Town Hall Debate Notes
Notes from my time with about 100 McGill students watching tonight's debate.
-Obama already pouncing on AIG's expensive corporate retreat with taxpayer money
-McCain looks very awkward walking around, odd camera angles make it worse
-Who would you want as Treasury secretary? "Not you, Tom [Brokaw]" - McCain WTF?
-"You're not interested in seeing politicians pointing fingers" - Obama
-Too much talking point time is being allowed between questions
-McCain finally looking at Obama! Hey yea he's there! The rest of us already knew, though.
-CNN voting tracker: Swing women love Obama. Lucky guy
-I'm getting tired of hearing about earmarks...there were tons in the bailout package and neither of you seemed to care
-Obama on sacrifice: change energy habits, join peace core
-Obama prefers a scalpel to a hatchet for the budget...but at this point, would people prefer the hatchet?
-Obama: mr smooth "The straight talk express has lost a wheel"
-Numbers, numbers, numbers. 10 billion for this, 200 million for that. Does it even mean anything to the average voter?
-McCain is (thank god) on the right side of the climate change debate, but is Palin?
-Nice Obama line (paraphrase) - Congress hasn't done shit for climate change in 30 years, and John was there for 26 of them. Cheers at McGill
-Like numbers, i think people are tired of hearing how these senators voted and how many times they did it. Saying Obama never created legislation to do something is barely meaningful since he was only a full time senator for 2 years, and saying McCain voted 353 times for that is barely meaningful since hes been in the senate for decades.
-Obama owns the health care debate. Send a thank you card to Hillary
-McCain introduced some "crossing state lines" argument, and Obama throws it out the window.
-McCain shouldn't say he's nervous about anything...even if it's Obama's plans...its not helping the old guy image
-Obama: Health Care is a Right. I don't agree, but its the right thing for him to say.
-Still on health care, obama cites his Mother's death and nails McCain on S-CHIP. Why doesn't McCain ever talk about his cancer? Oh i know, the old guy image agian, and don't forget this image from a possible future: "On this tragic day, Vice President Palin takes the oath of office, and becomes the 45th President..."
-McCain: America is the greatest force for good in the world. Jeers from McGill students
-Not sure why Obama is calling McCain a big spender
-Obama: we could be with the world in Darfur intervention
-McCain still acts like the Iraq war started in January 2007
-Pakistan - Obama says central front in war on terror is Afghanistan/Pakistan. CORRECT
-McCain: Obama likes to "talk loudly and carry a big stick" in foreign policy. ARE YOU KIDDING? If anyone is the "bring it on" type, its McCain.
-McCain is unwilling to take risky action in Pakistan to get Bin Laden. Didnt he say he wanted to follow Bin Laden to the gates of hell?
-FINALLY!! Obama brings up McCain's "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran" joke from early in his campaign. By the way, as I remember it, it was not a conversation with a fellow veteran, it was at a town hall campaign stop with cameras rolling.
-McCain only has old worn out jokes
-Interesting idea - Obama cites energy independence as a way to combat russian aggression.
-Awesome last question: What dont you know and how will you learn it - Obama should mention how he would fill his cabinet with strong opposing voices instead of yesmen, in case he is not an expert on the problem theyre dealing with.
-Too bad neither of them answered the question'
-LOL McCain wanders in front of Brokaw's teleprompter!
-Debate winner is impossible to determine objectively. Why bother.
-Obama already pouncing on AIG's expensive corporate retreat with taxpayer money
-McCain looks very awkward walking around, odd camera angles make it worse
-Who would you want as Treasury secretary? "Not you, Tom [Brokaw]" - McCain WTF?
-"You're not interested in seeing politicians pointing fingers" - Obama
-Too much talking point time is being allowed between questions
-McCain finally looking at Obama! Hey yea he's there! The rest of us already knew, though.
-CNN voting tracker: Swing women love Obama. Lucky guy
-I'm getting tired of hearing about earmarks...there were tons in the bailout package and neither of you seemed to care
-Obama on sacrifice: change energy habits, join peace core
-Obama prefers a scalpel to a hatchet for the budget...but at this point, would people prefer the hatchet?
-Obama: mr smooth "The straight talk express has lost a wheel"
-Numbers, numbers, numbers. 10 billion for this, 200 million for that. Does it even mean anything to the average voter?
-McCain is (thank god) on the right side of the climate change debate, but is Palin?
