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PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE #2 LIVE THREAD
10/07/08

Posted on 10/07/2008 2:01:24 PM PDT by 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.



TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: 2008debates; bailout; debate; failout; financialcrisis; jumpingthegun; mccain; notbreakingnews; obama; obamatruthfile; prematurethreadage
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To: Future Snake Eater

i honestly have no idea what this guy is saying...

he just talks and talks and babbles and babbles...


4,261 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:21 PM PDT by zwerni (*** PALIN/mccain 2008 ***)
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To: PA Engineer

Can we have a total speaking time of each at the end?


4,262 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:21 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Obama wants to raise taxes and kill babies. Palin wants to raise babies and kill taxes.)
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To: mlocher

Maybe He’s at Kate’s restaurant in Biden’s home town.... Nope, couldn’t be, that place closed down in the 80’s.


4,263 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:24 PM PDT by JacksonsDaddy (Stuck at work, watching the debate in the break room.)
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To: alancarp

Thats because he is a poser


4,264 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:29 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could be Farts)
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To: tnvol01

WHAT A MORON! If we become more energy-independent, Russia has less money for mischief?

HEY OBAMA! YES, YOU, YOU MORON! RUSSIA SHIPS OIL TO EUROPE, NOT THE UNITED STATES!!!

Does the idiot think the Russians beam it to us or something?


4,265 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:29 PM PDT by Windcatcher (Obama's propaganda is being fashioned by COMMUNISTS. That's enough for any American to stop him!)
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To: sandyeggo

Anybody have a “Don’t Blame ME. I voted for Hunter” sticker. Could go right below the Palin 2012 sticker.


4,266 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:31 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant, Never Fearful)
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To: LibertyRocks
Obama sounds like he has totally lost his way! He just said something about things over the last 8 years making us more safe? He really has lost it.

You're right, he's stammering and uh-uh-ing and generally nonsensical

4,267 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:33 PM PDT by hugorand
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To: Darren McCarty

McCarthy? I mean McCarty, whoops. At least I have a common last name.


4,268 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:34 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (The Detroit Lions suck)
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Obama thinks we need to surrender to Russia


4,269 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:34 PM PDT by woofie
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To: TornadoAlley3

This is Nashville? I’d expect to see folks dressed in Little Jimmy Dickens and Minnie Pearl duds. This ain’t no real Nashville.


4,270 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:40 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Don't let me interrupt your prayers for a suffering celebrity!)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Tom, and my fellow Americans, I want to finish with this. Besides terrorism abroad, we have to worry about terrorism here. There is a man who is probably watching tonight in Chicago. Years ago, he and his group were responsible for bombing the Pentagon and other government buildings. Three police officers were murdered by the Weather Underground. Except for a premature detonation, one of their bombs would have killed may soldiers and their wives or girlfriends at a dance at Ft. Dix. I want to make my position clear. I will never serve on boards with a terrorist. I will never attend public discussions with a terrorist. I will never accept a campaign contribution from a terrorist. And I will never attend a fundraiser in the home of a terrorist. I wish my opponent would have felt the same.


4,271 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:41 PM PDT by doug from upland (8 million views of HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
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To: TornadoAlley3

No way did that audience write those questions.

The first one seemed real, the rest seem fake, and just don’t fit with the people that are asking them.

Think about it. If you were sitting there at a presidential debate, and wrote a question that you may be called upon to ask of a candidate, wouldn’t you have it in your mind and be ready to ask it?? When the people are reading them, they don’t act like they know what they are going to say, as if they are reading from a script.

Call me paranoid. This all just doesn’t smell right.


4,272 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:44 PM PDT by KoRn ("Change": Come Help A Nitwit Get Elected)
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To: Sparky760

Obama just “tripped”? You’re being kind. This guy is an absolute joke on foreign policy. He babbled all over the place, it was UGLY!


4,273 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:51 PM PDT by Terrence DoGood
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To: clintonh8r

Not to worry,,,Sarah is on the case,,she will hit obama over and over. That lady is the official kick ass person inthe campaign.


4,274 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:51 PM PDT by cajungirl
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To: Lloyd227

McCain is adhering to the debate rules, Obama is being rude and hogging the time for him and McCain, too... plus Brokow is asking MTP questions and few from the audience.


4,275 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:51 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: mlocher; fieldmarshaldj; Cacique; rmlew; firebrand; AuH2ORepublican
McCain officially jumped the shark when he tried to cancel the first debate to attend to the bailout, without actually coming up with a plan of his own to justify his theatrics. Once that happened, I knew that it was basically over.

Please, let me eat my words. Please let McCain win this thing by a Flutiesque hail Mary!

4,276 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:52 PM PDT by Clemenza (PRIVATIZE FANNIE AND FREDDIE! NO MORE BAILOUTS!)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Whoo-Hoo LOVE Terry’s question!


4,277 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:53 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (Stand up, Chuck)
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To: Centurion2000

Frankly, get a principled constitutional conservative that is articulate and can speak to these issues.

America will respond to truth. McCain as long-time Senator knows nothing but compromise. Obama seems to be running circles around him from a debate perspective, but all his solutions are government oriented.

There have been so many openings to carry the day. Heck, both these guys know more about the “details” then I do, but I think I would have handed them their lunch in answering these softball questions outlining a philosophy of true conservative principles of limited government, decentralization of power, and Christian values of virtue, compassion, and sacrifice.

Unfortunately, we have the system we deserve. A government by the people for the people, and it doesn’t say much about the people.


4,278 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:57 PM PDT by ktupper
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To: All

McCain just accused Obama of starting the cold war with his yes answer. Good shot McCain!


4,279 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:58 PM PDT by Hanna548
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To: Atticus

totally agree. he was only down a few points going itno this, (and likely really tied when considering the Bradley effect.) he did well enough.


4,280 posted on 10/07/2008 7:26:59 PM PDT by 1curiousmind
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