That McCain did well on contrasting his record and that of Obama’s on reform, bipartisanship and commitment to nuclear power and energy independence, and commitment to control spending.
McCain has to hit on the spending very hard, because this is a case that’s easy to make. Everyone knows that liberals love to spend. The Republican case has been weakened by Bush’s prolifigate ways over the last 8 years, but McCain still must make the argument, because it’s a winner.
The debate was pretty boring. But that’s the perfect kind of debate for Obama. He doesn’t want any game-changers right now, with the lead he has.
Just like the first debate. Ties are not good for the team that is currently losing. McCain is in many ways a flawed candidate. Obama is a sheep in wolf’s clothing, or a wolf in sheep’s clothing, but McCain can’t seem to expose him. Obama has some of Reagan’s teflon. Nothing sticks to him. He’s a very good politician. And at this point, I think he’s going to win.
I find solace in the fact that he’s going to fail and fail spectacularly and that we’ll get a Republican back in the White House in 2012.
Just like talking to Hitler, right? It’s appeasement, pure and simple. You give them legitimacy. You drag out negotiations which have already dragged on for 5 years. Let’s not fool ourselves. We’re going to have to strike and destroy their facilities. There is no other way to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
Obama has the words, but he doesn’t have the cajones to do what’s needed to be done.
That Osama Bin Laden had already escaped into Pakistan WAY before we invaded Iraq in 2003. So Iraq wasn’t a distraction from Afghanistan.
And aren’t we supposed to be able to fight two wars at once?
Fire alarm went off in my apartment building. Cats went nuts!
Missed a good chunk of the debate, mostly foreign policy stuff it looks like.
This is a case where McCain loses if he can’t blow Obama out of the water here. Right now, it just looks like a tie.
But he stumbled a bit. He needs to deliver his lines clearer.
He almost made a good point as new oil drilling being a “bridge” to the future, but he kind of veered off before he completed it. Obviously he wanted to say it was a bridge until the alternative fuel technologies mature. But he just missed it.
Green, green, green. I guess Republicans have lost on that issue. “Climate change” is accepted as fact now. And as a crisis.
McCain hammers Obama on nuclear energy. He has to keep hammering him on it. Obama is lieing when he says that he supports nuclear. It’s just a flat out lie.
I predict no new plants will be built in Obama’s first 4 years. Bank on it.
At least he’s not saying “Stop lying about my record!”
God, Dole was a classic. Sometimes, unfortunately, McCain reminds me of him.
