2nd Thread, Debate #3 (Comment Here)
By SusanUnPC on October 15, 2008 at 8:27 PM in Barack Obama, Debates, John McCain
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So, who’s winning?
Mac is showing his fighting spirit and it’s about time. He’s hitting hard and I think he’s rattling Obama’s cage. There’s goes Mac running a nasty, noisy hammer along the bars of Obama’s cool cage of indifference. Hammer away Mac … you are the only person left on the stage who can keep this country from splitting down the middle.
mccain is kick barry’s ass. It really is sad. Good thing the “liberal media” already has script written telling us obama won.
john mccain is straight talk express
he is doing a great job.
Mac is very, very strong tonight…he’s getting the flim-flam man on every point.
He hit him on the fact that nobama didn’t repudiate Congressman John Lewis comparing Mac and Sarah to George Wallace!
Barry says I didn’t do it. It was Lewis, not me; it was Palin’s speech where they yelled at me.
Mccain is hot tonight! Obama looks smug and arrogant.
Hey Girl…Mccain is smoking
Hey Patsy! Yes he is!! Obama is sweating like a hooker at a baptism.
great comment, Sugar.
Bozo is a freaking smirking fool.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve never heard that simile before. I may have to steal it for future use.
The Mac is back mutherfocker!!
Sen McCain should bring up the Ayers connection… I’d love to see what BO could defend that w/o looking like the complete LIAR he is.
DID Lewis apologize? DID BO’s campaign denounce Lewis’s “george wallace’ comment?
OOH>…Mac brought up the tee shirts.
Oh no!! Sarah didn’t protect Obama. Go to hell Obama.
Mac brought up the C**t T-Shirts!
johnny mac has baracky on the run
hit em hit em hit em john. You guys know he is tesing us with these jabs. The haymaker is coming
He invoked Ayers. That is right.
YESSSS Go John
Yaaaaahoooo!! Go Mac!
mccain’s states the obivous. There are 5,000 to 20,000 people at those rallies.
There is no way in the world Palin could hear one person in the audiance. Soembody ask obama if he can every word every person says at one of his rallies.
OH SHIT!!!
Obama basically called McCain’s supporters bad. Yet, can repudiate the scumbags that follow him from rock concert to rock concert.
Mac is fantastic tonight!
ACORN Baby!
Mac is Back!
yes!!!!
McCain mentions ACORN and the $800,000 and Ayers we have the right to know the true relationship (wrote Obama’s “biographies”??? who knows??)
Boo hoo Barry
Professor of what kind of education Barry?
When did you know he was a terrorist?
Why did you start your career at his home with his money?
Annenburg was dead by then!
Didn’t answer the questions!!!1
The person at the rally yelled terrorist when Ayers was talked about, Kill him when Ayers was talked about NOT OBAMA! Obama is nothing but a liar. The NYT told the story wrong and the AP reported it that way but they were wrong. LIARS!
Thanks so much for those listening and commenting for those of us who literally get sick at the sound of BO’s voice. I had a visceral reaction the first time I heard him: snake oil salesman.
How Hillary won against this corrupt man, the corrupt DNC and the corrupt media is still amazing to me.
Larry and mods, I’m a paper check writer–be glad to donate to this wonderful site if I can mail you a check.
Thank you No Quarter for this forum!
Barky, you’re full of sh!t. NOBODY believes you. Sit down and STFU.
barky is stuttering and lying and covering off!
Facts are FACTS!!!
Pardon me but it shouldn’t take a minute and a half to post a comment. Is it just me?
OMG!
I hope Warren Buffet says, I don’t talk to that fool!
Distract, distract, distract!
Get him Mac!
Unfortunately I heard the other day that Buffet does support him, go figure!
Buffett is filthy rich and he WANTS to pay more taxes. He says it’s not fair for him to pay a lower percentage that his secretary. The thing is that most of his income is from capital gains so it’s taxed at a lower rate. I volunteer him to make an extra donation of his money to the government, and leave the rest of us alone! Buffett is the only one who can financially survive an Obama presidency.
Go Mac! Brought up those horrible T-shirts. Not the most impotant issue but it is to me!!!!!
Notice how BoBo interrupted John when he mentioned the t-shirts? A-HOLE!!!!!!!
John–
BRING UP BO’s BIRTH CERT. a real one not a photoshop remake
wow, when McCain brought up Ayers and ACORN Obama was laughing it off – disgusting
McCain missed a great opportunity: “It’s not funny Senator Obama, this is not a laughing matter”
Remember how Obama laughed on all the talk shows he went on the day after the Rev Wright tapes surfaced for the first time? Same thing with Ayers and Acorn (and Rezko too) “I didn’t know……..”
