Presidential Debate Essay

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From years 2008 to 2016, the presidential debates have tremendously changed from formal, disciplined and professional discussions to off-topic, bad mouthing arguments. Where once we had skillful and practiced participants, we now have amateur and incompetent rivals as candidates for president. Debates once began as a way to foresee what our future president can do for our country, to allow the candidates to propose to the people ways that will fix issues, and to help us envision them as our leader. In our modern world now debates are being used in the wrong way. The opponents are insulting, disrespecting, and interrupting each other. Personal things are being exposed and brought into the presidential campaigns, and America is the least of their …show more content…

Obama’s stance on foreign policy is to take charge on to a country if there’s a chance. He believes in communication and in speaking to the other countries like Russia about what’s right and what is not. He proposed to meet with Iran and other hostile nations. For most of Obama’s responses to the questions asked during the debate have been unclear. He does a great job showing what he thinks should be fixed in America, but is vague on what he will do to make a change. McClain on the other hand wants to bring pain to the Iranians to change their behavior towards the outside world. As for the first 2016 debate, Achieving Prosperity, America's direction, and securing America were the three main topics, the economy being the dominant issue. Trump's stance on the economy wasn't very clear as he repeatedly said, jobs are leaving, jobs are being stolen, and we need to stop our jobs from leaving. He never did explain how he was going to keep that from happening as he just danced around the question and was very repetitive with his words. He did mention that if companies leave, they won’t be allowed to sell their products untaxed in America. He proposed to lower taxes in order for more jobs to return

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