After the market crisis the past few days, the election is going to shift again. Obama has an ad out where he is talking to the camera about the challenges we're facing and a need to get back to the issues. People are becoming increasingly worried about the economy, reminded of the failures of Bush, and are looking for leadership. McCain is also paying for a campaign that is increasingly negative and just downright smears.

The debates are going to throw the issues into the forefront of the campaign. Does anyone think Palin is going to be able to address them intelligently? McCain can't win a campaign on the issues and with the media's renewed interest at correcting him, he doesn't have much else to run on.

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Originally posted by josh4 After the market crisis the past few days, the election is going to shift again. Obama has an ad out where he is talking to the camera about the challenges we're facing and a need to get back to the issues. People are becoming increasingly worried about the economy, reminded of the failures of Bush, and are looking for leadership. McCain is also paying for a campaign that is increasingly negative and just downright smears. The debates are going to throw the issues into the forefront of the campaign. Does anyone think Palin is going to be able to address them intelligently? McCain can't win a campaign on the issues and with the media's renewed interest at correcting him, he doesn't have much else to run on.

Obama aired more negative ads last week: Washington Post---> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/th...tive_ads_s.html

McCain put out the same type of ad a few days ago about getting back to the issues... so what?

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Originally posted by The17sss Obama aired more negative ads last week: Washington Post---> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/th...tive_ads_s.html McCain put out the same type of ad a few days ago about getting back to the issues... so what?

His "issue" is just a statement saying he's taken on worse people than Wall Street before... he's offered absolutely no substantive plan on the economy.

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Here's the long and short of it for John McCain: Barack Obama has as large a lead in the election as he's held all year.

"It's split"

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Originally posted by josh4 "It's split"

I was at that earlier today. Fox is such a joke it's almost not even funny.

I'm so sick of this election already. When you go vote it's like choosing between stepping in front of a fast moving bus or a fast moving train. The democrats have a junior senator with no experience plus an assclown blowhard idiot as his running mate. The republicans have a guy with plenty of experience but is so old he could drop dead any second and he takes a clueless dunce with just as little experience as Obama for his VP.

Can't we somehow press the reset button on this shit and start over?

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Originally posted by XaNaX and he takes a clueless dunce with just as little experience as Obama for his VP.

Please don't even attempt to compare the two of them.

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Originally posted by Trancer-X I was at that earlier today. Fox is such a joke it's almost not even funny.

I love the old lady in the back of the room who slaps her husbands arm down when he says he's voting for McCain.

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Originally posted by UWM Please don't even attempt to compare the two of them.

I wasn't comparing them, I was comparing the fact that I don't think either of them has the experience required to be president.

I may end up going with Obama as the lesser of two evils though. If he surrounds himself with a quality cabinet with experienced people to advise him I think that would be better than Palin the "maverick" attempting to do things her way

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Originally posted by XaNaX I wasn't comparing them, I was comparing the fact that I don't think either of them has the experience required to be president. I may end up going with Obama as the lesser of two evils though. If he surrounds himself with a quality cabinet with experienced people to advise him I think that would be better than Palin the "maverick" attempting to do things her way

This begs an interesting question:

Is experience a line on the resume, or is experience the ability to think intellectually and pragmatically about issues of importance?

In my opinion Obama is one of the most qualified candidates we've had in a very long time.

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