Obama Hits McCain For Deregulation; McCain Hits Obama Over Town Halls
The debate is underway, and the first exchange is a bit of a surprise: Obama gets in an attack, and McCain, who was expected to go after Obama aggressively, doesn't.
Obama hits McCain for having supporting the deregulatory policies that have created our current mess.
"I believe this is a final verdict on the failed economic policies of the last eight years, strongly promoted by President Bush and supported by Senator McCain that essentially said that we should strip away regulation, consumer protections, let the market run wild, and prosperity would rain down on all of us," Obama said, right on message. "It hasn't worked out that way, and so now we've got to take some decisive action."
McCain, by contrast, gets in a dig on Obama for not agreeing to previous town halls, but in his first answer, avoids directly faulting Obama on a policy level.
Late Update: McCain just hit Obama squarely over Fannie and Freddie, claiming his call for action on the mortgage giants shows he was out front on the crisis. Obama responded by reminding folks that deregulation, not Fannie and Freddie, was at the root of the problem, and that McCain's record on Fannie and Freddie isn't what he says it was.
I will say it again, McCain needs to keep still. he is moving around too much.
October 7, 2008 9:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
I disagree with you actually, it's what he does. He's pretty good at these town hall events.
I like him better when he's moving around talking than when he's standing behind a podium.
Of course Obama functions just as well in this situation.
October 7, 2008 9:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
It may come across well there, but it doesnt on tv
October 7, 2008 9:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
he looks like the mummy
October 7, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ahhhh!!!! I can't look!!! I feel like Jonze! You all let me know what happens, 'kay?
October 7, 2008 9:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
He looks like a wind-up doll.
http://pufferfish.typepad.com/
October 7, 2008 9:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
automaton for real
can he look any older?
Grandpa For President!
October 7, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
He did mention Ebay when Eay just laid off 1600 people...
Thank you for the Gift, Mr McWar...
October 7, 2008 9:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Deregulation is what people understand.
October 7, 2008 9:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good answer to the QUESTION , yes!!
October 7, 2008 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is standing up, is he getting pissed?
October 7, 2008 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like how Obama looked directly at McCain when he called out his lobbyist ties.
October 7, 2008 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain makes me nervous. He's too jittery and lots of heavy breathing.
October 7, 2008 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's nervous as hell, that's why he's breathing heavily and shaking.
October 7, 2008 9:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, how completely unsurprising.
October 7, 2008 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Shut your cakehole, Brokaw! Nice try at setting a trap...sucks for you that BO is smarter than that.
October 7, 2008 9:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama on a roll. I am soooo nervous
October 7, 2008 9:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
NO answer, again, it depends...... chicken shit.
October 7, 2008 9:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Damn y'all - you left me downstairs.
Obama is in his groove - he connects with people in person and it works even here.
McLame - not so much.
October 7, 2008 9:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
best exporters, best importers??
October 7, 2008 9:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know, that gave me a chuckle.
October 7, 2008 9:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Damn it, McCain! Stop moving around!
October 7, 2008 9:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Was Obama asked to sign the "letter", come on, what a crock.
October 7, 2008 9:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is what I keep hearing from people - both parties got us into this.
No, that isn't true.
October 7, 2008 9:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well what do you expect given how the MSM covers the topics.
October 7, 2008 9:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Shared blame question...interesting
October 7, 2008 9:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain...saying nothing beyond USA number 1.
October 7, 2008 9:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
So...McCain never saw the letter that Obama sent to Paulson in 2007?
October 7, 2008 9:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
"How can we trust either party?"
"Two party system, motherfucker. Better flip a coin!"
October 7, 2008 9:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Make the REpublicans eat their failure!
October 7, 2008 9:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Senator Obama is good, i was very nervous too, but he is in command, and remains calm and cool...
October 7, 2008 9:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Listening not watching: has McCrankypants looked at BO yet?
October 7, 2008 9:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Need to point out Democrats have only been in control of Legislature for 1.5 years.
October 7, 2008 9:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
OBama was STRONG on lobbyists.
