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They're showing the highlights here on our news stations and holy !@#$%^&*], this is a train wreck on Trump's part. Like Vee said, the sweating, snarling, and fidgeting are horrendous while Hillary looks calm and collected beside him. The split screen is killer. No way can anyone say he won this. How much longer till the actual election? I have to imagine (or maybe Im being naive since I dont really understand the American election cycle) that this has basically locked up her victory no?

It's about a conspiracy theory that Obama was born in Kenya and that any claims otherwise are a lifetime forgery. This tends to go along with talk about his father and his father's side being dangerous or out of control and implying he is as well. Got it. I figured it was all based around him being "African and foreign" and thus all based around race. However, if you have to be born in America to be president, why were John McCain and Ted Cruz allowed to run since it looks like neither of them were born in America?

I've asked before but I think I've blocked out there answer so Im going to ask again- what exactly is the birther thing all about? Why does it matter where Barack Obama was born? Is the whole thing based around the Republican side being racist? If it makes anyone feel better, Trump has been getting slammed here in Australia by our media for weeks now and I'm sure it'll ramp up after this debate.

Is this extreme jingoistic display of ending speeches with "God bless the USA" while people are chanting and screaming USA common there? It would be considered inappropriate and in extremely poor taste here (unless you're basically a right wing fascist) so seeing thousands of people doing this is a little unsettling.

I do think it could happen. I'm a little worried that Bernie Sanders will run a 3rd party campaign. I used to think he would never screw the country over like that, but now I wonder. Isn't HRC's lead in the polls in the single digits at this point? I truly don't get it. Who are these woman who want to vote for him. Ugh! I'm a little confused about that as well. Just knowing him from television and tabloid stuff, I can't see how any woman would vote for him. Ever. From my outside perspective, it seems like he preys on lower income, poorly educated voters and that seems really sad to me because I can't imagine he has any plans to really help them in the long run. Whats the deal with Sanders? He doesn't he covered here that much so I have to get all my info from other places but it seems it's now impossible for him to be nominee right? If that's the case why is he still running?

I'm going to need some reassurance from some of you in America that Donald Trump isn't actually going to be elected as the President of the US. Our news here is obsessively covering your election and has basically gone into "the sky is falling" mode and tells us everyday that this could possibly happen.

It must be something you had to grow up watching or be a cultural American thing because I watched the next two episodes and I can't watch anymore. It's just way too cheesy and cutesy and the acting is not good. And plus, I don't want to be mean about kids, but those kids are some of the worst child actors I've ever seen and that middle son is obnoxious.

For completely dumb reasons, Full House was banned in my home growing up so I've only seen like two episodes of the original ever, but I had to watch the first episode of this and I just don't even know what to say. Was the original this cheesy and schmaltzy?

From an outsider's point of view, what I don't get is how someone like Donald Trump got this far in the presidential race in the first place? Is it that just anyone off the street can decide they want to run as long as they have support? It's just baffling to me that it seems to just be a free for all. My only reference for Donald Trump before this (and it's probably the same for most Australians of a certain age) is as a buffoon that gets made of fun on Saturday Night Live and him hosting The Apprentice. That this ignorant, racist, and seemingly extremely unqualified man is even close to being president of the US is rather shocking and scary to me. American politics gets a lot of attention here and everyone is basically terrified of the thought of any of the conservatives/Republicans running the US and what it could mean of the rest of us since, like it or not, the US basically sets the standards for the rest of the world. People are practically begging any American expats that they know to go back to the US during the election to try and make sure it doesn't happen. Also, can someone explain to me how Ronald Reagan become the hero of the conservative/Republican movement in the US? He is basically universally reviled and detested in Australia and growing up here and South Africa, we were pretty much taught in school that he was a horrible person and president and as a big reason the rest of the world started to hate the United States. Seeing him held up as the hero/deity/saviour of the conservatives in the US is I think pretty frightening to a lot of other countries.

Its a long story why, but I went to the DNC in Boston in 2004! It was super fun. If you get to go to a convention, you'll have a great time.

Can someone explain to me exactly what the tea party is? Are they a group separate from the Republicans or are they another branch? Our news here tends to lump them all together as Republicans but then I see other places making it seem like they're two separate groups.

You are required to vote here. If you don't show up to vote, you go to jail.

UKIP doesn't mind free market trade with the rest of the world while BNP wants to keep the economy in Britain and keep everyone else out. UKIP will also accept anyone as long as they identify as British while BNP only basically wants white, Protestant, British born people. UKIP is pretty much accepted as a legitimate but fringe group while BNP is seen as a neo nazi hate group. BNP, if not already, will certainly line up with Putin. UKIP I don't think will. UKIP is full of hate and loud mouths but they probably won't be able to do much harm. They'll be more a headache than anything else. BNP is the one to really worry about. The far Right Wing gains in Europe are frightening. Here in Australia, we have our most ring wing government yet led by laughingstock and all around buffoon Tony Abbott who is absolutely incompetent. Other than Fred Nile and his gang of crazies managing to keep getting a few seats on the state level, we've pretty much kept the extreme far right wingers and fringers out. Tony Abbott and the Liberals managed to rise up and win the election basically because the Labor party got overtaken with fighting between Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd and then they blew the election.

Has anybody else been watching Rebecca's return? I've really been enjoying it.

I'm not sure if this is the right thread to post this, but I thought it was cool. Lester Bangs, the music writer/editor for Creem and Rolling Stone that Philip Seymour Hoffman portrayed in Almost Famous, was a huge AMC fan: http://m.spin.com/articles/philip-seymour-hoffman-lester-bangs-almost-famous

Hannah's late sister was married to Ethan so they're in laws. Her and Zac aren't related except for the Ethan connection. I can see that. I think they go out of their way to make it the "quintessential" Aussie show and that includes playing up the beach and the laid back atmosphere. The beach is a huge part of Australian culture so they were very smart to capitalise on it and make it so that Summer Bay could be any Aussie small beach town. It's definitely gets the hell promoted out of. Home & Away stars are everywhere on the telly and its advertised all over the place. They also have a prime time slot which no doubt helps with their ratings.

I'm of two minds when it comes to this situation and even though I get what she's trying to say, Barbara did herself no favours with that and comes off very badly. As for Whoopi being a Roman Polanski apologist, so is Mia Farrow which makes the entire thing even more murky and sad.

Carl- that definitely looks like Donna Murphy to me in that clip as well.

Skye's mother was Althea. I don't think we ever saw her. Krystal was going to name her baby Charlotte when she was letting Adam think he was the father.

That's Sam- Bobby's adopted son and no, he didn't lose his foot. The character actually left Summer Bay to go be a professional surfer if I remember correctly. I remember Selina's cult. Joey Rainbow (who lived with Irene for awhile)'s father was the cult leader.