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  • 88Mariner
    My dick is smaller
    • Nov 2006
    • 7128

    Debate #1 Thread

    watching this tonight. and by watching, i'm really watching bob barr watch the debates and make responses and critiques of mcbama's answers. http://www.mogulus.com/reason

    Anyways, i'm gonna hopefully do a run-down of how things progress.

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    9pm: Matt Welch Speaks, "leader of free minds and....what used to be 'free markets'.." heh.

    9:01pm: Barr makes brief statement. Pretty interesting setup. simple. I don't know if this has been done before. Discusses the cost of our overall foreign policy. 600 billion for defense budget? Hmm.

    9:04pm: Obama goes on the attack right off the bat. McCain starts talking about Kennedy and starts thanking the university. Works the crowd by speaking like it's a one-on-one conversation. McCain's Republicans?? Really dude? His answer was pretty vague. I guess i shouldn't expect any substantive answers from either candidate at this point.

    9:10, Obama says that regulation is necessary to some degree, that it can't be eliminated. McCain says he want to vote for it with some caveats. Then starts, somehow, to add his Vietnam record to the question, "will you vote for the bill?". I think McCain is trying to appeal to everyone with this. Can't blame him. republicans are really against this bill, and mccain knows this. I think that's why he called it, "his Republicans".

    9:13, McCain says we definitely need regulation. He trusts the american worker. Which is opposite of what this bailout is about. Barr cuts in, "this makes absolutely no sense". At this points it's hard to focus on what McBama is saying because barr keeps cutting in on the answers and questions. perhaps this wasn't the best way to do this. But, i guess that he's doing it live is more important.

    9:16, McCain goes on the attack against Obama. good retort. Barr says that cutting out earmarks wont' change the spending habits. Barr says the problem is the trillion dollars McCain wants to spend, not the 17 million he wants to take out of earmarks. Obama says some clinton-esque stuff about building the economy from the lowest worker up. Not cool. the future of this country doesn't turn on the work of janitors.

    9:21, if McCain keeps this up, he probably won't gain anything, but he certainly won't lose as much (if any) as some pundits have been thinking since he made several wacko decisions this week.

    9:25, this is goin south for both of them. They're both sounding like Palin. Shit. I hope my prediction on McCain wasn't too quick. Barr hasn't said this yet, but so far, it seems there is very little that McBama disagree on.

    9:28: Obama says we have to start competing. McCain says we have to start cutting our spending. Again, opposite of what he's doing right now. I like the answer, but be consistent dude. He's talking about the defense budget, but he doesn't seem to want to actually reduce it. "I know how to do this". Good. Moderator chimes in, "none of you are saying anything about dramatic reform". HAHA. This is great, I like him whoever he is (lehrer?).

    9:33: fuck you mccain. you just started talking about cutting defense budges, and then he starts waffling on it. "freeze everything but the defense budget". He wants to avoid doing any cutting whatsoever. Then he talks about giving money to vets. Really? Bald-faced lie if I ever saw one.

    9:35: government makes a profit Obama? Does that make it ok? Obama fights back...tax cuts for people who don't need it... If I was an uninformed voter, that's a pretty strong statement if I'm hurting int he pocket book. Good thing I know better. McCain calls for spending cuts, once again, despite calling for spending freezes. Barr comes out and knocks both them out with some substantive answers based on tax figures (which apparently are fresh out of the calculators). "of the three candidates who want to cut spending, it is me Barr who has fought for it". Not sure about that, but I know he's for great budget cuts. When will they start talking about Entitlements???

    9:39, McCain reuses Ms. Congeniality line again. I hate the repetition. McCain says the lessons of Iraq are that you can't have a failed stategy. "And we will come home with victory and honor....now that we will succede and our troops will come home, we will have a stable ally and a stable democracy in the region..." Interesting. I'm not sure how 'stable' iraq is or will ever be.

    9:44: "john, you want to think that the war started in 2007". Wow. PWND. McCain was right about the surge working, any large increase of troops is always going to help. But Obama points out McCain's flaws from right out of the gate in 2002. McCain says obama doesn't understand the difference between a 'tactic and a strategy'. I should take a shot everytime McCain says "winning". But I don't want to kill myself.

    9:47. McCain and Obama are boxing. This is good. McCain comes out strong, Obama ducks and hooks. McCain says he's not ready to cut aid to Pakistan. My question is, what have all those billions of dollars we've sent to Pakistan done? What result? Nothing. It's been a waste. McCain's implicating the influx of huge amount of troops who need to be sent to Afghanistan. I absolutely hate how these two appeal to the people by saying "commanders say this, or that, blah blah blah".

    9:56: I'm not sure what Obama just said, but the LP's were laughing it up. SOmething about McCain's stance on north korea. Barr starts talking about the policy of georgia, poland, etc... and how to deal with it.

