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[ajmccarrell]

Originally Posted by slowdancer

During the first debate, McCain never looked at Obama and did not refer to him by his first name. On the other hand, Obama kept calling McCain John and looked at him when he spoke to him. I wondered while watching if McCain would treat heads of state the same way, especially if he didn't agree with them. Obama showed the older man respect, but McCain's behaviour was borish. Obama shows he is in command of his emotions which makes him look more presidential compared to McCain's uptight and disdainful performance. Obama thinks and then acts, while McCain looks as if anything might set that famous temper of his off.

On the issues, McCain says he isn't a Washington insider and yet he has been there for 26 years. He is for the bailout but doesn't want to regulate anything, hence the financial crisis. If he and Palin are so against big government, where was McCain while Congress gave the current administration carte blanche to do what ever they wanted: increasing the national debt, invading a country that did not attack us, and on and on. We all know the rest. McCain and his party have weakened America. I'm hoping that Obama will be tough with McCain tonight, linking him over and over to the failed policies of the Bush/Cheney administration. Also McCain has never supported a woman's right to choose.

Obama will make the difference if elected, like the Kennedys and Martin Luther King did back in the 60s. McCain still wants to win the war in Vietnam and he sees "victory" in Iraq as a way to salvage our honor. He sees every thing in black or white. He thinks with his gut, like Bush does and his choice of Palin was purely political and an insult to intelligent men and women everywhere. She is all style and no substance.

McCain can't talk about his record because it puts him in bed with Bush, so he and Palin have to resort to character assassination and they have already started. But Obama is better than these two hacks and he needs to be aggressive and hit back hard tonight, especially going after McCain and his connection to the Keating Five
debacle.

Didn't mean to write all this, but I feel there is so much at stake and we need a young and energetic leader who is full of promise and hope. And we need a seasoned statesman like Biden by his side.

Biden made up the facts as he went and related events that did not happen, skewed events that did happen and put Obama in the Senate 20 years before he actually got there. He was caught lying by fact check 14 times. Ted Baxter lives.

The economy at this point is largely Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Bush, Clinton and the collective congresses from the last 20 years fault; the congressional black caucus is especially at fault, as they are on tape pushing Franklin Raines into making bad loans. It is also Ben Bernanke's fault for encouraging this sort of lending by trying to artificially inflate housing prices by lowering interest rates, but most of all it is the fault of the lenders and borrowers who made horrendous business decisions to lend to people who bought more house than they could afford and the bidding war that ensued until the market could no longer sustain the artificially inflated prices.

McCain actually called for tighter regulation 12 times in the last few years. The idea that he lobbied for deregulation of mortgages is an outright lie. Both Dodd and Obama actually took the most money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Obama has also consulted Raines and one other executive in his campaign. It is true Raines has no official capacity, however Obama is calling one of the guys who caused this mess for advice. That should send chills down anyone's spine.