The Note: McCain Swings, Misses in Bid to Shift Race

This should have been Barack’s chance to steal 2nd base and get to third. He is caught now between throw backs from the third base player and second base player, not to mention the shortback is giving mixed signals and there was a 3rd rank pitcher in play. Barack is on the run both back and forth. McCain is in place at third base to put him out with Palin as catcher to seal the deal. This debate was “the link.” Barack went no where except where his paid followers and pundits put him. This is the last inning of a long ball game that we know WE CAN WIN, but waiting for that pivotal play. It will play out! Don’t rush the action of the guy on third base and his catcher….and remember…there are booos and claps/cheers going on on both sides that add to the mix. Barack should be on third base. Barack is NOT on third base. Barack is on the run. John did what he had to do…….AND he is on third base waiting

BROKAW: Iran attacks Israel, would you be willing to commit U.S. troops in support and defense of Israel?
Obama did not answer the question…it was an easy question if Israel is attacked would he be willing to commit US troops. I’ve always thought that talks come before, Brokaw said Iran attacks Israel…you know like bombs and killing people.
OBAMA: “We’ve got to try to have talks, understanding that we’re not taking military options off the table”.
QUESTION: With the economy on the downturn and retired and older citizens and workers losing their incomes, what’s the fastest, most positive solution to bail these people out of the economic ruin?
Obama did not answer the question….and apparently he didn’t read the bailout bill because there is nothing in that bill that helps homeowners out. The bill helps the banks and Wall Street. Retired people and older citizens are not going to be working on road nor bridge projects either, Mr. Obama.
OBAMA: “Now, step one was a rescue package that was passed last week. It means help for homeowners so that they can stay in their homes. It means that we are helping state and local governments set up road projects and bridge projects that keep people in their jobs”.
“And then long-term we’ve got to fix our health care system, we’ve got to fix our energy system that is putting such an enormous burden on families. You need somebody working for you and you’ve got to have somebody in Washington who is thinking about the middle class and not just those who can afford to hire lobbyists”.
Go back and read the transcripts…Obama doesn’t answer any questions, he keeps repeating the same message over and over as if to mesmerize or hypnotize his audience. I guess if you keep hearing the same message you become a believer and never ask questions or read.

McCain came across as passionate and knowledgeable however, Obama was more so and McCain was edgy and angry the whole time which was difficult to stick with. If he is this angry and edgy now, I worry that he would be another war monger leader. Obama for ’08!!!

I thought OBUMA was very rude and disrespectful not only to McCain but to the voter in regards to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, when OBUMA said ‘There are probably many of you who never heard of them before this crisis” IS OBUMA AN IDIOT WHO ON GODS EARTH DOES NOT KNOW WHO FREDDIE AND FANNIE ARE? OBUMA why do you think Americans are stupid? he is one angry bitter disrespectful man.
THATONE should know! He got tons of money from FREDDIE and FANNIE, the second most of anyone!!!!

Was McCain even in the room???

McCain came across as passionate and knowledgeable however, Obama was more edgy and angry the whole time which was difficult to stick with. If he is this angry and edgy now, I worry that he would be another war monger leader. So confused and never answered a question had to ask Michelle what he did not know?? Is he a fool or what? He had these shiny things in his ears and it was so distracting!
McCain/Palin 08

Mike: You are so right. Obama doesn’ know about war or foreign policy. He is in training with his advisor’s. He has a long way to go. I believe McCain answered every question correctly but of courst CNN is pro-obama and most of the callers are blacks so that’s why they say he won the second debate. He didn’t even win the first debate. All the networks are pro-obama. Especially the NYT and Washington Post. People don’t care about Obama’s past, he could be a criminal and they would vote for him knowing he can’t run the country. This generation needs to wake up and get a grip before voting for Obama.

McCain came out with a punch that landed. Apparently you missed it. He wants to ensure that people are kept in their homes. Otherwise, you will have millions of foreclosures, thereby devaluing homes by at least %50. With Obama’s plan, we can all look forward to empty, rotting homes coming to a neighborhood near you. (Like the ones in his Chicago district.) However, Obama might know a few slumlords who can help with this….that aren’t currently incarcerated.
Because of the bailout package, Obama can no longer keep ANY of his campaign promises. Unless of course he taxes you into the poor house.

Ditto Marianne Pepitone and SadStateof Affairs…

They are looking into Mccains Medical records,Aparentley when he went home fo last weekend to so call debate prep he was sick,he nearly passed out something is going on with Mccains health and just to think Palin will take over if godforbid something happen to mccain. I dont support Mccain but I dont wish him any harm and hope hes ok, I dont want him for potus but I will take him any day over Sara Palin.

Rove said an interesting thing on Fox last night: basically, if you are against the Iraq war then you are in Obama’s camp. That’s writing off a lot of voters, no?

