Obama is not a mama. McCain is a pain…

in how the dynamic between the Obama-Ayers and McCain-Keating 5 is shaping up. The two aren’t really comparable at all, but Obama bringing up Keating may have enough resonance in relation to the current situation to put a really bad taste in people’s mouths.

Sexual Tension.

I think it’s the cover-up of a conspiracy to unite the dollar to form a north american currency…or to join it with the euro in hopes that we will move towards a one-world currency.

But who has time for this silliness when collateral estoppel cases need reading?

Here’s my one prediction for the night, though: Both will be nonresponsive and conclusory, and no matter what, ben will declare victory for McCain because “it’s on a curve”.

He will also still be grotesque, incapable of logical thought, and devoid of meaningful personal relationships.

Guess that’s two predictions. Oh well!

(As a disclaimer, I’d like to add that I’m a completely oversensitive prick with no perspective and a history of lies and fruitless argumentation, not to mention my gigantic liberal streak.)

And I’m out.

throw the kitchen sink John, or else you’re toast.

obamacrimes.com

The cases.

McCain is coming off very well. Thought it was funny that Obama decried finger-pointing while he was literally pointing his finger at McCain.

Brokow is about to beat someone down…

“That one”?

that Michelle Obama is in the audience “taking up a seat that could be for another undecided voter.” I haven’t noticed her, I guess. But I really don’t think it’s that big of a deal. Is it?

CNN squiggly line thing? Its like all the women (orange line) accidentally turned it to the + knob by accident and kept it there.

Terrific.

…but McCain’s biggest problem is that he hasn’t been able to land a big hit on Obama. It’s been jab-jab-jab, but no haymaker. And Obama’s been landing his own shots, too.

McCain needs a big one.

He’s got 12 minutes to throw — and land — a haymaker.

The question now, LSB:

GIVE THE SCORE OF THIS DEBATE AS IF IT WERE A BASEBALL GAME.

maybe the edge goes to mccain.

i felt the first debate was a draw to slight edge to obama.

biden obviously beat palin.

mccain needed to win this decisively.

the questions sucked, tom brokow cherrypicking the questions sucked…if they’re going to do a townhall format, actually DO a freaking townhall format and let the people ask their questions….geez, that was boring and repetitive…we already knew everything that each candidate said…

uberlameness by brokow.

iran.

does mccain not realize that the US military has been bombing pakistan?

http://drudgereport.com/

For once I agree with Longhorn. I watched the debate with three friends: two Democrats and a Republican. We were all baffled at the format. There was no time to answer anything. No way to respond. We also came to the conclusion that those people were reading the questions for the first time.

In any event, both candidates did an okay job given the restraints. McCain needs to do more than Obama, obviously, and I don’t think he did that.

Obama’s “intervention” answer is going to get, vis a vis Iraq.

The other thing is that there’s really not a whole lot of difference between these guys. I mean they’re both elbowing each other out of the way trying to slob the middle class’ knob.

Ran across this in Rolling Stone. It’s extremely slanted but an interesting read if, for nothing else, stuff like this:

“He’s going to be Bush on steroids,” says Johns, the retired brigadier general who has known McCain since their days at the National War College. “His hawkish views now are very dangerous. He puts military at the top of foreign policy rather than diplomacy, just like George Bush does. He and other neoconservatives are dedicated to converting the world to democracy and free markets, and they want to do it through the barrel of a gun.”

and this:

During his 1992 campaign, at the end of a long day, McCain’s wife, Cindy, mussed his receding hair and needled him playfully that he was “getting a little thin up there.” McCain reportedly blew his top, cutting his wife down with the kind of language that had gotten him hauled into court as a high schooler: “At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c**t.”

Just seems like some of this stuff about McCain is so damning that it can’t possibly be legit.

http://www.vulomedia.com/images/62548electiontrains.jpg

that has to be a win for him. Any debate that’s not a clear win for McCain is a loss. Since folks were comparing it to a baseball game, it looks to me like a 0-0 inning, and we are getting closer to the 9th.

It is over for McCain. It has been since the focus of the campaign went to the economy. His response (or lack of) was terrible. Obama is where he is today due to his anti-war stance. He looks good. Sounds good. But talk is cheap. Get ready for a Pelosi-Reid-Obama White House and New Deal II.

Is doing everything he can to get me to not vote for him by saying he will buy up bad mortgages to refinance them for people. This sort of populist gibberish is John Edwards-esque, and is despicable say-what-they-want-to-hear politics. That isn’t leadership, that is pandering.

I personally feel like Obama is far too dangerously naive to be President, so McCain goes and picks Palin, who is equally so. But I’d rather have a naive VP than a naive Pres, so I could deal with it.