October 7, 2008 9:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
O he's so so full of compassion tonight - I want to puke.
Give it up, bitch - you'll never connect like Obama does.
October 7, 2008 9:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I have been a consistent reformer..."
1st spit-take of the night.
He's been neither.
October 7, 2008 9:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Take on the special intrest groups...they work for his campaign
October 7, 2008 9:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
y the hell he is not answering the question.
October 7, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama's doing better than last time. McCain's trying to be kinder and gentler.
October 7, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
what about congressional oversight?
October 7, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Barack is just so cool, assuring and has answers. McCain critical of Obama, hitting him somehow in every answer, sounds very negative with that approach.
October 7, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you go there you will find Alaska is the worse earmark state in the US.
October 7, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like how the mention of Lieberman didn't make the needle move at all on the audience meter. The lines should've spun together and written "Meh."
October 7, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
So - what needle are you watching?
October 7, 2008 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah, CNN and it's Ohio uncommitted female/male voters. I'm addicted to these. I can't watch debates without em these days. Obama's been killing. He seems to do especially well with women.
October 7, 2008 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Earmarks - and here he goes with the same fucking lie-
October 7, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain sounds like the old man at the Thanksgiving that won't shut the hell up.
October 7, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is McCain wheezing alot or it just me? He sounds old...
October 7, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is anyone tracking the CNN undecideds reaction?
October 7, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Everytime McCains attacks Obama, the CNN meter flatlines.
October 7, 2008 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nice.
October 7, 2008 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
YEA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 7, 2008 9:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good to know...
October 7, 2008 9:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Woo hoo!
Keep telling us -
October 7, 2008 9:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nobody gives a shit about earmarks...
October 7, 2008 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
McWar is angry, and more angry and it does go well with the men of women...
The tone is wrong, and he is so negative, bashing Obama...
October 7, 2008 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain won't answer the woman's question about trusting the parties, and on CNN, his approval lines just go flat everytime he attacks the Big O.
October 7, 2008 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
geeze....
October 7, 2008 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain was owned on the Fannie and Freddie issue. That was Chuck Hagel's bill and the was put to the Senate on Jan 23, 2005 and Johnny (Come Lately) McCain didn't jump on board until May 26, 2006. Add to that McCain knew full well that bill lay dead in committee since July 28, 2005.
But he was getting ready for another presidential run, wasn't he?
October 7, 2008 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dang...did Brokaw actually shut McLame down?
October 7, 2008 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
He keeps saying he knows how to "blank".
October 7, 2008 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
We aren't sending $700 billon overseas
October 7, 2008 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
did he answer the question what the hell wrong with him about "he knows how to fix it"
October 7, 2008 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain goes small ball on "overhead projectors" bloating the budget.
He's trying for a sac bunt when he needs a grand slam.
October 7, 2008 9:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain thinks he's talking to a GOP townhall audience.
"Big spending liberal"
I think its clear that McCain's claim of being "good at townhalls" was based on rah rah rightwing crowds that applauded his 80s era Reagan style platitudes.
October 7, 2008 9:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
McLame just ripped that page over on his pad - he's getting pissed - he crossed in front of the camera. And his paunch is hanging out of his suit.
October 7, 2008 9:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yee Haw! He's breaking up - and he's grabbed the 3d rail!
October 7, 2008 9:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
My friends, noun, verb.
October 7, 2008 9:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
he can't think straight
October 7, 2008 9:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
No he can't.
October 7, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Right, Brokaw, like they're gonna admit entitlement is getting the bronze.
October 7, 2008 9:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, did McCain look fragile when writing down the priorities mentioned by Brokaw.
October 7, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL.
October 7, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
If the town hall is McCain's strength 30 minutes in BO is coming across much better.
October 7, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Will Obama please tell the people that he believes in pay as you go. A family budget analogy is not enough. He has to say "I pay for all of my programs by cleaning up the old ones"
October 7, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Holy shit, he cant get the three categories straight... Unreal.
