OK, What Did You Think of The Debate

There's 90 minutes I'll never get back. (0.00 / 0)

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by: huntsu @ Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 02:31:05 AM UTC

I don't think (0.00 / 0)

this debate will really change very much.

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by: Jason Springer @ Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 02:34:11 AM UTC

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I also thought it was boring (0.00 / 0)

I don't see how this changes anything, other than reinforce McCain's image as a nasty old man.


Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

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by: Hopeful @ Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 02:45:15 AM UTC

MSNBC focus group in Missouri (0.00 / 0)

Says Ayers attack backfired with independents and even a bit with undecided Republicans.


Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

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by: Hopeful @ Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 02:49:19 AM UTC

CNN poll is good for Obama (4.00 / 1)

The country plainly wants Obama to be President.

Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

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by: Hopeful @ Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:04:44 AM UTC

Gergen quote of the day on CNN (0.00 / 0)

Shown the instant poll showing Obama winning on every issue and asked what McCain's message should be besides "I won the debate"

Gergen: "Beats the hell of me."


Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

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by: Hopeful @ Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:28:19 AM UTC

Finally (4.00 / 1)

It's so nice to watch debates this year and have the post-debate polls reflect my opinion, instead of twisting around what I thought I saw with my own eyes. Credit the snap-polls, thwarting the pundit idiots.

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by: Jeff Gardner @ Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 04:05:39 AM UTC

Obama Won; But He Could Have Demolished McCain... (0.00 / 0)

Now McCain gets to spend three weeks lying, muddying the waters, distorting, trashing, and character assassinating with no need to ever look Obama in the eye again before election day.

There were places where Obama could have thoroughly destroyed McCain without being nasty or "negative" but by simply and intelligently stating the obvious.

The attempt by McCain to draw some kind of moral equivalency between Congressman Lewis' remarks and the way his campaign has characterized Obama as a dangerous terrorist worthy of being killed (which in effect is just the kind of hatred that's been stirred up on the all the right wing hate radio shows) was insane.

Obama should have called him on that and reminded America that we have real world problems to deal with and that we don't have the luxury of playing personal destruction games....and roundly condemning John McCain for allowing his campaign and his surrogates throughout the right wing media to paint Obama as a complete monster.

Lewis's critique was mostly correct.  He wasn't saying that McCain IS George Wallace, just that the results of stirring up hatred could be the instigation of violence.

George Wallace himself never threw a bomb or killed anyone but others did as a result of Wallaces' stirring up of hatred and fear.  That's precisely what Palin/McCain have been doing.

God forbid anything should ever happen to Obama at the hands of a crazed right wing nutjob who's delusion is that he has to take out Obama to "save the USA".   In that scenario both Palin and McCain would have blood on their hands.  THAT'S what Lewis was talking about and he was right!

If Obama had said words to that effect he would have demolished McCain.

I realize that I'm in the minority in that belief, evidently the conventional wisdom is that Obama has to remain a relatively passive punching bag lest he be seen as an "angry black man".

So McCain and Palin get away with screaming bloody murder when they get a toe stepped on; but they are allowed to hack away at Obama with a razor sharp machete at will.

Obama should win this; but it will be a lot closer than it should have been....and his coat tails won't be as long as they should have been.

The voter suppression and machine tampering and long lines and caging will be the story on November 4th.

Will McCain be able to steal and to suppress enough votes to compensate for a 7 to 10 point deficit?  Let's hope not.

And McCain's remark that he would build 42 nuclear power plants "right away" was just plain stupid and ignorant.  It would take 20 years to accomplish that if the process were properly engaged and not dangerously rushed.  

Meanwhile, no insurance company was willing to ever provide insurance for these things, which is why the are all "insured" by the taxpayers....that's how "safe" they are.

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by: Nick Lento @ Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 04:42:29 AM UTC

Oddly, Obama was the adult. (0.00 / 0)

The impression I got was that McCain came off like the little kid at a cocktail party, always interrupting to get attention, while Obama looked like the parent saying "Johnny, please, the adults are talking...."

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by: Zames @ Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 15:59:14 PM UTC