Guest Garelock Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 I see my title of the "King of Debates" is in question. I haven't been doing as well as I normally do when I debate. Namely, I only debate for amusement. This thread is to make a debating contest which is centered about the presidential candidates. The reason why I made this thread was to exit out of the last thread with all the jumbled up stuff, which is to say, I had a lot to do with it. This thread is clean, composed and collective. No post is to be over a paragraph. That way, we don't bore people like I did in the last post. I'm more than willing to debate with anyone and argue with anyone as that's just my nature but I think it should be done one person at a time. Whereas the last thread, I had to take on like 4 to 5 people at once. Had I been given a fair fight, none of them would've made much of a challenge. So if thsoe people want to debate with me then do it here. A paragraph or two, nothing more and no less than a paragraph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drix D'Zanth Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 [QUOTE=Garelock]I see my title of the "King of Debates" is in question. I haven't been doing as well as I normally do when I debate. Namely, I only debate for amusement. This thread is to make a debating contest which is centered about the presidential candidates. The reason why I made this thread was to exit out of the last thread with all the jumbled up stuff, which is to say, I had a lot to do with it. This thread is clean, composed and collective. No post is to be over a paragraph. That way, we don't bore people like I did in the last post. I'm more than willing to debate with anyone and argue with anyone as that's just my nature but I think it should be done one person at a time. Whereas the last thread, I had to take on like 4 to 5 people at once. Had I been given a fair fight, none of them would've made much of a challenge. So if thsoe people want to debate with me then do it here. A paragraph or two, nothing more and no less than a paragraph.[/QUOTE] Garelock... quit turning tail and get back to reply to my post. There's already a presidential debate thread, no need to create another. If i can educate you on anything at all in these next few debates we'll inevitably have, here's a quote: "I am the wisest man in the world for I knokw one thing, and that is that I know nothing"-Soctrates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Garelock Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 [QUOTE]Garelock... quit turning tail and get back to reply to my post. There's already a presidential debate thread, no need to create another. If i can educate you on anything at all in these next few debates we'll inevitably have, here's a quote: "I am the wisest man in the world for I knokw one thing, and that is that I know nothing"-Soctrates.[/QUOTE] No, lets do this one on one. I'm the only person that is really the "Kerry Juggernaut" so lets do this the fair and square way. With a moderator of your choosing and a fair fight. I'm being hit by all sides by 4 to 5 different people. Give me a fair fight. I'm not turning tail but it's you being chicken and not wanting to take me one on one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ScirosDarkblade Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Since to me this is a battle of "alien vs predator" (i.e. whoever wins, I lose, lol), I'll moderate it. Hah. I promise I'm not biased, seriously. Do I get to pose questions? Or topics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol-Blade Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 [QUOTE=ScirosDarkblade]Since to me this is a battle of "alien vs predator" (i.e. whoever wins, I lose, lol), I'll moderate it. Hah. I promise I'm not biased, seriously. Do I get to pose questions? Or topics?[/QUOTE] Heh, actually it's more of a... [IMG]http://img78.exs.cx/img78/2830/KVBfinal.jpg[/IMG] No, it's not my opinion. I just thought it was funny (And really fit ScirosDarkblade's comment :D) and should lighten the mood up. We are all civil and mature here, no need to take other's opinions as personal attacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Garelock Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Oh course you do. Any moderator does but I'm not so sure about you being a moderator. Lets be honest, it's not exactly in my best interest to have someone whom I debated against before to be a moderator of a debate that I'm about to have. We need a fresh mind, someone who won't be biased as they aren't even aware that we just had a debate. For the record, I'll admit defeat but it's understandable if I'm against more than one person; hardly what I'd call a fair fight. I'm getting a well known Bush supporter to join Otakuboards.com just to make it fair. She doesn't like Kerry whatsoever so of course it's kind of like digging my own grave. She's honest though so you can trust her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ScirosDarkblade Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 [quote name='Garelock']Oh course you do. Any moderator does but I'm not so sure about you being a moderator. Lets be honest, it's not exactly in my best interest to have someone whom I debated against before to be a moderator of a debate that I'm about to have. We need a fresh mind....[/quote] Well, I've debated with Drix before, although not on this topic. To not be rude I won't disclose why I honestly don't favor either one of you in this debate, but seriously I don't. Anyway pick whoever you want. I'm not sure Drix will even entertain this, to be honest. But I'm fine just watching by the sidelines, heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Garelock Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Well, then so be it. Give the first question. Direct it to me or my opponent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drix D'Zanth Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 [quote name='Garelock']Well, then so be it. Give the first question. Direct it to me or my opponent.[/quote] What the hell? How about adressing my 15 page rebuttal on about 3 cumulative post-sizes of your points? How bout you adress that first Garelock? Like I said, I'm not expecting you to defend yourself against any rebuttal but what I've given you, are you going to totally ignore that by starting "fresh"? Sounds like a wonderful cop out to me :). If we can be mature individuals, our debate, much like any other debate on OB requires no moderator... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ScirosDarkblade Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Drix, in truth there are plenty of reasons why nobody should entertain a debate such as this, but I think you're better off doing it here than continuing to ruin a thread that has multiple people NOT interested in [both your and Garelock's aggressive assaults] posting in it. You invited me to take our one debate to a dedicated thread. Now I humbly request you do the same. Okay, here goes. First question is initially directed to Drix: We'll begin with foreign policy, focusing on the war on terror. Bush first went into Afghanistan, basically retaliating for 9/11. Within a relatively short time, he diverted his attention to Iraq, telling the American public (whether or not he was being told this information himself) that Iraq was a threat due to its probable possession of WMDs as well as being a terrorist hub of sorts. Bush is now criticized by Kerry for this turn the war on terror took. What is your opinion on the decision and on the candidates' reasoning for their stances? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 This thread really didn't get off to a good start, the first part of this thread is debating about debating not the actual debate topic. In addition to that like Drix had mentioned in his first post, there is already a thread started about this subject. Let's not start a new thread when there is already a very popular thread on the front page about the very same subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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