Obama-McCain post-debate
October 7, 2008 at 10:45 pm by Thomas Wheatley in NewsAfter Thursday night’s roller-coaster ride on the YouBetchaExpress, this evening’s presidential debate was relatively staid. I thought Barack Obama clearly led the night, but McCain’s final two answers were stronger.
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October 8th, 2008 at 11:03 am
What a boring debate last night. They both seem to be promising endless war, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Russia, Iraq, Israel (did I miss one?). Does anyone ever talk about peace? And what about the lower class-the poor-does anyone ever talk about them? They argue all night about the rich and the middle class what about the poor? Obama used to talk about them. And tax cuts,tax cuts, tax cuts galore, lets be realistic we have a huge deficit we need to pay and tax cuts ain’t gonna do it. And what did that bailout they both voted for actually do for anyone? Great now I can borrow more money-is that the solution to our current economic woes-it sounds a lot like shop shop shop (bush’s solution). Its hard not to wonder how much more interesting it would have been with the green candidate (Cynthia McKinney) and the Libertarian (Bob Barr) in the mix.
October 8th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
You know, the deeper we slide into this mess the more I want Bill Clinton to take over as President. Say what you will about him, He was always the smartest guy in the room, but he came from poverty which I think gave him a unique view into how economic conditions affect us. I just remember when the Far east economic and the Mexico economic crises hit. Seeing him and Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers explain things inspired confidence. You knew they were smart enough to handle it and believed that Bill Clinton, if for no other reason than re-election, was going to take care of the average guy. I still remember purchasing gas for 99 cents when he was president. Maybe it’s just nostalgia, but I would really like to see Bush invite Clinton to a press conference and say, I’m bringing in Clinton to help me navigate the storm. Heck, how much lower can his approval ratings go?
October 8th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
I’ve watched every debate but this last one. I can’t take it anymore. Neither one of these jokers should be president, nor should their VP picks. This is the best the two parties could come up with?? Jeez.
As for Clinton, two words: sub-prime mortgage. Seemed like a good idea at the time, didn’t it?
October 8th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I thought the debate was pretty darn dull, mostly because it was almost entirely a rerun of topics/questions and answers/talking-points-rehash from the previous Obama-McCain debate. There’s so much more to talk about than they bother to. Not even the so-called town hall format gave it any new angle or pizazz — showing you how closely controlled the questions were.
That said, I do think Obama outperformed McCain, albeit not by as much as I had expected him to. Both of them were trying very hard to stick to the safe center. Sadly, they both seem to think that center wants to hear talk of war-mongering, “killing & crushing” the enemy, and the likes. What does that say about this nation? At least Obama spoke to the importance of working with allies in the 21st century world. All McCain could say was “Rah! Rah! Go team USA!” That stuff gets old.
October 8th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
I agree that it was dull, Ellen, which is good news for Obama. As long as the dynamic doesn’t change (and nothing exciting happens between now and Nov. 4), he’ll win with well over 300 electoral votes.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:01 am
DC, I know that the Clinton Administration bears a portion of the responsibility for pushing Home Ownership, but I think the response to the problem when it first started manifesting itself would’ve been different. If you look back 8 months to a year ago you have Bernake and Treasury saying the typical Ultra Conservative mantra. I say Ultra conservative because these guys aren’t really conservatives in my book. The biggest problem, not the only problem, we have now is one of cofidence in the system. The recent regional bank failures weren’t due to those banks having bad balance sheets. They were fine, not great but fine. People lost confidence and made runs on the banks.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I wish I could believe anything would have been different, but after the last few weeks of debates and Congressional coverage, my pessimism has grown from a little itchy to full-blown virulent. The one bright spot was hearing about the redesigns for the penny…now there’ll be four options to choose from when cashing out that Wachovia stock.