If he doesn’t know about all these questionable associations he has, how the hell can he be trusted to run our country??!!
Joe Biden is one of the BEST politicians in this country? oye.
well.. seeing how incredibly inept our govt is.. that is probably true.
O really didn’t answer the Acorn situation or the Woods Foundation or the monies his campaign paid into CSI. O looks a little flustered.
Welcome home John MCain ! Its good to have you back ! Keep fighting sir the American people are right there behind you !
He spent like 8-10 mins explaining his relationships and it was all BS
Is it morally wrong to pray BO has a CVA on live TV????
Say it ain’t so Joe!!!
Game all that campaign cash to your son’s lobby and your sister! 2 million….he works for the American people as long as their last name is “Biden”!
ah, missed on calling him a liar about Ayers
I’m heading to the liquor cabinet….anybody else?
Martini, up with a twist please.
I am with you in the french wine department..cheers!
Get’em John. He’s kicking Barry’s lying ass.
Barky always talks in generalities–he never says how he’s going to do everything, unlike Hillary. Hillary always would go into great detail about what plans she had. How did the DNC chose this Oblahblah! Darn!
I like Mac supporting Palin and stating very clearly what a sterling woman Palin is, how she fought corruption in her own party.
I’m so proud of John McCain right now.
studder much Obama jezzz
wow mccain! you made me proud!
biden was rejected by dem primary voters resoundingly. He dropped out of the dem primary ASAP.
obiden = washed up long ago
OMG Mackie
he even corrected the moderator… hes keen tonight
Kakamennie was said regarding Joe Biden–ha, ha
I would vote twice for McCain if I could. He has DESTROYED Obama’s cool.
you can, if your name is Mickey Mouse, Jive Turkey or Tony Romo…just bring an ID…on second thought, who needs to see a stinking ID.
You can, if ACORN registers you to vote… (LOL!)
McCain is winning this debate!!!
Obama is a smug lying ass*ole
I think the round table format also suits McCain better. Obama looks funny when he is sitting. I have noticed that before. He looks sort of goofy. ha.
THE MAC IS BACK!!!!
A Warrior and a Gentleman. Right now though, we need a bit more Warrior.
McCain/Palin 08
McCain is very strong tonight.
When Obama was asked if Palin is qualified to be President, McCain should have asked if Obama is qualified.
Where’s that birth certificate??
…I don’t know…there is something about Obama’s body language tonight. He looks tired, weak.
1st debate Chris Matthews said John McCain acted like a “grumpy old troll.”
2nd debate Chris Matthews said John McCain was like “Snidely Whiplash.”
Wonder what he’ll say about him tonite. He’s doing an awesome job.
Yeah but the real question is did TWEETY MATTHEWS report on how much TINGLE NOBAMA gave him in each of those debates? LOL!
Rambo.
Well don’t like nuclear power plants, but bo signed the bill promising them, so they have to be built and taxpayers will fund them.
Now bo’s for offshore drilling… flip flop
Mac is back! Love how realistic he is about the plan for energy indipendence from Middle East and Venezuela. He’s the real deal.
Obama is PIE in the sky.
I HATE the way BO laughs at Sen. McCain comments… Makes me want to smack the crap out of him… He needs to know this is NOT a joke. It’s that laughing face he sees on the new Socialist US dollar bill.
I’m better now after a shot of VSOP.
I absolutely DETEST Barky’s smirks!
But I loved Mac’s “cockamamie”…LOL when was the last time you heard that?
BO: “priorities of mine since I got to the senate”…LOL! All 143 days he was there.
Mac is back! Love how realistic he is about the plan for energy indipendence from Middle East and Venezuela. He’s the real deal.
Obama is PIE in the sky.
He’s lying about NAFTA.
Mccain is funny as hell! Gosh, the way he raised his eyebrows just now nearly made me choke. lmao
Keep on punching McCain! Punch! Punch!
I hope Mac gets to say Senator Obama, this is serious! stop smirking!!
Mac is doing a great job! He should have mentioned Biden’s position on bankruptcy and credit card rates though.
atacking bamahis demagogery
soo good to you Macke
Mac is forceful, articulate, keen, demonstrative and is keeping his cool. Looks authoritative and very, very presidential. Not letting anyone run over him or control the agenda.
Is it me, or is Obama smiling at McCain at times when he shouldn’t be smiling!
This is a much better format than the last debate and Mac seems to be kicking butt!!!
I hope it works.
Mac is on a tear tonight!!
