AMERICAblog: More right-wingers not feeling very mavericky after the debate
Catsandbeer.com
· 1 year ago
Just got home from a debate viewing party and actually watching a replay of the debate on MSNBC - haven't seen/read/heard any debate review, pundit spin but I don't need to - Barack SMOKED him - great, great night - I thought Obama actually lost the first one and was delighted that the public overall disagreed - but there's no way I think this was anything but a massive victory - he killed it
FunMe
· 1 year ago
Is that Cindy McDruggie's wrote?
Who else would be weeping?
fostert
· 1 year ago
The reader is wrong about Sarah. If she spends the next ten tears actually learning something, she'll do fine. But if she were trapped in a failed McCain administration, she'd never recover. She'd always be associated with that disaster. The best thing for her is exposure now and learning later. And not being blamed for McCain's loss. She's got that now. The only thing that would hurt that is winning.
"In an acknowledgment that the night had failed to shift the public focus on the economy, or inflict serious damage on Obama, a key McCain adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, accused the moderator, Tom Brokaw, of hijacking the format of the debate."
Really? Didn't Brokaw actually piss and moan like a petulant child to try to get them back on the clock?
FunMe
· 1 year ago
OK, I can't believe I went there (extra shower tonight), but hey! Here are some comments from Red State:
"roxer October 7th, 2008 at 9:46 p.m. (link) to believe it was a stalemate, but that is just not the case. Obama appeared to be better prepared with his answers. He actually did answer more questions, truefully or not, than McCain. He also seemed to relate better to the casual viewer. I really wanted McCain to do better, but I just didn't see it. I fear the worst."
"I love reading your entries in Red State since I found this website. I was driving when McCain put out the line about Obama being second in funding from Fannie & Freddie, I thought that was the beginning of a long streak, I was wrong too. Bye Moe, I think we're going to have to get used to four years of Obama. God help us. Carol"
GOD IS GOING TO HELP US, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, WITH AN OBAMA/BIDEN ADMINSTRATION IN 2008!
:-)
minik
· 1 year ago
"I weep for my children and their families" ???
Why? Because the typical rich greedy corrupt GOP guy isn't going to win? Your poor tortured children will have to grow up in a world that cares about the working class? They won't be able to afford that 10th summer home and will have to settle for just getting the Ferrari, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche but won't be able to afford the Bugatti? How horrible. I can see your pain.
lark83
· 1 year ago
I predict more bad news for McCain tomorrow and Friday. Tomorrow the Alaska Supreme Court will put their stamp of legitimacy on the Alaska Legislature investigation by turning down the appeal of the GOP to stop the investigation. Then on Friday the report will come out that will state the weight of the evidence shows Palin fired the Public Safety Commisioner for personal reasons, not official duty reasons.
It will be an "October surprise" for McCain, but not to the rest of us.
By the way, the Japanese stock market just went down 10%, its worst drop in 20 years. I really wanted Obama to be President, but not at the cost of my entire life savings.
minik
· 1 year ago
If you value your life savings you had better hope that Obama wins this.
Do you really think the GOP is going to protect that? They've been the ones largely in charge of causing this mess and they want a repeat performance.
therepguy
· 1 year ago
Your entire life saving may be the real cost of bush's policies over these last 8 years! But that price may be worth it if the republican fascist movement is stopped in it's tracks this November!
twostepcub
· 1 year ago
geez, their out-concern-trolling themselves...
if he was that upset, why is he still voting for McCain.
Jesus Jiminy I really think these guys think this is like a football game.
therepguy
· 1 year ago
Sarah Palin may feel that she's building a frame work for a future run but the truth is that she had caused herself much harm and will be looked on by the American people with both fear and hatefulness... she has no political future and will be remembered as American's fistr true fascist!
BarrieT
· 1 year ago
It is clear from her ties to the AIP that she does not want to be an American and has been acting as a fifth columnist. All real Americans should disown her, now and forever.
nicho
· 1 year ago
With any luck, six months from now, "Sarah Palin" will be the answer to a tie-breaker question in Trivial Pursuits.
lucky hussein
· 1 year ago
ot, but nikkei down almost 9%, and now below dow...tomorrow could hurt..
therepguy
· 1 year ago
It funny but not one talking head has mentioned that TN may will be in play, I mean the people outside on the streets tonight were all Obama folks! Where were the republicans tonight?
Hell by next week Texas could be in play!
therepguy
· 1 year ago
It may turn out that the best half hour that Obama had during the this campaign... was the time he spend with those undecided voters after the debate tonight!
Where was McCain and company after the debate? Hiding from the press or from the American people!
paulbe
· 1 year ago
"I weep for my children and their families".
Stupid bastard has got the country he desired. What's to weep for? This is the America he wanted. Let him wallow in it like the Right wing pig he is.
DCinDC
· 1 year ago
This is Bush's economy 100%.
Obama is going to have his hands full trying to get the United States back on track to its former greatness.
Chris From Maine
· 1 year ago
Am I the only one who has noticed the Dow has lost 20%+ of its value IN A LITTLE OVER TWO WEEKS???
and yes, Obama will have a lot of hard work to do cleaning up after the Bush regime, that is if there is anything left of the country when he is sworn in. January is a long ways away from where we are right now.
sukabi1
· 1 year ago
no you're not the only one... thing is, it's not done dropping, this trend could very well continue for quite some time... especially since so far the only thing being done is to throw money on the pyre...
stranded
· 1 year ago
Mark my words. After their defeat in November, Sarah Palin will have her own TV and/or radio show. I'm sure it's already in the works, along with a book deal and possibly magazine deal. She is the right-wing Oprah!
