Yikes, did Biden look at his watch?

[democrattotheend]

I didn't notice that. If so that's bad. It's all the pundits will talk about, channeling 1992. Ugh.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Bullshit.

[BannonsLiver]

2. Oh noes! He looked at his watch! The horror!

GMAFB

[brooklynite]

12. Bush Sr. took a major hit for doing this at a debate in 1992...

...it's interpreted as wanting to know when the debate was over.

[onenote]

33. And who could blame him for wanting it to be over?

If asked about it, he should say he was checking to how much longer the American people had to be subjected to Trump's lying.

[BannonsLiver]

34. Oh he did?

Wow. I didn’t know that.

I also must have missed the part where it’s 1992. That means Kurt Cobain and Prince are still alive! Sweet!

What was the Hamptons cotillion circuit like back then?

[RobinA]

75. We're A Far Cry

from 1992. Now if a candidate looks at his watch during a debate it's to prove that she's the candidate who can tell time.

[SheltieLover]

26. Tan suit moment?

Let's weigh this: russian asset who has ratfucked & raped our country for 4 years vs a wonderful man with an exemplary record of public service in the US glancing at a watch.

I'll take the watch glance guy.

Go Joe!

[BannonsLiver]

38. Exactly

Except unlike the tan suit Literally no one is talking about it. Not on MSNBC. Not on CNN. It’s not even trending on Twitter either.


But! But! What about HW Bush in 1992?!111

The unintentional comedy factor here never disappoints.

[Rebl2]

37. I saw him

look at his watch in response to Welker saying we are short on time. Maybe he was surprised it was almost over, that it went so fast. I actually didn’t watch most of it. I just happened to tune in right before he did that. Your right though the horror!-not.

[soothsayer]

42. Yes I think he was planning which nuggets he could still get out there

That was my take anyway

[bluestarone]

71. Right on the money here!

She did mention short of time!!!!

[secondwind]

3. I did not see that..

[Renew Deal]

4. He did. No one has mentioned it yet.

We'll see

[democrattotheend]

5. CNN was just talking about it

[PatSeg]

46. I saw it

and I think most people shared his feelings at that point - when will this end? Its hardly the same as George H.W. Bush.

[MissB]

9. Frothy Rick mentioned it on CNN

The other three pundits poopoohed it.

[TruckFump]

23. Yes. I saw it.

Just seconds on the screen, tho.

[stillcool]

6. is that like a tan suit?

[arlyellowdog]

7. Sarcasm?

[rockfordfile]

8. So what

[Proud liberal 80]

10. The reason it looked bad for Bush in 1992

Is because it was a town hall debate with regular Americans...it looked like he wanted to leave and had more important things to than to be there with these people...;;different circumstances

[Music Man]

19. And Bush kept doing it throughout the course of the debate.

Biden did it once after a remark about the debate coming to an end. I wish he hadn't, but it's not the same thing as Bush.

[chowder66]

53. +1

[treestar]

64. +1

Very big difference.

[jcgoldie]

11. This is not 1992

Even marital infidelity barely moves the needle in the age of Trump.

[Sugarcoated]

13. It's understandable, all sane Americans were looking at the clock

and dreading listening to the deranged animal.

Context

[Tarc]

14. "concern" noted

[Drunken Irishman]

15. Bush checked his watch while being asked a question from a voter.

That was why it was devastating.

[MoonchildCA]

16. When Trump is in the room, the chaos is so great, that could never become the focus.

[Tribetime]

17. He did right when she said we're running out of tine to get

All the questions in.

[Cha]

18. JHC what's with all the WorryWort posts?

[greenjar_01]

25. 12 days left and the GOP are losing bad

This place is going to be overrun.

[relayerbob]

20. Bad optics

Totally irrelevant, but will be used by meme-makers mercilessly

[democrattotheend]

24. Exactly

As a poly-sci major that just makes me cringe, because anyone who took poly-sci 101 knows how much that hurt HW Bush in 1992.

[relayerbob]

28. Yep, and we didn't have an internet then

But, fortunately tomorrow Trump will do something stupid and it will be trivialized. Still, Joe should have known better - shouldn't have even worn a watch

[relayerbob]

29. Yep, and we didn't have an internet then

But, fortunately tomorrow Trump will do something stupid and it will be trivialized. Still, Joe should have known better - shouldn't have even worn a watch.

If he needed time keeping, Jill could have signalled him

[chowder66]

55. See Post #10 in this thread. nt

[treestar]

65. He was losing, and it was the town hall debate

[Cetacea]

39. concern noted

[Happy Hoosier]

52. Two can play the meme game?

“How many minutes until this clown is out of the White House?”

[chowder66]

54. See Post #10 in this thread. nt

[linda52]

21. It's over!!!!!!1111!!!221!

omg!

[Dreampuff]

22. Yes!

I also noticed that he appeared to look at his watch. I would be doing the same thing if I was trapped in a room with Trump as long as he was.

[Norbert]

27. This is not 1992

Looking at the watch back then would hurt your presidential run just like ogling naked teenage beauty contestants.

[nsd]

30. Oh please ...

The Bush 1992 thing was notable mainly because it was at a town hall-style debate. Bush's looking at his watch suggested disrespect or indifference to the ordinary voter questioners.

