Final Debate
Posted at 8:58 am on Thursday, October 16, 2008, in Uncategorized, and tagged 2008, debate, hillary clinton, mccain, obama, video.
I have to score this one for Barack Obama: John McCain threw a lot of jabs, but only landed a couple; not enough to change the momentum of this race.
What surprised me most by McCain’s performance was his play to the base on the abortion issue. This certainly wasn’t a move to sway independent, centrist voters or former Hillary Clinton supporters. It may shore-up the base, or pick-up a few votes in the bible belt of Ohio and Indiana — but McCain shouldn’t be fighting for those votes at this point in the election. That is not a smart move (or it is, but that is indicative of how weak McCain’s numbers are).
Here is the video…
Note to Senator McCain: Providing a health exception to the mother is not an “extreme pro-abortion position;” it is solidly middle-ground. This is why you are so out-of-touch.
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October 16th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
McCain clearly showed his desperation in the final debate. Since he’s appearing on Letterman this evening, permit me to present the following:
With all due apologies to David Letterman, here are the “Top Ten Signs of Desperation in Your Presidential Campaign:”
10. Your chief economic advisor proclaims that Americans are a “nation of whiners” who suffer from “a mental recession.” He is forced to resign shortly thereafter.
9. Your new chief economic advisor, formerly the CEO of a well-known technology company which she almost ruined due to an ill-considered merger, candidly admits to the press that you don’t have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to run a Fortune 500 company. She never appears in public again.
8. You confidently proclaim that the American economy is fundamentally sound, even as the banking industry, the mortgage industry, the stock market, and just about every economic indicator is in the toilet.
7. When asked how many houses you own, you have to defer the answer, saying “I’ll get back to you on that.”
6. In an attempt to appear more “presidential,” you announce that the economy is in a crisis and that you’re suspending your campaign activities to return to Washington to ensure passage of a bipartisan financial rescue package. You invite your opponent to do the same, but he declines. The legislation fails by a wide margin.
5. When asked by the press what significant legislation you’ve authored, one of your senior advisors pulls his BlackBerry from his pocket and asserts that you’re responsible for this device, obviously unaware that a Canadian company developed and marketed it.
4. You continue to insist that you’re a political “maverick,” despite your voting record which shows you’ve supported the current administration 90% of the time.
3. After having served in Congress for well over twenty years, you claim that you represent clear and unmistakable “change” from current policies, despite your voting record which shows you’ve supported the current administration 90% of the time.
2. You continue to question the character, experience, and judgment of your opponent, conveniently believing that few will remember that your own judgment was found by a congressional inquiry to be poor in supporting a charlatan who almost single-handedly brought down the savings and loan industry in the 1980’s.
And the number one sign of desperation in your political campaign is—
1. In an ill-considered, ill-advised, and ill-conceived decision, you selected as your running mate an opportunistic, inexperienced mock populist who, by her performance in the few press interviews she has given, is completely and utterly unfit to clean the Office of the Vice-President, much less occupy it.
October 16th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Wow. Nice work, chuck. You should have a blog to show this material off.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:37 am
quite brilliant chuck, I think that about sums it up. Lets just hope now that the republicans don’t find a way to steal this election.