Posted on 10/07/2008 8:01:22 PM PDT by casinva
Yeah, that was nice. Don’t you just love these contrived audiences they want to palm off on us as “random undecideds.”? Does anyone think that retired CPO is actually considering Obama? About as likely as the black woman who asked about their green initiatives is considering McCain. Puh-leez.
No one I know is jumping off the cliff and I'm spending practically every waking hour talking about this election, the candidates and doing what I can to convince the guilt-ridden-whiney-assed-liberals I work with up here in Connectuct but........ McCain needs to do his part here if he intends to win and your personal delusions will not alter reality. It's time for the man to start behaving like he knows how to win and wants to but I didn't see it tonight. If you believe you did then God bless you because I do not want to live under that fascist liberal extremist's regime for the next four years.
Just calling it like I see it and (as one would expect) my version of reality looks much more real (to me) than yours does.
I’ll tell you another moment that was memorable for me.
I can’t remember WHAT Obama even got mad about, but I DO remember his little childish response.
AHHHH.. Can I have a time to respond. I want to respond. Please, I want to respond. Give me some more time to respond.
(McCain) Well, if you give him another time to respond, please provide one for me then as well.
And then Obama goes on to rant and rave like a child because it appeared to me at home that he had his feelings hurt and wanted to show how good he really was.
As I said, I can’t even remember what it was he said. I just remember his little childish rant and his absolute insistence on getting more time to talk about something and arguing that he wanted more time when he was at first told it was against the rules they all worked on. Well, he wanted more time and he argued for it just like my kids do when they ask for something and don’t get their way.
As I said, I don’t even remember the words, but his childish rant was very memorable indeed.
Not statesman like. Not mature. Not controlled at all.
I’ll tell you another moment that was memorable for me.
I can’t remember WHAT Obama even got mad about, but I DO remember his little childish response.
AHHHH.. Can I have a time to respond. I want to respond. Please, I want to respond. Give me some more time to respond.
(McCain) Well, if you give him another time to respond, please provide one for me then as well.
And then Obama goes on to rant and rave like a child because it appeared to me at home that he had his feelings hurt and wanted to show how good he really was.
As I said, I can’t even remember what it was he said. I just remember his little childish rant and his absolute insistence on getting more time to talk about something and arguing that he wanted more time when he was at first told it was against the rules they all worked on. Well, he wanted more time and he argued for it just like my kids do when they ask for something and don’t get their way.
As I said, I don’t even remember the words, but his childish rant was very memorable indeed.
Not statesman like. Not mature. Not controlled at all.
Thank you for your hard work on behalf of McCain.
I yelled at the tv during the Holocaust line, too. Does Obama not recollect WWII?
In any event, I thought contrasts were drawn between their positions on:
health care
foreign policy
solutions to economic problems
and I liked McCain of course on all the above - tax credits, talk softly and carry a big stick, and focus on energy solutions.
Sorry for the double post. I must have been heavy handed there!
Aw no, stay at FR and be junkies like us!!
I am with you 100% and when McCain said he puts Country First it made Obama look like a total Clymer who puts himself first.
I think that one of the reasons it was so boring to everybody is because if you haven’t already made up your mind by now...you never will. I think this debate had a purpose in that it just continued to reinforce the differences between the two of them. I predicted this to my parents yesterday, if McCain didn’t come out and physically punch Obama, the FreeRepublic folk would scream defeat at the top of their lungs.
I have been a proud member of FreeRepublic since GWB’s first campaign. We use to have so much fun on here, beating up the Democrats, fighting with them tooth and nail and having a LOT of fun in the process. We had an unstated rule though: You support your candidate no matter what! That does not mean in any way, shape or form that we agreed with him 100%, just that we never showed the least doubt in the choice that we made. Doubt is the very seed of defeat.We weathered a lot of battles together and forged some meaningful FRiendships.
I took a subatical for the last couple of years from FreeRepublic and I came back recently due to the election, I always seem to gravitate back here. I came back to a VERY different FreeRepublic. I honestly was shocked. FreeRepublic has become a pandering, lilly-livered, whining and even treasonous wander-land. If some of the comments that are currently on the forum today had been posted 6 years ago, you would have been tarred, feathered and kicked in the butt until you didn’t which end was up. And dare I mention it? You would have also been banned. Which is probably what I will be after saying all this. It brings tears to my eyes to see how this forum has fallen. We used to accomplish so much. As I scan through some of the posts, every once in awhile I’ll see a name I recognize, I’ll read their post and see that they haven’t changed. God bless them.
Maybe some day FreeRepublic will get a backbone again.....
I forgot to add in my last post a thank you to you Casinva for posting this thread, more of this is needed on here.
If Sarah wasn’t on this ticket McCain would be on life support. We will prevail.
I personally believe the word “Bipartisan” should be removed from the English language.
I also believe that the phrase “My Friends” should be abolished.
And don’t get me going about UH,UH,UH....
I felt the same way. McCain is such a real hero and loves his country deeply. When he speaks as he did, it does give you hope, courage and even more love for America and its people.
If anything is taken from this debate it is the fact that this is a real man who will do everything in his power to do what is right for the American people. That is the man I want leading America!
Yes he did do well on those issues. Geesh I was so down after watching that debate. Now I’m taking a deep breath.
You know what, the guy asked for no negative comments, but did you honor that request? Hell no, you had to go and get a negative shot in there didn’t you? Well be as negative as you want, but McCain won this debate. The fact is the MSM will give it to bozObama no matter what. Anyone who didn’t see McCain as the clear winner tonight has something wrong with them. Take your negative comments to other threads as the poster of this thread requested. Have a little frickin’ integrity, that is if any resides in you.
I really appreciated how McCain explained that raising taxes on those earning > 250K will inhibit small business hiring. That was a pleasant surprise.
(Obama then proceeded to incorrectly claim that few small business owners earn > 250K, as if that should alleviate the concern.)
One other thing that struck me about one of obama’s answers was how he changed the prioritization of energy, health care, and entitlement plans to energy, health care and EDUCATION...
perhaps under a obama presidency there will be no more entitlements except for the right to government health care (or else), mandated “voluntary” service, the right to indoctrinate our kids by the education system, and the right to be prosecuted for not agreeing with his doctrine...;)
RBMP85,
Thank you so much for your comment and also for your observation and for sharing that.
I started Free Republic back in Bill Clinton’s presidency, and I can assure you we had some fun back then. Bill sure gave us food for fodder! LOL I had many 2:00 am threads with Nick Danger and many others, some are still here, of whose opinions I so cherished and appreciated. Cherished because we all with all of our insights, wisdom, and knowledge could make sense of life— and appreciated because all together — well, we made one strong opponent to any candidate, party, or individual when we all came together as we could on Free Republic.
That’s not to say we are all the same, but we sure do have many of the same goals.
LET’S KEEP OUR EYES ON OUR GOALS NOW TOO!
And again, RBMP85, thank you so much. I really do appreciate your comment there.
McCain lost when he proposed another $300 billion plan to bail out home “owners” that cannot afford their mortgages. Is this is what the Republican party now stands for then count me out.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.