I've got a bracelet, too ...
Posted on 09/26/2008 11:46:08 PM PDT by Zakeet
I've got a bracelet, too ...
I scored it 5-3 for McCain. It was pretty civil until Obama started smirking and kept saying not true when McCain was on the offensive. McCain needed to go after the Dems on Fannie Mae and hammer it home that they blocked legislation a few years ago to rein this crap on Wall St.
I thought it was disrespectful of Obama to keep calling McCain by his first name.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
!!!!!!!!BAM!!!!!!!!!!!
When Barak made that stupid bracelet comment, my husband whispered Bracelet? I’ve got a Super Secret Decoder Ring!”
*LOL*
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It had the feel of Cheney violating Edwards in every way possible in a debate back in the VP debate of ‘04. Of course, nothing can really ever match that bloodletting.
But McCain definitely hit Obama hard. I think Obama was deft and for those who care about appearances more than substance, he appeared to be holding his own. But when thinking about what was said, McCain definitely won. McCain could’ve scored a knockout by tying the current bailout issue to the Dems’ love of Fannie/Freddie and push of mortgages to people with bad or no credit, along with Obama’s fundraising from those companies.
I know it’s petty , but i think that bracelet thing will leave a mark. People like it simple. Remember Potatoe ?
What really struck me about the economic debate was how even in the midst of “the worst economy since the Great Depression” where 0bama and Bush are scheming together to give away $700 billion tax dollars to Wall Street, that 0bama can only talk about how much more money he wants to spend. How much more out of touch can a guy be?
I think 0bama detonated a timebomb on himself and he may not even know it yet.
For a week Americans have been hearing the answer to “so how much is this going to cost us” and the last thing anyone wants to hear is how the guy who wants to be President is going to increase spending in Washington.
McCain could have done more to exploit this during the debate, though I’m sure the McCain campaign will more than make up for it in the coming weeks.
It appeared to me that, at the beginning of the debate, McCain was trying to portray himself as a consensus builder, someone who can work with both sides of the aisle, as opposed to Obama who consistently attacks Republicans. I don’t think that McCain wanted to come across as laying all of the blame on the Democrats for the financial mess, since he is still trying to work with all parties to craft a solution to the nation’s financial problem. It seemed to me that this was an attempt by McCain to appeal to the undecided moderates and independents, since he didn’t need to appease the Conservatives who are going to vote for him. I am not sure McCain succeeded.
I thought McCain did much better in the second half of the debate when he focused more on policy and his experience.
I thought Obama came across as someone who can be rattled. His facial expressions and head shaking when McCain jabbed him reminded me of Al Gore’s antics in the first debate with Bush - amateurish in a diplomatic setting.
I don’t know if anyone else noticed but, while McCain mentioned the need to protect Israel and Jews several times, Obama did not mention either even once unless I missed it. The debate was supposed to be about foreign policy and Obama doesn’t even mention the only true friend that America has in the Middle East? Will that go unnoticed by American Jews?
Although Obama was more eloquent, I thought that McCain got the better of the “quips” – “hard to reach across the aisle when you are that far left” – “so Iran says they are going to wipe Israel off the face of the earth and we say no you’re not?”
As I anticipated, Obama won on style and McCain won on substance. The loser was the moderator.
I guess we will find out whether style or substance is more important to the majority of the American electorate on November 4th.
Good summary.
I have a bracelet too lol
If I hear any more whining about “main street” I’m going to scream. “Main street” took out these crappy loans that got us into this mess. “Main street” is just a bad as the crooked lenders and corrupt politicians who engaged in this crap.
I'll read through this in a little while (and this post is bookmarking it) since I didn't see it all.
What I did see was that McCain just made more sense overall and I thought Obama came across as arrogant, humorless and phony.
Then again, I admit that I am a bit biased. ;-)
I strongly suspect that McCain was right and Zero was wrong.
I think that McCain won on style because he seemed more presidential and more safe. Obama looked like a gamble.
You are right. McCain won by far but it didn’t seem like he did that well. Obama was really a windbag, lot of generalities, lots of weaseling. No specifics to speak of. But in his windbaggedness he makes himself appear smarter and more attuned than he is. He even stole a couple of ideas from McCain and said “John is right” at least 6 times. That’s gonna come back as a commercial for McCain.
But it was generally an unexciting debate and I found myself struggling to stay awake watching it.
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