See Full Video of Presidential Debate - Who Won?
Just in case you missed it…Here is the full video of tonight’s Presidential Debate. Did you watch the debate? What did you think? Who won? Did you learn anything new? Let me know in comments.
Category: politics
Tonight’s Debate, Latest Polls, and Getting Truth
Tonight’s Town Hall Debate, Latest Polls, and the Differences Between Obama and McCain.
This post will take a look at what to expect at tonight’s debate, the latest attempt to turn the election away from the economy, and links that can help you find out what candidate agrees with you on the issues.
Keating Economics: The Making of a Financial Crisis
“Keating Economics: the Making of a Financial Crisis” is a documentary that shows why John McCain’s failed philosophy and poor judgment are a recipe for deepening the economic crisis.
WOW.
The McCain/Palin Healthcare Plan: Kill Medicare
I think John McCain may have just lost Florida, and therefore the election. How? Not only is John McCain’s healtcare plan a dud for most Americans. Especially, anyone with a pre-existing medical condition (ie: asthma, high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes). But, McCain will cut Medicare to fund his (so called) Healthcare Plan? Yes. McCain is planning to cut $1.3 Trillion dollars over 10 years from Medicare, to fund his healthcare plan. Is this some kind of joke? No.
From The Wall Street Journal…
In the months since Sen. McCain introduced his health plan, statements made by his campaign have implied that the new tax credits he is proposing to help Americans buy health insurance would be paid for with other tax increases.
But Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Sen. McCain’s senior policy adviser, said Sunday that the campaign has always planned to fund the tax credits, in part, with savings from Medicare and Medicaid. Those government health-care programs serve seniors, poor families and the disabled.
McSame to Cut Medicare to Pay for His Terrible Health Care Plan
Guess how J. Sid McSame intends to fund his terrible health plan that taxes employer based health care coverage and gives insufficient tax credit to employees to struggle finding health care insurance on their own?
He plans to make big cuts in Medicare!
Yesiree, multimillionaire J. Sid McSame, who has had government paid health care coverage his whole life and collects Social Security which he called a disaster, and US Navy disability checks, wants to cut your Medicare benefits! How’s that for robbing Peter to pay Paul!
I voted yesterday- how come I don’t feel so good?
Here is a guest post from community member Marcella Peralta Simon.
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I voted yesterday in Fairfax county, VA and immediately crossed it off my to do list, now the next items are “get flu shot” and “prepare presentation for conference in Spain”. But I have a funny feeling…
When I presented my absentee request, I was shown as having been “deleted” on their database. How did that happen? Makes me nervous that the Republican masters in Richmond are up to no good and are secretly deleting Democractic voters from the rolls so that when the time comes to vote, it will be too late. Am I being paranoid?
I also am beginning to come to the horrific realization that bailouts are not going to solve the problem looming before us. There is a two page ad in the NYT today, pages 6 and 7 which outlines the crisis and correctly states that neither candidate offers a complete solution to the mess we are in. There will have to be fundamental changes and some will be politically untenable. Then I realized that Obama just needs to look steady in the debates to win but what a mess he will inherit! Am I being a pessimist?
There are too many questions unanswered, too many experts that disagree, too many joe six packs and lipstick wearing pigs running through the landscape of serious political discourse. It is enough to give anyone a funny feeling.
Saturday Night Live Video - Biden/Palin VP Debate
Here is another great Saturday Night Live video. The Biden/Palin VP Debate…
Breaking: Congress Passes Bailout Bill
The Bailout Bill has just passed. I will include more links and video to this post as I get it. Until then, what do you think?
From The Associated Press..
With the economy on the brink and elections looming, Congress approved an unprecedented $700 billion government bailout of the battered financial industry on Friday and sent it to President Bush for his certain signature.
The final vote, 263-171 in the House, capped two weeks of tumult in Congress and on Wall Street, punctuated by daily warnings that the country confronted the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression if lawmakers failed to act.
I will continue to update this post.
UPDATE:
Let’s talk about the pork…
Speaker Pelosi on the passage of the Bailout Bill…
President Bush responds to congress passing Bailout Bill…
Ron Paul spoke against this Bailout before the House vote…
Post-Debate Reaction and Analysis of VP Debate
Here is a quick roundup of Post-Debate Reaction and Analysis of last night’s VP Debate. What did you think? Let me know in comments.
[If you missed the debate, you can see it in full here.]
Keith Olberman and Rachel Maddow do a post-debate analysis…
Last Night CNN had an interesting post-debate analysis…
Carl Bernstein on a post analysis of debate…
Fox News thought Sarah Palin did great. Articulate, even…
Morning Joe on MSNBC has a quick analysis of last night’s debate…
Say It Ain’t So Joe????????