I think Obama’s spending plans are over-the-top and unnecessary – but at least he pays for them and recognizes that a ballooning deficit is bad. McCain argues for cutting corporate taxes – something I agree with – but he cannot make a coherent argument in favor of it. Do we really want a man who can’t come up with “Cutting corporate taxes will create jobs and ultimately raise revenue” as an argument?

Obama’s Iraq war stance is too black and white – an irony coming from a man whose positions are typically nuanced, whereas I can’t help but think he’ll fail to stand up to Iran. But McCain’s foreign policy is too extreme the other way, and

Finally, neither McCain nor Obama has shown ANY leadership on the economic crisis. Obama has chosen to play it safe and make phone calls – yeah, way to step up in a crisis that will no doubt dominate your first term. And McCain, for all his bluster about returning to Washington, did nothing to stop the flow of pork that he is so adamant about stopping. Hypocrite. Pointing fingers – which is pretty much all either has done – is not leadership. I can’t help but think that either Hillary or Rudy would have shown far more charisma and leadership in the last few weeks than either of these guys.

I’m disgusted by both of these options and sad about the prospects of this country.

As someone who works for a defense contractor, I am convinced that if McCain is elected I will lose my job. In both Presidential debates, he highlighted his desire to cut spending on defense contracts. I work at Lockheed Martin and I’m willing to bet a President McCain will seek to cancel the F-35 contract to save money. He’s already pressured the department of defense to outsource plane building to the European subsidized EADS. Basically, voting for McCain would be voting for my own lay off. Please God, for the sake of my family, let Obama win on November 4th.

Debate Transcript

I first proposed a long time ago that we would have to examine every agency and every bureaucracy of government. And we’re going to have to eliminate those that aren’t working.


I know a lot of them that aren’t working. One of them is in defense spending, because I’ve taken on some of the defense contractors. I saved the taxpayers $6.8 billion in a deal for an Air Force tanker that was done in a corrupt fashion.


I believe that we have to eliminate the earmarks. And sometimes those projects, not — not the overhead projector that Sen. Obama asked for, but some of them that are really good projects, will have — will have to be eliminated, as well.


And they’ll have to undergo the same scrutiny that all projects should in competition with others.


So we’re going to have to tell the American people that spending is going to have to be cut in America. And I recommend a spending freeze that — except for defense, Veterans Affairs, and some other vital programs, we’ll just have to have across-the-board freeze.

How many electoral votes will Obama end up with?

I’m going to guess 330’s.

Switch the names Obama and McCain in this post and it is what I would have predicted.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/07/politics/fromtheroad/entry4507703.shtml

Interesting, fun read.

I think Republicans would be in better shape if Romney was the candidate given his economics prowess.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/08/voting_graphic.html

Here is a fun stat sheet. Looks good for Obama – 39-3(!) edge in voter identification as Democrat over Republican. But the absolute numbers are tiny – only 28,000 early voters in a state that Kerry lost by 100,000+. Does anyone know if Obama or McCain tried to get people out for early voting?

various liveblogs of the debate, and came across this one, which I found pretty funny…

http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/10/07/town-hall-liveblog/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_national_debt_clock

The joys of having a president who almost doubled the national debt, and probably will double the national debt after the financial mess is all bailed out.

You know that you are in trouble when the New Republican and the National Review think your idea is foolish pandering and unnecessary.

The New Republic’s post, which outlines McCain’s foolishness

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/10/09/mccain-s-screwy-mortgage-plan.aspx

From the National Review article Sheiber links to – NR is not exactly the standard bearer of the Obama camp…

We never thought we would defend the Frank-Dodd legislation, which we bitterly opposed last summer. But it looks downright prudent compared to what McCain has proposed. McCain’s plan is a full bailout for lenders, and it cannot do much more than the Frank-Dodd bill without letting "ruthless borrowers" and other reckless types off the hook. It is time to acknowledge that the government has gone as far as it can without creating a level of moral hazard that is unacceptable. Give Frank-Dodd — and the Paulson plan — time to work.

http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MjNiM2QzZjVjZGQ3YjUyNzFjMGRlZDNmNzc3NzM2NWY=

Nov 5 would hurry up and get here.

that when the Republicans talked about bringing us back to the good ol’ days, they were talking about bringing us back to the ’30s.

i no longer support him. i am now either gonna go with mckinney or nader.

i’m really worried at some of the anger and violence coming out of the republican side right now… and its hard to say some part of it isn’t racially motivated… david gergen on CNN said the same… the attacks the mccain campaign is leaning on right might leave the country fractured, doubly not good when considering all the things the country has going on… and i’m starting to feel like this is going to be another election where we don’t know the victor for days because of lawyer interventions….

in a NY county

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=728326

I feel afraid for Barack’s well being if he is elected.

And I just saw this story, this could be another huge blow to McCain’s campaign:

for having the courage to get in front of philly sports fans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd4wQd_gbj8&eurl=http://dailykos.com/