October 7, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Holy crap! McCain failed big time on that one!
October 7, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jinx?
October 7, 2008 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain's "new spending" attack fell flat since Obama pre-empted it.
October 7, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, that was a beauty by Obama! Completely undermined McCain on that!
October 7, 2008 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, heart Kennedy and Feingold, what a B.S.er
October 7, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
viagra!!!!!
kick-in
October 7, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
entitlements - here comes the third rail
reaching across the aile...oh shut up
October 7, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
bad ass BO...kick his old ass
October 7, 2008 9:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!
My heart is swelling with joy and pride for this amazing man.
October 7, 2008 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain just faded out on that one.
October 7, 2008 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Odd that they show both Obama and McCain when McCain is speaking, but only Obama when Obama talks?
October 7, 2008 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
And where McCain failed, Obama triumphed!
October 7, 2008 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tena: Can you see McCain on CSPAM while Obama speaks, I can't on MSNBC
October 7, 2008 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Once in awhile.
He's sitting there minding his manners when I've seen him.
October 7, 2008 9:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's doing pretty good.
October 7, 2008 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain has a clear record reaching across the isle - Cranston, Glenn, Riegle etc.
October 7, 2008 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama has been hitting that line item thing over and over - he wants the line item veto.
I remember how badly Clinton wanted that.
heh heh heh - he's already president in his mind - that's a good thing.
October 7, 2008 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
cool sanity
October 7, 2008 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I want quaruple secret service protection for Obama. He's gonna win this thing.
October 7, 2008 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
First softball question to McCain!
October 7, 2008 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Medicare is his first elimination, and Social Security.
October 7, 2008 9:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Brokaw is penalizing them on time and rules...good!
October 7, 2008 9:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Energy, Health Care, Education -- entitlements aren't on the list of priorities. The answer is warmly embraced by the CNN group!
October 7, 2008 9:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the update.
October 7, 2008 9:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Alright!
October 7, 2008 9:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is McCain trying to say the same thing Obama just said? Because Obama said it way better.
And STFU with the earmarks already.
October 7, 2008 9:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
overhead projector....koo koo
October 7, 2008 9:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
That idiot has nothing to talk about so keeps going back to earmark regardless of questions.
October 7, 2008 9:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
National sacrafice = back to f**king earmarks?
October 7, 2008 9:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
One thing I hadn't anticipated: having Brokaw as moderator helps McCain look less old. I had no idea how B. has aged. His voice sounds as though he's about to expire. Makes McC. sound a lot better than he would otherwise.
October 7, 2008 9:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good point. Remember that Brokaw had essentially retired. Since Russert's death, he has made an on-air resurgence of sorts.
Too bad Cronkite is in his 90s now, I think.
October 7, 2008 9:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
When McCain inhales, I can hear the phlegm vibrate.
October 7, 2008 9:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Brokaw: I'd like to ask each of you to respond to my questions that would take 5 minutes to answer in 1 minute please.
October 7, 2008 9:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's such a jackass - I can't figure out why he doesn't just tell them the time is up instead of getting snarky about it -
October 7, 2008 9:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
F**king earmarks = 18 billion = peanuts
October 7, 2008 9:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sounds like they need to raise taxes to keep from freezing programs
October 7, 2008 9:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
rifle shots
October 7, 2008 9:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
No answer answer.
October 7, 2008 9:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's trying to be Obama tonight.
puke
October 7, 2008 9:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
We're not "rifle shots" says Mr. "I have to suspend my campaign."
October 7, 2008 9:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
New thread y'all
October 7, 2008 9:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
yeehaw!
October 7, 2008 9:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is trying to be Obama - Health Care and Energy at the same time. Pathetic.
October 7, 2008 9:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Spending freeze = no grants to my school = no scholarship for me....
October 7, 2008 9:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's all about the framing.
October 7, 2008 9:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dont take the hackers scholarship money...
October 7, 2008 9:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's wrong with McCain's eyebrows..mascara running? or eyelash problem?