This is nothing like that. No one cares.

[unblock]

31. This is exactly the sort of area where the media has considerable influence

The trivia they choose to elevate to an issue of national importance shortly before an election.

Looking at a watch during a debate or sighing. As if this crap has anything to do with who should be president.

In 2000, gore walked over toward shrub in a move the pundits themselves widely anticipated as a known way to highlight a candidate's height advantage. Shrub was startled and jumped like the scared little beta boy he is, and the media instead decided to express shock that gore would "invade bush's space".

The media sometimes sides with us on this stuff, but mostly it's crap.

[still_one]

32. It is understandable when one is dealing with an unhinged asshole

[Cha]

36. That's What the Fuck I was thinking..

some people need to get a grip.

[treestar]

67. Exactly! As opposed to Bill Clinton

who shone in a town hall setting. In which GHWB happened to not thrive.

[Raine]

35. Doing that doesn't look good

reminder of Pop Bush.

[Cetacea]

40. Non-issue.

Next?

[linda52]

45. but..but... he looked at his watch!!!!

All is lost.

[C_U_L8R]

41. When it comes to Trump, we're all looking at our watches.

Joe is one of us.

[treestar]

68. Exactly! Just like when he said "will you

shut up man?" which was how we feel.

[Midnight Writer]

43. Did Trump have white crystals flying out of his nose while he spoke? Not much MSM on that.

[lagomorph777]

69. He was sniffing a lot; I didn't notice any chunks this time.

But I'm sure somebody is analyzing the super-slo-mo replay and will alert us if anything comes out of it.

[Sunsky]

44. Lol

He did after the moderator spoke about time. Come on. Who cares? People are dying but let's all focus on Biden looking at his watch. BS. The only people who will pay attention to this are faux news and cult45.

[linda52]

49. Who are we to doubt ''democrattotheend''?

He looked at his watch. WATCH. W-A-T-C-H. YIKES!!!!!

[David__77]

47. As pointed out, so so different from 1992.

Bush may have appeared alienated from the "town hall" audience. Who cares if Biden was "disrespectful" toward Trump? I don't get what the problem with looking at his watch is.

[jg10003]

48. Bush looking at his watch was in sync with the impression

That he was a country-club WASP who was not in touch with ordinary people. That's why it was a big deal. It reinforced people's preexisting impression. Biden looking at his watch won't have the same effect.

[JDC]

50. If he took out his phone and responded to emails, maybe

But otherwise, who cares. Those days are over.

[Turin_C3PO]

51. Gimme a break.

Biden’s support won’t go down even half a point for that. Non issue.

[Generic Other]

56. It signaled that Trump was wasting America's time...

Bob Dylan:

Come senators, congressmen

Please heed the call

Don’t stand in the doorway

Don’t block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

There’s a battle outside and it is ragin’

It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changin’

.....

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast

The slow one now

Will later be fast

As the present now

Will later be past

The order is rapidly fadin’

And the first one now will later be last

For the times they are a-changin’

[democrattotheend]

70. No! Don't post that song!

That's the song they used on the president's reelection night on West Wing. In 2012, I saw Obama giving Bob Dylan the lifetime achievement award and they played that song, and I thought to myself "I just heard that recently", and realized it had been while rewatching the episode of West Wing where the president was reelected. I figured that had to be good luck, so I listened to that song a lot in 2012. For the same reasons I'm avoiding it now. I know it's silly to be so superstitious, but I'm such a nervous wreck that I can't help it.

[Steven Maurer]

57. The reason Bush took the hit on that...

...is because it was a town hall. Bush was indicating that he didn't really want to be talking to real Americans.

Biden was debating Trump. There are a lot of reasons why a reasonable person might not particularly care about that.

[JI7]

58. Context Matters. Bush did not get hurt just because he looked at his watch. It was on top of

a shitty economy and other instances where he seemed to be out of touch with people .

People often bring up some past thing that happened to something that happens later on without considering the context.

Nobody things Biden is out of touch the people. So the same action is not going to hurt him.

[Rhiannon12866]

59. I think everyone watching at home could identify...

[Cha]

60. YIKES!!!! CONTEXT MATTERS. Hello!

[Spider Jerusalem]

61. This is why you wear your watch with the face on the inside of your wrist

easier to look at it discreetly.

[PubliusEnigma]

62. If you actually watched, you would have seen Biden put his watch back on at the end of the debate.

He didn't wear it for most of the time.

Nice try, comrade!

[treestar]

63. Not the same

He could be checking into his 2 minutes. Or checking to see if 45 got more than two.

[lagomorph777]

66. Yes, and so did I - Quaalude Trump was very boring.

[Hugin]

72. I was watching dalton99a's Trumpriddance Count Down Clock.

So, I must have missed the time check.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214343667#post5

[MoonRiver]

73. Nobody is talking about it (except you), so maybe it didn't happen.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

74. I haven't seen anybody bring that up until now?

[ahoysrcsm]

76. Thanks for the heads up...

Here I thought Trump was running for reelection, you know like GHW Bush did in 1992.

Oh... I get it now...