10:42pm -
KMC: Pundits agree: "Brokaw made it a REALLY horribly boring!"
10:32pm -
KMC: What don't you know? Not a great question, but a terrific answer by Senator McCain. And a GREAT chance to insert his biography...
10:30pm -
KMC: FOODSTAMPS??????? Was this the first time anyone else had heard that Obama's mama survived on food stamps?
10:22pm -
KMC: Obama, "I issued a statement in April depciting the dangers in Georgia!"
I will pay ANYONE who can prove that assinine statement $10 dollars. I do not for a minute believe that Obama issued a statement as Senator of any sort some two months before the Georgian invasion... HOGWASH Obama liar dude - PRODUCE THE STATEMENT!
10:21pm -
KMC: Obama agrees with McCain count: 7
10:19pm -
KMC:
It is CLEAR that John McCain has WON the foreign policy section of the debate and that followed his narrow win on the economic issues at the start of the debate.
10:17pm -
KMC: When asked about what to do in Afghanistan, and Obama responds, "withdraw from Iraq."
10:13pm -
KMC: Obama, "again let me be clear..." (Which he had to say because no one understood how what he was saying was decipherably different than the way McCain had characterized it...) McCain won this point big on the "telegraphing his punches."
10:11pm -
KMC: "Announcing an attack,(on Pakistan)" another significant gaffe by Obama and PROMPTLY jumped on by McCain!
10:05pm -
KMC:
MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR Obama GAFFE:
Barack Obama just made the case that "moral obligations" may merit our use of military force and military action. YET he claimed he could not understand why we would "attack a nation" that did not "attack us." BUT if he would use force under "moral obligation" (i.e. humanitarian/genocide/etc.), then we would have STILL gone into Iraq - to LIBERATE 27 million people from the thumb of a dictator. Therefore it is fair to discern that Barack Obama does not think the liberation of oppressed people is a "moral" issue. Thus telling us that Obama does not believe LIBERTY is a moral virtue worth defending. Which tells you why he so devalues the HISTORIC liberty achieved by the founding fathers and the history of the nation that gave him the freedom to stand up and say this utter nonsense.
10:03pm -
KMC: Obama agrees with McCain count: 5.
10:00pm -
KMC: McCain - "WE (America) are the greatest force for GOOD in the history of the world!"
LOVELY: Ummmm America has always the peace MAKER all over the world!we give our money and lives for everyone everywhere and those people hate us even more. Maybe we should pull out of everywhere we are and withdraw all our money and then see what happens in the world...
9:56pm -
LOVELY: what is a 50% tax credit? To a small business - 50% of what
KMC: Obama lied again on the CHiP program (Children's health program)... He claimed McCain helped "defeat" it. But the CHiP program could not originally find enough uninsured children to even meet the minimum mandates for the basic benchmarks be met...
9:55pm -
KMC: The discussion of rebates on health coverage vs. mandated fines and taxes that Obama would impose against small business that can't afford coverage - was a BIG win on substance for McCain...
9:50pm -
LOVELY: Obama thinks drilling is important??stop the presses - this is the 2nd time he's said we have to drill
LOVELY: finally some basic economic principles....supply and demand peoplemore supply=prices go down
less supply=prices go up
LOVELY: if other oil producing countries know that we are going to drill and increase oil supply, then they will drop prices knowing that supply is increasing
it amazes me that people don't understand this
9:46pm -
LOVELY: newsflash!!! obama favors nuclear power - this is the first I have heard of it...
KMC: Obama agreement score with McCain = 4
9:43pm -
KMC: STOOOPID is as stoopid asks... (dumbest question of the night - "environment".)
LOVELY: people are losing savings and jobs and she wants to know how fast congress will move on climate change issues??? when the rest of the world doesn't care about being "green", and they are surpassing our economies and polluting all the way to the bank...
9:40pm -
KMC: It is frightening - how BALD FACE easy Barack Obama lies about "John McCain wants to give 200 Billion in tax cuts to Wall Street CEO's." NOTHING in McCain's platform calls for ANYTHING to go to CEO's... VERY good for McCain to point out the 94 tax INCREASE votes that Obama owned.
LOVELY: Obama is such a liar.
9:36pm -
KMC: BUSINESSES NEVER PAY for the TAXES that they are charged with... DOES NO IDIOT ON THE PLANET GET THIS?LOVELY: they pass them on to their consumers...9:34pm -
KMC: OBAMA: "That requires leadership from Washington." (Like you voting against all energy sources, authoring NO legislation, pledging to TAX businesses into the stone ages, and earmarking your way into Illinois infamy?)9:31pm -
LOVELY: how are we going to get more oil obama??KMC: HUH? Obama - just told the world FOR THE FIRST TIME - that he supports oil exploration, clean coal (who Joe Biden opposes), and ta-da- nuclear power...
