First- before I post my first thoughts after last nights "Last Debate" ended, I'd like to ask you a couple of questions.
1. Did you google "Joe the plumber"? The guy is either simply a republican plant (newsweeks best guess)who doesn't even have a plumbers license (he admitted this himself) and no means to actually "purchase" this plumbing company (he now admits) OR He's the Joe Wurzelbacher who owns 3 companies and is a staunch republican who doesn't want to responsibly pay his taxes.
Let's face it, the Bushes, the McCains- this is why they want to cut taxes for the wealthy- because they are the wealthy. Their families have always been wealthy- their friends have always been wealthy- teir constituents are mostly wealthy (37% of the over 90% of white people that attended the RNC make over $500,000 yearly)
NOW TO THE DEBATE:
I think everyone in America knew John McCain was going to come out aggressively tonight because the fact is he’s losing this election badly. Desperate measures were needed and at times McCain looked desperate. In his defense, anger is his best emotion and it caused his answers to be strong and well-rehearsed at the early parts of the debate. I also didn’t hear anything knew, but he was more forceful and that suits his style.
Early on Barack seemed too quiet and should have, I believe, gotten more forceful himself and there’s the catch-22. He absolutely is in fact a calmer and cooler and in my opinion more intelligent person, and that is HIS style but Barack also knows that to all of a sudden raise his voice or seem angry back is a double-edged sword that would not serve himself or US very well.
When McCain was given an opportunity to say how wrong it’s been for he and Palin to incite his base at rallies to the kind of ugly hostility that NO American is proud to see, he instead blamed a “great man” for pointing out the bad behavior and took no responsibility. In fact he took the opportunity to to take swipes at Senator Obama with the same disingenuous and untrue allegations that aren’t helping anyone and I think there he began really losing the debate.
From those moments on Senator Obama became reinvigorated and remained sharp, calm and started really outlining his best points with succinct alacrity and poise and McCain started exhibiting his sighing, fuming, heavy-breathing, sarcastic smiling, grumpy old man.
I was inspired once again by Barack’s ability to not fall for the ‘tit for tat’ and stay focused on the issues, and even saying so. Let’s get one thing straight here Republicans; it is not Senator Obama’s fault that Congressman Lewis chose to criticize the ugly tone of Ms. Palin’s remarks and how neither she or McCain stopped their audience from saying “kill him”, and “off with his head” and calling Barack a “terrorist” etc…
These are the same things all of us have said since the outset of this old, ugly McCain/Palin campaign tactics took hold- the media, the pundits and everyone I speak to day to day even Republicans have been unhappy with this hateful stuff from them.
John McCain is not only losing this election because of his temper, but also because of the grasp of a choice which was Sarah Palin, a women whose early novelty has worn off for voters and who not only leads the campaign in nasty but is not going along w/ Senator McCain apparently and when confronted by the media on being found GUILTY of the Abuse of Power and an Ethics Violation of Alaskan Ethics Laws failed to take one shred of responsibility and has again been castigated by the press on all sides. Yet, most of all McCain/ Palin are losing on the issues.
Although in the past couple weeks McCain seems almost Obamaesque in his ideas for the beaten economy, becoming more and more Democrat like, he still won’t even disagree that his tax cuts REALLY are for the wealthy and that his corporate giving plan REALLY is for Big Oil and Big Corporations- this he hasn’t denied in one debate and he didn’t do so tonight!
Obama kept trying to move McCain back to the issues not only because he realizes this garbage is simply a distraction, but also because it’s the issues about the economy, healthcare, education and how to get back our country’s standing in the world are what we care about- NOT some Chicago Professor named Bill Ayers.
After being brave enough to take a look at my wife and daughter and my college and retirement accounts today, I can tell you that I’m really concerned with how to get my country back on track and if John McCain thinks angrily and desperately taking 11 minutes of tonight’s debate struggling to get tough and condescending on these valueless side issues with Senator Obama was a good use of MY time, he’s dead wrong.
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