Posted on 10/08/2008 8:22:05 PM PDT by flyfree
Tuesday night's presidential debate was good entertainment. Both candidates were animated and loose throughout a wide-ranging discussion. Sen. Barack Obama did well in Sen. John McCain's favorite format. Mr. McCain was more focused and sharp than in the first debate, though the cameras above him made his balding pate more prominent.
Tom Brokaw was often a distraction: Did he really need over a hundred words -- including the name "Sherard Cowper-Coles" -- to ask about Afghanistan?
Mr. McCain's advocates were cheered by him advancing the theme that Mr. Obama lacks a record of accomplishment or bipartisanship in the Senate. Mr. McCain also described how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac constituted "the match that started this forest fire" that's engulfed our economy, and nailed Mr. Obama and Democrats for being AWOL on GSE reform.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
>But here’s a warning sign for Mr. Obama. Of recent candidates, only Michael Dukakis in 1988 has had a larger percentage of voters tell pollsters they believe he lacks the necessary qualifications to be president.<
hope.
I hope I won’t get you in any trouble on FR, but check your reply to me from 5-6 days ago (for which I thank you, BTW). Clinton and Dole (I mean, Obama and McCain) are indeed two different people, and in the absence of an alternative I would much rather McCain win, but that doesn’t mean I have to be enthusiastic about him. My lamentable state of Massachusetts has ballot questions which will draw me to the polls, but I have no idea how (and if) I will vote for President, save to say it won’t be R or D. With MA, oh, about, 100% certain to go Obama’s way, no one can criticize me for voting (or not voting) my conscience.
Think of it as voting to set up Sarah for 2012.
Cheers!
That doesn't really do much for me. Sorry.
That doesn't really do much for me. Sorry.
Doesn't do very much for me, either.
Yeah, and they're 40% of the voters, that's why he doesn't do what you want.
FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "BIDEN'S SECRET DIPLOMACY" by Vladimir Bukovsky and Pavel Stroilov (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Of course, when people's reputations are at stake, a natural question is: how far can we believe a document written by a communist?") (October 9, 2008)
TOWNHALL.com: Washington - "PALIN vs. BIDEN" by Emmett Tyrrell (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "How is it that an attractive woman who has been involved in state and local government since the early 1990s without much controversy is passed off in the media now as an airhead? Yet her opponent -- long known as an airhead, a braggart and even a plagiarist -- now is passed off as a statesman? I have in mind Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska and Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware or Scranton, Pa., or wherever he now claims to hail from.") (October 9, 2008)
Unfortunately, the ACORN voter fraud may be too much to overcome. Police should be stationed at every polling place.
...”If someone has not chosen by this time, they should not have the right to vote.”
Agreed. These “undecideds” are not qualified if they cannot see the huge differences in the candidates. What they really are, in my view, are democrats. Just like the so-called “independents”. They are wrist-wringing democrats who are afraid of being called “racist” because they cannot pull the lever for Obama.
Early voting hasn’t started yet in most places, but absentee ballots are already going out. This is still very early in the early voting process, but it will pick up a lot very soon.
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