Nightline Debate Wrap

Barack is an "amazing orator?" "mesmerizing?"

This Barack must be different from the one I see stumbling over his words, stuttering, with long awkward pauses and "uh....uh.....uh...."

I just don't understand some peoples' crush on him. His answers, when he does manage to eventually get something out that has to do with the question, PALE in comparison to Hillary's. I'm thinking about the question about attacks on Israel. Hillary gave an answer that was absolutely spot on and full of information. Barack mumbled something about "taking appropriate action" Give me a break.

HILLARY 2008

asian...
I am quite aware that McCain was born in Panama, which was an American territory at the time, and both his parents were Americans. He does NOT have dual citizenship with Panama. Would seem there would be a conflict of interest with dual citizenship and who you pledge you allegiance to. This is the presidency and not an "average" citizen. The supreme court discourages citizens from maintaining other citizenships. Might follow that a presidential candidate may want to only pledge alligiance to one country.

pp: Do folks realize McCain was born in South America?

ABC News Hacks: Now you're evaluating your own Hack Job? What's the point? Fold up the tent. Send Stephanopolous and Gibson out on the campaign trail with Hillary and maybe they too will fade into oblivion. Jake, you still got a job? Is ABC even legitimate after that disaster? Get a job at Fox News, it'll be a step up out of the sewer you're currently working at...and you have the guts to question the Obama girl interviewing someone? Is that a joke? You're gonna be put out after Stephanopolous (how is that guy even invited to Bilderberg?) and Gibson (another Clinton shill) "moderated" that fiasco you're calling a debate. Let me tell you something, Jake...if a "moderator" is booed right after a debate and spends time defending his actions (like Stephanopolous did), it's a clear sign the "debate" was a total disaster. But, back to the Obama girl. You really did seemed annoyed by her being in the "Spin Room". It's funny...YOU...cracking on her!!! You're a clown.

Focus on this people:

Promising to raise taxes has spelled disaster for presidential candidates in the past. A good example was Michael Dukakis (one of the Ted Kennedy, John Kerry crowd).

Barack Obama has promised to roll back tax cuts (a tax increase) and is proposing programs that cannot be funded by anything else but more taxes for everyone. Indeed, Obama has stated that taxes will have to be raised in many areas just to fund his proposals, let alone balancing the budget or paying down the deficit.

With the economy failing badly, can anyone in America afford more taxes?

Barack Obama, change we all should fear.

FINALLY, Senator Obama was made to speak unscripted about Reverend Wright, etc. I wish they had also asked what he meant when he recently spoke about the "typical" white person. Let's be honest, all we know about Sen. Obama is he is an amazing orator. Absolutely beautiful and mesmerizing speeches. I personally need to know more about who may become our next President, when this is such a critical time for our country. Democrat, Republican, Independent........it should not matter to any of us right now. We will never completely agree on everything with ANY of the candidates; but, we defintely need to know character.

Thanks to ABC for getting the candidates to admit that their chronic misstatements or misplaced allegiances were not just accidents, but deliberate actions. It was a revelation to hear the parsing of words in attempts to make blatant, repeated lying seem like an innocent impulse, and to hear the making of plans to punish people for earning money and working hard as a way to help the "poor". Both candidates came off in a terrible light. Had Hillary not had to confess her deliberate lying, she would have been the winner. But unfortunately, confabulation and exaggeration has done her in. These things are character issues which, in turn, makes them political issues of great importance to voters. It isn't race or gender, it is an issue of their awareness of right or wrong. And that is how the voters must decide who will be the next president. Who, of these candidates, will protect EVERY citizen from usurious taxes, pork barrel budget bloat, and terrorism?

"This November, I am voting for the DEMOCRAT no matter what."

Sue, now THAT's the attitude!

The rest is senseless bickering.

Let's make sure we won't have another Republican tearing this country down!

This November, I am voting for the DEMOCRAT no matter what.

You guys are arguing over Republican talking points. Who cares!

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, whose pedigree is on the other side of their generation's cultural divide, defends Bill Ayers in a statement to the Tribune:

There are a lot of reasons that Americans are angry about Washington politics. And one more example is the way Senator Obama’s opponents are playing guilt-by-association, tarring him because he happens to know Bill Ayers.

I also know Bill Ayers. He worked with me in shaping our now nationally-renowned school reform program. He is a nationally-recognized distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois/Chicago and a valued member of the Chicago community.

