The man is 72 years old. He heads to Washington to jump right into the middle of of the biggest financial crisis’ in American history, when he should be resting and focusing on this debate.

Now he’s headed to the debates after all this stress. These attacks on his age are a complete joke.

The man’s a stud.

Hold on folks, we are in for something we have never seen. – TheHat on September 26, 2008 at 12:17 PM

Oh, we’ve seen it before, except that the Confederacy lost.

The GOP needs to hitch up it’s big boy pants, take off the gloves, pull up the soapbox and bully pulpit and start screaming their heads off. – Damiano on September 26, 2008 at 1:33 PM

Agreed. But it won’t.

RJGatorEsq. on September 26, 2008 at 4:15 PM

BINGO. The fate of this republic – and the rest of western civilization, for that matter – rests in the hands of 5% to 10% of the electorate who are totally farking clueless.

Flashback to Philadelphia, 1787: “A republic, madam, if you can keep it.”

The average viewer will watch for 90 seconds then flip to Simpsons reruns.

A viewer who actually watches will see canned, poll-tested answers to scripted questions.

The “winner” (as if this were a high-school debate club) will be the most polished and best-spoken candidate, even if he says something like, “I do what the Martians living in my hair tell me to do.”

Anybody who doesn’t know how he or she will vote has (at most) two neurons firing between their ears.
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However, with reward also comes risk! If McCain does badly, a lot more people will see that as well. There are plenty of Indepenants on the fence; they want to vote for McCain, and he needs to give them a reason.

My fear is this; Reps will vote because of Palin; Dems, becasue of The One. Will the Indep, Liber, might stay home if McCain doesn’t come through? If Idenpentent, Libertariian types stay at home, I think it hurts McCain more than it does Obama.

The GOP needs to hitch up it’s big boy pants, take off the gloves, pull up the soapbox and bully pulpit and start screaming their heads off.

Color me skeptical. The House Republicans had a different plan than the one the Dems, Senate Republicans (maybe) and the administration wanted. I’m not sure how Obama could have derailed the bailout agreement just by being surly.

YYZ on September 26, 2008 at 1:19 PM

If these were business people, I’d aggree with you, but these are politicians. They are not rational.. none of em…

I could totaly see Egos coming out and people getting pissy.

A know nothing do nothing 1st time Senator who has not been in on negotiations dressing down one side of a negotiation, would not be… conducive… to aggreement.

Needless to say,the Republican Leaders led by Boehner responded vigorously to the attack. The meeting was totally derailed by Obama.

Color me skeptical. The House Republicans had a different plan than the one the Dems, Senate Republicans (maybe) and the administration wanted. I’m not sure how Obama could have derailed the bailout agreement just by being surly.

Mutnodjmet on September 26, 2008 at 1:15 PM

Great story, but with no transcript of the meeting, it will get no attention…

Now, that transcript DOES exist, and Bush is sitting on it.

Needless to say,the Republican Leaders led by Boehner responded vigorously to the attack. The meeting was totally derailed by Obama.

One of the items the GOP is having issue with is the amount of money going to ACORN. You might recall ACORN is the vote-fraud promoting group sponsored by Obama.

This meeting was suppose to demonstrate Obama’s leadership skills. I guess it does. Please spread the word, as we need to get the truth out.

Jim Treacher on September 26, 2008 at 12:47 PM

Let me be the first to answer your poll question.

Extremely!

Go Maverick!

High noon, and the other guy’s wearing the black hat (is that racist?).

This is the best election ever

lodge on September 26, 2008 at 11:47 AM

I agree. This has been such an exciting election. Way too long, but interesting as we watch America decide between voting for Dems cause they are not Repubs. vs. voting McCain for the leadership/experience/bipartisanship that Obama lacks.

If McCain loses, it will probably be because the economy and credit crisis made voters go against the current party of the Executive branch.

Get ready to transfer investments to other currencies if Obama loses. You will NOT want to hold USD for anything other than the next couple of months normal expenses. With NO drilling, huge trade deficit, higher capgains taxes, higher death taxes, our economy will slow down as we slide into a socialist state.

Best way to protest this is to get assets out of the USD and hold debt denominated in USD.

Heck, I even told my Mom and Dad that they need to die before the election so we kids get our inheritance quick given his living trust. :) They chuckled at that.

Step 1: Host a hearing against all government officials that had the ability to keep this from happening. Once all of the parties have been identified, offer 3 options: Resignation from public office, Prison, or forced removal from office.

Step 2: Lift drilling ban, this will create extra revenue. Purchase loans from Fannie and Freddie. Disassemble Fannie and Freddie, fire all employees. Allow AIG, Merril-lynch, Countrywide and Lehman Bros. to go up in flames.

Step 3: Lock in loans from Fannie and Freddie. Disallow bankruptcy. Identify loans where loan recipient cannot pay. Give option to recipient of indentured servitude to taxpayers and loss of home or forced loss of home, as well as forced payment flat-rate interest on home by wage garnishment if necessary, as well as forced repayment for any repairs on the home.

Step 4: Resell all newly obtained and repaired homes to individuals that meet the requirements for said homes under fair terms. Provide tax incentives to all financial institutions that purchase these loans.

Step 5: Reinstate all debts against foreign countries that we have previously forgiven. While we’re at it, Let’s send a bill to Iraq for that war, and a bill for the World trade center to any country that has ever been suspected of housing Osama Bin Laden.

Step 6: Boycott OPEC completely. Remove U.N. HQ from our country, place That twisted Islamic bucket of filth, Ahmadinejād on the known terrorist list, and ban him, and his entire family line from entering our country. Withdraw from the U.N. and develop extremely powerful missile defense systems along the coasts of the U.S.

Step 7: Announce that there will be country-wide ID check by dwelling. Those that are here illegally will be given the choice of deportation at the cost of the source country, or if the source country refuses to pay for said deportation, as well as all taxes and wages that were stolen from legitimate American workers in full we can drop the illegal alien into a large body of water near the source country.

Step 8: Terminate our involvement in NAFTA.

That’s how we fix most of the problems in America.

I hope McCain shows up with a stack of “WANTED” posters with the pictures of Reid, Dodd, Franks, et al., listing the corruption charges for each, and hands them out to everyone is attendance.

If the Democrats pass the Bail Out ACORN bill, we might as well all move to Iraq. At least they are still trying to have a democracy there.

Why do people vilify Bill Ayers for wanting to bomb the Capitol, again?

lodge on September 26, 2008 at 12:21 PM

He may have been a man ahead of his time. I can’t quite forgive the flag trampling, though.

Do debates really matter? Obama could poop his pants and his nutbag followers would still spam every poll showing he won by 60%.

Actually, I think Ron Paul will win tonight’s debate.