Dan Rather: This was a sad, sad, sad night for this nation...

[babylonsister]

Dan Rather
https://www.facebook.com/theDanRather/posts/10164304460165716

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America is hurting, really hurting. Thousands of people are dying every week. Jobs lost. Lives thrown asunder. The West on fire. Our international standing at the lowest point I can remember. We need leadership. We need empathy. We need unity. We need justice. We need hope.

Who won and lost tonight in a horse race sense, I don't even want to address. Frankly, I don't give a damn. This was a sad, sad, sad night for this nation that I love with all my heart. This is a moment to mourn what we have lost, and are in danger of losing. I don't want to hear from the pundits, I want to hear from the people. I want to hug all of you in a warm embrace and say, we can, we must be a helluva lot better than this.

We need to dig deep into our moral character. We need to look at ourselves in the mirror and into the hearts of our neighbors and fellow citizens. We need to embrace a patriotism that is broad, inclusive, and just. We know bullies. We know when racists refuse to denounce racism. We know when autocrats try to undermine democracy.

There will be an election. And then there will be a future. No president is bigger than the nation. The American people have a voice. And after tonight, I sense millions are eager to turn their yelling at the television into marking their ballots.

[niyad]

1. KNR

[marble falls]

2. Botherism? I honestly did not see that.

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. ??

[marble falls]

6. I do not think Joe Biden was a disappointment.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. Where did DR indicate that?

[marble falls]

10. Rather doesn't seem to separate the two candidates in his disappointment.

[Ferrets are Cool]

11. I guess I just keep up with DR more than the average person. He hates OrangeAnus

as much as anyone. The sorrow he feels is because our Country has sank so low. HE was leaving winners and losers up to the pundits. The way I took it is that he thinks we are smart enough to know for ourselves who won that debacle.

[peacebuzzard]

4. Dan Rather stated a description of a painful national mindset

I live in a rural southern area, and this "really hurting" moment often and intensely gets interrupted by the pervasive hard right mask-less agenda.

P.S. ( on edit when I look into the hearts of my immediate neighbors, I see bullies and hard right supporters. There is no redemption and I wouldn't even try to reason with them. I think I woke up this morning proud of Joe for standing through all that bullshit. I see no point in future debates.

[lagomorph777]

17. A MAGAT in my neighborhood rolled up and hid his giant Trump banners this morning.

Those banners have been up for a year.

[calimary]

18. Really?

That says something.

[lagomorph777]

20. Yes; those banners have been up through all kinds of craziness. Rolled up this morning.

[MoonRiver]

32. Maybe enough really IS enough!

[peacebuzzard]

24. around here, magats. crawl around unless in a group.

when they congregate, they feel empowered.
This year, I do not see many of dump's banners; but the proud boys have a hidden agenda.

[Squidly]

25. Drove past an ardent tRumpers home this morning

He has full sized 4x8 banners for all the reThuglican candidates here in Iowa. This morning there were 2 holes where certain banners used to be. I'll let you guess whos it was

[peacebuzzard]

26. wish some of the citizens here were smart like that!!

although one guy who runs a pest control business used to fly and wave his loyal Dump support.

This year he is doing the same, supporting the repug. downline candidates, & so far no sign of his huge Dump flag from 2016

[Cha]

27. Wow.. & trump thought he was being so

helpful to his cause.

[BainsBane]

28. When, just today? nt

[lagomorph777]

30. Yup

[BainsBane]

31. Awesome!

[Hugin]

5. Let it sink in...

Little will change.

[bdamomma]

8. Dan Rather is right.

We have to get ourselves out of this dangerous situation. We have an idiot destroying our country.

Drastic steps take drastic measures, we must RISE to this occasion. tRump can fuck his Proud Boys, We will RISE. The world is watching we are NOT paralyzed by this POS. Rant over.

[634-5789]

9. No president is bigger than the nation

Truer words....

[Illumination]

12. Do you think you would have done any better than Joe under the circumstances? Probably not.

Joe did some push back because that's what you do to a bully. I'm proud of Joe! He won hands down & just showed what a fool the criminal-in-chief is...

[Escurumbele]

13. Well, very nice, but he should have been more explicit about who created the sad moment

By not being specific he infers that both were the cause of the sad moment, and we all know that it was all trump's doing. There is a reason the New York elite has never accepted that clown, and it is because he lacks ethics, education, manners, morals, he cannot open his mouth without uttering a lie, he is despicable, the champion of deplorables because no one is more deplorable than he.

So yes, very nice written, but I have come to the conclusion that in today's World you don't leave empty spaces in what you say or write, you don't allow people to interpret, everything must be specific, too many people have lost the ability to figure out by themselves, we are at a moment in human history where almost everything must be spelled.

I would not be surprised if someone, after reading this line "We know when racists refuse to denounce racism." would ask, who? who did not denounce racism?, so please, next time be more specific, we at DU understand who you are referring to, but people like Dan Rather need to start talking to the masses, to all those people who unless things are specific, they don't know what to do with the information.

[babylonsister]

14. I think it's understood and Mr. Rather knows his audience. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. Bullshit.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

16. Much more accurate

(CNN)President Donald Trump turned his first debate with Democratic rival Joe Biden into a chaotic disaster.

Trump bullied, bulldozed and obfuscated his way through the 90-minute showdown, interrupting Biden and moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News at every turn. He ignored substantive questions and Biden's policy arguments, and instead swung at a straw-man version of Biden, taking aim at both Biden's son and a distorted description of his record that exists primarily in far-right media.

[calimary]

22. The first line here is spot-on.

But then again, trump turns EVERYTHING into a chaotic disaster.

[Cha]

29. TY .. could we h have a link, please?

[dalton99a]

19. VOTE.

[Pepsidog]

21. These debates are useless in their current format. Without the ability to turn off the mics Trump

will continue to interrupt and cause chaos.

[Historic NY]

23. Well its goes to show FOX NEWS can't control the circus

they better find a few women or a couple of nuns . Worst moderation ever, even Nixons 5 o'clock shadow is hiding this morning.