McCain blew telling the truth about the CRA,Fannie Mae, Frank and Dodd ad allowed the Big Lie to become the truth.
He blew the economic debate, the dominant issue.
for a messiah, Obama had nothing to offer. Since economic insecurity has driven the electorate in his direction, his failure to put anything at all on the table negates his postion as the economic choice. Therefore, , the electorate is wise to make its choice on other factors, and that opens it wide open for MCCain.
McCain, is McCain, is McCain. From the McCain who brought us McCain/Feingold, and McCain/Kennedy, can we expect a leopard to change it’s spots. Unfortunately not.
But the CNN focus group seemed to give him a pretty good score, so maybe the independents see something we conservatives don’t.
As I’ve said before, I don’t want Obama to win, so I’ll vote for McCain. But do I think a McCain Presidency will be an easy thing to take, heck no, it’s going to be frsutrating most of the time.
No, Hussein Osama/Obama had that goofy boy next door look the whole night. His advisors coached him well. He hid well in the sheeps clothing.
McCain doesn’t fight. It’s just not his style.
I don’t know why and it ***is*** hurting him.
Why do you think Conservatives are so hip for Palin?
The debate itself was terrible. Brokaw picked questions that he, himself would ask on Meet the Press. They were not questions the average American wanted asked and answered. They were generic. That helps Obama. It doesn’t necessarily hurt McCain but doesn’t help him. It was a total wasted opportunity given what the format should have been. Brokaw sucked.
Was McCain trying to not appear “erratic” as BO has claimed recently? Did BO snooker Mac?
Hey McCarthy,
Aren’t you the a-hole who got Fitz to go after Scooter? Great job, now go vote for the One and STFU.
This post is not helpful in the least. McCain was clearly the more sincere, for those capable of discerning who is lying and who is not. Obama told some enormous whoppers and continued a swagger worse than W that is a complete turn-off to anyone who truly does value our national security.
That means HE is toast.
Barack Obama received at least some instruction in the Islamic faith of his father and went with him to the mosque, but the importance of this experience is vastly overstated by conservative commentators who seek to portray Obama as a Muslim of sorts. Radical anti-Americanism, rather than Islam, was the reigning faith in the Dunham household. ...
Barack Obama is a clever fellow who imbibed hatred of America with his mother's milk, but worked his way up the elite ladder of education and career. He shares the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of American culture, although not their religion. He has the empathetic skill set of an anthropologist who lives with his subjects, learns their language, and elicits their hopes and fears while remaining at emotional distance. That is, he is the political equivalent of a sociopath. The difference is that he is practicing not on a primitive tribe but on the population of the United States.
There is nothing mysterious about Obama's methods. "A demagogue tries to sound as stupid as his audience so that they will think they are as clever as he is," wrote Karl Krauss. Americans are the world's biggest suckers, and laugh at this weakness in their popular culture. Listening to Obama speak, Sinclair Lewis' cynical tent-revivalist Elmer Gantry comes to mind, or, even better, Tyrone Power's portrayal of a carnival mentalist in the 1947 film noire Nightmare Alley. The latter is available for instant viewing at Netflix, and highly recommended as an antidote to having felt uplifted by an Obama speech. ..."
Article: Obama's women reveal his secret
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html
A good night's sleep
"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."[2]
[2] Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm
I also think it was a disaster, especially when coupled with the first debate, which was also a disaster. They were both disasters because of the missed opportunities. The debates are when you can speak directly to the people, and McCain hasn't used them to his advantage at all. McCain can't count on MSNBCABCAPCBSCNN to get his message out to the people.
Also, what in the hell is so dammed great about working with democrats? Are democrats never wrong on an issue? The best question possible to McCain would be, "Senator, is there an issue that you would not reach across party lines to solve"? Are liberals wrong about anything? They could ask McCain what he would do about an asteroid about to hit the Earth, and he would respond saying he would work with democrats... WTF?!?!
McCain's insistence on being the nice guy who reaches across the aisle will be his downfall and ours as well. I see things as they are not as I wish they were.
P.S. I have a P12. Love it.
Too little too late now.
Game over.
McCain explained very carefully in the beginning that you have to examine the record as well as listen to the rhetoric before you decide. I think he should have closed with a with a reminder of that key point.
Obama sounds very reasonable but his record does not support him.
to: fightinJAG
"Shut up, McCarthy! Have a little discipline to use brain before opening mouth."
So you think McCarthy is giving up some National Security secret here by stating the obvious? As much as I wish it were otherwise, and I most certainly wish it were, it is what it is. McCain's performance tonight was so lame as to be either intentionally throwing the election or haplessly incompetent, you can choose between the two, but it's one of those.
All we have left is for Palin to win this in spite of McCain, because Johnny's doing nothing for his own cause.
I hope McCain has a plan becasue I didnt see it tonight...FWIW, the Obaminals will open up a more solid lead unless someone starts to unload like Palin has been doing and the 527’s.....something!