    10: "I've got a bracelet too". That's a nice "fuck you". I love how obama keeps saying, "the question is" It's so...law school to me. heh. IRAC your answers man! hehe. Barr Actually agrees with Obama on this point he was making about the importance of acting wisely not to put the troops through weak-sauce military campaigns.

    10:02. Iran question. McCain: "it's an existential threat to Israel and the region". "A LEAGUE of Democracies" ??? Is that like, a league of nations?

    10:10: Obama's right, Iraq deterred Iran, and now that we destroyed that check in that region, and then isolated them, they've grown militarily. I hadn't looked at it in this perspective. Interesting. Obama goes after McCain on Spain. McCain responds with tit-for-tat. Then talks about....he's pandering to the jewish vote. Ok, pandering aside, what works? Who even thinks preconditions are effective? They weren't with North Korea. Is his whole premise that we shouldn't meet with other countries who trash talk and threaten thier neighbors?

    10:19....audio cutting in and out. can't hear anyone.
    Last edited by 88Mariner; September 26, 2008, 10:24:07 PM.
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  • Miroslav
    WHOA I can change this!1!
    • Apr 2006
    • 4122

    #2
    Re: Debate #1 Thread

    BOOM.... Obama just clocked the old geezer right out of the gate on the financial crisis.
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    • Miroslav
      WHOA I can change this!1!
      • Apr 2006
      • 4122

      #3
      Re: Debate #1 Thread

      In the after-commentary, Pat Buchanan just said that McCain won the debate.

      That makes it clear enough for me. Obama for the win.
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      • neoee
        Platinum Poster
        • Jun 2004
        • 1266

        #4
        Re: Debate #1 Thread

        I'm hoping the future debates will be more interesting. Maybe it's me, but I though there was a lot of question dodging. Though, I did think McCain did a much better than I had expected.
        "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." -Benjamin Franklin

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        • ddr
          DUDERZ get a life!!!
          • Jun 2004
          • 7006

          #5
          Re: Debate #1 Thread

          Originally posted by neoee
          I'm hoping the future debates will be more interesting. Maybe it's me, but I though there was a lot of question dodging. Though, I did think McCain did a much better than I had expected.
          yea he certainly did. i was really surprised.

          it was very poorly moderated though, no pushing for an answer at all.

          that one question about what they would give up to deal with the financial crises, both mccain and obama swayed for the entirety of the time with no real answer and the moderator just chalked it up.
          "pics or stfu" - R.I.P. Steve "Jibgolly" James

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          • 88Mariner
            My dick is smaller
            • Nov 2006
            • 7128

            #6
            Re: Debate #1 Thread

            sorry. i feel asleep there at the end. it got dull. the candidates were dodging bullets. I don't think any of them gave a competent, serious, substantive answer, save for Obama on his comments regarding the duty to engage in discussion with foreign leaders whenever it serves the best interest of the Republic. I was even impressed with Barr's answers, though he was funny to point out how much jackassery was going on. It was Political MST3000 imo.

            I think they came off even keel, Obama doing better than I had anticipated and McCain holding steady. I don't think this was beneficial to McCain because he's been around for so long. for Obama, though, it gave the country an opportunity to hear him speak at a level with which he has not endured before. The DNC debates were ultra-pathetic, and this debate was substantially better on pressing the candidates. I think he did dodge a bit though, and I did cringe when he did. McCain's only memorable line was when he said he didn't have a visitors schedule, just as much as he didn't have a presidential seal. OH SNAP.

            I was really caught off guard at first when he said he wasn't feeling too good. I don't know if that was a poor choice of words or what. For him to even comment on how he's feeling at his age should be off limits. Even if McCain did really well, for all intents and purposes, we need to be convinced that Palin is ready to walk in to the Oval Office at a moment's notice. It didn't help that he started talking about the health of Ted Kennedy at the very beginning. After four bouts of cancer, his age MUST be a factor. If Palin hits a grand slam, and i do mean grand slam, at the VP debate, I think I could still be swayed that direction.
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            • toasty
              Sir Toastiness
              • Jun 2004
              • 6585

              #7
              Re: Debate #1 Thread

              I thought they both did fairly well, with no long balls or major gaffes from either side. Obama scored some points by looking and sounding presidential, standing toe to toe with McCain on a topic that McCain clearly knows better, and McCain scored some points by not royally fucking it up -- he's had an awful week, and not completely sucking might help him change the narrative to something else. In the big picture, though, I think a tie goes to Obama.

              One thing that the people I was with picked up on was McCain's refusal to look Obama in the eye. Not sure why he didn't do it, but my friends, some of whom are undecided, found it really bizarre. I noticed a number of commentators talking about it this morning, too.

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              • Jenks
                I'm kind of a big deal.
                • Jun 2004
                • 10250

                #8
                Re: Debate #1 Thread

                ^I said the same thing watching it last night, Obama was looking at McCain when he answered all of his questions, McCain was looking at the moderator or the crowd, maybe he was looking at "his friends."

