PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE #2 LIVE THREAD

10/07/08

[TornadoAlley3]

While the two presidential candidates, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, prepare for their second debate on Oct. 7 at Belmont University in Nashville, Tom Brokaw gets to sift through questions submitted by you. In addition to queries from a group randomly selected by the Gallup organization, Brokaw will be fielding questions submitted online at mydebates.org, the site created by the Commission on Presidential Debates and Myspace. The focus of the town hall-style debate will be domestic and foreign policy, Brokaw's specialties.

[Netizen]

AND STOP SAYING REFORMER AND REACHING ACROSS THE AISLE!!!!!

Oh yeah!

[Fawn]

He’s under a alot of pressure and he knows it....plusthese time limits....

[freekitty]

As far as I am concerned, they are both tip toeing through the tulips. The public is more educated than they are.

[Abigail Adams]

I think he’s doing well, talking from the heart and looking like an honest, real person. Unlike O who looks like an alien.

[Right_in_Virginia]

I can’t watch any more.

Have a good night. It may be one of our last.

[ConservativeMind]

He's not doing well. Obama has been more energetic and has launched a few attacks that McCain hasn't bothered to response to.

McCain said, for the first time, that he would make banks create new loans for homeowners based upon THE CURRENT VALUE OF THEIR HOME AND ASSURE THE INTEREST RATE WOULD BE LOW. It's idiotic!

McCain is looking like he wants to be the leader of China or the USSR, not what we know of as the US.

[ladyvet]

True story: my husband researched them to see if he could buy stock. Nope, I think he said it was private!

[buccaneer81]

paid $3.12 in Houston today

That's where we are in Columbus, too.

[mylife]

yeah, and those little cocktail weenies in a can.

[A CA Guy]

This audience looks to me to be hand picked.

The questions seems like they were reviewed so no zinger could hit Obama IMO.

[Another Thought]

spending freeze. All RIGHT! Now you’re talking! That’ll put fear in the hearts of the liberals.

[andy58-in-nh]

When is someone finally going to say that government spending is NOT investment and that tax breaks are not GIVING anybody anything - it’s not the government’s money AAAARGHHH!

[Terpfen]

McCain saying that we may actually have to eliminate some programs.

Good to hear, will believe it when I see it.

[mlocher]

Did you have to post that pic?

[TomGuy]

Question for MC: Name ONE (1) earmark that has been eliminated since you have been a Senator.

[acsuc99]

Whiny posts? How about reality?

Wow, he’s talking about the air force tanker...AGAIN.

Not attacking Obama...AGAIN.

Need to cut spending....AGAIN

Gasping and stuttering. No passion.

[red flanker]

When McPalin mentioned the word "some money goes to terrorist organizations..." the camera panned to a stiffening Θbama as if America has discovered its own Osama bin Biden.

[Terriergal]

He’s working too hard to sound “moderate”.

YUP. And to me that's nothing new for McCain. and I think Palin sounded that way the other night to but that WAS new for her. She lost me.

[shadeaud]

I got all the gas I need for nothing watching how McCain is losing the election for us right now