Back in this blog’s early days, I used to “live-blog” events like speeches and debates. Haven’t live-blogged in a long time. Why break the streak tonight?
I invite you to “live-comment” tonight’s presidential debate. Discuss the candidate’s answers, appearance, and anything else of relevance. Topics of interest to me: immigration (McCain voted for amnesty, so I don’t know what else I’m expecting from him – very disappointing selection), the war in Iraq and how to deal with global terrorism, and the developing Cold War, Part II.
TV-less? Watch it live at CNN.com beginning at 9 p.m. ET. Live-blogging at MM, and trackbackers probably will do the same. Live-blogging and chatting at Hot Air.
As always, thanks for reading and participating on my blog. 
Rest easy, everybody.
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The first debate was supposed to be about foreign policy, but the first part ended up being about the economic “crisis”. Which is understandable, since Iraq and foreign policy in general has become a major liability for Democrats.
When the debate finally turned to foreign policy, we got to watch the Messiah and his Yes-I’ll-attack-Pakistan/No-I-won’t fumbling. He still cannot call for victory in Iraq.
Let’s say we get “actionable intelligence” about Osama bin Ladin and the Messiah launches a military strike on Pakistan that destabilizes the government there. Is The Chosen One prepared to:
(1) invade Pakistan and possibly occupy it in order to recover Pakistan’s nukes (to keep them out of the hands of Islamic terrorists)?
(2) Or will He do what Jimmy Carter did in Iran – pompously pose about “human rights” and sit idly by while Islamofascists take over a nuclear state?
(3) Or will He blame Bush?
I suspect it will be a combination of (2) and (3), unless He is dumber than He sounds.
McCain was stronger, but watch the media try to spin.
As a conservative, I wish that McCain had butterfly punched Obama on his tax and spend junk. Also, when is McCain go after Obama’s tax cuts to 95% of country when only 40% of the country pays taxes? Obama plans to send “refund” checks to nearly everyone and he is calling that a tax cut. Beltwayspeak at its worst.
I do not expect to see McCain hailed as a winner, but neither do I expect to find Obama getting a bump in the polls. (Well, at least the polls that are not conducted to attain a desired result.)
(this one is more about BHO than mccain or palin).
if mccain’s campaign had come up w/something like this, what do you think the response from the msm would be?
video: http://www.kmov.com/video/index.html?nvid=285793&shu=1
text: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/missouri-sheriffs-prosecuters-form.html
what?! the msm pointed out that biden lied? i guess the author didn’t get the memo.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080927/ap_on_el_pr/biden_health_care_fact_check
I know this will sound crazy. I’m sooo tired of these two phony champions of the left and right paradigm. Anybody with a brain can see that both these men are figureheads. The power behind these men is the same. Wake up people whoever wins, America loses.
Also, when is McCain go after Obama’s tax cuts to 95% of country when only 40% of the country pays taxes?[Heliotrope]
YES…I have been wondering why McCain is leaving that on the table. According to the most recent figures, 50,000,000 tax filers paid NOTHING.
Recently, I read a piece by an economist noting that BOs figures are highly flawed as they use today’s figures for their baseline. The truth is that BO is ALSO going to let the Bush tax cuts to the middle class expire [they were even larger than the tax cuts to the rich though one would never know that from the media]. His contention is that BOs tax cuts will not offset the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. Essentially, the crabs in the bucket will ONLY be pulling the top ones down, not lifting the bottom ones up.
Could this be true?
Obama was more “presidential” than McCain.
Presidential?
Let’s cut to the chase and have Hollywood cast the clown. Chris Dodd was born looking “presidential.” But he has air between his ears and can’t get past striking poses.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most “presidential” looking of them all? (”Chin up a bit and to the right. Get a klieg light from the lower left. Look slightly left. Now, promise houses and health care for everyone. Free college. 30 hour work week. Free pizza and beer. Energy independence by Friday. Common man therapy from the Oval Office. Now, slightly arch the left eyebrow.)
“Obama was more “presidential” than McCain.” Appearances are deceiving…and hope is not a presidential policy.
Football loving Americans would rather obtain the straight bottom line results of the Friday night debate outcome. The scoreboard never lies and there it is boys and girls in large print. It was a shutout no question about it. You knew Obama was in trouble when he uttered the following memorable line:
“I have a bracelet too… [looking all over his wrists to find the name in that bracelet]. Uuuuhhmmm his [insert name here] mother gave it to me…”
Does that mean you guys think McCain was more presidential or are you just mocking me?
Obama won the evening, while McCain rattled off how great he is, where he’s been in the World, how many officers and President’s know him personally, blah, blah, blah. But he shouldn’t even be in this race Repubs? Why? He should take his attache’ and go home, he’s cruel, arrogant and dull witted. He is no hero of mine, he’s too dangerous.
McVain might not had a gaffe, but he missed plenty of chances to smack Obambi down. He let BO “claim” that he was the first and only one to raise the alarm on Fannie Mae 2 years ago.
BO also dropped a few whoppers on the foreign policy that went unchallenged. By the time the battle of the bracelets came around, I was so disgusted with McVain, I turned off the radio.
Fie on the gutless wonder that can’t suspend his unwarranted faith in an imaginary world of bi-partisan kumbaya and draw blood against an opponent desperately seeking his head.
Perhaps Juan Amigo should get blamed for the Fannie Mae fiasco — he rolled over when his friends across the aisle showed no interest in his proposal to reign in Fannie Mae. He didn’t want to beat them over the head again and again, because that’s not what friends do. On the other hand, to beat & rail against your fellow party members is simply being a maverick.
If McVain wins this election, he will only have VP Palin to thank for it.
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