Obama's little debate trick

McCain's been through a lot tougher opponents than Obama and has had to deal with a lot more than Obama can throw at him.

Yeah, he's been attacked by the Bush family mafia and their ugly campaigning. Obama is a pussy cat compared to how McCain was treated by Bush and his family and the conservative establishment.

And apparently Obama is doing a much better job of convincing people than McCain, who try as he might, cannot escape the simple and indisputable fact that he voted with George W. Bush 90% of the time for these eight long, dark years of incompetence, deception, and dishonor.

He supported the invasion of Iraq, either because he was bamboozled by the trumped-up evidence of WMD's or because he believes in the cause of blood for oil. He said it would be a cakewalk. He said we would be greeted as liberators. He said there was no history of sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia. He was dead wrong. When he was proved wrong, he lied and said he'd predicted from the beginning it would be long and hard.

By supporting the invasion of Iraq, he waved the white flag of surrender at Al Quaeda in Afghanistan, and invited them in to a region where there had never been an Al Quaeda presence. Now he claims to have a "secret plan" for capturing Bin Laden.

He told reporters that Al Quaeda was operating from bases inside Iran and had to be corrected by Joe Lieberman. He went on to confuse Sunni and Shia numerous times after that.

He says it's fine by him if we stay in Iraq for 100 years or more. And then tries to deny that's what he meant.

He shows a cavalier disregard for national security and indeed our entire future by choosing a running mate for purely political reasons, someone who is so obviously unqualified to be vice-president, let alone president, that she is a national embarrassment and a genuine potential threat to our safety.

He repeats the mantra "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" again and again, then flip-flops and declares we're in the biggest financial crisis since WWII. He admits to not knowing much about the economy and then tries to persuade us he rode to the rescue, when all he did was make the situation worse by injecting partisan politics into the negotiations.

He's a drama queen who will do anything to seize control of the news cycle, who has no compunction about lying himself into office, and who is as complicit in the two massive failures of this Administration, foreign and domestic, as anyone can be: the colossal strategic blunder that is Iraq and the horrendous financial mess caused by lack of regulation--a cause he has championed his entire career as "McCain the Deregulator."

Vote for him? You'd have to be crazy.

USE YOUR BRAIN: DON'T VOTE MCCAIN.

McCain did everything but call Obama "boy" in that debate. He was contemptuous and disdainful.

They don't call him "McNasty" for nothing.

Too bad that sort of thing goes over so badly with independents.

I wish he would of called him Barry Barack Hussien Osama.
I'm so sick of the racial card. I didn't make them slaves.

Speaking of independents, I watched the debates on CNN, with the little graph at the bottom. Every time either candidate went on the attack, instead of sticking to their own policy, the "independent" line dropped. That was for both candidates.

KM, your liberal bias is pretty clear (regardless of your ability to vote - I don't know where you live, but lots of aliens are able to vote Democratic).

I use the word "bias", because I'm pretty sure that my conservative bias is pretty clear also.

Is that all? The needling was that he called him "John?" How disrespectful!!!

pro-honesty

Then we should together keep an eye on BOTH sides...will you call out dishonesty on the part of liberals here?

"Can't wait for the other debates. This is better than SNL."

Or in the case of Our Sarah, just like SNL.