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Should there be a rule about the opposition response?

Listening to Gov. McDonnell's "response" to the State of the Union address it was clear that it was really nothing more than a counter-speech rather than an actual response to what was actually said by the president in his address. Should there be a rule that the opposition response has to actually respond to the address?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Yes there should be!

    I actually thought I was going to hear something new!

  • 1 decade ago

    Uhhh, two things.

    1) His "counter-speech" WAS his response - and a damned GOOD one.

    2) This is America, dumb ***. We have the FREEDOM to respond as our CONSCIENCE dictates.

    lmao

    Are you an American? You sound like someone who is clueless about our liberties & freedoms. Were you home schooled by morons? Seriously, this question - this MENTALITY - is by far the most asinine thought I've read in this forum. DING, DING, DING, DING, DING!!!!!! Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner here. Congratulate the forum's most obtuse poster for asking such a completely ignorant question. Wow.

  • Wolfe
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    There should be a rule that anyone who makes the opposition response actually have a functioning intellect instead of partisanship where brains should be.

  • 1 decade ago

    If you wish the other side to respond line for you have to give the speech to the responder early. 2nd what did ever you require of the opposition will come back to haunt you when they are in power.

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  • Ed M
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    NO!!! it is call democracy. The other side has the right to be herd too. DId you say the same in the last 8 years when democrats were bush bashing?

    Source(s): elm
  • 1 decade ago

    That's the trouble with libs, no sense of the Freedom of Speech.

    What do you want, a copy of the sotu and counter?

    Nobody controls the SOTU speech, nobody controls the counter argument except the

    parties involved.

  • 1 decade ago

    i see nothing wrong with listening to an idiot's rant, i mean come on, he had no chance after obama

  • 1 decade ago

    You libs. All about free speech aren't you? Is there anything you don't want to regulate?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No! let's let the loonies make themselves look dumber then they really are.

  • Terrel
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    No.

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