Presidential debate the sequel
- Posted by Chris on October 7th, 2008 filed in 2008 election, Barack Obama, General, John McCain, Politics
Let’s hope McCain has dropped his Mr. Nice Guy act and is ready to tear Obama a new one. The gloves have to come off and Obama has to get flustered. Senator McCain needs to pull a Palin here. Totally disregard the moderator and go to town. I’ll be out and about. I’ll get it started but if your comment takes a while, please be patient. Someone will get it when they see it and can approve it.
Harry says:
Watched the debate, some observations. These guys didn’t appear to hate each other to the degree that Kerry and Bush did back in ‘04. Those debates were particularly vicious in their rancor. Although they disagree and are rivals, Obama and McCain might even like each other somewhat. Kerry and Bush sure as heck didn’t. Their hatred towards one another was mutual.
While I quite like McCain as a person, the one thing I’ll have to disagree with him on, is that taxes don’t have to go up. They have to go up. For everyone, including those Obama says they don’t. If they don’t raise taxes at least temporarily to pay down the debt and fund expenditures they’ve both promised, then they’re dreaming. You can’t carry around a $10 trillion debt forever. I should know, because I’m $10,000 in debt on credit cards alone due to tough times I’ve experienced. I pay a bit off every month, but it’s difficult. And I can’t go on a spending spree these days. Probably not for a long long time. Paying down a debt takes discipline, hard work and sacrifice. Things a person thought they could once guy, can’t it do it no more. It’s like going on a diet and 100 lbs. overweight. Just like a consumer, that’s just the way it is nation. So either of these two will have to raise taxes and CUT CUT CUT. It’s neither liberal, conservative, Republican or Democrat. It’s called Economics and reality.
Ron says:
What was needed before this financial crisis was some discipline by credit seekers and some guidelines for credit grantors. It’s O.K. to tell someone they don’t qualify for the money they want. It’s fine to give reasonable incentives for rich guys who conduct ethical business as long as they produce a positive result. Legislation by Democrats to loosen credit standards is part of the blame. Couple that with unethical operators pumping up their incentive checks with as many bad loans as they can find, and you have a disaster.
Ron says:
Neither candidate seems to be willing to name the legislators involved in relaxed credit standards. They seem to be content to point to highly paid CEO’s and call for more investigations. Did they ever finish the last investigation? Can you remember what the last investigation intailed? Was there a satisfactory conclusion? All in all I am not sure either has a viable solution to such a disgusting failure of both Government and Wall street. All I know is lower taxes are better than higher taxes and we need Government to get out of our way so we can improve our oun lives without their constant meddling.
Chris says:
If McCain can’t name names, he can’t win. He’s finished.