I watched about the first five minutes of the debate, getting through the first question and answers. Obama came on with his usual Marxist attack on Bush and the markets. McCain replied with drivel I’ve already forgotten when he could have smashed Obama out of the room by giving the real history of the mortgage crisis and how Obama and the DemonRats are to blame with the CRA and the abuses of the Clinton administration. After that, I realized it was a waste of time and went to bed.
Obama’s fumbling of the question about Russia showed how much he can look like a deer in the headlights. It was disasterous.
The debate was a missed opportunity for McCain.
I truly believe that I (or most Freepers) could have *decisively* defeated Obama in the debate last night.
When 0 called out the fake “95% of America will get a tax cut”, Slam him with “Senator, I know you haven’t been at this very long, but it is a fact that 40% of Americans don’t pay income tax, so they cannot get a tax cut. You could redistribute someone else’s wealth to them, but that’s Marxism and I hope you are not advocating that.”
When 0 brought up Delaware, low interest, credit cards, etc. Slam him for his VP choice and ties to banks and Wall Street.
When 0 brings up foreign policy, literally *laugh* at him and say “It seems to me the Obama doctrine is to fight everyone we are currently at peace with, and to retreat from everywhere we are currently engaged. That’s not a strategy my friends...”
And when 0 brought up Kenya, slam him directly for going over to Kenya to stump for a radical socialist like Odinga whose supporters turned to machetes when the vote didn’t go thier way, while McCain was back here trying to get the Democratic Congress to see the Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac train wreck that was coming.
Etc.
I actually had these thoughts (and maybe a couple others) in real time last night during the debate, and it was a missed opportunity not to use some of the openings 0 opened up with his own words.
McCain's only shot is/was to show that Obama cannot be trusted with the presidency. If Obama is plausible, McCain loses. And McCain, unfailingly, treats Obama as if he is totally plausible. Ballgame.
I wish people would stop repeating this classist Hannity nonsense. It is false and demeans and alienates lower income group people who have paid taxes all their lives: http://www.factcheck.org/kerrys_tax_ad_literally_accurate_but_misleading.html
Is there ny way we can wire McCain so that Newt Gingrich answers the questions? He has a way of communicating actual concrete substance on how to solve national problems. These two candidates just spin round and round. McCain does it punctuated by "my friends" and "but the point is."