Colombia free trade—maybe you should travel there and figure it out.
msnobama’s first read:
Where are the cuts?
Obama again does not say which of his programs he’ll cut. He still has not answered this question.
firstread.msnbc.msn.com/
Right now in real time msnobama has more positive mccain posts than they do obama posts. By tommorrow moring they will say this was obama’s Greatest Debate In The History Of The World. In real time right now msnobama’s first read is painting an ugly obama picture.
wow.
Obama is getting his butt whupped.
wow McCain. I see another side to him.
BEST COMMENT OF THE NIGHT
***SENATOR OBAMA IF YOU WANTED TO RUN AGAINST PRESIDENT BUSH YOU COULD HAVE DONE IT 4 YEARS AGO!!!!!
McCain is kicking OBama’s ass!!!!
Good one McCain!
This is the VSOP talking now, but NOBODY gives a sh!t what Tweety says—except you, I guess.
Omg he is destroying Obama
Hmmm. I’m wondering how Obama figures he’ll be able to get all of those things done as a U.S. Senator because he’s going to get his ass kicked in November.
ROTFLMAO – Sugar, you and Soldier are hysterical! Thanks for the laughs!!
Mac kicked B$$$ on columbia and to bring up venezula..good job!
Go, Mac. . . called Oblahblah on his “eloquent speaking”. . but let’s look at what he’s saying. . .super. Oblahblah looks snotty and so disrespectful of Mac. Now he goes from South America to American car manufacturers. I think he’s ADD or ADHD like Dubya. Poor guy! Not to “ditz” on those with ADD or ADHD–it’s challenging to have.
Obama doesn’t want a trade agreement with Columbia!
BO refuses to acknowledge nuclear energy. John mentioned Herbert Hoover. BO tries to smile and keep his cool.
This is great tonight about god damn time McCain took it to this fool! Obama don’t like it at all. And Obamabots are in a rage! LOL
Can you believe Obama just said we can’t free trade with Columbia because their labor leaders have been targeted for assassination?
WHAT ABOUT THE FACT THAT OBAMA CAMPAIGNED FOR A MARXIST KENYAN THUG WHO INCITED HIS FOLLOWERS TO COMMIT GENOCIDE AND BURN WOMEN AND CHILDREN TO DEATH IN CHURCHES?
McCain missed a great opportunity there. Obama is making me SICK. There he goes with that dismissive smirk again. McCain needs to knock those big goofy teeth into the back of his throat. Metaphorically speaking of course.
“Can you believe Obama just said we can’t free trade with Columbia because their labor leaders have been targeted for assassination?”
WHAT? I keep muting him.
Since when do we give into to terrorist thugs? Evidently Obama will.
Barack “I’m going to stop doing what’s right because the terrorists scare me” Obama.
WTF does stinky keep laughing about?
Bama man is very nervous. He’a laughing too much . it is a sarcastic smile. Bad for the people that are watching him
Obama is really blowing it tonight. He sounds like he’s reciting sound bites.
Obama’s arrogance is astounding. He doesn’t have even a fraction of John McCain’s experience…yet he acts like he is so superior.
Vote him off the island..send him back to Chicago.
his health care will break us like california
McCain mentioned Hillary’s name twice. I love u McCain.
Ooooooooo…. Mac’s segue from Obama’s opposition to free trade with best SA allay Colombia contrasted to Obama’s eagerness to “sit down without preconditions with Venezuela’s Iranian-allay Hugo Chavez!
Brilliant Mac!
That whole exchange was brilliant. Really brilliant.
Mac showed emotion on the Lewis incident. It’s amazing that Obama got away with tagging Bill, HIllary, Gerry Ferraro and Mac and Sarah as racists. In a sick way it was a “great” strategy because it made it almost impossible for his opponents to criticize his disturbing associations. But Mac is firing like a machine gun. You gotta fight back like you don’t give a rat’s ass about possibly losing. Fight will all your might. Winning will follow1
ObaMAO makes me physically ill. His lies, his dodges, his (stolen) ideas, his droning, and—worst of all—his allies: ACORN, et al. (I needn’t list them all). His grandparents were Communists, his parents were Communists, his cronies are Communists! HE’S A COMMUNIST!
Here come the ah, ah, ah’s…
Wow!! McCain is doing awesome!! He is definitely kicking Barky’s a$$!!
COUNTRY FIRST
Next Sen. McCain should bring up BO’s cousin causing genocide in Kenya. and BO using US tax dollars to go over there and campaign for him.
Oblahblah lying again about fining employers—good for Mac looking amazed! He’s registering what we’re feeling–absolutely shocked about his lying his a$$ off! Unbelievable.
