Though CNN Calls it “Breaking Debate Rules”
But we already knew that
Watch in amazement as liberal Democrat warrior Sheila Jackson Lee talks on her cell phone during a town hall meeting, as a young woman tells her story of surviving cancer.
It’s really time to clean The House of these jackasses.
A snoozer!
Some insight from the great Mark Steyn on the second McCain-Obama debate, with some genuinely rich imagery! The Corner at NR…
Keep your sunny side up [Mark Steyn]
Republicans have cause to be disappointed by last night: As everyone says, Obama wins by not losing. He looks more and more as if he’s already the president, while McCain prowling the stage seeking to “connect” looks more and more like Yosemite Sam after the dynamite* failed to go off.
Nevertheless.
Before everyone succumbs to a terminal case of inevitabilititis, it’s worth remembering we’ve been here before. In the last months of the primary campaign, the press kept assuring Hillary fans that Obama’s victory was inevitable and the shriller the media Obamaboppers got, the more bluecollar Dems sat on their hands. In the end all the King’s horses and all the King’s men had to drag the guy across the finish line. You couldn’t replay his spectacular victory in slow-motion because it was already slower than any slo-mo technology ever invented.
So we already know there’s a huge disconnect between the unstoppable Messianic force promoted by the media and the cooler appraisal by actual voters. What’s happened since primary season? The Iraq surge (McCain’s unique selling point) is a victim of its own success and has dwindled away to an irrelevant footnote, and the front pages are full of a supposed economic catastrophe which the crude rules of politics suggest any fool should be able to hang on the incumbent.
Yet Obama still can’t open up a solid lead. After all, why would record numbers of viewers watch the vice-presidential debate if the election’s already over?
Meanwhile, the supposedly damaged Republican brand is proving suprisingly resilient. I see one of the two New Hampshire seats that flipped blue in ’06 may return to the red fold next month. Where’s the blowout?
(*A lot of the dynamite is well past its sell-by date: Two references last night to Ronald Reagan negotiating with Tip O’Neill. No one remembers who Tip O’Neill is. McCain might as well have been evoking misty watercolor mem’ries of Talleyrand at the Congress of Vienna. Obama, by contrast, is all future – which is understandable, given his past.)
[UPDATE: A reader responds:
Listen, Mark, sunny side up is fine but this one is over easy.]
WABC’s Curtis Sliwa Investigates…
Well, Revoltin’ Joe Biden was up to his usual antics at the big vice Presedential Debate.
To help drive home the fact that he believes himself to be an average guy, he pointed out that he hangs out at his local Home Depot, talks to working class folks about how rough they have it at a restaurant called Katie’s, and stops his friend Joey Danko at a local gas station to ask him how much it costs to fill his gas tank. Biden notes that the hapless Danko is evidently baffled by the very concept!
While watching the debate, I thought this working class jive that Biden was preaching just didn’t pass the smell test. Well, I was listening to the Curtis Sliwa Show on WABC radio this morning (via the miracle of the internet) and was pleased to learn that Curtis had caught the same oddities in Biden’s rap and investigated the allegations.
Curtis found out that (Clip 1) the folks at the Home Depot in Wilmington, Delaware had never seen Joe Biden in the store, (Clip 2) that Katie’s restaurant has been closed for 15 years and Biden couldn’t have discussed the recent economy with the patrons, and (Clip 3) Joey Danko sticks to his story, but insists he would never lie ‘against’ Joe Biden, which avoids the possibility that he would consider lying ‘for’ Joe Biden, I suppose.
1 2 3 Loading...Stay classy, Joey Danko!
Dick Morris proclaims a Sarah Palin victory, and her to be a ‘Superstah!’
Bill Clinton’s magic pollster and adviser, and notorious sucker of prostitute’s toes, has been a Fox NEws analyst for quite a while. The movers and shakers at Fox called him in to share his wisdom
The author of Condi vs Hillary may not be very prescient in that case, but her didn’t disappoint last night – he called this debate perfectly, noting Governor Palin’s strong showing in the debate and proclaimed her the winner.
But he really knocked it out of the park when the slow witted Alan Colmes tried to rely on some oddly disjointed talking points. Morris called him on it, and Colmes didn’t know what to say.
Joe Biden plays fast and loose with the truth…
Joe Biden’s greatest talent may be that he can lie with apparent easy and authority. While democrats and liberals have no problem with this (the facts are not terribly useful for them, after all), the rest of us may be put off by the fruits of Biden’s fantasy.
The McCain campaign released this handy list of Joe Biden’s untruths late last evening.
1. TAX VOTE: Biden said McCain voted “the exact same way” as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY.
2. AHMEDINIJAD MEETING: Joe Biden lied when he said that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran. Barack Obama did say specifically, and Joe Biden attacked him for it.
3. OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING: Biden said, “Drill we must.” But Biden has opposed offshore drilling and even compared offshore drilling to “raping” the Outer Continental Shelf.”
4. TROOP FUNDING: Joe Biden lied when he indicated that John McCain and Barack Obama voted the same way against funding the troops in the field. John McCain opposed a bill that included a timeline, that the President of the United States had already said he would veto regardless of it’s passage.
5. OPPOSING CLEAN COAL: Biden says he’s always been for clean coal, but he just told a voter that he is against clean coal and any new coal plants in America and has a record of voting against clean coal and coal in the U.S. Senate.
6. ALERNATIVE ENERGY VOTES: According to FactCheck.org, Biden is exaggerating and overstating John McCain’s record voting for alternative energy when he says he voted against it 23 times.
7. HEALTH INSURANCE: Biden falsely said McCain will raise taxes on people’s health insurance coverage — they get a tax credit to offset any tax hike. Independent fact checkers have confirmed this attack is false
8. OIL TAXES: Biden falsely said Palin supported a windfall profits tax in Alaska — she reformed the state tax and revenue system, it’s not a windfall profits tax.
9. AFGHANISTAN / GEN. MCKIERNAN COMMENTS: Biden said that top military commander in Iraq said the principles of the surge could not be applied to Afghanistan, but the commander of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force Gen. David D. McKiernan said that there were principles of the surge strategy, including working with tribes, that could be applied in Afghanistan.
10. REGULATION: Biden falsely said McCain weakened regulation — he actually called for more regulation on Fannie and Freddie.
11. IRAQ: When Joe Biden lied when he said that John McCain was “dead wrong on Iraq”, because Joe Biden shared the same vote to authorize the war and differed on the surge strategy where they John McCain has been proven right.
12. TAX INCREASES: Biden said Americans earning less than $250,000 wouldn’t see higher taxes, but the Obama-Biden tax plan would raise taxes on individuals making $200,000 or more.
13. BAILOUT: Biden said the economic rescue legislation matches the four principles that Obama laid out, but in reality it doesn’t meet two of the four principles that Obama outlined on Sept. 19, which were that it include an emergency economic stimulus package, and that it be part of “part of a globally coordinated effort with our partners in the G-20.”
14. REAGAN TAX RATES: Biden is wrong in saying that under Obama, Americans won’t pay any more in taxes then they did under Reagan.
So much for Joe Biden, if that is his real name.
Calm, Cool, Collected, Charming, Classy….
Conqueror!
Congratulations, Governor Palin. Some of our fellow conservatives got wobbly, but I kept the faith!
Even Barry Obama thinks so…
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