McCain and Obama Reach Agreement on Debates

Nobodys fool
You’re absolutely right! It’s hilarious to be that they can’t seem to figure out why they were excluded from the process. Duh! Their line of tabloid questions was a disgrace.

The only network that even attempts to be fair…..has no representation on the debate moderator team
While George, Jake and others were asking tough fair questions Tom was reporting on the flavor of ice cream Obama liked. Cant wait to see the deep questions he selects.

The second debate will be a Town Hall.
They say –
“In the spirit of the Town Hall, all questions will come from the audience (or internet), and not the moderator.”
Are the questions from the audience pre-screened? Who decides which questions from the internet to use? I am sure it will be McCain and Obama handlers.
The other 2 debates — can you really trust the Jim Lehrer and Bob Schieffer to ask tough questions of both Obama and McCain?

The second debate is a townhall filled by Gallup with “undecided voters”.
uh huh
The local people of Nashville will not be able to attend.
Strange.

Flash Override: “$5 million” WAS a joke. Here is what Sen. McCain actually said:
“So I think if you’re just talking about income, how about 5 million. So–seriously, I don’t think you can–I don’t think, seriously that–the point is that I’m trying to make here seriously–and I’m sure that comment will be distroed, but the point is–the point is–the point is that we want to keep people’s taxes low and increase revenues.”
Obviously he was joking! And the audience laughed because it was a joke. A poor joke. But a joke nonetheless.
Now then Sen. Obama’s answer was: “If you are making $150 thousand a year or less as a family, then are you middle class or you may be poor. But $150 down, you are basically middle class. Obviously it depends on the region where you are living.”
GUESS WHAT? According to the latest IRS data (2006) updated July 2008: $153,542 is the cutoff for the Top FIVE PERCENT; and $108,904 is the cutoff for the Top TEN PERCENT.

I understand that Sen. McCain was asked yesterday this question, ‘how many houses do you own?,’ and he couldn’t answer that question.
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“I think — I’ll have my staff get to you.” — John McCain, when asked by Politico how many houses he owns.
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When a McCain supporter said that she thought we would have to institute a draft to pursue bin Laden, McCain said that he didn’t disagree.
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Yesterday at a townhall meeting, an audience member praised Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for his vow to “follow bin Laden to the gates of hell.” After a long question about veterans’ care, the questioner said she believed we needed to reinstate the draft, to which McCain seemed to readily agree:
QUESTIONER: If we don’t reenact the draft, I don’t think we’ll have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of hell.
[Appaluse]
MCCAIN: Ma’am, let me say that I don’t disagree with anything you said.

Sorry, that should have been: “…that comment will be distorted..”

Lucy, and so what is your point about the draft? Several Democrats have been calling for the reinstatement of the draft for years.

Figures Obama would avoid answering real questions like the plague. Course he also failed miserably at the Saddleback forum so who knows. Hopefully a question or two will be asked as to why Obama is in favor of killing live babies.
Lucy, McCain has always stated (as noted by Marc Ambinder at the atlantic) that only a full blown World War 3. Not surpisingly you’re leaving out the vast majority of the question which was “My son is an officer in the Air Force, I’m a vet., and I was raised in a military family. And I think it’s a sorry state of affairs. When we have illegal aliens; having a medic-aid card that can access specialists, top physicians, the best of medical, and our vets can’t even get to a doctor. And these are the people that we tied yellow ribbons for and Bush patted on the back. If we don’t re-enact the draft, I don’t think we’ll have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of Hell.”. If you read Ambinder’s post you’ll see McCain says nothing about the draft at all in response. In fact the only people who have brought draft legislation are democrats! Even though they lie and say “Well there’s talk of a draft” because of their legislation. or the make a crappy ad about a newborn who wouldn’t be close to 18 even if McCain served 2 terms.

Anyone who believes that McCain did well last Sat because he violated the “cone of silence”…I…just…don’t understand…paranoia…too bizarre…to comprehend…living in a world insane…
Look, Obama did not do terribly, he just moseyed around and can’t take a stand on a lot of hot button issues…McCain has the benefit of surety. He is certainly thoughtful, but when you punt on big questions it makes people think you can’t take them on.

Those who are saying “Obama needs a teleprompter” have obviously never seen him without one. I have. He’ll do just fine.
Meanwhile, McCain might want to have an index card with some notes on it. Notes like: how many houses he owns; what countries border Iraq; that kind of stuff.

None of these debates are being held in the West. Obama seriously needs to do some more campapigning in the West instead of spening so much time in the South, where they are not going to vote for him. He has never campaigned where I live or given any speehes here, yet I am supposed to vote for him.
If he chooses some midwestern or southern boring zero for VP like Baye, Sebilius, or Kaine, I will vote GREEN.

Obama will do just fine. And contrary to the ignorant postings Senator Obama does not need a teleprompter – his ability to speak extemporaneously is very well known in the halls of Congress. I do not think his academic training in law and debate will hinder him either. Now on the other hand I think we may be very surprised at the responses from John McCain – especially if they involve what many would consider a common sense response.

The reason John McCain jokes around so much is that he is comfortable with himself. He has earned his stripes and doesn’t have to prove it to anyone. That’s why I like the man, among other reasons. That is not the perception I have of B. Obama. That man spends most of his time and energy just trying to fit in to where he is. That’s why he is constantly changing positions; he is trying to gain a wider public acceptance. This should become more apparent in debates.

Reading most of the “Praise be to obama the messiah” rhetoric posted here certainly does not support the myth that obama attracts the more educated voters.

They’re clearly trying to spare ABC the public embarrassment of having Stephanopoulos and Gibson moderate another debate. Both are smart, capable and engaging people, but clearly debate moderation is not among their skills. That last Obama/Clinton debate was the most inane, trivial, worthless waste of time I have ever experienced.

It’s a shame Obama didn’t agree to the townhall forums that McCain wanted. Afraid, I guess. Without that teleprompter, he’s nothing.

I hope these debates are better than previous debates. The last one was terrific. Obama is getting so old with the same old speeches. Obama is so unqualified to be President, I find crazy that we looking at him at all. The democrats had eight years to find some one who could fill the bill and they failed again, which just goes to show you how poor they are as a group. Just look at who is running the DNC and it tells you all you need to know about the democrats. The slanted press hates republicans so much it really doesn’t make any difference who the republicans are running, which is a shame.
When I look at Obama it gives the creeps that this nobody is on the same stage as John McCain. Everytime we find out he has a friend he dumps them -president at any cost I guess.
The only good that may come from these debates is that maybe many Americans will wake up and see how superficial this do nothing monday morning quarter back. Who watches other people work and than points out their faults 20/20 hind sight – But he himself has never done anything but talk talk.
The scaring thing is the liberal media is trying their best to hijack this election with lies, partial lies and spins.

Why is it that only liberal media get to act as moderators? Why doesn’t Harry Reid cry foul on this? Could it be that he isn’t really interested in fair play? Imagine if taxpayers helped underwrite “public television” that had conservative leanings! Obama would have a hissy fit quicker than Edwards could deny the allegations of the National Enquirer!