No Step Stool for Hillary

[Danke]

No Stool for Hillary

Short Hillary wanted to debate tall Trump on a STEP STOOL – but was turned down – and she won't get commercial breaks for coughing fits or fainting spells

The Clinton campaign asked the Commission on Presidential Debates to give her a step stool so she wouldn't look much shorter than Donald Trump

Clinton stands 5'4", nearly a foot shorter than Trump's 6'2"
The commission turned down her request but is allowing a custom-built podium to minimize Trump's height advantage
There will be no commercial breaks during the 90-minute debate Monday night, leaving Clinton on camera if she faints or has a coughing episode

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...reaks-Monday-coughing-fits.html#ixzz4L7EL0Gcs

 

[Lucille]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...n-Both-Candidates-Must-Stand-for-First-Debate

 

[Ender]

I see no reason to make either of them stand for 2 hours.

Standing continually for hours is not particularly good for anyone, especially if the floor is cement underneath.

 

[phill4paul]

I see no reason to make either of them stand for 2 hours.

Standing continually for hours is not particularly good for anyone, especially if the floor is cement underneath.

If a factory worker can do it for 8 hrs -12 hrs. then a presidential candidate can do it for 2 hrs. Wait...NVM.

 

[donnay]

They should just have Lazy Boy chairs--what the hell?

 

[euphemia]

I stand that long every day and then some.

I think Michael Dukakis was quite short at 5'8" compared to the lanky, athletic GHWB at 6'2". I think Dukakis was given an elevated podium to his own proportion or some such.

http://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/09/21/Bush-Dukakis-agree-on-debate-podium-sizes/9588590817600/

 

[Ender]

I stand that long every day and then some.

I think Michael Dukakis was quite short at 5'8" compared to the lanky, athletic GHWB at 6'2". I think Dukakis was given an elevated podium to his own proportion or some such.

http://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/09/21/Bush-Dukakis-agree-on-debate-podium-sizes/9588590817600/

Trump is 70 & Hitlery is 68- I don't think I'd ask my grandparents to stand for 2 hrs.

JMHPOV

 

[Wooden Indian]

Trump is 70 & Hitlery is 68- I don't think I'd ask my grandparents to stand for 2 hrs.

JMHPOV

I'd ask these 2 arseholes to stand 2 hours in a burning building.

 

[Ender]

I'd ask these 2 arseholes to stand 2 hours in a burning building.

Well, there IS that.

 

[euphemia]

People stand that long all the time. And walk. And do sports.

 

[Ender]

People stand that long all the time. And walk. And do sports.

I'm a black belt and could probably walk across the United States- but standing for hrs can be detrimental.

PLUS- WTH difference does it make? Sounds like the commission is just trying to exert nonsense power.

Let them sit, if necessary.

 

[euphemia]

Standing is part of the job. If they want to debate, they can observe protocol and follow the rules.

Adding, it is very unusual for the commission to do this. They have been partial to Hillary from the start, and I can't imagine the motive for it.

 

[specsaregood]

I see no reason to make either of them stand for 2 hours.

Standing continually for hours is not particularly good for anyone, especially if the floor is cement underneath.

I don't know what you are talkinga bout. I stand at my desk all day, been doing it for most of my adult life and have always found it healthier than sitting on your ass all those hours of the day.

 

[Danke]

I don't know what you are talkinga bout. I stand at my desk all day, been doing it for most of my adult life and have always found it healthier than sitting on your ass all those hours of the day.

You are just like Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Rumsfeld, A Real Stand-Up Guy: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A946-2004Jun23.html

 

[specsaregood]

You are just like Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Rumsfeld, A Real Stand-Up Guy: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A946-2004Jun23.html

Sure, I would prefer the comparison to Thomas Jefferson or even Ernest Hemmingway; but yes many influential people in history have found themselves more productive using stand up desks instead of slouching away in a seat.

 

[oyarde]

You are just like Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Rumsfeld, A Real Stand-Up Guy: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A946-2004Jun23.html

I am more like Hemingway.

 

[Ender]

I don't know what you are talkinga bout. I stand at my desk all day, been doing it for most of my adult life and have always found it healthier than sitting on your ass all those hours of the day.

I'm not a desk guy.

Like I said, if it's not on a cement base it may not be so bad, but most dancers & martial artists know that people do not really know how to stand, so it can hurt shins, feet, arches, veins etc.

 

[CPUd]

Standing is part of the job. If they want to debate, they can observe protocol and follow the rules.

Adding, it is very unusual for the commission to do this. They have been partial to Hillary from the start, and I can't imagine the motive for it.

It's all for show, kind of like running someone to the left of her during the primaries, and making it look like it was competitive. They want the press making a big deal of this, so if she makes it through the debate, the press can declare the health-related topics as insane conspiracy theories.

 

[John F Kennedy III]

She won't make it through the debate.

 

[specsaregood]

I'm not a desk guy.

Like I said, if it's not on a cement base it may not be so bad, but most dancers & martial artists know that people do not really know how to stand, so it can hurt shins, feet, arches, veins etc.

Well I've been standing at a desk for well over a decade now, never on carpet, much of it on tile or hardwood and usually barefoot. No problems whatsoever.