09-27-2016, 06:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-27-2016, 06:13 PM by Eric the Green.)
Although Hillary won the debate, there were a few times where I thought she could have landed some strong punches, but held back. Maybe she's saving some of her firepower for the next 2 debates. For example, when Trump assailed the Iran nuc deal, she could have pointed out that ripping it up, as Trump has promised to do, would immediately set Iran free to develop nuclear weapons. When Trump lobbed a softball, admitting his desire to see our allies pay more if we are going to defend them, she could have hit it out of the park by pointing out that Trump has threatened to not honor our treaty commitments to allies that don't pay. She did point out the 9-11 was the only time when "at attack on one is an attack on all" was invoked, and that our allies backed us up and still are in the fight against Al Qaeda and their Taliban sponsors who attacked the USA. So she went pretty far in her reply, but could have been clearer in her rebuke of the Trumpie.
And earlier, Trump landed a punch by saying we got the worst of both worlds by having a huge debt but no infrastructure to show for it. But Hillary could have fired back by pointing out it was the presidents of HIS party who ran up the debt with wars and tax cuts and helped cause the great recession that took a stimulus spending bill to fix, that Trump wants many of these same policies, and that Clinton balanced the budget and Obama has reduced the deficit substantially. And that it's Republicans who have blocked any government spending for the things we need in recent times.
And earlier, Trump landed a punch by saying we got the worst of both worlds by having a huge debt but no infrastructure to show for it. But Hillary could have fired back by pointing out it was the presidents of HIS party who ran up the debt with wars and tax cuts and helped cause the great recession that took a stimulus spending bill to fix, that Trump wants many of these same policies, and that Clinton balanced the budget and Obama has reduced the deficit substantially. And that it's Republicans who have blocked any government spending for the things we need in recent times.