My quick thoughts before I get back on radio (you can listen and call in): 1. Where has this Rick Perry been? Finally, the guy showed up with unscripted, from the gut answers. The few scripted answers fell flat (see e.g. Jeffres). The rest were good. He’s not the best debater. But he certainly did not lose that debate. 2. Rick Santorum is too angry | Read More »
I realize I’m biased, but with the exception of the Tampa, FL CNN-Tea Party debate, I’ve been rather unimpressed with the debates. There are too many of you on the stage. There is not enough time to get into the substance of your answers. And you are all making it about each other instead of about Barack Obama. I happen to have a radio show | Read More »
Tonight we finally saw what so many of us have been waiting for. John McCain mopped the floor with Barack Obama. Throughout the night, Barack Obama looked distant, like he did not want to be there, like he was annoyed. He really looked annoyed all night. McCain on the other hand looked like the comeback kid — the guy who knew he had to do | Read More »
First there was David Gergen tonight who said, “It’s too early to declare it over because Barack Obama is black.” Yes, he thinks the “Bradley Effect” could cost Obama 5 to 6 points. James Carville then chimed in and subtly hinted at massive riots if Obama loses going into the election ahead in the opinion polls. Then Paul Begala piled on calling Sarah Palin’s attacks | Read More »
First, this was the most boring debate so far. It was really boring. Second, John McCain gave the most substantive answers to the questions. Obama patently refused to answer some of the questions, including the last question. He couldn’t bring himself to admit there are things he does not know. Third, Obama’s holocaust answer is just astounding. Absolutely astounding that he’d say that. Fourth, there | Read More »
Barack Obama suggests we need to consider moral issues in intervening with combat forces. He mentions intervening in the Holocaust and how we should have done that. Um Senator, we did intervene in the Holocaust. It was called World War II. I guess you hadn’t heard of that, kind of like you hadn’t heard of Bill Ayers.
I’m struck during this debate that Obama is really quick to cry foul. He tried to deviate from the rules to respond to McCain. Browkaw, to his credit, did not let him. In the healthcare issue, he proclaimed it a right and then said he had to ignore the time constrains because “Senator McCain threw a lot out there.” Obama is doing his best to | Read More »
It’s a townhall forum tonight in Nashville. Will we get some hippy freaks who want the candidates to play daddy? Will McCain punch Obama? Will Obama soil his panties?
Last night, roughly the same expression and no forehead wrinkles: BTW, Michele Malkin is just so awesome and her title is the best.
Bumped up top by reader request so we can keep celebrating last night’s crushing victory by Palin before we get all depressed reading Pej and Blackhedd. Paging Kathleen Parker, Connor whatshisname, etc: If you still want to talk about Palin dropping out, you have beltwayitis and need to leave the NYC-DC corridor of talking heads and cocktail parties for the real United States. Gwen Ifill | Read More »
Sarah Palin just field dressed Joe Biden like a moose. She was awesome. She connected with the people. She had fun. She was relaxed. She was awesome. Biden literally blew this debate — sighing heavily in the microphone. Rolling his eyes. Being condescending. Flagrantly lying about policies that Palin repeatedly called him on. Ifill herself did wind up showing her bias. She rarely gave Palin | Read More »
Are you ever going to let Sarah Palin have the last word?
PERSON: “Senator, Senator, wind and solar are flourishing here in Ohio, so why are you supporting clean coal?” BIDEN: “Say … I didn’t hear what you said.” PERSON: “Wind and solar are flourishing here in Ohio, so why are you supporting clean coal?” BIDEN: “We’re not supporting ‘clean coal.’ Guess what. China’s building two every week. Two dirty coal plants. And it’s polluting the United | Read More »
PERSON: “Senator, Senator, wind and solar are flourishing here in Ohio, so why are you supporting clean coal?” BIDEN: “Say … I didn’t hear what you said.” PERSON: “Wind and solar are flourishing here in Ohio, so why are you supporting clean coal?” BIDEN: “We’re not supporting ‘clean coal.’ Guess what. China’s building two every week. Two dirty coal plants. And it’s polluting the United | Read More »
Dear God this woman is on fire! Ha! I mean she’s really good tonight going back to the middle class. Last week, if you’ll remember, Obama kept referring to the middle class as “they,” i.e. “those people who I am not a part of.” Tonight, Palin says she and her husband are in the Middle Class. She can relate. That’s a big deal. Well done.
Put it in Cover It Live or put it in the comments. We’ll go through the evening giving some commenters access to the thread directly and will promote comments too. But be advised: we’re going to focus on covering the debate.
As you probably know by now, Gwen Ifill, the debate moderator for the Vice Presidential Debate, has a financial interest in Barack Obama winning the election. Ifill is the author of The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, a new book scheduled for release on Inauguration Day. Its Amazon.com promotional statement says, “In ‘The Breakthrough,’ veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American | Read More »
This one really came across as crass tonight. McCain points out the bracelet he has from the parent of a fallen soldier. Obama, naturally, has to point out that he has one too. Only Obama can’t remember any details. I’m reminded of President George H. W. Bush looking at his watch in the 1992 debate. Obama had to look down at the bracelet to remember | Read More »
The next time Obama goes off on a McCain = Bush tangent in a debate, McCain needs to say, “Senator Obama keeps trying to connect me to President Bush, despite my repeated disagreements with the administration. My friends, let me be clear, I can pronounce ‘nuclear’.”
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