BarrieT
· 1 year ago
You are right. I'm sure Fox would give her a job.
nicho
· 1 year ago
How do you think she got the "job" she has now. Fox loves her. Perky, not too bright, smart-mouthed, brassy, winks a lot. She's a perfect "analyst" for Fox. (Remember that analyst is just one letter short of anal cyst.)
Pangolin
· 1 year ago
With John McCain strutting around the stage looking like the living model for Grandpa Cotton Hill on "King of the Hill" the republicans had no reason to be happy. Nobody in america hasn't seen that show and John McCain did everything tonight but demand the japanese give him back his shins.
It didn't matter one bit what he said. The image of a tired old man stumbling through a fog killed him.
S_in_Tokyo
· 1 year ago
Japanese give back his shins? What do you mean? The allusion is lost on me ...
suffrincats
· 1 year ago
From Wikipedia: 'Cotton Lyndal Hill was a fictional character in the animated series King of the Hill. He was the father of Hank Hill, Good Hank Hill or "G.H.", and Junichiro (his illegitimate Japanese son). He was also a World War II veteran who had his shins "blowed off by a Japanman's machine gun" in combat, and later had his feet attached to his knees. This made him a foot shorter than his fellow family members and causing a characteristic waddle (according to Hank, Cotton was 6' 4" (1.93 m) with his shins, 5' 0" even (1.52m) without).'
S_in_Tokyo
· 1 year ago
Thank you! Now I understand the allusion, but not having seen the show it still doesn't mean much to me. I will try to find it, but I wonder whether it's available here in Japan. Doesn't seem very 'Japan-friendly,' after all.
fdeblauwe
· 1 year ago
As is my custom by now, I've analyzed the words used by the speakers in the latest US presidential debate. I provide a bubble graph visualizing length of words, sentences and speech. I also investigated a gut feeling that there was something odd about the distribution of thanks between the different players (bar chart). Finally, improved "word couds" for every speaker (this time including all meaningful words). See and read about it at my Word Face-Off blog.
mgardener
· 1 year ago
May Sarah Palin go back to where she came from, face her own ethics problems and get her own government in order.
I have a funny feeling that Alaskans are not very happy with their governor. Lets see what happens to her when the GOP is not running Alaska.
I'm sure she will be under the proverbial microscope with all her lying in the lower 48. Anything she sayes from now on with be fact checked!
houstonray
· 1 year ago
Oh yeah, and I'll weep for his children too, that they have to grow up in such a narrow minded household....
CarolAl
· 1 year ago
Perhpas the poor woman and her children could move to Alaska once Palin returns to resume her governorship. Maybe Alaska could become a neo-con, racists' haven, a place for all those with extreme narrow views who just can't seem to embrace diversity and social change in the other 49 states. It sounds like they have a pretty good start on it already up there.
vickif
· 1 year ago
I'll second this.
woodroad34
· 1 year ago
I love Joe Biden's retort to Governor Avon Lady's "palling around with terrorists" statement the other day. He calls it "mildly dangerous". That's pretty potent, actually. I would have said she's inciting violence for not mitigating her follower's demand to assassinate Obama, but Biden has to watch his step and I think it was a pretty measured and adult step (as opposed to the never-ending immaturity of the Veep-wannabe Gossip Girl). http://apnews.excite.com/article/20081008/D93MA...
All Comments
Who else would be weeping?
"In an acknowledgment that the night had failed to shift the public focus on the economy, or inflict serious damage on Obama, a key McCain adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, accused the moderator, Tom Brokaw, of hijacking the format of the debate."
Really? Didn't Brokaw actually piss and moan like a petulant child to try to get them back on the clock?
"roxer October 7th, 2008 at 9:46 p.m. (link)
to believe it was a stalemate, but that is just not the case. Obama appeared to be better prepared with his answers. He actually did answer more questions, truefully or not, than McCain. He also seemed to relate better to the casual viewer. I really wanted McCain to do better, but I just didn't see it. I fear the worst."
"I love reading your entries in Red State since I found this website. I was driving when McCain put out the line about Obama being second in funding from Fannie & Freddie, I thought that was the beginning of a long streak, I was wrong too. Bye Moe, I think we're going to have to get used to four years of Obama. God help us. Carol"
GOD IS GOING TO HELP US, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, WITH AN OBAMA/BIDEN ADMINSTRATION IN 2008!
:-)
Why? Because the typical rich greedy corrupt GOP guy isn't going to win? Your poor tortured children will have to grow up in a world that cares about the working class? They won't be able to afford that 10th summer home and will have to settle for just getting the Ferrari, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche but won't be able to afford the Bugatti? How horrible. I can see your pain.
It will be an "October surprise" for McCain, but not to the rest of us.
By the way, the Japanese stock market just went down 10%, its worst drop in 20 years. I really wanted Obama to be President, but not at the cost of my entire life savings.
Do you really think the GOP is going to protect that? They've been the ones largely in charge of causing this mess and they want a repeat performance.
if he was that upset, why is he still voting for McCain.
Jesus Jiminy I really think these guys think this is like a football game.
Hell by next week Texas could be in play!
Where was McCain and company after the debate? Hiding from the press or from the American people!
Stupid bastard has got the country he desired. What's to weep for? This is the America he wanted. Let him wallow in it like the Right wing pig he is.
Obama is going to have his hands full trying to get the United States back on track to its former greatness.
and yes, Obama will have a lot of hard work to do cleaning up after the Bush regime, that is if there is anything left of the country when he is sworn in. January is a long ways away from where we are right now.
It didn't matter one bit what he said. The image of a tired old man stumbling through a fog killed him.
I have a funny feeling that Alaskans are not very happy with their governor. Lets see what happens to her when the GOP is not running Alaska.
I'm sure she will be under the proverbial microscope with all her lying in the lower 48. Anything she sayes from now on with be fact checked!