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PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE #2 LIVE THREAD
10/07/08

Posted on 10/07/2008 2:01:24 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3

While the two presidential candidates, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, prepare for their second debate on Oct. 7 at Belmont University in Nashville, Tom Brokaw gets to sift through questions submitted by you. In addition to queries from a group randomly selected by the Gallup organization, Brokaw will be fielding questions submitted online at mydebates.org, the site created by the Commission on Presidential Debates and Myspace. The focus of the town hall-style debate will be domestic and foreign policy, Brokaw's specialties.



TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: 2008debates; bailout; debate; failout; financialcrisis; jumpingthegun; mccain; notbreakingnews; obama; obamatruthfile; prematurethreadage
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To: nutmeg
I think McCain just lost the election.

Get dramatic much? Safe to say if McCain loses it won't be because of that.

3,181 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:27 PM PDT by paul544 (3D-Joy OH Boy!!!)
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To: mylife

Well I had a liberal tell me affordable gas prices are a right.


3,182 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:28 PM PDT by rintense (Chuck Norris wears Sarah Palin pajamas.)
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To: hugorand

McCain is getting strong here talking about the good of this country.


3,183 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:29 PM PDT by CASchack
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This debate is depressing. It’s a contest over who wants to expand government more.

Obama is Hitler to McCain’s Marshal Petain.


3,184 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:30 PM PDT by Nicholas Jenkins
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To: homeguard

It’s getting better. Listen to McCain. He is making sense on a lot of things. Obama is just saying government, government and more government. And you as the public can’t have as good a health care plan as I have.


3,185 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:32 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Yeah, bringing up Delaware AND “Loose credit card laws” must have been a freudian slip. MBNA, anyone?!?!


3,186 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:32 PM PDT by workerbee (Sarah Palin's very existence is a threat to the Left.)
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To: ponygirl

Wow, Neo-Con is a phrased snarled out by the LIBS,,let’s coin a new phrase - NEO-COM!


3,187 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:33 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: Onerom99

HE’S SCORING POINTS ALL OVER THE PLACE!!!

Hair transplants !! ROTFLMAO !
If only Obama had mentioned Botox injections like his VP Joey Bedouin has recently suffered.
Or Joey Chang if we are to be politically correct, as Biden is now sporting an Asian look.
This piece of Kenyan garbage brings up his mother-the same mother he couldn’t be bothered to visit when she was dying or for her memorial service.
Ahhhs uhhhhs unintelligible.


3,188 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:37 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: pollywog

We could really use a Palin wink about now!


3,189 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:40 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Fawn

It’s on McCain’s website. People would be charged a tax for the cost to their employer of providing health insurance. You would them qualify for a tax credit of $5000 to offset the tax. This would completely cover the cost of a employer paid plan up to @0K for people in the 25% bracket. Basically, it would offset the tax. Most people would come out ahead, a small number would pay more in taxes than the credit would offset. If your cost was below 5K, you get to pocket the rest. That is the Reader’s Digest Condensed version. This is from memory. Others may have a different take on it or be able to be more specific.


3,190 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:44 PM PDT by Trust but Verify ( All others Palin comparison!!!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Children are cheap to insure!

Tell that to my old insurance carrier when my first daughter was born... 4 weeks in the NICU, then the following winter, monthly RSV preventive at $1200 a pop....

3,191 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:44 PM PDT by TheBattman (A vote for the "lesser evil" is still a vote for evil!)
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To: AnnGora

That the same dead mother who dumped him on her parent’s doorstep and went looking for a new thrill?


3,192 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:44 PM PDT by Salamander (Blue Oyster Cult is the soundtrack to the Revolution.)
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To: Vision Thing

“McCain talks about how his $5000 tax credit leads to medical-insurance choices. No gubermint will mandate who you can go to for insurance.”

Here in NH a somewhat small battleground state Obama is running ads constantly saying the $5000 is not a tax break because it goes directly to the big bad insurance companies.

I wish McCain would hit back on this...where is factcheck on BHO’s lies?


3,193 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:44 PM PDT by tj21807
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To: Erik Latranyi

PONY TAIL GUY WANNABE ALERT!!


3,194 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:49 PM PDT by AnnGora (I am unique. Just like everybody else.)
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To: homeguard
Pathetic isnt it.....

It's just a big steaming pile o' %$#*!

3,195 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:51 PM PDT by Barnacle (NO GOVERNMENT BAILOUT)
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To: pollywog

It’s super boring. That’s for sure. You know if political nerds like us are bored, the rest of the country turned it off an hour ago.


3,196 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:51 PM PDT by retrokitten (We make us laugh- silent_jonny)
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To: meyer
McCain’s hittin him on the health care issue. Good - he is making sense here.

I think McCain loses on this one in the eyes of the sheeple. Taxing your employer health benefits is not a very attractive option. Although shopping around for the best, most affordable deal might be a net financial benefit, most people don't want to have to do any work in this area. Shopping around requires time and effort.

3,197 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:51 PM PDT by American Infidel (It's pronounced 'ASK' not 'AXE'. It's a 3 letter word. How difficult can it be?)
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To: chet_in_ny
Delaware has lax credit card regulations, Mr. Obama?

CC regulation is federal.

3,198 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:51 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: nutmeg

Sadly people are stupid enough to think it is a right


3,199 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:54 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could be Farts)
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To: Moonlighter

Fundamental of you to notice that. ;)


3,200 posted on 10/07/2008 7:02:54 PM PDT by Shortstop7
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