9:29pm -
FAITH AMMEN: what sacrifices does he want McCain to reference? Sugar rations? Gas rations? Nationwide curfew?LOVELY: I don't see our country today thinking that they should have to sacrifice anything for America...That mentality is gone.
Matlock: Come on McCain, use this as a chance to name some programs that need to be de-funded... How about Planned Parenthood, welfare, universal childcare...?
9:28pm -
KMC: Nuclear power plants - winning issue... millions of new jobsKMC: I think asking the "which order" questions is kind of stupid...
Businesses LESS competitive?
FAITH AMMEN: How does Obama going to make us less reliant on foreign oil without drilling offshore?
KMC: How about taxing the bejebus out of them?
9:22pm -
Matlock: Reforming healthcare doesn't mean the government needs to take it over... We want to hand healthcare over to a broken system? Bad idea!
KMC: Matlock make's a HUGELY valid issue... The middle class helped balloon the real estate markets by continually buying houses at their maximum margins and taking out the sub-primes with 5% bubbles... Then they let the clock run out and WHAMMO...
9:20pm -
Matlock: The middle class were not totally the victim. They did spend money they didn't have. Credit card debt is partially a choice too.LOVELY: these questions are terrible
FAITH AMMEN: No, the families HAVEN'T been carrying out their responsibilities. They have used credit cards and gone into debt and bought things when they DIDN'T have the money. Obama's going to spend money on a few key issues? What? Universal preschool?
9:18pm -
KMC: "Senator OBAMA's NAME was NOT on that letter!"FAITH AMMEN: Obama basically said everything was going to come crashing down and when Brokaw called him on it he forced himself to say he was "confident in America."
9:16pm -
FAITH AMMEN: Obama wrote to the treasury secretary two years ago? I'm sorry, Obama, but you writing a LETTER when you had been in office barely a year, isn't really standing up to corruptionMatlock: If he didn't promote it but he sure profited from Mac and Mae.
FAITH AMMEN: Obama came to DC on Jan. 4th, 2005. His letters to secretaries meant nothing two years ago.
"I'm confident about the American economy..." Yet, he just told that guy, "Imagine what will happen when this spreads to millions of small businesses..."
9:14pm -
Matlock: Down with Mac and Mae! Amen McCain.FAITH AMMEN: Yes, Obama IS the candidate who received the 2nd highest amount of money from Fannie & Freddie!
I have been waiting for him to say this since the last debate!
Matlock: Yes Obama. They will have to shut their doors if you increase taxes because even small businesses bring in over 250K a year. That will kill jobs not protect the little man from taxes.KMC: WRONG - The problem was that when REGULATION attempted to be put in place, OBAMA OPPOSED it!
9:12pm -
Matlock: It scares me a little to not have an economist as head of the treasury and to have someone like a successful businessman. They may be successful but they may not know principles of econ.KMC: Mac/Mae - GO FOR THE KILL!
FAITH AMMEN: It's ABOUT TIME!!!!!!!!!!!
9:11pm -
FAITH AMMEN: Prosperity DOES trickle down from the top, Obama!!KMC: Obama has ALREADY agreed with McCain TWICE!
LOVELY: 2nd agreement of Obama with McCain
9:10pm -
LOVELY: Obama just agreed with McCainKMC: It is really STOOOOPID to be naming cabinet members before taking office...
LOVELY: on choice of treasury secy
FAITH AMMEN: Prosperity DOES trickle down from the top, Obama!!
9:09pm -
Matlock: Did you hear the entitlement in the first question? Since when is it the government's responsibility to "fix" the economy?LOVELY: they don't need a "rescue package" they need for people not to be given housing loans when they can't afford them...
FAITH AMMEN: Obama thinks the economy is the fault of Republican "de-regulation"? I think he forgot about the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act by Pres. Carter AND when Clinton made Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac buy out mortgages?LOVELY: the market is going to have to recover from this...and it willMatlock: Do you know how much of the US qualifies as the "middle class" as opposed to the "upper or lower"? The "middle class" sure is getting most of the focus.9:01pm -
It begins...
FAITH AMMEN: whew i made it! Belmont is so close! I wish we could have gotten tickets...
LOVELY: my friend just graduated from belmont... I am nervous for McCain
FAITH AMMEN: (he has such a great voice...)
LOVELY: he needs to bring his A game
KMC: yeah - if you like frogs in someone's throat
LOVELY: and speech impediments
FAITH AMMEN: (do you guys trust the neutrality of all these questions?)
KMC: Brokaw - hand picked all of them
8:55pm -
*** Belmont University Trivia *** - Only little more than 5000 students enrolled. Broke ties with the Tennessee Baptist Association last year...
8:53pm -
Some fascinating back and forth on FoxNews right now describing the question vetting process tonight. Evidently TOM BROKAW got totalitarian control over question selection... Hmmm.