# The presidential debates

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-presidential-debates/225530>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 22, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-presidential-debates/225530 "2004-01-22T00:23:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-presidential-debates/225530/21 "2004-01-23T20:29:22Z")

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> [@IWLN](#):
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> I had a hard time hearing Gore’s intelligent points. I was so distracted by his eyeball rolling, dumbass facial expressions and sighs.

Hey, if most Dopers had to share a stage with George W. Bush and try to debate with him as an equal, we’d be sighing in exasperation as well. “This is a joke, right? Where’s the _real_ candidate I’m supposed to be facing?”

Gore was certainly restrained compared to how much sighing _I_ was doing during those debates…

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