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The new ads are coming in steadily today from the Obama and McCain campaigns after last night’s vice presidential debate.
While Sarah Palin and Joe Biden sidestepped missteps, the campaigns are trying to capitalize on their comments.
The McCain campaign’s ad claims Obama voted 94 times to raise taxes, while Obama’s ad claims McCain would tax health care benefits.
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What is really amazing is that this debate drew more viewers than the Presidential debate! Certainly Biden wasn’t the draw. For reasons not yet specifically defined, people are really interested in this lady from Alaska.
There’s no question for better or worse Palin is a celebrity. When everyone from Entertainment Tonight to the Enquirer has her front and center, it’s not hard to imagine the debate is going to be a huge draw. Half were crossing her fingers hoping that she pulls it off, and half watching for a ‘Tina Fey’ moment. Sarah didn’t crash and burn for them. But also, for those made skeptical of her readiness from watercooler talk and Youtube videos over the past week, she didn’t display any depth of reasoning or complex thought. Her responses seemed canned and memorized. Good memorization skills and ability to deliver lines is good enough for an actor or a TV announcer, but certainly not for the leader of the free world.
The overnights from the 50 top markets showed this debate was seen by more people than ANY debate since ‘92. It was also seen by 42 percent more viewers than Obama-McCain.
I think Palin connected very, very well with what we might call the “real America.” That is a place most of the Washington, NY and L.A. media knows nothing about.
To them, America is three states. It consists of NY, California—and everything else is Kansas. The media is taking a big and well-deserved beating again because the public saw Sarah for themselves. She was a hit.
If you want to talk depth and so on, don’t put “Say It Ain’t So, Joe!” Biden in the same paragraph. He is just your standard D.C. b.s. artist…and has the history to prove that is what he is.
On the other hand, many of our best Presidents have not been known for their depth of reasoning or complex thought. The best ones instinctively know to whom to listen while adding a typical American commonality of understanding and decisiveness. We shall see what we shall see. Jimmy Carter, for instance, may have been our brightest President when you consider reasoning and complex thought. Lot of good it did him, or us.
Our most successful presidents were thoughtful, whether
or not they had a lot of formal education…my dad
only graduated 8b..but he was brilliant
Palin ran a town as mayor, and a state as governor, is Alaska more a boondocks than Arkansas?
They still need services and infrastructure and must still get a budget approved and met.
Palin has the the ability and wherewithal of someone who is involved, and makes the time to know what is going on around them, getting involved in their community, fighting on behalf of their friends, neighbors and constituents.
Not to mentions the research she needed to do to keep up with energy and environmental concerns bringing the people in her state windfall revenue. Her ‘performance’ on the debates shows she is able to handle herself in front of the public speaking about major issues, not fluff as Couric tried to intimate was important. It was insulting to try to pin Palin down to what magazines or newspapers she read. Never has any other Pres, VP or gov ever been asked that questions before. Couric was intimating that she was ‘out of touch’ with the ‘real world’.
We have senators and congress people in office that talk the talk, but in the end, write meaningless bills that rarely get passed and only benefit their own agendas. Sometimes those who trade too highly on a ‘college degree’ and philosophizing each and every point can get in the way of good old common sense.
I’d rather have a straight shooter who I can at least depend on tell me if she thinks it will work out and she will support something, than one who will tell me one thing, and the opposition the other. We are the people. We are too hungry for straight talk.
And in the time of global crisis regarding shortages of energy, putting ourselves begging to outside governments, economic instability, working on our goals to keep our country safe and assist in bringing democracy to other countries, which in turn brings additional safety to our democracy, And we must stop our dependence on government and start taking personal responsibility for our actions, whether in our own personal finances, or our own moral codes and religious beliefs. Those are the principles our country was founded on.
I it’s time we worked back towards these goals together, as a team? The USA team.
I think our best bet is the McCain/Palin ticket that will bring that teamwork back to the USA. They are real people. Let’s let them work on a real solution WITH us.
According to today’s Washington Post, McCain is finally taking off the gloves about Obama’s unsavory Chicago connections. It’s about time. Those include Wright, Pfleger, Ayers and his wife Dohrn, Rezko, ACORN, and Obama’s campaign finance head Penny Pritzert and her role in the failed Chicago Superior Bank.
And there are others in both NY and Illinois.
But McCain also better make very clear that his economic plan is far better than tax and spend liberal Obama’s. This morning, Obama was still spouting nonsense, saying he won’t cut any of his programs and intends to build up the middle class with his tax programs, etc. This is age-old liberal class warfare and big-spending notions. As if the taxpayers aren’t already on the hook for enough right now?
McCain needs to make that case. Now.
here is a disturbing number less than half the people
watching the VP debate thought she was qualified to
be the Vice President…46%...87% thought Joe Biden
was qualified..what kind of drag does that put on
a ticket that desperately needs to expand beyond
the republican base to win…coupled with the
serious economic meltdown we are experiencing how
does John McCain make the argument that voters
should put him in the oval office rather than Obama
and we have to get beyond the Rezko Ayers discussion
that is not resonating with the voters..it is entirely
negative and voters in the middle are looking for
solutions..they all know about the reverend wright
MCCain needs to give them a positive reason to
vote for a Republican after 8 years of W, no
way around it…
He has to do BOTH things, in my opinion. It’s been said for months, before the financial meltdown, that this election would be a referendum on Obama. By emphasizing his radical Chicago ties, his gross lack of experience and his old-time liberal tax and spend programs, McCain can rise from the ashes once more.
According to Rasmussen, Palin did ingite the base once more. If all Biden’s false statements were made widely known, that number on him would drop. But the mainstream press is doing all it can to avoid talking about those big Biden gaffes. Objective journalism is dead. They no longer exist to serve the public interest.