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Edited on Wed Oct-15-08 11:03 PM by Roland99
Newsweek said it was The Last Stand for John McCain. His last chance to do well enough in a debate to rise above mediocrity and make a difference in his campaign to close the gap in the polls.
Well...he failed.
While he came out strong like a boxer in an early round, he quickly devolved into his erratic responses and engaged in copious amounts of eye-rolling and enough blinking to make Bush himself proud. He was swinging at air.
I'm sure the media will claim the "I'm not President Bush" line as the quote of the night but McLame is on record as being proud of being in lock-step with the lame-duck President.
Obama came off as one cool cucumber. Not rising to take the bait from McLame, even when Bob Scheiffer tossed out the loaded question about Ayers, a theme McLame latched onto with erratic and uneven blows. How I wish Obama had mentioned McLame's selection of someone on his transition team that lobbied FOR Saddam Hussein. That would have deflated McLame as if someone took away his Cialis.
The best part of the debate in my mind was Obama's comments about No Child Left Behind (NCLB). He mentioned the money had been left behind. That was a nice line. My sister works with special needs children in the school system here. These kids have to take (and pass) the same test as kids w/o learning disabilities. That requires a LOT of resources (and money) and NCLB is way underfunded for the states. States were forced to fund most of the extra work themselves. And with property tax revenue falling due to the housing bubble bursting, this has really put the hurt on local municipalities across the country. Just more wonderful results of the Republican short-term thinking we've been subjected to for almost 8 years now.
Watching some post-debate analysis on various networks and it seems that McLame might have done well with the brain-dead, narrow-minded sheep that comprise the core Republican base but he failed to connect with undecideds and independents, just as he's failed to do this entire campaign. No real surprise there.
Strike Three....You're OUT!
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