WTF does stinky keep laughing about?!
OK, now Barky is incoherent on Joe the Plumber’s healthcare costs or is it the VSOP?
Huge bureaucracy in the making with Barry’s insurance plan…put a sock in it BO.
McCain needs to ask Obama if he just makes things up as he goes along. Obama denied penalizing small business for not getting health care! geez!
John McCain is quite handsome when he smiles
have you seen pics of him when he was young? Hot!
Yes.. he was really hot.
VERY hot !
LOL…you’ve been sipping VSOP too?!?!?!
Mac making GREAT points about Joe the Plumber. He’s even remembering to look directly into the camera.
Mccain does, he looks confident. BO looks like one of Jane Goodall’s subjects.
Johnnymac needs time for rebuttal on health insurance. Obama is getting too much time.
I can’t stand the stuttering, it’s making me crazy.
Obama is lying so bad on health care—-McCain is calling him out on it.
“When Johnny comes marching home again, hurrah! Hurrah!”
Go, Johnny, go!
Congratulations President McCain !
LOL! “Senator Government.” Good one, Mac1
Senator Government? Hahahahahaha!
Is anyone keeping track of how much time each candidate is getting? Is it just me or is Barky getting far more time?
Yeah he’s talking WAYYY TOOO MUUCCCHHH
Judy, you’re cracking me up. It’s not the VSOP – he is incoherent!
Senator Government?
Lets all call Obama Senator Government hehehehehe
“Senator Government..ah,Senator Obama”
HAHA
Obama’s line about the average health insurance policy being 12,000 is a lie. My husband and I both self pay for our policies and they are great policies through BCBS – but we are in the Health Insurance Risk Pool, which means we have conditions that BCBS doesn’t want to insure. My policy is $1468.00 per quarter and my husband’s is $1142.00 per quarter. We are both 40ish.
There is a health insurance program available in some states with preconditions…that cost roughly $300 per month for a family. That adds up to $3600 per year…or $150 oer year for individuals … there are states though whose high risk insurance costs $1000 per month and $750 per month. BCBS isn’t available in all states!
At what point will they realize that the only thing they wanted was for Obama to explain Ayers live on television? McCains words “I dont care about a washed up terrorist” Game set…Check mate. Obama tied his self to a terrorist by explaining Ayers
As per usual..moderator never questions and interupts Obamas response but edges on McCain..
How Rude !
“Senator Government”!!
HAHAHAHAHA!
Now does anyone really think that McCain misspoke when he said that?
ZING! DING!
Moderator is stupid. Mac said he voted for Ginsburg… one of the the most liberal judges.
Bambi is literally SWEATING big time! Someone bring the man a hankie!
Obama just threatened us with Roe v Wade–said it would hang in the balance. Like he cares about women’s issues.
Holy crap – I wish I had been timing how long Obama gets to blather on, and how quickly Bob interrupts McCain. GRRRRRR.
Present LOL
I mute the screen when he’s talking and I’ve been able to watch a full half hour show so far in this debate.
OMG! Mac is getting him on his votes to withhold medical care for a newborn victim of a botched
murderabortion.Here comes the Infanticide Bill. Yeah to John!
If it sounds incredible…., it’s it’s not true. BO is lying again!!!!
It’s above my pay grade!
Let’s make that ‘Senator Ogovernment’
Obama’s reasoning for voting against the ban on partial birth abortion makes little to NO SENSE! There was already a law, so uh uh uh, so why bother.
I am insulted by this entire Roe vs Wade conversation anyway.
He blathers on and on but never says anything. Good the Sen McCain is calling him on it!!
I just now finished a second show
This is really good tonight at least McCain threw some good Punches tonight!
Last question? What about national defense?
Now would be the perfect moment to invoke Obama’s support of sex education for kindergartners.
http://www.drudgereport.com to vote
If Obama really believed that partial-birth abortion is wrong, he would have voted “no” rather than the politically motivated vote of “Present.”
Personally, I think the only voice we should be hearing on the issue of abortion is Sarah Palin.
If there was already a law then how was that Down Syndrome baby thrown into the closet alive?
I’ll give points to Oblahblah on the abortion issue. But, I still don’t trust anything he says. . . he lies so easily.
OMG.
Obama just mentioned cavalier sexual activity and how we need education about it.
….Sinclair?
Where exactly was Obama on November 6 & November 6 199? Was he doing crack with Sinclair?
It’s another one of those issues that Obama could clear up so easily, just like the birth certificate.
Ditto – Mr. Sinclair could attest to that.
Moderator completely unfair in time limits..BO can ramble on an on and interupt and it is acceptable..
