How can you debate a liar

He hasn't laid out anything. He knew all of the way back in February how serious this crisis was. He knew it was a deadly disease. What did he do? He is on tape as acknowledging he knew it. He said he didn't tell us or give people warning because he didn't want to panic the American people, he said. You don't panic, he panicked. In addition to that what did he do? He went in and he -- we were insisting that the Chinese -- the -- the people we had on the ground in China should be able to go to Wuhan and determine for themselves how dangerous this was.

He did not even ask Xi Jinping to do that, Biden said. As the two rivals clashed on medicate, the president said the Democrats were planning socialising of medicine. In his reply, Biden said, What this clown is doing? To the extent that he has ever cared about attracting back some of those "suburban housewives," as he likes to call them, this debate was a massive failure.

His sweaty face and angry grimace formed the surreal picture of every woman's worst nightmare — the domineering boss, the cruel boyfriend, the violent father, the abusive husband. He could not have done more to drive them away. Biden was fine.

He's never been a great debater but he held his own and managed to speak directly to the American people as much as possible over the cacophony of lies and fatuous insults. He told Trump to shut up, which would have been satisfying if Trump had actually done it but he just kept growling and grunting his way through one incoherent rant after the other. This was the Trump Show all the way, and a cheap and ugly display from beginning to end.

Unfortunately, the moderator, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, was hapless throughout although I did feel some pity for him. Moderating a debate between a normal politician and an angry, petulant ignoramus isn't easy. Wallace lost control from the beginning and was never able to get it back. It was a low point for his career. We heard that Trump had prepared a bit for the debate with former New Jersey Gov.

Chris Christie and some flash cards and the notoriously short-tempered Jersey Boy must have worked him up into a frenzy. Christie himself must have had second thoughts because he reportedly said that he thought Trump "came in a little too hot," which was the understatement of a lifetime. Trump was completely unhinged. How do you debate a liar?

How can you debate a pathological liar? This is critically important at this time for Democrats, because ALL of our potentential opponents are liars. And not just little white lies, nope, they lie about big things. I mean, sure, you can argue endlessly over whether the Earth is flat or not it isn't, just for the benefit of any Republican trolls who may be reading this.

Or if global warming is real troll alert: it is. Or if stealing money from working people and giving to the uber wealthy is a good idea spoiler: it is not. If that is the debate, the fact-based side is diminished, and in our case, will probably lose. The news media does not and will not fact check. So it is fine and dandy to lie.

If the lie is big enough, it will help the perpetrators. It then becomes a "controversy" think "swift boat". So how in the hell do you debate a liar? Throughout the debate, Trump sprinkled in attacks on Biden for having spent four decades in public office and having failed to fix many of the problems he now says he's running for president to tackle. You have done nothing," the president said. At one point, the tactic sparked a flash of exasperation from Biden.

It was part of Trump's playbook to paint Biden as a do-nothing politician, and he made his case on the economy, the one top-tier issue on which the president maintains an edge in polls. He misleadingly claimed that Biden is determined to shut down the country again. We closed it down because of the China plague," Trump said. He will destroy this country. Biden responded by saying the U. He blew it. Biden did his best to distance himself from the left throughout the debate.