October 7, 2008 9:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where is McCain going?
October 7, 2008 9:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
hell?
October 7, 2008 9:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain pee'ed hisself....
October 7, 2008 9:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
he's lost
October 7, 2008 9:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cindy! CINDY!
October 7, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama was sharp on sarifice.
McCain still talking about earmarks. Never answered.
October 7, 2008 9:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jeez, just took a look. McCain looks embalmed.
October 7, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm with Josh. This shit is boring.
October 7, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yep it is and
now Brokaw is shooting his own mouth off.
October 7, 2008 9:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
he's covering up his lap
October 7, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
ooooh!! only $18 billion in tax cuts is not a whole lot
October 7, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
mccain letting him talk....let the spot dry
October 7, 2008 9:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Welcome to the Town Hall meeting...they are bboooorrrrriiiiinnggggggg!
October 7, 2008 9:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Jello to the wall???"
He's losing it.
October 7, 2008 9:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Brokaw is doing nicely. Obama is going pretty strong on the service issue.
October 7, 2008 9:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
OMG, stop my friends. It is driving me nuts. And again, not answering question, attacking Obama.
October 7, 2008 9:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Liarrrrr liarrrr!
October 7, 2008 9:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
With a $700 billion bailout...where we gonna pay for it, especially when there's been 750,000 jobs lost just this year.
October 7, 2008 9:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Its line are getting worse,,,Negative, negative, negative....and more negative....
October 7, 2008 9:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama's secret? Is McCain trying to get sneaky or was that just a coincidence?
October 7, 2008 9:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Okay meter readers, how is this stupid answer going?
October 7, 2008 9:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jello to the wall??
Could explain why he seems to be so angry.
October 7, 2008 9:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Brokaw is nailing them on their own rules.
October 7, 2008 9:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's fine, but he takes his own license with the rules and he has been snarky about the whole thing.
O, McLame is doing the creepy laugh - o brrrrrrr -
October 7, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hit him - he's running on the fucking tax lie all over New Mexico.
Go Bama!
October 7, 2008 9:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oooh, McSame referencing Hoover was quite bone-headed given the current economic status! Wow, that was bad.
On taxes, McSame is incredibly disingenuous. What a lying, cheap shot. Great response by Obama though!
October 7, 2008 9:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Grr...I meant coincidental word choice. The "Secret thing," I mean.
October 7, 2008 9:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
this is so painful to watch...
McCain and McCain lie lie lie...
McCain = W
October 7, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Meters???
October 7, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
There you go Joe (OOPS John) looking at the past again .......
October 7, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
because you tell them to go fuck themselves
October 7, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama is winning:)
October 7, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's going to answer - he's not answering.
He doesn't want to say he's going to cut it.
October 7, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Look at the Dem and the GOP watch parties. The GOP watch party is ALL WHITE PEOPLE. The dem watch party looks like a "we are the world" music video. Every race and nationality you can think of.
October 7, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
How the meter is moving? Can you fill us in who are seeing it on cspan?
October 7, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
McWar= commissions, commissions, commissions, commissions...
October 7, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
My friends, I'm wearing a full body brace composed entirely of lies. It is the only thing keeping me up.
October 7, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am dying to know how the meters are reading
October 7, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Me too!!! Please fill us in, anyone??
October 7, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain remains flat most the time or even some negative. Obama has some good peaks.
October 7, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks you... that makes me feel better.
October 7, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama is cleaning house. This isn't close.
When McCain starts whispering he starts getting those negatives.
October 7, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
GAH!!!!
Next time I hear "My Friends," I'm going to hurl something.
October 7, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Me too, OMG
October 7, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
There there my friends, this meeting is important my friends. It is important that I tell you my friends that America is the Best!
October 7, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
The word crotchety comes to mind
October 7, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
When he starts whispering, he sounds so menacing...
October 7, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
O boy, McLame is pathetic.
and Obama will cream him on these environmental lies.
October 7, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
or sumptin likgat
October 7, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Every tome Lieberman is mentioned, the lines go down...