I don’t condone what he did 40 years ago but I remember that period well. It was a difficult time, but those days are long over. I believe we have too many challenges in Chicago and our country to keep re-fighting 40 year old battles.

With all these people Obama has friends with, America must beware the wolf in sheep"s clothing, "

It's obvious the Obama supporters have a problem with their candidate being asked hard questions. What do you think is going to happen IF he gets the nomination? It is better he is asked now.

AGAIN --- both Obama and his wife are claiming amnesia about the 2004 event....kind of like Obama does not remember his real estate transaction with Rezko in 2005.

This is just beginning --- not over by a long shot. Obama was definitely enriched by his association with Rezko.

Even though Obama is claiming all his IL Senate records have disappeared.....no one really believes it and it's not over!

OBAMA HAS FAKE ENDORSEMENTS !!!!

In The Huffington Post, 04/16/08, Obama received an endorsement from the AHSA, American Hunters and Sportsmen Assoc. It said "eat your heart out Hillary."

The endorsement is to mislead people in to thinking Obama is actually suppotive of Guns.

Upon further checking ..
"AHSA is actually the latest in a long line of anti-gun groups camouflaging
themselves as pro-hunting and pro-conservation in order to split our community.
Before you give AHSA any creed " beware the wolf in sheep"s clothing, "
OBAMA ACTUALLY HAS A PLAN TO DISARM AMERICA

Obama’s associations with Wright, Ayers, Sinclair, Farrakhan, the Black Panthers, Rezko, Meeks, Malley, Auchi, Khalidi, McPeaks, Michelle Obama should be FULLY VETTED!

Obama said he was only a small boy when Ayers bombed the U.S. What he didn’t say was, later, in the 1990’s, when he was a man, he served on a board with Mr. Ayers, the Woods Foundation, which was a paid, “underline PAID” directorship position. They worked together, attended fundraisers together, Ayers held fundraisers and was a contributor to Obama’s Chicago’s campaign, plus they visited each other quite often. Enough said. This relationship deserves being vetted. What’s their fear?

Imagine OBAMA and ALL these friends, associates, endorsers, etc., having a Pres.-Elect party? After a few --- Wright could get up and give another, 'HATE WHITEY AMERICA!', speech...while Rezko`s trying to sell the White House to the Russians...before Lewis Ayers gets a chance to full-fill his life-long dream of blowing it up...meanwhile, BO and Sinclair renew some bad habits together...as Michele likes to watch...would be quite a party...anyone for crashing it...and you thought the Clintons were bad in the White House...
I’d much rather have the Clintons there. Maybe - and that’s a HUGE maybe - involved in a scandal which doesn’t affect the American people --- this is why the media ignores this garbage for what it is and will continue to ignore it as old news. Without the media, Obama can’t use it effectively enough to beat her...which makes her far more electable.

Meanwhile, Hillary’s policies could have us in prosperous times --- compare that to BO and Friends...who, quite frankly, may be dangerous to the American people.

McCain’s going to wipe the floor with Obama!

They’ll rip him apart, along with each and every one of those “PEOPLE/GROUPS MENTIONED ABOVE”!!!

hard question: Sen. Obama, although you constantly tell voters that you were against the war from the beginning, why did you say in an interview that you don't know how you would have voted if you actually had been in the senate? Also, how do you explain your Iraq votes since you joined the Senate?

hard question is: how in the world are we getting out of this war that hilary voted for?

stupid question would be: "about that flag pin....." (et all...)

On the sustantive issues, I don't think there is much difference between the two candidates so on that point I'd have to say it was a tie. I think that the rehashing of old news by Hillary and ABC however pushed Obama across the finish line by a nose therefore, Obama won the debate last night.

i out/gone/finished watching the dwarf on the weekend show.

its always bugged me that he went from the Clinton White House to a news org... but last nights debate actually showed me that it turns out that he is a TABLOID guy... not that he was in the tank for HRC!

THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING GEGORE! WAS THAT THE BEST YOU COULD DO?

From the FOX fact check today:

"Ayers contributed $200 to Obama’s legislative campaign in 2001, but there is no other sign that he has actively aided Obama’s political career."

Could it be that instead he contributed to Hillary's campaigns eversince, by way of thanking her for the pardons granted to his comrades?

Let's find that out, Jake. LOL.