DISQUS

HereinDC · 1 year ago

Speaking of NBC...just saw on the news about some guy fired from the McCain campaign in Southern Virginia for a scarastic letter in the newspaper ( but it really was racist )
Live on HArdball,,,,,Mathews couldn't find a single McCain supporter to come up front an speak to the camera....

houstonray · 1 year ago

boy, those McCain/Pailin people sure are vocal in a group until you get them separated and stick a camera in their face...

Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago

Thats their herd instinct.

houstonray · 1 year ago

Would that be a "Moose herd"??

Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago

Why do they keep saying that the town hall format benefits McC. This seem to imply that Obama is at a disadvantage in this format. He seems personable enough. Seems to me the repubs are building huge expectations for Johnny tonight.

HereinDC · 1 year ago

Really...GREAT Expectations for the grumpy old man

tee hee hee

Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago

I guess no one knows the answer to my honest question.

gallery · 1 year ago

I think it was because Macdaddy ONCE had the ability to talk and seem honest when it was one on one with john Q public, but that was a LONG-G-G-G time ago.
Obama will be perfectly capable tonight. His strength has always been big speeches, but he is just as engaging in a small crowd. I would predict a win for Obama, he was the better man in the last debate, and he will no doubt be great tonight. People will see mac's disrespect and anger on display once again and see him for what he is.....a fucking unhinged lunatic. The only reason you're hearing so much about "expectations" is because the corporate media wants to make this a sporting event styled "ratings" winner, rather than an important part of the election process.

Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago

Thanks, that is kind of what I was thinking but no one ever explains why
McCain is so great in a town hall.. Really when was the last time he
actually held one of these? Not since he changed it to the "No Talk
Express" would be my guess.

Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago

i'm not a lawyer but i think the rules on the admissibility of a defendant's criminal past during trial don't apply during sentencing. at that point, jurors can weigh a convict's propensity to repeat the crime. seems to me this is the relevant rebuttal to the "ancient history" argument.

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

If McCain wants to change the subject, let him explain this new AP new's release.
This article clearly proves the Bush Administration had Gitmo like prisons here in the United States. It denied Americans their civil rights, making them insane, while being held in our own country.

AP Exclusive: Documents say detainee near insanity
"WASHINGTON - A U.S.. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing isolation and sensory deprivation in a U.S. military brig, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union and provided to The Associated Press.
While the treatment of prisoners at detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in Afghanistan andIraq have long been the subject ofhuman rights complaints and court scrutiny, the documents shed new light on how two American citizens and a legal U.S. resident were treated in military jails inside the United States."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081007/ap_on_go_ca...

FunMe · 1 year ago

The Economy is #1 in people's mind - the Elephant in the middle of the room - and they want to change the subject?

Let them.

It will remind voters of how the republiCON party does not care about the economic situation of most Americans.

Tonight then will be just like when Bush Sr. looked at his watch in one of the debates.

Oh, Bush Sr. lost Bush. In 1992.
And just like today, "It's the Economy Stupid!"

Stevious · 1 year ago

Will Brokaw let Obama change the subject to Keating?

freshpaint · 1 year ago

nice.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

or maybe the Alaskan Independence Party?

Stevious · 1 year ago

I hope so.

houstonray · 1 year ago

I'd actually like to see him try to flip it, after the crash yesterday and today in the market, the fact that 2 TRILLION dollars in retirement money has been lost, go right ahead and change the subject and lets see how fast people start to get ticked off.

tommytoonz · 1 year ago

Are you kidding? McCain won't even have to bring it up, Brokaw will. Brokaw will equate Obama's mentioning the Keating 5 to McCain's slander of Obama as palling around with terrorists as being the same, negative campaigning. Brokaw will ask McCain if he renounces such negative campaigning and McCain will lie and say he already had but his opponent hasn't. Then Brokaw will move on to another topic leaving Obama hanging in the lurch. That's my view.

Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago

I thought the audience members asked the questions.

tommytoonz · 1 year ago

The audience will get to ask some of the questions, but Brokaw picks which ones and Brokaw himself gets to ask questions as well. No follow up questions supposedly but I'm sure Brokaw will ask some, I hope he does, the no follow up rule is idiotic.

Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago

Really dumb, here is what Brokaw could do.
Senator McCain, is Barack Obama a terrorist sympathizer?

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

hard to do that at a townhall type of debate... there are people in the room who support BOTH candidate. If Brokaw and mcsame tried something like that, I think it'd get ugly really quick.

Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago

It is supposed to be 80 undecideds.

iWoman · 1 year ago

I am so tired of the "undecideds." If you don't know who you are voting for by now, it's because you're stupid and don't know how to educate yourself.

freshpaint · 1 year ago

<Will Brokaw Let McCain Change Subject To Ayers? >

Yes, because he's a tool.

downindixie · 1 year ago

Brokawkaw will do anything for the repukes to give them an advantage!

Plisko · 1 year ago

Will someone please explain to me how the Keating 5 is ancient history but Ayers isn't?

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

The same way being part time mayor of a small town is more important than being a community organizer for a large city - because McCain/Palin say so.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Good One!!!!! :)

Wild_Weasel · 1 year ago

SURE, let Obama talk about Ayers.

THEN let McCain talk about his friend and advisor PHIL GRAMM, crook,
Lobbyist for UBS Americas and architect of current sub-prime real estate debacle, and (now) a McCain staffer
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9246....
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/ph...

naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago

Brokaw doesn't even have to do that. The questions submitted by the audience go through him for a final selection, and I wouldn't be surprised if Brokaw did not confront Obama head on with an Ayres, Wright, or Rezko question (or maybe a combination of all three).