You can not even understand his garbage...
October 7, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Overall, how's it going?
October 7, 2008 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is so boring, that means no game changer.
October 7, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is making a big mistake by walking around so much. He is simply showing how old he is.
October 7, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
McLame is just fucking himself - he's veering away from questions like Princess Sparkle Starburst -
and he's scaring the audience.
October 7, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
hahah...Nuclear power plants on ships!!!
Power Plants!!!
October 7, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
MercerReader, are you still watching the meters?
October 7, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is it me, or is McCain answering questions by parroting what Obama just said and adding a steaming pile of negative b.s. and lies?
October 7, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
He is.
October 7, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
You are right my friend!
October 7, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
My friends I age 3 yrs per second on television.
October 7, 2008 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
He just used McLame's own words and own time in the Senate against him - steam has to be coming out of McLame's ears.
October 7, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain keeps telling us hes our "friend"...Who is he talking to???? oh, yea - McCain!!!
Get off that term..."my Friend" he has no Friends
October 7, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did the Oil Companies pick Sarah Palin?
October 7, 2008 9:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Crap, just scared the Dupod by stamping feet and throwing things after the last "My Friends."
Time to find & apologize to a 3-legged German Shepherd.
October 7, 2008 9:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
By the way my friends............
October 7, 2008 9:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
My friends -
lord.
You're creepy, McLame!
this is troll shit - this is straight up troll jizz.
October 7, 2008 9:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
tell us how u really feel my friend
thats not jizz you can believe in
truly,
Maverick McFriends
October 7, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
he's a ghoul
October 7, 2008 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
"that one"........ just say boy
October 7, 2008 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
TM you're killing me! I'm laughing too hard to be pissed off anymore.
October 7, 2008 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you my friend.
October 7, 2008 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mc War refers to Senator Obama as "that one"
He is burying himself...
October 7, 2008 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's creepier than shit trying to be a sympathetic character.
He's like something straight out of Dickens.
fuck you Tom!
October 7, 2008 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great, glad she asked about health care !!!
October 7, 2008 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anyone ever see Being John Malkovich?
Maverick maverick? Maverick maverick maverick maverick maverick!
My friends, maverick maverick my friends, maverick. Maverick maverick my friends my friends my friends my friends maverick.
October 7, 2008 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
if you want the "meter" reader...go to cnn.com and click it only for the meter! EHH :)
October 7, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
You all talk about Obama and his looks. First and foremost McCain with those short arms, he looks like a t-rex!!! Second, you all put your trust in that old idiot if you want, he is old and has no future. He has one foot in the grave, if you all would stop looking at the color of Obama skin and his good looks........then you would shut up and listen to what he is saying. Hell Bush does not even care for McCain and Palin with her limited knowledge and background would not be ready to run anything other than alaska, because sha can't even get past her joking, and keeps coming with the same damn facts.
October 7, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
oh shit - a damn trex? :lol:
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$5000 refundable tax credit my friends! Who's going to show me how to use this computer doohickey? Email me at maverick@ussenate.gov Cindy will read it to me.
October 7, 2008 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
How are the meters moving? Anyone?
October 7, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don' think this town hall thing works for McCain. He walks around looking old, and Obama looks like gold......
October 7, 2008 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lines - McCain talking about healthcare = crater
October 7, 2008 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
McWar is losing big...:)
October 7, 2008 9:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
head transplant
October 7, 2008 9:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
No laugh as he hoped, fell flat.
October 7, 2008 9:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
For anyone wondering about the meters. For the most part, McCain doesn't move them much, Obama has a lot of high peaks.
October 7, 2008 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Like now. Obama talks healthcare, they shoot back up.
October 7, 2008 9:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is losing....big!
October 7, 2008 9:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's the deal. McCain is the wrong side of issues that matter. Obama is on the right side. It's that simple.
October 7, 2008 9:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
whatever pundit dipshit came up with the "McCain has the townhall sewn up" should lose his job
October 7, 2008 9:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
CNN just added M/F and income breakouts. Obama high on both. Through the roof with females.