                I thought McCain needed to hit it out of the park last night, especially given the week he had and he didn't. McCain also sounded pretty condescending in his responses a lot of times. Man, that guy is old. Hey did you know north koreans are 3 inches shorter than south koreans?

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                • superdave
                  Platinum Poster
                  • Jun 2004
                  • 1366

                  #9
                  Re: Debate #1 Thread

                  I thought both candidates did well and there was no clear winner. I thought Obama articulated his points well. McCain did well giving specific examples of his extensive experience which is his biggest strength. Considering the VP interviews the last couple of weeks especially Palin, it was nice to see two intelligent candidates have a good handle on the issues.

                  I was disappointed in both candidates when asked about specifically what they would do as President in light of the economic crisis and how it would affect the budget. Neither candidate had the courage to say raise taxes except for the rich taxpayers or cut specific entitlement programs. At times, both candidates repeated positions to questions I've heard plenty of times before in speeches and interviews. So yes they sounded good at the debate, but you would too if you answered the same question already 1,000 times. I think this is why analysts and others aren't sure there was a clear winner.
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                  • 88Mariner
                    My dick is smaller
                    • Nov 2006
                    • 7128

                    #10
                    Re: Debate #1 Thread

                    dayum. even the fox news focus group came out and said Obama won.

                    i haven't read too much on reactions so far, but everyone seems to say that mccain blinked again. and obama came off strong, decisive, and presidential.

                    again, i didn't get to see the whole thing because barr kept cutting the sound to talk about why mccain and obama was wrong on a certain point, nor did i get a good view of how they both appeared on stage, but they're all saying even if it was a draw, obama comes out ahead b/c he had not shown he was 'ready' until last night.

                    interesting.
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                    it's RA. they'd blow their load all over some stupid 20 minute loop of a snare if it had a quirky flange setting. - Tiddles

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                    • lilsensa
                      DUDERZ get a life!!!
                      • Jun 2004
                      • 6675

                      #11
                      Re: Debate #1 Thread

                      They had the debates on a Friday night? On purpose maybe?? Who the hell stayed home last night? Not me.....
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                      • runningman
                        Playa I'm a Sooth Saya
                        • Jun 2004
                        • 5995

                        #12
                        Re: Debate #1 Thread

                        Originally posted by neoee
                        I'm hoping the future debates will be more interesting. Maybe it's me, but I though there was a lot of question dodging. Though, I did think McCain did a much better than I had expected.
                        I second your opinion. What I don't understand is how they can dodge the financial crisis questions. Did you see Jim Lehrer's face when he kept bringing up the financial crisis. Also what was with McCAin not even looking at Obama during the entire debate. It was a weird debate IMO just as weird as everything else that has gone on in this campaign.

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                        • Miroslav
                          WHOA I can change this!1!
                          • Apr 2006
                          • 4122

                          #13
                          Re: Debate #1 Thread

                          I think they dodge the specifics of their policy changes for the bailout because they don't know how it will turn out and what exactly will be in it - and they can't control it. The negotiations are still ongoing and the parties at the table probably do not want these guys airing the details of whatever the latest developments are...and if they opine on all kinds of stuff that is changing by the hour, they just risk backing themselves into a corner. It's a more intelligent question to ask once we know what will be in the thing.

                          Everyone keeps saying how good McCain was...maybe I was watching a different debate, but I just didn't see it. I like they guy less and less by the minute. McCain's presentation was worse to me, and his answers contained more bullshit fluff than Obama's.. the whole thing at the beginning about McCain's confidence in the "strength of the American worker"? Please. And I'm getting pretty sick about hearing him trying to make us all misty eyed for the war, opining on America's glorious manifest destiny in Iraq. ZERO substance in all of that, and I don't want us to be there for the next century.

                          And McCain's idiot drama queen tactics this week with the bailout plan worsened my impression of his charcter. Not to mention that his VP candidate has turned out to be a MILF imbecile who can't even state a coherent opinion in an unscripted setting, for heaven's sake...

                          I'm leaning towards Obama for my vote. He's far from ideal, but right now he seems preferable to McOld and VP McRetard.
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                          • runningman
                            Playa I'm a Sooth Saya
                            • Jun 2004
                            • 5995

                            #14
                            Re: Debate #1 Thread

                            did anybody notice that McCain said there should be a ''spending freeze".. that would be a catastrophe. Only spending money on the military and defense.

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                            • 88Mariner
                              My dick is smaller
                              • Nov 2006
                              • 7128

                              #15
                              Re: Debate #1 Thread

                              Originally posted by runningman
                              did anybody notice that McCain said there should be a ''spending freeze".. that would be a catastrophe. Only spending money on the military and defense.

                              he also added, "and anything else that is necessary" or something similar; wide discretion, obviously.

                              Why would freezing the rate of allocation to gov't programs be a catastrophe? Are you suggesting that programs need more money over time?
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                              it's RA. they'd blow their load all over some stupid 20 minute loop of a snare if it had a quirky flange setting. - Tiddles

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