I noticed. McCains keeps getting cut off, and Obama is allowed to ramble on & on.
Bob Schieffer has disgraced his “legacy” tonight. He lets Hussein just ramble on and on, but keeps cutting Sidney off at the HIP! I’m so disappointed in him. The Hussein camp has neutered so many journalists with the threat of labeling them racists if they chastise him and it’s disgusting.
BO wants to spend on this and give more money to that and still cut taxes??? Where did he learn basic math???
Good. McCain mentioned that elite Democrats Michelle and Barack Obama send their children to private schoo.
Wow, sounds like Obama is trying to convince us he’s read Hillary’s “It takes a Village…” … or maybe the Cliff Notes? Well, here comes Bill Ayers as Secretary of Education … not.
McCain wins this debate!!
Obama is a smug lying ahole
Pepper, I agree. I have a friend who had a stroke.They have just retired. In NC her premiums would be $3,500.00/mo…they are moving to WV where the premiums will be $935.00/mo .Obama probably gets more attention with his concept and I’m afraid that might cost votes. So maybe JohnnyMac should drop the tax load on his plan and raise the amounts.
This was the best of the debates for McCain.
Soon to see: OBAMA WON 93 to 7!(CNN<NBC<MSNBC<ABC<CBS)
I think BO either forgot to take his fix or he took so much that his lines are out of context, he’s talking nonsense, all blah, blah,blah and same O. Good points McCain.
If there was already a law then how was that Down Syndrome baby thrown into the closet alive?
Everyone voting?
obama made a dig on palin when he talked about teen pregnancy!
that was a clear dig on her not educating her daughter.
The subject is “education” and McCain is missing the IDEAL opportunity to bring up Obama’s work with Ayers in trying to radicalize Chicago schools instead of teaching kids marketable skills.
Mention the deplorable performance of Chicago schools! What is wrong with you! You’re on a roll – don’t let this one go…
I LOVED what Mac said about Cindy and him knowing the joy of adoption……hell, I’m ready to go out and adopt a kid myself…and I’m an OLD WIDDER WOMAN.
Let’s hear it for adoption…I adopted a 9 month old girl (from China ’cause the US told me I was too old!) when I was 44.
She is now 10…the light of my life.
Worst schools in America get the most money per student.
ABSOLUTELY TRUE!!!
Fine example in Baltimore.
Balt City gets a little more than Balt County and gives half the results
mdreportcard.com
LOOK IT UP!!
The list of lies for Obama is HUGE
Obama now supports charter schools? Is he even a Democrat?
He is out of touch.
McCain missed a great opportunity to hammer the fact that Barky pays women less than he pays men for the same job. He should have brought it home!
I was hoping he’d bring up the staff pay/ratio but he let that one go. Too much to challenge when you’re debating Zero.
My exact thought!
And why is elitist Democrat BArack Obama demonizing teachers’ unions? He is out of touch.
Let him keep talking. If he destroys his own base. That’s his problem.
Polls for Mac will be up! He did very, very well tonight. Bring on the attack ads, RNC!
McCain missed an opportunity to Hammer BO on the way the CAC board allocated the $100M a year in funds with Billl Ayers.
I believe he said they gave $100k to Acorn.
JOHN GOT THE LAST LAUGH.
We couldn’t have hoped for better. McCain, I take back everything I’ve said. I love you.
Oh, I am praying to wake up to Mac v Barky war bombs dropping tomorrow!
MAC IS BACK!
We need to be realistic. There’s so much wrong with BO, there’s just NOW WAY McCain can bring it all up, even all of the best stuff, in one debate (or 3).
For what McCain is bringing up, he’s doing GREAT!
Go Mac!
Closing remarks now by McCain…underlining his long record and his fiscal conservatism…asking people to vote for the person they can trust and bringing up his military service as well.
In a way, this was the only debate. The other two meetings, devoid of passion, were an endless spewing of talking points. This debate was a real conversation. Mac stuck his neck out on the issues and did not play it safe. He spoke in his own true voice … something he should have done earlier but doing it in this last debate was so important. Bravo Mac … you have my vote!
McCain would be honored and humbled, Obama would be entitled.
McCain’s closing sounded very Presidential. And notice that Obama attacked the Clintons in his closing. He claimed decades of mismanagement in DC is responsible for the current economic crisis.
And now that Obama is talking, I’m done watching. Good night all.
“The same failed policies of the last 8 years”
I can’t BELIEVE Hussien is using this line in his closing comment. Who is he talking about? Which candidate proposes the “same failed policies”?
LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES
Truthteller, you are right. Obama is awful..