the US govt rejected jews fleeing germany and sent them back before we entered the war.
just saying….

One question that was not brought up was who the true Barrack Obama is. Shawn Hannity did his own documentary type show on FoxNews tying Obama with many radical people and groups.. very interesting.

This shouldn’t be a campaign issue. America did not rush to the aide of Jews in Germany until we were finally attacked by Japan.

If you’re saying that was our plan to save Jews, then it was a very costly one.

The first modern electronic computer was the ENIAC. It was, indeed, designed and built under a US Army project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

You’re the second person i’ve seen tonight try to pass off Obama’s comment about the government creating computers as silly.

You should really google “ENIAC” sometime.
In short - it was the first true computer created. Who created it?
The department of defense. Namely the Army Ballistic Research Lab. If i remember correctly, it was designed to aid in the calculation of trajectories for artillery - but i could be wrong on that last part.

A lot of people get that confused with the UNIVAC - which is understandable - although the ENIAC came first. If memory serves, the univac was the private sector spin-off, and came shortly after the ENIAC. This was in the early/mid 40s, and the technology hit the public sector in 1950 with the Univac.

It may be nit-picking, but if we’re going to call something silly - we should make sure the facts are correct first. In this case, calling it silly is in fact - wrong.

By the way, I’m an independent, and I hope you won’t mind my “lurking” on this sight. You’re completely right about the format. It was painful. There has to be a better way to do this.
Regarding the Holocaust, something that this is likely to bring up is that Obama has a grand uncle (I think) who was among the soldiers who liberated Buchenwald. So I don’t know that there’s a lot of traction there. He clearly meant “intervene soon enough to stop the Holocaust,” which neither we nor anyone else did.
I thought that McCain’s answers, particularly on the economy, were quite good, and that that’s really the thing that needs to be talked up.

OK, another thing: what really sucked was that NEITHER candidate was really talking about what needs to happen about the economy, even though the questioners were clearly desperate to hear about it. That question about sacrifice, for instance: people are saying “Tell us what we need to do to get through this.” And neither guy is willing to deliver the bad news. We’re $10 trillion (well, now $11 trillion) in debt. Taxing the rich isn’t going to do it. Cutting earmarks isn’t going to do it. Cutting taxes has gone about as far as it can go. So it’s cutting entitlements, raising taxes, or both, or both and more. About raising taxes: until 2003, this country had never gone to war without asking citizens to help shoulder the costs through higher taxes.

After the first 2 questions, I decided it would be much to painful to watch the debate any further. McCain is not a great speaker, but he missed great opportunities to nail Obama when he blamed the current mess on the Bush admn. policies. Yes Bush was an enabler who did not forcefully try to point where we were headed with the sub-prime mess and Fannie and Freddie despite Franklin Raines getting caught with his hand in the cookie jar by manipulation of the books. McCain needed to be alot more forceful in pointing the finger right back at the Democrats where the blame lies. Palin would have done it with style and substance and time to spare of her two minutes.

When I saw Obama leaning against his stool like he was modeling for men’s suits, with smirks on his face I had to turn the TV off before I threw something at it.

The silent majority will come out in force against Communism. I read some comments from Chicagoans on another site where two people said that Obama will not even get the votes from his beloved Chicago, mainly the business owners. Yikes!

The first computer was actually built in Germany prior to World War II. It was destroyed in the Allied Bombing. The memory was physical magnetic switches and it took hours to complete a problem but it did used the same binary processing used in computers today.

While Barack continues to sell his ideas on re-shaping America, and American’s are buying in around 55% or higher, you people are wasting your time arguing over who created the first computer.

This is a losing argument. It was used as an analogy.

The fact this is the best you have to combat Obama shows how desperate you’ve become.

It’s sad that conservatives like myself need to identify with Obama, a democrat, to trust we’ll see fiscal responsibility.

Also, why can’t McCain sit still during the debate? Why was he lurking around in the backround like an Iguana?

In the final debate, when Obama blathers about the Bush administration inheriting a budget surplus, McCain needs to say– “I’m getting tired of having to refute my opponent’s mythology. When President Clinton left office, the budget was back in deficit and the economy was in recession. The Bush tax cuts pulled us out of the Clinton recession and kept us out of recession until this current crisis.”

This was the most manfully moderated debate is recent memory.

Maybe Brokaw ate a manwich beforehand to enhance his ability to act in a manfully manner.