Howard Gallas: Yes, McCain was in the room but its hard to see Obama because he is so dark. They need better lighting.

Marianne YOU ARE SO RACISIT BETTER GO WASH YOUR SHEET

McCain refused to prioritize actions to address the most urgent issues facing our nation. I’m not the least surprised at this failure to lead.
To simply say we can do everything at once, and have it all, just because we are Americans, is an insult to the American public. As a promise, it’s reckless, as a policy, hopeless, as a conviction, mindless.
Pandering at such a primitive level is what you get from those whose retarded ideology precipitated this unmitigated disaster.

The format of the debate was not conducive to touching Obama’s SERIOUS PROBLEM
Voters have ther RIGHT TO KNOW Obama’s DEEP CONNECTION with Ayers and many other RADICALS. This is A SERIOUS ISSUE.
Obama and New York Times say Obama’s relationship with Ayers is casual. But how can we EXPLAIN that OBAMA LAUNCHED HIS POLITICAL CAREER at AYERS’ HOUSE?
Ayers still believes the BOMBING was not ENOUGH and praised Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela.

Hey HP Boston – it was McCain who made those condescending remarks about people not knowing what Freddie and Fannie are, not Obama. And it’s Obama, not Obuma. Who’s the idiot here?

I think the most important thing to come out of that debate last night…
is a very bad wolf “foxnews” showed that they might be the worst wolf in sheep’s clothing that got us here over the last decade.
If there was any sign how out of touch and destructively manipulating the American people Fox News is
it is their poll from viewers on who won the debate.
Every other news agency and pollster has Obama winning…and they have it
90 to 10 Mccain.
“Fair and Balanced”
should probably not do those viewer polls anymore
as they show how a whacked minority can act like a national pool.
you want to know how we got HERE
the creation of Fox News a little over a decade ago…
isn’t it funny that as soon as we have this new “news agency”
all this malarkey got spread…
and it happens to be a news agency started by a right wing partisan hack.
Only with Fox news being created could America be “frauded” into electing Bush Cheney.
Luckily this time America might learn.
Go look at how out of touch their poll of their viewers is with every other poll.

Paige: Flag pins are a choice. Obama never wore one for a long time until he was critized as an anti-american. But of course we all know he was anti-american along with William Ayers. And as far as the debate goes neither one of them said anything new. Three of the news media said it was a tie. Now, both of them said they would change social security. I thought the debate came off very good and both kept their cool. Of course your going to have disagreements. One is democrat and the other republican. Get a grip.

Palinator: I don’t think you understand politics and anything that was said last night. Besides that age has nothing to do with politics. I don’t think your parents are under 40 years of age. And your lucky if they live as long as McCain. Didn’t Tim Rustert drop dead on the Meet The Press floor of a heart attack. Wake up. McCain did a very good job at explaining everything. Obama tries to set a good example but he doesn’t know foreign policy like McCain. Obama is still in training. Biden will run the country and Obama will take the credit.

Barack showed me he has life experience and McCain has government experience. Becasue Barack has been there, done that he can help the country move forward.

Angie: Its dumb people like you that are the ruination of this country. You don’t know the difference between right and wrong. Did you graduate school or are you still going. I am not like you, true American’s don’t vote for a candidate like Obama unless you don’t care about your country. Knowing he was involved with a terrorist and anti-americans you would vote for him because your like the rest of this generation, know nothing, do nothing and say nothing. That’s what Obama does. Get a grip and wake up. We don’t need a terrorist coming to the white house for dinner.

Marianne You need to get a grip you want to talk about terriost take a look at mccains vp pick and her first dude BELONGING TO THE ANTI-AMERICAN CLUB IN ALASKA those alaskins HATE AMERICA they dont want any part of it and little miss pitbull and her hubby belong to that terriost group so you my racisit friend needs to SNAP INTO REALITY!

ABC not reporting the indictment of a pro-Obama blogging son of a Democrat delegate in TN?

Marianne Pepitone…all I can day is you’re the best..

You McShame people are Cr@pping your pants. You can see it’s over and you are starting to make things up about President Obama. There is no way that Americaa is going to vote that crabby old man in as president. He can barely walk around the stage let alone lead this nation.
Just look at the polls, there is a land slide coming for the new president of the USA, and his name is Obama!
Hail to the chief.

