Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin

[wart57]

when are the debates?

September 26, 2008: Presidential debate with domestic policy focus, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
October 2, 2008: Vice Presidential debate, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
October 7, 2008: Presidential debate in a town hall format, Belmont University, Nashville, TN
October 15, 2008: Presidential debate with foreign policy focus, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

I'm starting a Gameday Thread for the debates. Michael, note this. It's going to be really fancy in its own Snayke Way.

I'm so excited to see a debate without Bush. Love them or hate them, both of these candidates have a grasp on basic sentence structure and vocabulary.

That ain't noting but a bunch of bull crap for all y'all book lovers.

Shaddup leroy

[Leroy]

when are the debates?

September 26, 2008: Presidential debate with domestic policy focus, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
October 2, 2008: Vice Presidential debate, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
October 7, 2008: Presidential debate in a town hall format, Belmont University, Nashville, TN
October 15, 2008: Presidential debate with foreign policy focus, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

I'm starting a Gameday Thread for the debates. Michael, note this. It's going to be really fancy in its own Snayke Way.

I'm so excited to see a debate without Bush. Love them or hate them, both of these candidates have a grasp on basic sentence structure and vocabulary.

That ain't noting but a bunch of bull crap for all y'all book lovers.

Shaddup leroy

We can change, but we can't change Leroy.

[wart57]

when are the debates?

September 26, 2008: Presidential debate with domestic policy focus, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
October 2, 2008: Vice Presidential debate, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
October 7, 2008: Presidential debate in a town hall format, Belmont University, Nashville, TN
October 15, 2008: Presidential debate with foreign policy focus, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

I'm starting a Gameday Thread for the debates. Michael, note this. It's going to be really fancy in its own Snayke Way.

I'm so excited to see a debate without Bush. Love them or hate them, both of these candidates have a grasp on basic sentence structure and vocabulary.

That ain't noting but a bunch of bull crap for all y'all book lovers.

Shaddup leroy

We can change, but we can't change Leroy.

No truer words have ever been spoken.

[fanforever]

I think I've wisely avoided the earlier fray, but here's my thoughts in a somewhat disorganized fashion.

* I thought I would skip the video, but I ended up engrossed by it. Sure, I knew that McCain was a POW, but I had never really heard the entire story. I was very impressed. Inspiring, and I think that should be true across the aisles.

* I've stated many times on here that I thought McCain would lead the attack dog politics to the party hacks and come in as the white knight full of bipartisan ideals, reform, and well-stated strategies. I think we got a good mix of that.

* He was respectful to both Obama and Bush, which I appreciate. He certainly plugged his maverick history, outlining in both general and specific terms how he's seperated himself from the party line, which I guess will be news to some people.

* He gave us strategy and specifics on policy, and almost too much of it.... his speech definitely dragged in the middle as he went through everything from energy to education.

* There were a couple lines that I didn't really like, and I think the overall writing of the speech could have been better (for example, the making schools accountable to the students line? I'm still thinking about how that one is going to work.)

* The protestors were obnoxious and disrespectful. It actually helped McCain and certainly didn't help the left any.

* I think someone (TFG?) said that this was a thoroughly Republican speech. I think that's dead on. It was, which was exactly what I wanted to hear. There's a reason why McCain had a rough early battle for the nomination and it's because of the way that he's distanced himself from the rest of his party. In many ways, he's redefining what a republican should be.

He's running on a reform platform. Reform energy. Reform spending. Reform the tax code. I think it works for McCain, but only because of his history of butting heads with his own party.

++ excellent post

[omaha_red]

Wow...what an unfortunate pic on the front of cnn.com



...this won't end well

just can't make this stuff up

[TimeForGuinness]

Interesting read: http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008 ... r_doe.html

[Leroy]

It is obvious that Republicans are Nazis.

I've learned so much here.

[Radbird]

Interesting read: http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008 ... r_doe.html

Giuliani's speech was an utter disgrace.

I felt the same way, pop. I'm shocked at the number of people who liked/loved his speech. I thought it was juvenile.

[JL21]

Interesting read: http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008 ... r_doe.html

Giuliani's speech was an utter disgrace.

Oh, this is awesome. See bold:

the attack on Barack Obama's service as a community organizer by the odious Rudy Giuliani--he's come to look like a villain in a Frank Capra movie, hasn't he?

Let's roll that fabulous bean footage. That's the greedy Mr. Potter from "It's a Wonderful Life" on the right.

[sighyoung]

It is obvious that Republicans are Nazis.

I've learned so much here.

No, you just have a thing for leather.