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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

The Debate

What a joke and a waste of time. I watched the debate last night and waited for McCain to come alive, to no avail. He looked and acted like an old man. Every question or comment started with "My friends...." Only once is enough for that, yet he kept it up all night. He did not mention Bill Ayers, did not mention ACORN, did not mention Jeremiah Wright, did not mention Obama got much money from Fannie May, did not mention he voted for infanticide, did not mention he cannot admit the surge was successful. I heard a joke today, "What do Barrack Obama and Osama Bin Laden have in common? They both have friends that that tried to bomb the Pentagon." It is most discouraging to have such a poor candidate. How did we ever wind up with him? Is he really the best we could come up with from all the candidates who ran? He voted for the Bailout which was a sop to financial markets that should have been allowed to fail. My congressman, Cliff Starnes, did not vote for the Bailout and I called him to congratulate him on his good judgement. McCain probably thinks he is a nice guy but he must remember that Obama is the enemy and the enemy must be fought. The performance last night was just ho-hum, a snoozer.

posted by Marcel at 12:37 PM

4 Comments:

  • The enemy? Isn't that a bit on the harsh side? Bin Laden is our enemy, Barack Obama is a well respected US Senator running for public office. Hardly an enemy.

    As for his association with Bill AYers, that is something I am really tired of hearing people whine about. Can you honestly say you have never associated with a known felon or someone that has done wrong in their life? I got news for you, you even love some of them and have told them you respect their opinion.

    This is an excert from an NPR article: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95442902

    Walter Annenberg, a lifelong Republican and former ambassador who was appointed by Presidents Nixon and Reagan, funded an ambitious program to reform urban education in many cities in the mid 1990s. Ayers was an important member of the group that developed and wrote the grant proposal to the Annenberg Foundation.
    Obama and Ayers attended at least six meetings together over six years, Annenberg Challenge records show, and those knowledgeable of the school reform group say it is likely there were other informal sessions of the group that they both attended. But no one on the board or on the Annenberg Challenge staff remembers Obama being any closer to Ayers than to any other member of the board. The Annenberg board also included several civic, business and education leaders, many of them Republicans.
    Regardless of his background, it was never a problem for anyone — including Republicans and Chicago's most powerful business leaders — to work with Ayers on Chicago's public schools. In fact, Ayers is widely respected in the field of urban education.
    "It was never a concern by any of us in the Chicago school reform movement that he had led a fugitive life years earlier," said former Illinois state Republican Rep. Diana Nelson, who worked with both Obama and Ayers over the years. "It's ridiculous. There is no reason at all to smear Barack Obama with this association. It's nonsensical, and it just makes me crazy. It's so silly."

    I won't even go into the garbage with Rev Wright, as my family has hosted many a Catholic Priest at their homes for dinners and parties. ANd who knows if those Priests ever deemed molestation a necessary part of their calling.

    We do agree on a couple of things, the My Friends bit got old (like McCain) and the debate was a snoozer.

    By Blogger Adrienne, at 2:00 PM  

  • I agree with Adrienne. I think "the enemy" is the type of language we should avoid. We are all Americans. I would hope that we could conduct campaigns without resorting to insults and name-calling.

    By Blogger SUEB0B, at 2:48 PM  

  • Actually McCain did say that Obama could not admit that the surge was successful. I am not ready to admit that either. Maybe we have different definitions of success.

    I thought it was to McCain's credit that he did not mention the nonsense about Ayers, since it smacks of a desparate SwiftBoat manuever better left to Palin who has nothing else to say anyway.

    I did have to chuckle at McCain saying "there can be no on the job training." I wanted to say "have you met your running mate, my friend?" Oh wait, he isn't my friend. Much to his surprise.

    And for the record Obama is McCain's opponent not his enemy.

    By Blogger EZ Travel, at 2:58 PM  

  • The race is over. Obama is the winner. Ask all the liberal media if you don't believe me. McCain seems to agree. Yesterday McCain said. “But I have to tell you, I have to tell you, he is a decent person. And a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States.”
    It's over. Get over it. Welcome to "Obamanation".

    By Blogger John Beauregard, at 7:59 AM  

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