McCain Needs Boost in Tonight’s Debate
By BETH FOUHY,
AP
TOLEDO, Ohio (Oct. 15) – John McCain sought to change the course of a campaign moving decidedly in Barack Obama’s direction Wednesday night in the third and final presidential debate.
With less than three weeks until the Nov. 4 election, the 90-minute debate focusing on the economic crisis offered the Republican senator from Arizona what could be one of his last big chances to persuade voters to give the race another look. Polls show Obama, the senator from Illinois, with a clear lead nationally and in several key battleground states.
McCain was keenly aware of the stakes he faced after two debates in which supporters suggested he was insufficiently forceful against Obama.
So what do you expect to see in tonight’s debate, the final debate before the election, which is about 3 weeks away? What does Senator McCain need to do to keep this race close? What does Senator Obama need to do to close it out strong?
For you non-USA readers, the outcome of the upcoming presidential election has been easily predictable since at least a month ago.
Obama will win by a wide margin of the 270 electoral college delegates.
The USA media cannot say that too directly, because they would appear biased. But we all know.
Thanks god the US media doesn’t appear biased. What would we do then?
For us non-USA readers both candidates look like twins, so we don’t care.
The two parties remind Swift’s Big-endians and Little-endians fighting over which end of the egg shall be broken first. Thank god you have your freedom of choice!
I vote for Chthulu.
Why vote for the lesser evil?
Everyone hop onto the ladder going down, because the USA is going to hell! Thank you President Obama Bin Laden!
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Dear US-readers:
Please vote for Ralph Nader http://www.votenader.org
Obama and McCain are basically the same.
A Canadian
That outsiders see Obama & McCain as basically the same strikes most Americans as baffling. Most politicians in the US follow the party line, and there could hardly be a more stark difference between the Republicans and Democrats.
They each see the world in such a radically different way. Democrats are basically liberal socialists and believe government is the answer to almost everything, while Republicans are conservative individualists and believe government is usually the problem.
It’s people like you, Susan, for whom I feel truly sorry. You came to the United States to escape the evils of socialism and to live in a society that did not punish success.
After O’Bama is elected — and especially if he gets a filibuster-proof Senate — there will be nowhere left for people like you to go.
People from outside the US beleive that the elections in the US are already decided in favor of Obama. Thanks to a totally biased media, and the addiction of Hollywood in this country and the rest of the world…you could get the impression that this is a done deal. But they forget 2 things, before the 2000 and the 2004 elections, Gore and Kerry were ahead in all polls just like Obama is right now. We all know what happened. You see, the media and Hollywood can fool people as much as they want…..until election day of course.
I have not read as dense a collection of ignorance as that contained in this thread in quite some time. Obama will win easily. McCain and he are starkly different. Obama’s administration will fix much of what is wrong, and further will investigate and prosecute many of the excesses of the W. Bush years. It is morning in America again. Get used to it.
I hope middle America will see the need for change and vote for it.
Bush seems at home with the ‘haves’ and the ‘have mores’ but seems to have done little for most American citizens.
” It is morning in America again. Get used to it.”
Yeah, Hitler said the same thing before he turned on the gas.
You are a pimped out sheep, mr. I lick-obama for change.
Yes, the Bush years has been great for this country. Mcsame or is that McPalin Tax Cut and Deregulation is going to save this country.
Exactly. The government screwed this up with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. McCain tried to create an oversight agency, and was blocked by Senate Democrats. Banks were sued by the government (Atty. Gen. Reno) so that they would give home loans to people that could not afford them. The resulting demand for houses drove up prices, so banks had to make even riskier loans to avoid “redlining” and “racism” accusations and lawsuits from ACORN, the NAACP, and the ACLU.
The price of buying a house outran the rent investors could get. Investors stopped buying, and all the only ones left buying were speculators and fools.
Then, SURPRISE, interest rates went up. The morons who got variable-rate mortgages when rates were at all-time lows, rather than locking in a fixed rate mortgage on a smaller house, could not pay, and defaulted.
Prices dropped still farther. “Fannie Mac” blew up, because it had been underwriting or buying the bad mortgages. From there, it all fell down like a house of cards. All because the socialists in this country wanted to give something to people who had not earned it.
Now they’re going “fix” it.
Yeah — just like you “fix” a cat.
something for jack to to chew on
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/16/AR2008101603436.html
susan will do well, don’t worry.