Senator John McCain 42% (1,265 votes)
Senator Barack Obama 56% (1,661 votes)
It Was a Draw - Both Candidates Performed Well 1% (41 votes)
It Was a Draw - Neither Candidate Performed Well 1% (22 votes)
Posted on 10/15/2008 8:16:48 PM PDT by DrHannibalLecter
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Freep poll on bottom right
Joe The Plumber
THE MEDIA
Frankly, I think people should be taxed on receiving health insurance they don’t have to pay for from their employers. It is in addition to their paycheck. isn’t it?
We only need like 15 votes to win the poll..go go go
dang did you read the comments? Ridiculous. If Obama wins this election (and it looks like he will) he wins on style alone. We all knew he was going to be a better debater and his speaking style would blow anyone away. BUT HE IS AN EMPTY SUIT. And it seems the masses are too much like deer in a headlight to notice or even care.
Obama wins by default before a word is spoken. McLame can’t debate nor make his case. He just says the same thing over and over. But what do you expect from a RINO.
McCain should have asked Obama if he’ll still invite him to the White House after he (McCain) loses in a landslide.
Can’t wait to have obama spread my wealth around!
41-26 Obama
McCain was awesome, and the media is either trashing him to pave the way for Obama.
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I don’t agree. McCain and Obama both were boring in the first two debates, but McCain wiped the floor with Obama in this debate. Excellent job.
I thought McCain did a GREAT job
“Frankly, I think people should be taxed on receiving health insurance they don’t have to pay for from their employers. It is in addition to their paycheck. isn’t it?”
I have 30 years of service in both state and federal civil service where most of my health care premiums are paid by my employer. I have always considered it a tangible monetary benefit, and I would agree that it should probably be taxed. Let me put it this way.....I give at least 10% of my gross pay to my church (a tither). I always include the money paid by my employer for health benefits as gross income when calculating my 10% to give. So, I guess I agree with you.
To me the high point of the debate was when McCain told Obama, “I’m not President Bush, and if you want to run against him, you should have run four years ago.” That was the best line in the debate.
It is totally disingenuous of Obama to keep tying McCain to President Bush because his popularity is so low. If Bush enjoyed a high popularity, Obama wouldn’t be doing the same.
Whether one likes, dislikes, etc. McCain...it must be admitted that he is not George W. Bush. I personally don’t dislike President Bush, so I can distance the two without being hypocritical. They are different men, with different approaches.
“I thought McCain did a GREAT job”
You bet he did!
You bet.
Talk radio will be on fire tomorrow.
Good for you. :) I also tithe my church. The church used to be the institution which provided for the poor before the government decided it was a good idea to buy those votes!
So government grew and grew to provide all sorts of agencies, becoming more and more Socialistic.
Between the churches and government, the poor are pretty well taken care of in this country, including illegals.
You and I both know McCain wiped the floor with Obama!
But you would never know listing to the media spin.
Freedom loving Americans who want the G****mn government out of their lives lost.
Our grand experiment of government is in its last throws as we look towards big brother to sooth our every ache and pain, never knowing that the greatest loss is our freedom. $700 billion for nationalization of the banks, Obama will take over health care, socialize education (more than it is now). Barely a wimper from Republicans as we close our eyes and step off into the abyss of national socialism. The days will come when we will long for our misspent freedom given to us by the blood of patriots down through the ages, and wish we could have done the same. We will weep for a time of not lamenting hardship, when hardship was the highway of freedom which we all could have chosen, just for the sake of being free. Freedom is kept only by a freedom loving people who guard the ballot box as an almost sacred trust, to be guarded. Today we make commerce on the selling of ballots by a major party in this country and a press which cares so little about the honor of our right to vote they will not even attempt to shed light on those who pervert that ballot box. The United States of America was the last, best hope for freedom, to be that shining light upon a hill, and a beacon for the world to emulate. Yet, as the sun sets on liberty in this country, the ability of those few freedom-loving men who remember what it was to be free, will not decide, "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Law of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the cause which impel them to the separation." That cause to be won back is liberty. Liberty for your children and their children. Self-evident truths seem to have dissappeared from the Constitutional landscape, and surely, tonight, liberty and freedom were auctioned by Obama to the highest bidder to acquire power. Fidelity to our founding documents were laid desolate before the masses who could not comprehend that, upon which they trod.
That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of the ends of security of rights given by God Himself, does it not become necessary to dissove those bonds. Jefferson declared it not their right but their duty. That we could secure happiness and safety. This is not about losing an election, but rather about losing a country and a faithfulness to a constitution and a way of life.
As power of the currency is to become vested in Obama and his minions, should he win, what will be left in the peace and toil of liberty. In all of his commentary, I find precious little to assure me that my children will be left to enrich themselves by the sweat of their brow or the innovation of their thought. It will be taken by a government of promised entitlement to a vulgar laity of slothful, ingratuitous people who declare a sacrifice of others and promises filled by theft. This is not the country of our fathers before us. They would be in sack cloth and ashes to repent this end. About 230 years, it is said, is the life of a representative government. So it seems with ours.
John McCain and Sarah Palin are fine people, but I fear this tipping point and their burdon if more than they can bare. I read the other day, that they are the thing standing in the way of socialism..trying to push back. I hope and pray we can push with them that freedom will reign in the lives of men, for freedoms sake.
even Brit’s panel on Fox was disappointing. might as well have been watching cnn. have to wait for Sean to hear something fair.
McCain by calling goofballs, Senator Government.
Freeped. Obama at 70%, McCain at 30%.
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