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.
http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=33711
(I CAN’T believe I’m posting a link to a Hillary! forum...)
McCain’s ground game does leave a lot to be desired.
Now Hannity said “my friend”. (hope it’s not contagious)
We’ll keep the lights on for you.
Good! Just vote for Obama and let the Supreme court go liberal. That’ll show those Bast@rds at the GOP thay your feelings are hurt. You are acting like those undecided morons on the Lutz panel. Its NOT all about YOU.
He doesn’t want to peak to early!
He didn’t bomb.
Night, Kids. Cheer up and keep the faith. Remember...as my dear Scarlett once said—After all...tomorrow is another day! We have one month. The gloves are off. We have Sarah. We have the PUMAS. We have Clinton Inc. We have the October Surprise!
So...you shouldn't have YOU warm up the crowd then.
Ok, now in English, So...THEY shouldn't have YOU warm up the crowd then.
I need a drink.
After her diagnosis, Ms. Soetoro spent the last months of her life in Hawaii, near her mother. (Her father had died.) Mr. Obama has recalled talking with her in her hospital bed.
She died in November 1995, as Mr. Obama was starting his first campaign for public office.
"She was not a standard-issue girl of her times. ... She wasn't part of the matched-sweater-set crowd," said Wall, a classmate and retired philosophy teacher who used to make after-school runs to Seattle with Dunham to sit and talk -- for hours and hours -- in coffee shops.
"She touted herself as an atheist, and it was something she'd read about and could argue," said Maxine Box, who was Dunham's best friend in high school. "She was always challenging and arguing and comparing. She was already thinking about things that the rest of us hadn't."
Barack Obama's mother as a self-assured, iconoclastic young teen seemingly hell-bent to resist Eisenhower-era conformity.
Ouch.
***Yeah. I guess we can’t win ‘em all. But you can lose some battles & win the war.
That does seem to have been the track record in the last races we’ve won. Once it’s the voters and the candidates, and the debates are half-forgotten, unless there have been major bites in them (which there hasn’t been in these), and we’re less filtered and muzzled by the media, we start pulling it out.
I turned off the post-debate analysis as will most of the Americans watching it. My view: McCain connected on the economy. That is what he needed to do. He was personable, called the people by their first names, shook hands with the Navy Vet, and looked comfortable. Obama, again - platitudes, no details, smirks, etc. We know the MSM will say Obama won and the Obamaniacs are encouraged by e-mails to dumb down the online polls regardless if Obama had barfed all over the people in the front rows. So, most Americans are not going to go jump on their PC’s and vote in online polls. Was it a knockout? NO. But it didn’t need to be. The underlying message was, tough times call for EXPERIENCE. And Obama has NONE. People see that. That is the message and it will take some time to take hold. People will begin to doubt Obama. As people get scared, they gravitate to strength. Only one candidate shows that. This is beyond the Bradley Effect. It is going to be the OBAMA EFFECT. Ignore the MSM manipulators. Switch off the BS after the debate ends. No one needs to tell YOU what you saw. Except me... LOL.
Black suit bad for a guy w/white hair. If the a/c is too cold in there, he may have had chill in his throat. I was in a/c tonight and I got a little horse (Belmont joke).
They are all socialists.
Look... he’s 72 years old. Obama is a childish 47. McCain did the best he can but... he’s wize and Obama is a young fool. What the heck were you expecting? We need to win this thing. Stop!
Nope. In radio-land, anyway, I thought he did quite well -- much better than Obama on most responses. Obama spent a lot of time in me-too land, and even so didn't do as well.
Where McCain really shone was on the foreign policy questions. He absolutely smacked Obama down several times. His best answer was to the question of whether or not Russia was returning to 'Evil Empire' status. Obama fluffed around for a long time. McCain quite properly took a well-reasoned middle ground, and sounded very good doing it. I think that question alone -- which occurred near the very end -- was enough to lay bare the differences between them, very much in McCain's favor.
I think the MSM will have no choice but to call this one for McCain.
Tom Bodett? is that you?
The Dims "never lose" the debate.
“When McCain says he loves this country, you can tell he really means it. Not just words either, but actions. So therefore, I believe he won.”
But soon the media flash polls will break our hearts as we learn that love of country is subordinate to free stuff from government.
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