Obama: ACORN will help “shape the agenda.”

2007….I coulda sworn this guy said he didn’t have any connection to ACORN…what connection? That one.

McCain and Obama – How It Could Be.

Tonight’s performance by McCain and Obama at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner (traditionally a hysterical speech display by politicians) is a must watch because it shows what  we could have from candidates if they weren’t slammed into strict political debate formats. Even as poor as our choices are, they are the choices, and we’ve gotten no opportunity to see them off their party talking points in a major forum.

In all honesty, this is McCain’s best performance I’ve ever seen. I laughed out loud quite a few times. Obama was pretty stellar too.Here you can see sides of the candidates we could see if we demanded it. But alas, we only get demonized versions and repetitive lists and non-answers in debates. This is proof we could, and should, demand better from our process.

It’s a rare thing when I actually want to watch McCain talk.

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Missing McCain Clip

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Joe Biden Pulls a Dan Quayle

If you’re needing even more evidence that there might be a slight liberal media bias, look no further than Joe Biden’s 3-letter word that is on most people’s mind. J O B S. To make the point hit home he spells it out for us. A very unimportant gaffe, but it’s Dan Quayle-esque aside from the fact that he was a Republican, so you won’t hear much of it. Get ‘em Joe.

Debate Analysis: McCain hits a triple with two outs.

Update: Debate Post-Analysis Generally Favors Obama Edging Out McCain. McCain had missed opportunities.

Update: Mitt Romney defending McCain on the analysis was 1000 times better than McCain delivering it himself. Republicans probably are hitting themselves.

In the bottom of the ninth. McCain needed a two-run homer, and with three weeks left he’s two outs with a man on third with the pitcher up to bat after this debate. McCain probably won overall by a hair, but he needed a compelling win to make a dent in the polls. Obama’s confidence was obvious, and while that normally hurts people, he was able to toe the line and it was a positive.

Obama just had to show up and sound competent (his strong point) and not blow it, which he did for his part. With his lead it would not have been to his benefit to try to win the debate outright, risking a major flub.

McCain picked a few of the right issues, seemed really strong when talking about that he’s not Bush, and bringing up the “Joe the plumber” story that’s all over the net right now, where Obama said he wanted to take his money and spread the wealth around. McCain swung and missed on ACORN, which is a softball.

But McCain has so many weird facial expressions, smirks, and gets ahead of himself, that he managles even the most tailor-made answers. In the end he’s right on a lot of things, but he throws a knockout punch at Obama and ends up smacking himself in the face as Obama ducks. McCain won the first half pretty solidly, but Obama evened it up at the end.

McCain made some good points, Obama said “that’s not true” (but they were) and it McCain was unable to competently respond. It almost seemed like his memory can only hold so much and if Obama doesn’t take the punch, McCain’s just spits out some random talking point to fill the hole. A few moments he seemed to almost be a robot that had a computer chip error programmed to say “taxes” while he reboots.

Overall, the format was a lot better, the moderator worked out pretty well, but McCain needed a superhuman performance, and turned in a good performance.  Obama did just fine, and didn’t even need to do that well.

* McCain’s best line was a flub where he said “Senator Government, I mean Senator Obama”. That pretty much defined the problem with Obama, the power and money will be bestowed upon the lamest government in history and taken from the people who’ve made whatever wealth we had. Obama wants to promise the world when we have no money to spend, unless we raise taxes. Unfortunately, like I said, it was just a flub.

Final verdict
Winner: McCain gained 20 feet in a marthon that Obama’s 2 miles ahead in and closing on the finish line.
Loser: America, who has to pick one of these guys to get us out of this economic crisis.

Video - this clip was McCain’s strongest set of answers, and he still botches it with some weird eyebrow raise and cackling. Obama has lame answers, but you can’t tell because of his excellent delivery.

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“O” Marx the Spot

For anyone paying attention, Obama is clearly a hyper-socialist and desires “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” a la Karl Marx. That’s fine, I suppose, I’ve just been a bit put-off that he hides it so much. If Obama is running on a socialist platform, then he needs to come out and say it if it’s that wonderful. Since he hasn’t, America may dive straight into socialism redistribution without even knowing it. Obama supporters don’t really know his policies or his past affiliations and accomplishments (though limited, they are straight out of the Marx playbook).

Until yesterday.

A plumber asked Obama why his new tax plan would tax him more. Obama said that he wants to “spread the wealth around” and give people behind him more of a chance. Unfortunately, those jobs that we all want so bad aren’t created by all those people behind him. The main people getting tax “breaks” in Obama’s plan don’t actually pay taxes, so basically you have to do nothing but exist to get money from people who own a business. They’ll take the hit..and cut jobs or pass the taxes on to the consumer. Then you’ll have to vote Obama because he’ll give you your main source of income.

Any candidate but McCain would be able to slam Obama on this. Instead all we have is this guy. And he’s probably spending most of his time clinging to his guns and religion and bashing mexicans.

Obama Takes the Campaign to…XBox360?

“turn off the television set, and put the video games away.”  – Barack Obama speech earlier this year

I can’t say much, because he’s destroying McCain in the polls,  but Obama is now popping up in video games with paid advertising. However, it is telling in a number of ways about the state of our society. Only in a society who wouldn’t pay attention to an election if you didn’t slap an ad around turn 3 in an Xbox racing game could Obama be elected.The fact that no issues or discussion exist in this digital world helps here immensely too.

At any rate, Republicans shouldn’t complain, sure Obama gets the “living in your parents basement” vote, but McCain has had ample opportunity to present his case to the American people for free on national televised debates, and has failed miserably trying to go after the “undecided” vote by sitting the fence.

So Obama is now showing up in your favorite football video games and racing games, while McCain is the Xbox 360′s famous “red ring of death” and needs a serious reboot.

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