discuss and learn policy...especially foreign policy...and he was bored and couldn't get their attention.
-Trump was caught in a blatant lie several times, Clinton once on the TPP question where she stated she had never referred to it as a 'gold standard'
-When Clinton implied he had never paid federal income tax since 2007 and that he had a reputation of being a misogynist and had called women fat pigs, Miss Piggies and said said bigoted comments about one of them, he doubled down and didn't dispute Clinton's claims. Trump hurt himself badly on this, and continued to double-down this morning on this which even seemed to shock the Fox & Friends hosts.
-After it was pointed out by Clinton that Trump has a long history of discriminating against blacks, he did not dispute her attack and instead talked about the great country club he built on his Mara-lago Resort in Palm Beach (which i visited once, actually). Clinton should have come back with "how many of your members are black?", but she did not and Trump left watchers bewildered.
-He didn't fare well when faced with her attacks on his past comments about NATO. Same thing about Russia and the hacking. Trump doesn't seem to realize that it's very easy to go back in time and take a look at recordings of past comments he made either on tv, radio or twitter. In what century does he live in?
-He refused to admit that he at first was pro-Iraq war, although even the moderator called him on it. Anyone who has a brain knows fully well he said on the Howard Stern Show back in 2003 that he was for the Iraq War. Sure, like many people, he changed his mind after (like i did). What's important here is that he's continuously attacked Clinton for signing up for the war, although he basically was for it and same thing with getting rid of Ghadafi in Libya.
-Trump did okay early on when he talked about trade and trashed NAFTA. Clinton should have pointed out that Mike Pence is very pro-NAFTA and never did. Missed opportunity there. She also should have pointed out when he was berating companies for taking their business elsewhere to countries such as China and Mexico that Trump has done exactly the same thing with his ties and shirts over the years. She should have pointed out that it's like scolding a kid for going into the cookie jar when the parent does the same thing. It reminded me of an ex-gf a few years ago who scolded a male friend of hers for fucking around on his wife when she was doing exactly the same thing on her bf (with me). I found it very hypocritical.
-Trump brought up ISIS a few times, but it wasn't effective. Clinton easily rebutted his attacks and at one point Trump even said that he agreed with Clinton on some stuff. But Clinton missed an opportunity when she didn't retaliate after Trump's assertions that ISIS was born under the regime of Clinton and Obama. For historians like myself, it would have been an easy point to retaliate against since ISIS was actually born in 2003 under the Presidency of the great George W. Bush. Okay, i'm getting about 'great' part. Back in those days, ISIS was better known as 'Al-Quaeda in Iraq'.
-Trump kept repeating that she had 30 years to prepare. I could have started a drinking-game over this, along with his many repetitions of 'stamina'. Actually, maybe i did have a drinking-game going on. Clinton could have defended herself very easily by replying "Sorry, i was a First-Lady, then a Senator and then a Secretary of State. Never a President (yet)." She also could have come back with "During those 30 years i served the public, what did you accomplish other than discriminating against blacks, not paying contractors, bankrupting your casino, filing for bankruptcy 4 times, shipping out some of your companies to China/Mexico and not bothering to pay taxes?" Maybe in the next debates you'll see her coming back with this.
-I don't understand Donald Trump's obsession with Rosie O'Donnell. He brought up her name again last night. Okay, she's a hottie. But why always bring up her name?? He's a sick man.
-Someone tweeted after the debate that Trump's knowledge of foreign policy made Sarah Palin look like Henry Kissinger. Wow. That tells you all you need to know.
-By the end, Trump was panicking, constantly interrupted her throughout the evening (nearly 30 times), and was once again his usual whiny little bitch afterwards by complaining he got tough questions from the moderator (who's actually a Republican), that some of the questions were not fair, that the mic wasn't working right (he claimed the same thing in a primary debate when he didn't do well) because we kept hearing him clear his throat, he drank massive amounts of water throughout the night (why was i reminded of Marco Rubio?) while she never drank even once, and made himself look extremely foolish when he brought up the fact she had no stamina and didn't have the look to be President when just the optics showed otherwise. At the end of the debate, she looked like she had once a 100-meter race, while he looked like he had just run the Marathon.
-There are still two more debates left, and some of his cronies are already saying that they're advising him to skip the next debate. Who's surprised that 'Richie Rich' wants to take his ball and run away from the sandbox when things are tough? And this guy wants to be President?? Look Donnie boy, things will get much tougher if you ever become President!
-The final poll for the debate was that Clinton handily won it 62%-27%. Those in that 27% are the ones seen as the 'deplorables'.
-In future debates (don't worry, Kellyann Conway will coax him to stay and he'll likely agree to be prepared this time around), expect the tax thing to come back, expect her email thing to return (although he did bring it up last night), expect the Benghazi b.s. to be talked about, and the Clinton and Trump Foundations. All easy questions or topics for her to answer successfully. Trump University will likely be brought up, by either the moderator or by her. And if he does raise the Bill Clinton past affairs, which he very well might, it'll make him look terrible and also make him very vulnerable since he has a long history of having affairs which later led to the termination of several marriages. If he does bring it up with the intent to embarrass her (and likely her family, who are ready for the attacks), he'll end up not only embarrassing himself, but his current wife (who's marriage is rumoured to be on the rocks) and his children.
-If he does come back and say that he'll bring Gennifer Flowers at the next debate(s), Clinton's camp should say "Fine, we'll invite his ex-wives and a few of the women he's had affairs with...including the pornstar".
Anyways, it was a great entertaining night and i can't wait for the next debates!!!! :thumb: