The Presidential Debate Thread- McCain, Obama,who won?, who rambles off subject more?

I hope they call each other the things they claim the others are in the ads. McCain should come out on top.


When Obama is stuttering and stumbling over his words he is lying.

 

I just watched the first 10 minutes and Obama is making McCain look old and clueless.

So far...

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McCain comin' back a little....and I'm officially bored. TV OFF!

 

McCain is waxing Obama again. Brokow gave them a question and said put them in priority. Obama rambled off subject again. Now Obama does not want to follow the rules.

 

Oh, lord, man. McCain's answer: "we can do it all." (nothing substantive - lost - wandering around on stage). Obama's: "prioritization, as any family must do." First - energy policy (points); second - healthcare (points); 3rd -education (points).

I am actually, sincerely saddened for McCain. He's lost. He's trying to land jokes that fall flat (that worked really well, "how big is the fine...budumdum..."), and seems like a guy stuck on a record that is no longer working properly.

If something drastic doesn't happen in the next half hour, game over. Obama's star is rising, McCain is losing his talking points, and he needed a dramatic shift in the opposite direction. Every attempted smear and attack is falling miserably flat, every attempted "my friends" strategy is falling on deaf ears, and, unless I'm seeing something wrong, he has come off as close to losing it, not something that serves him well. Absent a huge, tidal shift in just a few short minutes, game, match, over.

 

Wow..... just wow.

You must be one of the 12% of Americans that think the country is headed in the right direction. Or the 28% of Americans that give Bush a favorable rating.

Am I right? Did I win a prize?

You're like gwhirled for the conservatives. I love it

 

Are you watching the debate between McCain and Obama?

 

I think he was ( I still need to watch it - Dam DVR Freezes after about 30 secs thro.....) But I am Expecting that Obama Made McCain look like a complete idiot


-Chris

 

I am glad you are not bias.

 

LOL - yes, Biz. The one that's not on the Disney Channel, which is apparently the one you watched.

Debate finished. A prediction, John McCain has lost this election.

 

Obama went into this with low expectations because this is supposed to be McCain's strong venue. And Obama held his own.

So does that mean that Democrats should be jumping up and down shouting "VICTORY he wiped the floor with him" like the Republicans did when Palin held her own?

Or not so much?

 

That's not a predition I think most people realize this.


OBAMA: "I believe this is a final verdict on the failed economic policies of the last eight years, strongly promoted by President Bush and supported by Senator McCain, that essentially said that we should strip away regulations, consumer protections, let the market run wild, and prosperity would rain down on all of us. It hasn't worked out that way. And so now we've got to take some decisive action."

THE FACTS: McCain has favored less regulation over the years but supported tighter rules and accountability on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years before the start of a financial crisis prompted in part by those giant mortgage underwriters. Obama was not a leader in that unsuccessful effort. Some of the current problems can be traced to legislation passed in 1999 that lifted many regulations over the financial industry. That deregulation was championed by then-Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, a McCain supporter, but also by President Clinton, who signed the legislation, and by former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, now a top Obama economic adviser.



Source

 

It was basically a rerun. 98% of the questions were asked during their last debate, and they were answered exactly the same way. Neither Obama or McCain gained any ground, it was impossible. What a stagnant, and pointless event.

 

LOL. Enjoy your positively intended gray rep, sir.

 

Yeah I was thinking going into this there really isn't much he can do.... With his only objective left now being the long standing Republican smear and fear tactic, his problem is he couldn't fall back on that tactic. Had he done so tonight he would have looked like the angry crazy old guy we all know and love. So he had to come at Obama on policy. Problem is Obama answered all his attacks on policy.

Yet he NEEDED this debate to turn around the swing towards Obama. I don't think that happened for him.

Phew, we dodged a bullet there America. You guys almost put John McCain and a hokey folksy hockey mom who you didn't even know 30 days ago in the white house

 

Agree. Nothing new came out of this one. Obama didn't slip up and scream Allahu Akbar after he mentioned the tragedy of 911 and McCain didn't accidentally praise Obama as being a pretty smart negro(he's not Biden, after all LOL ).

 

Quoted for continued lolz.

 

..and according to the polls just after the debate, that is the whole kit and caboodle.

That is funny. I nearly snortted out a mouthful of coca-cola reading that.

 

LOL, Biden seems like a very nice man but boy, does he put his foot in it at times.

 

He does stutter a lot. I wonder if he had a problem with it as a child.

 

I must be watching a different guy - seriously. Can either of you provide some examples?

Honest to god, I was nonplussed by this perception, so I did a search, for "Obama stutters." Here's what comes up:

http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=obama+stutters&FORM=MSNH11

and here's google's version:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=obama+stutters&aq=f&oq=

Great sites devoted to his "stuttering." The first MSN site, wow - really special.

I guess I see "stutter" as seriously stumbling over words, literally, an inability to get across an idea due to a malady. Forget all else - is anyone seriously trying to argue Obama can't speak, while McCain is the Grand Communicator, Redux?

'Course, the "stuttering" thing does have its more logical adherents, and "lovers of freedom." Again, really special, from the "Landover Baptist Church":