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so did McCain just blow it? (pg. 158)
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| Moongoose |
| So what do you think. How many times will McCain say "My friends" during tonight's debate. |
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| delobbo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Alex
Poor Thomas the tank engine :( |
yeah that's an insult to him |
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| woscar99 |
| So, I guess we'll be discussing tonight's debate in this thread as well? :p |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by woscar99
So, I guess we'll be discussing tonight's debate in this thread as well? :p |
Yes. I plan to be an absolute ing stoned mess barely capable of comprehending what I'm watching, so I'll be here.
I'm hoping a mildly amusing debate that I'm just coherent enough to pay attention to will be a sound way to try and end a completely day on a high note.  |
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| Alex |
So far the score is 2 debates to the democrats.
If we win tonight, I think Obama should just send MATT DAMON to the third one and get some KFC take out and kick back at his crib. |
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| delobbo |
even Gingrich is admitting it... McCain has no choice but to make desperate moves (which he has been all week) to keep alive.. today he even said something like if you want to live, vote for McCain. lol. Sadly, desperation at this stage is just going to make him and his camp look like fools.
I think it just came down to awareness of exactly how dumb Palin is. The Katie Couric interviews really got a lot of people to see what she is really like. Add the popularity of the SNL skits to the mix and it got exposed pretty well. But it will get pretty nasty, because this is pretty much McCain's last chance at the presidency. He will be giving it his 'all', regardless of the consequences.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...-gingrich-says/
| quote: | October 7, 2008
McCain facing the 'crisis of his career,' Gingrich says
Posted: 04:16 PM ET
Gingrich says McCain should come out against the bailout.
(CNN) — John McCain faces the "crisis of his career," says former House Speak Newt Gingrich, who predicted the Republican nominee will lose the election unless he makes a public break from the economic bailout proposal.
In a column posted on the Web site of the conservative Human Events Tuesday, Gingrich says it is impossible for McCain to catch up in the national or state polls unless he taps into the anger many Americans feel toward the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street investment banks.
"If Senator McCain is not prepared to separate himself from the Bush-Paulson economic program, he has no opportunity to win," Gingrich writes. "The country is deeply fed up with the Bush presidency and angry about the Paulson bailout. If McCain is confused or uncertain about how bad this economic performance is, he will never get the country to listen to him."
Gingrich is the latest prominent conservative to criticize McCain for supporting the bill, which Congress passed last week. Speaking on CNN last week, radio host Glenn Beck said the Arizona senator will lose the election over the vote: I think he lost the election — there was a moment here for somebody here to rise up as a leader," Beck said.
The latest CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll confirms the majority of Americans remain deeply distrustful of the massive bailout package. According to the new survey released Tuesday, close to 60 percent say the plan will not treat taxpayers fairly, and more than half think the government will only get a little bit of the money back. More than half also said they don't think the government will spend the money properly.
"Just as Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan (as well as the House Republicans in 1994 with the Contract with America) created a large argument which led to a decisive result, so McCain has an opportunity to reach beyond the daily attacks and clever tactics and spend the last 28 days of this campaign making a large argument over America's future," Gingrich, a primary author of the 1994 Contract with America, also said.
But it may be impossible for McCain to publicly break with the president on the plan. The GOP nominee suspended his campaign two weeks ago to ensure the economic bailout package was passed. When he cast his vote for the bill last week, McCain said it was "significantly improved" from its original version and now included "strengthened protections and oversight" for taxpayers. Though the legislation did contain billions in earmarks, something McCain said he opposed.
McCain campaign aides have since said they are aiming to turn the narrative on the campaign trail away from the country's financial woes and the unpopular economic bailout — a strategy Gingrich sharply opposes.
"If McCain is prepared to declare that it is time for a fundamental change away from the failure of Bush-Paulson and away from the leftism of Obama …then he has a huge opportunity," Gingrich writes. |
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| Ted Promo |
| The only problem is that even if he came out against the bailout people would say it was flip-flopping (and deservedly so for once). Either way he loses. The only way I see him winning is for something major to come out against the Obama campaign or happening to the Obama campaign. |
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| Alex |
Sadly I think if there was some sort of terrorist attack between now and the election date, Obama would lose.
Especially if they could tie the terro to Iraq and not Afghanistan. |
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| cmay119 |
| I'm going to have to live out this debate vicariously through you guys, as the internet connection is so slow here at work that streaming the debate would be a practice in futility. So I want details! :p |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by cmay119
I'm going to have to live out this debate vicariously through you guys, as the internet connection is so slow here at work that streaming the debate would be a practice in futility. So I want details! :p |
No television in Minnesota? |
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| Alex |
Sort of unrelated but Lou Dobbs is arguing with Romney right now and they both sound like retards.
Romney knows what he's talking about but Lou Dobbs just invents half of what he says and poses impossible to answer questions that he thinks are simple.
Might as well just have two monkeys comparing their s over live (rather, somewhat delayed) feed. |
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