-Nice Obama line (paraphrase) - Congress hasn't done shit for climate change in 30 years, and John was there for 26 of them. Cheers at McGill
-Like numbers, i think people are tired of hearing how these senators voted and how many times they did it. Saying Obama never created legislation to do something is barely meaningful since he was only a full time senator for 2 years, and saying McCain voted 353 times for that is barely meaningful since hes been in the senate for decades.
-Obama owns the health care debate. Send a thank you card to Hillary
-McCain introduced some "crossing state lines" argument, and Obama throws it out the window.
-McCain shouldn't say he's nervous about anything...even if it's Obama's plans...its not helping the old guy image
-Obama: Health Care is a Right. I don't agree, but its the right thing for him to say.
-Still on health care, obama cites his Mother's death and nails McCain on S-CHIP. Why doesn't McCain ever talk about his cancer? Oh i know, the old guy image agian, and don't forget this image from a possible future: "On this tragic day, Vice President Palin takes the oath of office, and becomes the 45th President..."
-McCain: America is the greatest force for good in the world. Jeers from McGill students
-Not sure why Obama is calling McCain a big spender
-Obama: we could be with the world in Darfur intervention
-McCain still acts like the Iraq war started in January 2007
-Pakistan - Obama says central front in war on terror is Afghanistan/Pakistan. CORRECT
-McCain: Obama likes to "talk loudly and carry a big stick" in foreign policy. ARE YOU KIDDING? If anyone is the "bring it on" type, its McCain.
-McCain is unwilling to take risky action in Pakistan to get Bin Laden. Didnt he say he wanted to follow Bin Laden to the gates of hell?
-FINALLY!! Obama brings up McCain's "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran" joke from early in his campaign. By the way, as I remember it, it was not a conversation with a fellow veteran, it was at a town hall campaign stop with cameras rolling.
-McCain only has old worn out jokes
-Interesting idea - Obama cites energy independence as a way to combat russian aggression.
-Awesome last question: What dont you know and how will you learn it - Obama should mention how he would fill his cabinet with strong opposing voices instead of yesmen, in case he is not an expert on the problem theyre dealing with.
-Too bad neither of them answered the question'
-LOL McCain wanders in front of Brokaw's teleprompter!
-Debate winner is impossible to determine objectively. Why bother.
posted by Alex Leduc @ 11:44 PM
1 Comments:
At 1:27 PM ,
Anonymous said...
A few things... you obviously missed McCain's plan to help buy out the bad mortgages that are preventing the markets from recovering. It seems you care more about the presentation and less about the substance... (follow the flow... 1) Obama smooth speaker 2) McCain in front of the telepromter 3) phrasing by McCain... a) "that one" or b) "Not you" c) etc.
It's a sad day in America when you can't use pronouns and colloquial speech. And was it not equally disrespectful of Obama not obiding by the rules... was it not equally disrespectful that Obama kept referring to McCain as John? Obama is a scam artist, and he has no exoerience and wants to internationalize the market? What happened to Freedom? Obama learned his corrupt tactics when he lead ACORN... He lie about the economy (last 8 years of deregulation my butt) it's a lie... Republicans have called for more regulation on the issue that mattered---FANNIE and FREDDIE! Obama was in the tank for them... AS far as the debate--- McCain won it hands down.. Why do you think Obama looked frazzled the whole time...
Only thing new from the debate was McCain’s new and compelling solution to the bad mortgages… THAT WAS AWESOME– HE gets my vote now… Guess I’m now a democrat for McCain. Obama looked really poor on the foreign policy, and McCain did amazing on the economy— I wasn’t expecting that… How does Obama plan to pay for it… TAXES!!! And McCain did better than Obama, but he didn’t bring up Ayers… It isn’t the guilt by association… who cares if they were on the same board. Ayers had the goal of radicalizing the students, Obama carried out the agenda of Ayers and this came out last week… A policy that Obama embraced. How were the students radicalized? Well look at the University of Illinois— If Ayers says that he wants to radicalize the political consciousness of students… (got 50 million for it) didnt give it to community groups/students, gave it to ACORN (Community Organize Reform Now) This embraces william Ayers that the goal of federal dollars is to radicalize the education of students. This is highly dangerous — think Hitler Youth!!! This should have came up— I’m thinking McCain is my man… 20 years with Wright, Rezko w/ his shady house, the Attorney for ACORN, and then got Ayers who bombed the capital — a history of radicalism.
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