The AP reported on July 20, 2007 that withdrawal would unleash a massive Iraqi bloodbath. “Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq ISN’T a good enough reason to keep US forces there.”
What kind of candidate is it whose moral response to genocide – genocide – can reverse itself 180 degrees in a matter of months? Is that the kind of candidate who ought to be the leader of the free world?
Obama’s answer also ignored the multiple genocides of the Saddam Hussein regime. We knew well before our entry into Iraq that Saddam had conducted genocides against the Kurds. He used the chemical weapons that people now claim he didn’t have at Halabja, for which he and his henchmen deservedly received the death penalty (although Saddam had already been executed by then). He also conducted a genocidal campaign against the Marsh Arabs, draining their wetlands and leaving them to die for their opposition to his regime. Saddam persecuted the Shi’ites after an uprising in 1991, one that continued in defiance of the no-fly zones — the same tactic Obama recommended as a stop against genocide in Sudan and elsewhere.
Now Obama says that American intervention in Iraq was the wrong move, but in an Obama Doctrine, that would have been an acceptable response. Saddam was a genocidal tyrant, and no one else in the region was going to act to stop him. The only difference here is the political juice Obama gets for opposing the Iraq war.
And, as Jacoby points out, Obama can’t even be consistent. He decries genocide and pledges American intervention to stop it, but earlier said that potential genocide wouldn’t be enough reason to keep American troops in place in Iraq. Huh? Either Obama is confused, or he only cares about genocides when it doesn’t involve Iraqis.

MJ, keep dreaming, it’s over.
President Obama, get used to it.

mj, McCain is behind and needed to knock it out of the park, as they say. He didn’t do that.

The clip I think would be more revealing is the one in which McCain referred to his “entire military career.”
It came across as an alzheimer’s moment, when he didn’t realize he wasn’t in the military anymore. In the awkward space that followed, McCain looked flustered, and then caught himself.

By no means do I claim to be a scholar, but only a knowledgeable person can understand the concept that life is an in-transfer of knowledge and many scholars believe that over 90% of the things we learn, we learn from others. So when you have someone like Barack and Michelle Obama graduating with honors from one of our Country most prestigious College institution, this is an above average achievement to say the least. Barack often talks about how his Mom would wake him up at 4 in the morning to study his lessons, and he often expressed how upset it would make him, but let’s look at his achievements because of his mother’s love, concern and determination. Michelle also described how her parents stayed on her and her brother emphasizing the importance of an education and limiting them to just one hour a day of television viewing. As a result of their parent’s commitment to their lives, they attended Chicago’s most prestigious academic public high school, Whitney Young.
The reason I share this story is because of a few of reasons. The first being, I too had the honor of having my niece attend Whitney Young after getting chosen out of thousands of applicants of all nationalities of Chicago’s brightest kids. As a result of attending Whitney Young she went on to get her P.H.D. from Yale and graduated with honors also. Once again, this is no average achievement. It was a result of the countless hours that my sister devoted in preparing her when she was a young child. We all know that when you devote yourself to higher learn, it prepares you to have a better understanding of power, conflict resolution skills, discernment, philosophy, theory and many more other helpful attributes that bring about a better understanding of life challenges.
Bill and Hillary Clinton was another couple that did quite well at Ivory league School, not to mention that Bill was a road scholar. Even though we may have felt embarrassed with their questionable personal shenanigans, while in the Whitehouse. Nevertheless, there is one thing I am sure we all can agree on, and that is their political achievements were very admirable. Joe Biden has a law degree, and his wife is currently an English professor in Delaware. Now let’s look at George Bush, who was an underachiever in College (C. Student) and became this nation President. Regardless if you were one of the ones that voted for him, there is no denying that his Presidency was a complete disaster, plain and simple. After witnessing an underachiever in college get elected to the Whitehouse, and almost completely destroy our Country, we find ourselves once again contemplating foolishly doing it again with John McCain who graduated fifth from the bottom. This is simply unbelievable.
This Country has always promoted the idea that we are a nation that is built by the best and the brightest. Even our military have now adapted this same slogan, now it appears that we have a difference slogan for the Presidency, which now says that we are a nation that allows underachievers to become the President, which makes no sense. In closing, Sarah Palin attended five difference Colleges, one being a Community Junior College, and the last being Idaho which has one of the nation lowest SAT and ACT entry acceptance scores (Math SAT, 549 Verbal SAT, 559 ACT, 23). Out of 210 major Colleges I surveyed, there were only 13 Colleges with a lower SAT and ACT entry acceptance score than Idaho.
So when Sarah Palin feels like knocking Barack Obama for being a community organizer, she must have forgotten that he graduated from Harvard law School with honors and taught Constitutional law. Our best law firms in the Country only hires the brightest students from College, so why should it be any different when we choose someone for our Nation top job. This Country is the land of opportunity for those who work hard. Thus, in my final analysis on this matter is in no way meant to be cynical and undermine this basis concept, when I make it known that Gov Palin husband never graduated from College and worked 20 years as a blue-collar employee in the oil fields of the North Slope of Alaska. I know he is not running for any major office, but are these truly the credentials to get you in the Whitehouse. Perhaps we need to hang a neon sign over the Whitehouse, that says that only the knock heads need to apply for this complex job, and continuous education is not required.

