The Last Debate
Sounds ominous. Like the thing will be over after tonight. That’s what the pundits say. Do or die. Yeah, well … was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Liveblogging follows:
Schieffer: By now we’ve heard all the talking points, so let’s tell the people something they haven’t heard…
(There’s an opener. Good luck with that!)
Your econ plan is better why?
(Hey, I thought you wanted … )
McCain: It was Obama’s fault … Fannie, Freddie. A mortgage in every pot! A neighbor in every house next door!
Obama: Everyone understands this is really bad … I agree with the plan McCain agrees with. But let’s rescue the middle class. Help business by screwing business. Tax cuts for voters … Now I’d like to drone on a bit …
McCain: Regular Joe the Plumber wants to know why you want to redistribute his wealth, you socialist!
Obama: Tax policy … McCain hearts corporations … I like 95 percent of Americans … Tough luck, Joe! … I told Joe the Plumber he needed a tax cut five years ago … before he made all that money.
McCain: Leave Joe the Plumber’s wealth alone! America needs Joe the Plumber!
Obama: I’ll see your Joe the Plumber and raise you a Warren Buffett.
McCain: Businesses are already getting gouged. Free Joe the Plumber!
Schieffer: Yeah well, that’s great. Uh … deficit.
Obama: $700 billion isn’t really your money. Really great bridge for sale, good toll revenues. We will invest in America … with your money! Cuts to fat cats.
McCain: Homeownership. FDR liked it, Clinton liked it. I like it. Drill drill drill! I’ve got a hatchet I’ll be planting in the middle of the budget’s forehead. Starting with the $3 million projector in Obama’s local planetarium.
Obama: Scalpel. I’ll be doing brain surgery on the budget. A little history lesson. John McCain = George Bush!
SOUNDBITE ALERT:
McCain: Sen. Obama, I am not George Bush. If you wanted to run against George Bush, you should have run four years ago. OK, about that hatchet …
Obama: I’m afraid I’m going to have to get defensive about that. I’m a maverick too. Mccain’s maverickism is great, by the way, I admire it.
Schieffer: Why can’t we all just get along? Wait, better idea … fight!
McCain: I regret his negativism. What’s with the race-baiting, anyway? Repudiation, please. Hey, how come I get the negative hit, anyway? Anyone notice who’s getting wacked around here?
Obama: Oh yeah, well home come I’m able to get away with it then? Hey, I’m as postive as the next guy. But there’s a negative I’d like to stick in here if I may …
McCain: I think I’m going to attack that attack. Let me mention my pal Joe the Plumber.
Obama: Let me mention that my buddy’s race-baiting was his business. However, when complete strangers shout stuff, McCain fails to defend me! By the way, I am not actually a politician. I have been trying very hard to deliver the Sermon on the Mount …
McCain: Don’t even start beating up on the great Veteran-Americans at my rallies. How about those wackjobs at your rallies?
Obama: What is most important is that I want to change the subject. Let’s disagree to agree that you’re more negative than I am.
McCain: Hey, how about that voter fraud by your vote-stealing ACORN pals? Speaking of your pals …
Obama: It’s going to be important to try to dance around that. Bill Ayers is a professor. 40 years ago he was involved with murderers. I was 8 years old. 10 years ago we palled around. However, I would like poit out that I’ve thrown him under the same bus I threw my pastor and my granny under. As for ACORN, the only involvement I had with them was being their lawyer once upon a time … bus … under …
(Hey, what about the $800,000 voter reg thing?)
By the way, why so negative, John?
McCain: OK, so how about the palling around with the unrepentant ex-terrorist? Oh yeah, and Obama wants to tax the daylights out of you.
Schieffer: Well, that was fun. Now, who’s going to do your hatchet jobs?
Obama: Let me tell you about a guy named Joe Biden. Heard of him? He’s no Palin, OK, but he is from Scranton. He will personally help me put a chicken in your pot. By the way, if I get croaked he’ll be a great president.
McCain: Palin, reformer, what a gal. Croaks corruption, gives money back to taxpayers, squeezed oil companies. Breast … er … breath of fresh air. You know about the Downs kid, right?
Schieffer: Fine, great, Obama, please …
Obama: Hey, she’s great! What can I say. Let’s see, how to deal with the special needs thing … I’ll use a scalpel on special needs!
McCain: Biden … cockamamie idea to split up Iraq. Come on. Anyway, what’s with Obama and the spend more thing …
Schieffer: Uh, OK, let’s change the subject again. Energy?
McCain: Drill, drill drill. Nuke nuke nuke. Obama hates nukes.
Obama: I don’t think I can accomplish anything until I’m out of office. 10 years to reduce Middle East oil dependence. Drill, only without drilling. I like wind. I also believe in free trade. It’s the first thing I plan to restrict.
McCain: Eloquent dude. Words matter. “Look at” drilling? Hey, how about some free trade in Colombia … but you’ll have to go there, first.
Obama: Yeah, that’s a great agreement … but let me hem and haw a little. I’m all about standing up to other countries. By the way, when I’m done taxing the daylights out of major corporations, I want to subsidize them. What Detroit needs is the government making its business decisions.
McCain: Hey, Obama is all tough on Colombia but wants to make kissy-face with Hugo! By the way, Obama = Hoover …
Schieffer: Uh … subject change… You’ll like this one, Obie: health insurance.
Obama: I’ve been all over the heartland, met people without health insurance. I have a big fat health insurance chicken I want to stick in your pot. Government $pending is the best way to cut government $pending.
McCain: That’ll work. $ounds like $ocialism. Let me tell you about my friend Joe. Also, let me tell you about Canada and Britain …
Schieffer: Roe v. Wade. Judges?
McCain: no litmus test. Here’s an idea, how about qualified judges? How come Dems don’t like them?
Obama: I want judges who agree with me.
McCain: What’s with the partial birth votes?
Obama: I was for it before I was against it … (no, that’s not it) … I wasn’t for it, I was against other things. By the way, just say no to abortion …
McCain: That’s eloquent …
Schieffer: Subject change! Education …
Obama: I’d like to throw money at the problem …
McCain: Wrong answer!
Schieffer: More fed govt/$$$ in schools?
Obama: We have a fine American educational tradition of minding our own business. I’d like to change that. With your money. Also, I would very much like to keep the support of teachers’ unions. I want to add that I’d like to give $$$ to every interest group that comes along.
McCain: Reform, vouchers. Most expensive education in the world doesn’t need more $$$.
Obama: Competition, bad.
McCain, in closing: Get your tax-hating, budget-hatcheting maverickism here. Country first. War and peace. Honor.
Obama: John McCain = George Bush. Invest in America by cutting taxes, while spending.
Schieffer, homespun: Grandma said, Go vote now, it will make you feel big and strong.
Quick take: McCain on the attack, Obama on the defensive. Attacks a little scattershot, good thing the responses were, too.
Joe Plumber is now officially the most overexposed American since Madonna .. who supports Obama, by the way. Hey, that could make a good McCain ad … Joe the Plumber vs. Madonna and her bogus English accent. Good followon to the Paris Hilton ad. Anyway, Joe the Plumber looks like he can handle the exposure, and despite the excessive invoking of his Joeness, if Joe engages over the next couple of days he’ll be the best thing to happen to Mccain since Sarah Palin. Joe for Secretary of Plumbing. I bet he can handle a spending hatchet, too. