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.

[SendShaqtoIraq]

huh? it hasn’t started yet

[Miss Didi]

I LOVE that pic, Ali. Thanks for posting. ;)

[bayliving]

Can’t freep and listen. See you all at the after party.

Ditto....

[rodguy911]

Gotta go check you guys later.

[Right Wing Assault]

Black Water by the Doobie Brothers

Rush ruined that one for me. All I can ever think of is Hillary when I hear it.

[pctech]

Well folks, here we go. I don't like the fact that Brokaw is moderating. Why can't they have someone who is actually unbiased to do these things?

BTW, here's hoping we don't burn up another server. Jim, apologies in advance if it happens again.

[tioga]

Sarah like the word maverick for the drinking game.....LOL

[spokeshave]

' I have a feeling he is going to strike somewhere and strike hard.'

Yeah....what about 0bambi's 0.7% of USA GDP to the UN for the "poor".....?

In this economic crisis (dim caused) another couple of trillion dollars tossed down the rat hole....(no pun intended)

IF McCAIN WAS SMART HE WOULD TIE IN WITH ANNENBERG FOUNDATION UNDER OBAMA GIVING TO A SCHOOL BASED ON "UN PRINCIPLES."

[luvie]

Adorable. She has a direct line to God!

[MinuteGal]

Well, I'm not as nervous tonight as I was with Sarah. I hid under the carpeting that night until I saw on FR she was doing great and it was safe for me to peek at the tube.

I think McCain will do good tonight.

Leni

[According2RecentPollsAirIsGood]

Did you ever think amount the number of people world wide who die because of liberals?

[Salvation]

Part of an email I received from Newt Gingrich today. Makes sense. What do all of you think?

But If Bush-Paulson is Bad, Obama-Frank-Dodd-Pelosi-Reid Will Be Worse

Clearly, by any reasonable standard, the Bush-Paulson stewardship of the economy has failed.

But the Barack Obama-Barney Frank-Chris Dodd-Nancy Pelosi-Harry Reid-left-wing policies of big government, high taxes, more litigation, and insider deals for their left-wing special interests will be even worse.

We've heard a lot about predatory lenders in this current economic crisis. They deserve their share of the blame. But it's time to introduce a new term that gets us closer to the real roots of this crisis: Predatory politicians.

Predatory politicians are much more dangerous than predatory lenders. Predatory politicians have the power of the government to coerce you.

Government under Obama, Frank, Dodd, Pelosi and Reid will be government by and for predatory politicians. It will make dealing with predatory lenders seems like a walk in the park.

McCain and Palin Should Sound the Call Against Predatory Politicians

The elite media has desperately sought to avoid the guilt of the left for the current crisis. But this is a topic Senator McCain and Governor Palin should spend at least one-third of their time on for the next four weeks.

For more information on predatory politicians and their role in the making of the economic crisis, see my paper "Predatory Politicans, Destructive Leftwing Politics and the Roots of the Housing Crisis."

And if McCain and Palin find themselves in need of arguments against the left's all-purpose excuse that a lack of government regulation is all that is behind the economic crisis, they should read this conversation with Warren Buffet. The government had a 200-employee agency whose sole job was to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and yet Fannie and Freddie still managed to bring the economy to its knees.

The Questions Senator Obama Needs to Answer

Senator Obama is intimately tied to corruption, left-wing radicalism, and predatory politicians. But the elite media has done everything it could to avoid asking the key questions.

For a list of the questions Senator Obama needs to answer before we can judge his fitness for office, see my paper "Why is Barack Obama Afraid to Answer These Questions?"

Senator McCain and Governor Palin should spend another third of their time asking Obama and the elite media to answer these questions.

They could use the same technique that Senator Richard Russell used in 1936 to defeat populist Georgia Governor Gene Talmadge. Russell literally posted a list of questions on the podium in Macon and told the crowd "Don't let him leave until he answers them." It was the psychological turning point of that campaign because Talmadge refused to answer and the people knew it.

If everywhere Obama and Biden went for the next 28 days they were faced with these questions they would rapidly lose popular legitimacy.

The McCain Crisis: Danger and Opportunity

Senator McCain now faces the crisis of his career.

He is behind.

He will not catch up on a state-by-state basis.

He will either win the argument in the national media, suddenly growing stronger in many states or he will lose the national debate and gradually decline further in a number of states.

The Danger For McCain

If Senator McCain is not prepared to separate himself from the Bush-Paulson economic program, he has no opportunity to win.

The country is deeply fed up with the Bush presidency and angry about the Paulson bailout. If McCain is ... ()

[SoDak]

John McCain, you ain’t the purtiest girl, but we done brought you to the dance anyway, so you dang well better dance tonight. We’re praying for you out here on the high plains.

[JustaCowgirl]

Yeh, and get ready for canned little speeches by BO

And I hope they find the frequency of that earpiece he's wearing, and give him a nice little screech right in the middle of it.

[38special]

I think the drinking word is “Bush”.

[golfisnr1]

They haven’t started idiot.

[Netizen]

Chocolate is poisonous to cats.

So are garlic, onion and tomato.

[word_warrior_bob]

Just prepping everybody

[LegalEagle61]

Watched BOR, he told Rove that McCain should get mad and yell just like he did to Barney Franks the other night...lol...Rove did not agree but BOR (who knows EVERYTHING in the world) disagreed and thinks the American people would love it and would make them vote for McCain. Obviously Bill’s head has gotten even bigger since that day.

[humblegunner]

I'm going to count how many times Obama says "the last eight years"...

"Say it ain't so, 'O'... there you go again pointing backward..."