Mariann: “I cannot believe that Obama would get himself involved with a man that bombed government buildings in his own country.”
Did Ayers bomb government buildings? I thought he just blew up a police memorial statue.
Also, I suppose something should be said as to the design of the American justice system. If you do the crime, you do the time. Once its done, your debt to society is paid. Don’t you agree?
Yet you seem to think Ayers is in a different class – someone who should be forever shunned by his community. Strikes me as rather un-American.

Ditto Marianne. Exactly is what you’ve said and I’ve heard and read not just from local or national media but more so international media which I trust more because they tell it like it is… is the reason I am honestly scared of Obama, and the more “scarier” fact is that he and his very liberal pundits has infused their GODless ways throughout the country. That is beyond frightening, we are really in a very destitute situation when and if Obama reigns. I love this nation, and all I can say is GOD BLESS us all.

Would someone please have the candidates define “Middle Class”? Both myself and my wife work extremely hard to EARN everything we have. I am not in favor of some “robin-hood” playing president in re-distributing our hard earned money. We both paid off many student loans to get a good education in order to have what we enjoy today. I will not pay additional taxes to help those who do not want to work and expect hand-outs. Call me un-patriotic, but facts are facts.

Redistribution of the wealth is what the main purpose of income taxes. I am against income taxes, but it was voted into the constitution through the amendment process, which requires a large majority of the people of the country. I would rather see it used on domestic spending rather than for a bloated defense budget which is just a hole for government spending. We can’t defend ourselves on $300 billion a year?

Independent Realist: “We can’t defend ourselves on $300 billion a year?”
What the Republicans don’t want us to know is we now spend nearly half of the global defense budget.
And if you look at the next 10 top spenders, seven are formal allies and another is Switzerland.
The next highest defense spender after us is Japan at $41 billion. Granted, that can be argued, because the Japanese “navy” or naval self defense forces as they call it also perform duties like our Coast Guard. If you stip those out, the Japanese drop to third and the next highest is the Brits, according the CIA’s unclassified reports.
There are only a few nations that we know for sure spend more than $40 billion – all allies of ours. The CIA does acknowledge that its estimates of China’s spending are most likely not accurate, and estimates there range from $20 to $60 billion.

As for our potential adversaries, how much do they spend on defense?
China and Russia aren’t really adversaries, as we owe so much debt to each that we really can’t go to war with either. But China comes in at fourth with a $59 billion budget, and Russia fifth with a $50 billion budget.
Our first commonly recognized potential adversary, Iran, comes in as the 26th biggest defense spender with an annual budget of $6.3 billion.
North Korea is 29th with $5.5 billion.
Venezuela is 35th with $4 billion.
By contrast, the U.S. spends $583 billion, which is almost half of the $1.2 trillion global annual expenditure.

Realist – I did. That’s an interesting story. Eisenhower was impressed with the Autobahn, which he saw for the first time while allied forces were moving into Germany. Though he recognized other applications, his big interest was having a road system on which U.S. military ground forces could move quickly, if ever required to defend the homeland.
I also remember Eisenhower’s farewell speech in which he warned about the dangers of the military-industrial complex if it were to grow to large.

Steve, please leave the rumor and fear mongering to the Republicans.

“Obama stayed on for almost 20 minutes to chat with the audience of 80+, sign autographs and take pictures”
really? It was obvious there were too many black people (98% for Obama)for the crowd to be “undecided”.

Where was grandpa munster when the debate was over? I didn’t see him getting his picture taken with the crowd. Was it past his bedtime?

Obama is almost as clueless as his
runningmate, Joe Biden!
I can’t believe that the Media,
Fox included missed this gaffe:
And we can do it, but we’re going to have to make an investment. The same way the computer was originally invented by a bunch of government scientists who were trying to figure out, for defense purposes, how to communicate, we’ve got to understand that this is a national security issue, as well.
The Computer was invented by the
U.S. Government! I Don’t Think So!
I guess Obama meant the internet but
it was a big mistake!
Had McCain said that he would have
been crucified!

McCain is angry and incompetent. Obama’s supporters are ANGRY while HE is incompetent. Suttle difference… I suppose.

Reganfan:
You simply do not know your history. The computer WAS invented by the government. Or at least the US Armyseems to think it was.
This is from the US Army’s site http://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/comphist/eniac-story.html
“The world’s first electronic digital computer was developed by Army Ordnance to compute World War II ballistic firing tables.”
Now if you can calm down, you might be able to get your foot out of your mouth.

We’ve got to impose term limits on every incumbent running for Congress or the Senate in this election. They all deserve to be fired! We don’t need a constitutional amendment to do this, just vote against every incumbent running, Democrat or Republican. Fire every one of them. Doing this could very well force whomever is elected President to sit down with all the new faces and come up with real solutions to the serious problems we’re facing…and maybe even putting the long term interests of our nation first.