October 7, 2008 9:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks !!!
October 7, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great to know! Thanks...
October 7, 2008 10:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama is kicking ass...
October 7, 2008 9:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hee! Brokaw talks and they go way down. These lines are kind of fun.
October 7, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo friggin glad that America is not taking the stupid angle they did the past 2 elections.
No one is buying this cadaver's lies my friends.
October 7, 2008 10:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lebanon? Like most people know WTF he is talking about ?!
October 7, 2008 10:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
As soon as Irak is mentioned, Mc War loses...
October 7, 2008 10:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
POW my friends. - countdown to POW my friends
brace for impact my friends
October 7, 2008 10:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Senator Obama doesn't understand..."
"True there's something that I don't understand..."
Jyu-jyutu (sp?) that is!
October 7, 2008 10:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
"We don't have time for on the job training, my friend."
So, having an unqualified vice president "learn at the foot of a master" in order to receive an Internation Relations degree that's at least 30 years out of date might be a bad idea?
October 7, 2008 10:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
repubs want that surplus for corporate profits, not paying US back
October 7, 2008 10:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
McWar is so toast...so toast, I am so happy...
Senator Obama is flawless...
October 7, 2008 10:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
My friends? Anybody? Ayers?
October 7, 2008 10:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
You don't understand. Only McCain understands foreign policy. Screw the facts and the people meters.
October 7, 2008 10:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Loser to mention Iraq.......BIG mistake, meters anyone???
October 7, 2008 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
America is the greatest my friends. Dont be cowards like Obama my friends.
October 7, 2008 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
POWPOWPOWPOW
October 7, 2008 10:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tanking until the victory with honor thing. Then repubs go up a lot, independents a little, Dems not at all.
Then all back down.
October 7, 2008 10:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama represent the poor, the workers, the societism/communism, the idealism, and he can't keep clear of terrorism.
Mccain represent the rich, the bourgeois, the capitalism, the realism, and he can't keep clear of bushism.
Who can represent the world? Obama, of course.
Who can represent the USA? Mccain, of course.
Who should we choose as the president of USA?
See what happened and happens in the societism countries in the world.
We should choose Mccain, of course!
October 7, 2008 10:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Meters? Please, anyone?
October 7, 2008 10:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama represent the poor, the workers, the societism/communism, the idealism, and he can't keep clear of terrorism.
Mccain represent the rich, the bourgeois, the capitalism, the realism, and he can't keep clear of bushism.
Who can represent the world? Obama, of course.
Who can represent the USA? Mccain, of course.
Who should we choose as the president of USA?
See what happened and happens in the societism countries in the world.
We should choose Mccain, of course!
October 7, 2008 10:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
OMG with the hero shit.
October 7, 2008 10:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Right now? Red line sort of up, all other lines down.
Never thought I'd see the day when a Republican got pwned on national security by a Democrat.
October 7, 2008 10:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain sounds weird. He's got this "I can't believe you're so stupid I have to explain this shit to you" tone.
October 7, 2008 10:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, the tone he wants to project is that
he is the "teacher"
and
Obama is the "student"
October 7, 2008 10:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
We need a cool hand at the tiller McCain said. And no one's hands are cooler than my corpse like appendages at the end of my short T-rex arms. Oh my god! I can't feel my hands!
October 7, 2008 10:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
watch what you say...
I have MS, and I really can't feel my hands while typing! Honest! Sad!
October 7, 2008 10:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh the humanity! and the hands.
October 7, 2008 10:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'll get Osama bin laden my friends. I'll get em. I will get em and I will put him in a headlock my friends.
October 7, 2008 10:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
I will redirect the surge towards the border of Iraq and Pakistan to capture Bin Laden my friends. Then on to Czechloslovakia! Then to Latin America to hit that pesky Spain.
October 7, 2008 10:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is not even close -- a clear win for Obama, clearer than Round 1, I think!
October 7, 2008 10:35 PM | Reply | Permalink