Desperate.

[shortbun]

Some pundit said it but I totally agree,"McCain looked like a grumpy old man in slippers. 'Get out of my yard!', the neighbor in Dennis the Menace."

As a prochoice voter and woman, I was really irked when McCain said, "again with the eloquence, "mother's 'health'" and made those quotations signs like women have no health issues or are liars. Really ticked me off!!!!

 

[bicker]

 

[chrisw127]

This is what really bothered me about McCain tonight as well. It really almost made the debate unwatchable for me.

Yes! I thought the same thing. I was glad when the camera wasn't on him.

I don't mean to be disrespectful, but maybe he was really tired. Or hungry. I heard he eats dinner at like 4:30 or something.

 

[bicker]

I find that reading the fact-checking the day after the debate is more interesting than the debate itself:

McCain is spending nearly 85 percent of his total advertising budget on negative advertising. Obama is spending roughly 60 percent of his total advertising budget on negative advertising.

Yup; McCain is pretty darned desperate.

 

[LaraK]

I agree that I think America will actually elect Obama.

Unfortunately, I am clearly out of touch with the majority of Americans . Well, looks like it's time to put into place my contingency plan...shelter my assets, stop discretionary spending so that I can have some cash reserves when the recession deepens into a full depression, and update my disaster supplies and plans since I'm close enough to have to react if terrorists activate a dirty bomb in DC.

I have to admit, I just don't get why people are so hypnotized by his rhetoric.

 

[John Smith1]

I agree that I think America will actually elect Obama.

Unfortunately, I am clearly out of touch with the majority of Americans . Well, looks like it's time to put into place my contingency plan...shelter my assets, stop discretionary spending so that I can have some cash reserves when the recession deepens into a full depression, and update my disaster supplies and plans since I'm close enough to have to react if terrorists activate a dirty bomb in DC.

I have to admit, I just don't get why people are so hypnotized by his rhetoric.

Isn't that what people are doing NOW?

As for your disaster plans.. wow. Fear always peeps it's ugly head, doesn't it?

BTW, I'm not "hypnotized". I've been very much affected and alive during the the past 8 years. Anything beats that.

 

[bicker]

Well, looks like it's time to put into place my contingency plan...shelter my assets, stop discretionary spending so that I can have some cash reserves when the recession deepens into a full depression, and update my disaster supplies and plans since I'm close enough to have to react if terrorists activate a dirty bomb in DC.

That is what you should be doing, regardless of who wins the election. None of that would be different in a McCain administration, and indeed, the last bit is much more necessary with a McCain administration.

 

[John Smith1]

I want to know who else actually CHEERED when the moderator asked:
Explain why your running mate would be a good president...
Holy Cow... I thought I would nearly die LOL as McCain tried to explain that Sarah Palin would be good at... .. well ... what was that again?????confused3 .. Sarah Palin is not who I want to be at the helm if McCain should go down...

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

I'm sure he left a stain when that question came up. "Breash of freth air", role model to women... . Oh yea we DID get to know her, alright.

 

[Carly_Roach]

I watched on CSPAN where I didn't have to deal with focus groups or other distractions. They had the dual window open where you got to watch both candidates.

I tried to ignore the McCain eye-rolls, smirking, angry glaring at Obama and, of course, the big fake "surprise" looks (especially when Obama told Joe the Plumber that his "fine" for not taking government health care for his workers would actually be zero). By the end of the debate, however, ignoring those childish tactics of McCain's was getting more and more difficult to do.

What the American public saw was more of the same (or should I say more of McSame). Obama focused on what we need to do for our future and how he's going to help "we the people" survive this economy.

McCain spend 90 minutes telling us why Obama is a bad man.

I think people are tired of soap-opera politics and I think people are hungry for positivity in our Presidential candidates. They didn't get positivity from McCain (he just stroked his base who are already in the bag). I'll be looking forward to seeing how far down McCain will slide in the polls these next few weeks.

And I'll be looking forward to a final "hit the road jack" word to McCain on November 4.

 

[iggbees]

I tried to ignore the McCain eye-rolls, smirking, angry glaring at Obama and, of course, the big fake "surprise" looks (especially when Obama told Joe the Plumber that his "fine" for not taking government health care for his workers would actually be zero).

That part made me laugh out loud when watching. I couldn't believe he actually did that on camera! It was so over the top and made him look very amature-ish and childish.

 

[bicker]

I can understand labeling McCain's gestures as senile, but not childish. The man is a 72 year old decorated war veteran, not a little boy.

 

[mamajoan]

Personally, I do not feel he is senile... but instead was poorly coached into making himself appear more aggressive on camera. I mean here is a man that has seemingly been in tight control of his emotions and reactions.. then last night he became over the top with his negative facial expressions.

I feel that who ever is voted in as POTUS has a darn difficult job ahead of him cleaning up the blunders of the past 8 years.... and I don't wish it on anyone. I mean its gonna be.... you are damned if you do, damned if you don't... but I think Obama has better health care plans, (McCain's will screw a whole bunch of people... including those of us with pre existing conditions) and I think overall Obama has a more positive plan for the future. .. but it ain't gonna be eazy

 

[choirfarm]

nt

 

[Terry36]

That part made me laugh out loud when watching. I couldn't believe he actually did that on camera! It was so over the top and made him look very amature-ish and childish.

I thought the same thing....it was a joke