Tuesday night's presidential debate was indeed, as many have pointed out, a shameful mess, and something that should make every American cringe. I personally would not be so quick as some have been to fault the moderator, Chris Wallace. How could he have prepared for facing an unruly, ill-mannered 5 year old on the stage of a national presidential debate? As it is, there is no one who can honestly give an opinion on who "won" this debate, for only one candidate talked, both during his own allotted time and his opponent's, making it impossible for any of us to benefit from hearing an exchange of viewpoints. It wasn't a debate at all. It was a shit show brought to us by Donald Trump in his usual one man shit show style, and to that extent perfectly useless to thinking people. We did not come to see the crass imbecility of a Trump rally. But that's what we got. It was, at the very most, simply a waste of our time, and a blatant insult to any voter's desire to compare the candidates and weigh the issues, although we do at the least come away with a clear and enduring definition of boorishness.
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