If Sen. McCain can’t channel the energy stemming from the anti-Marxist plus anti-mainstream media anger and put E.T. (Empty Talker) in his place, then he doesn’t deserve to win.

Iconoclastic,

If I may be so bold and give you a hockey mom shout out…
The reality of our current situation is a result of those that prefer government stay out of the way. What amazes me is that, people romped by this economic hurricane now want the GOVERNMENT to do something.
Perhaps McCain’s plan should be to send Michael Browning to Wall Street. He would do a “heck of a job!”
The reality is that if you continue to support those who think government should stay out of the way, THEY WILL. Be it in New Orleans, or currently on Wall Street.
For eight years the “Fiscal,” and “Compassionate Conservatism,” the Bush/Cheney ticket preached has been anything but. Why continue with four more years of the same party?

tevious:

“If I may be so bold and give you a hockey mom shout out…
The reality of our current situation is a result of those that prefer government stay out of the way. What amazes me is that, people romped by this economic hurricane now want the GOVERNMENT to do something.”

I’ve known toddlers with incomplete toilet training that had a better grasp on political reality than you. Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, toting Obama’s
ACORN barge and lifting the Chuckie Schumer bale was the primary cause of our current predicament, have always been “regulated” by Congress and I sure as hell want them to stay out of the way in any rescue effort.

The economy teeters yet Americans are on the verge of ceding virtual unchecked power to an inexperienced, Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers inspired, slick Harvard lawyer.
And the Harvard sophist has hooked the masses with the false lure that the masses will actually be better off when he drowns the rich in a sea of high taxes.
Yet, mark my words, it will be the masses who will howl the loudest once the Harvard sophist’s tax hammer falls.
What harvest will the masses reap when the Harvard sophist’s tax drain causes their rich employer to pay them less in wages or in health care benefits?
Or when they lose their jobs when their rich employer closes its doors or moves overseas because of the Harvard sophist’s tax frenzy?
Or when prices soar when the rich employer passes tax costs on to consumers?

That was the worst piece of garbage I have ever seen by a professional newsperson, especially in a serious campaign such as this. I learned nothing new, and the platform of this debate looked like it was slapped together in 5 minutes by a college communications flunk-out. I wonder why nobody asks Obama about when a baby becomes a human being? Oh wait, he said that’s above his pay grade. Here’s the answer. Go ahead, Catholics. Cast your vote.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIdbYjmbFzo

Poor Jeanne Lipinski - all the posts I’ve read and alomst no one responded to what she wrote. Instead, I read a lot of hate-filled replies from what surely must be junior high kids. I don’t understand why the candidate that is not your personal choice must be the target of such hatred. Oh, and speaking of “Choice” - Scott: you have no clue what you’re talking about if you don’t have a uetrus. And Ms. Lipinski - to your original statement before it was highjacked by name callers and anti-choice members: I thought the same thing while watchign the debate. Brokaw was easiy the most qualified debate moderator they’ve had, yet, dropped the ball. I was surprised.

You think those are “great questions”??? Sounds more like Katie Couric stuff. “When were you most proud”???
“What promises”??? That’s the problem - they offer PROMISES but NO SOLUTIONS nor do they outline a realistic plan to DELIVER on the promises.

I share Jeanne’s frustration with these debates and how the people rarely get a chance to have the candidates get to the meat of the question. While Mr. Brokaw has his share of the blame for not pinning the candidates down to really answer some of the audience’s questions, but rather pose his own questions, in all fairness to Tom, these candidates have always evaded answering the real questions. What’s worse is that I been watching PBS recaps of Presidential debates from the 60’s and tragically, politicians still use the same old classic techniques and canned talking points.

First I’d like to point out that the rules of this debate were scrutinized and agreed on by both parties, so blame who you want for the format. Brokaw apparently was the one who got to choose the questions. The argument could be made that he chose the questions that he thought were most relevant to the current state of affairs in your country along with a few others for good measure. Both candidates did launch into mini stump speeches, and neither one revealed too much new stuff. Well, except that part where McCain goes ultra socialist offering to directly buy up all of the bad mortgages, even though as I understand it that’s kinda already in the current bail out bill.

Sage, please explain to me in small, easy to understand words how the things you say did cause our current predicament.

Chris Porter, you said:

“The economy teeters yet Americans are on the verge of ceding virtual unchecked power to an inexperienced, Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers inspired, slick Harvard lawyer.”

You jackass. No one is ceding anything. If you want to speak about virtual unchecked power and anyone who might inherit it, thank W. If you really think that Obama somehow was molded by Ayers or that he took everything Wright said in his church to heart, you know like everyone else does in their churhes, then yeah, you are an ignorant, narrow minded jackass and I pity your existence. Tell me which is worse, high taxes or high debt? Seems to me I always here about how good the economy was when Clinton was in office.

Scott, you said:

“I wonder why nobody asks Obama about when a baby becomes a human being? Oh wait, he said that’s above his pay grade. Here’s the answer. Go ahead, Catholics. Cast your vote.”

How about because if you don’t have a job or credit pretty much everything else after that is non existent. You don’t have abortions to worry about, you worry about your next meal or where you will sleep. IF the economy was doing fine then sure bring the social issues to the front of the line. You “pro-life” voters kill me. You don’t want unborn fetuses killed yet most of you won’t go for measures otherwise that would help reduce the number of them that have to be aborted.

Personally I’m done with both of these parties, and I’d like to see some other people be able to attend these debates.

I have watched almost all of the debates over the past year (both parties), and fail to see how a change in moderator questions would help. The cadidates seem to decide the question they want to answer, whether it was asked or not.
And then, of course, there is the governor of Alaska who doesn’t choose to answer any questions at all.
I think they should be “gonged” when they go off-question.