What the bloggers thought…
Pamela from Pam’s Coffee Conversation found a great fact-checking video…
They started off amicably enough. “Can I call you Joe?” were Sarah Palin’s first words. Similarly, “Pleasure to be with you, to meet you,” Joe Biden began. Joe called her “Governor Palin,” while Sarah called him “Senator Biden.” They kept the tone deflected away from each other by focusing on Obama/McCain and cherry-picking points to lavish praise on one another. Biden praised Palin for her support of windfall profit taxes and her support of civil unions; Palin praised Biden for once saying he would run on the ticket with John McCain and for his support of Israel. However, it wasn’t always so friendly…
From Robert Shrum at The Huffington Post…
Sarah Palin has experience being a runner-up — which will come in handy in November. Tonight she barely kept up. In advance, the commenteriat almost unanimously agreed on a false measure of this debate. Judging by “expectation” meant that pundits could conceivably award a faux victory if she was half-coherent and modestly informed after a cram session in Arizona. But voters apply an absolute standard, not a low water mark of expectations: With America facing two wars and economic disaster, Americans ask if a candidate is up to the job.
By any rational assessment, Palin wasn’t tonight — and hasn’t been any time she’s not reading a teleprompter. President Palin– the nuclear button, recession, the health care crisis, global warming (which she doesn’t believe in, as she believes in creationism) — well, it simply doesn’t compute. A part in Fargo, yes — that office in the West Wing, no.
Everybody wondered how Palin would do. At least as important, or more, was that Joe Biden did a superb job. He deftly stopped Palin from distorting Obama’s views. He won the tax cut argument– Democrats usually don’t. He won the health care argument; Palin just gave up. She wouldn’t — couldn’t — answer the questions; she wanted to talk about energy, which she’s supposed to know something about, but she even lost on that . Often she didn’t know or couldn’t say what McCain’s policy is. And on foreign policy, she must have been staring out the window when she sat down with Henry Kissinger. She “loves” Israel but can’t discuss mideast realities in one inch depth. She can’t even articulate basic conditions for the use of nuclear weapons.
Palin relied on topline phrases and had little command of facts. Why, she even memorized the name of the President of Iran. But it was mostly blah, blah, blah. At the end, the Obama-Biden ticket is far ahead on the big issues — and Palin’s a parrot repeating memorized phrases, not a plausible vice-president. Biden called her on it every time.
From FiveThirtyEight.com
As with the Obama-McCain debate last Friday, the vast majority of the insta-polls went to the Democratic ticket. Biden won the CBS poll of undecideds 46-21, and the CNN poll of debate watchers 51-36. Independents in the large MediaCurves focus group panel went for Biden about 2:1.
The internals, however, weren’t nearly as bad for Palin as the topline results. She got a jump in preparedness in the CBS poll, and the CNN found that a large majority of voters concluded that she had beaten their expectations.
Palin’s largest problem, to my eyes, is that she was tangibly nervous for most of the debate, rushing through talking points and canned jokes alike with unsually little inflection. I doubt that this will impact her favorables much — in fact, it seems likely that her favroables will improve.
From What Tami Said…
I’ve had a crazy-making fortnight with a lot of stuff going on both at work and home, so I haven’t been posting as much. I wish I had written the post that was swirling around my head over the last week, so that this morning I could look like a wise and prescient cyberpundit. I knew that Sarah Palin would perform better than her Couric and Gibson interviews would suggest. I knew Joe Biden was unlikely to make one of his trademark gaffes. I guessed that Palin would appeal to those who like bright, shiny and pretty–packaged lines and zingers and “personal connection,” not wonkiness. I thought that Biden might look a little old and dusty next to the Republican’s “breath of fresh air” candidate, but I knew that once he demonstrated his vast knowlege of foreign policy and the economy, most viewers would remember that new ain’t better if there is no “there” there. So, last night’s debate turned out just like I thought. The veep candidates’ performances likely cemented opinions on both side. Joe Biden won, but the game remains unchanged.
Michelle Malkin thinks - “Sarah Rocks”
First, I would like to see all the Sarah doubters and detractors in the Beltway/Manhattan corridor eat their words.
Eat them.
Sarah Palin is the real deal. Five weeks on the campaign trail, thrust onto the national stage, she rocked tonight’s debate.
She was warm, fresh, funny, confident, energetic, personable, relentless, and on message. She roasted Obama’s flip-flops on the surge and tea-with-dictators declarations, dinged Biden’s bash-Bush rhetoric, challenged the blame-America defeatism of the Left, and exuded the sunny optimism that energized the base in the first place.
McCain has not done many things right. But Sarah Palin proved tonight that the VP risk he took was worth it.
Also See:
- Outside The Beltway
- Black Voices
- Women Against Sarah Palin
- Crooks and Liars
- Feministing
- Right Pundits
So. That’s what the media and blogger reaction to the debate was. What was your reaction? Who won? Who lost? Who was just annoying? Let me know in comments.
Palin For Giving More Power To The Vice President?
Do you think the role of the vice president needs to be expanded even more than Cheney has already expanded it? Wouldn’t that make the actual “presidency” irrelevant?
Here is a video of Joe Biden and Sarah Palin on the Role of the VP and expanding power…
McCain thinks he should just be allowed to be the Dictator and Chief of America… Read more »
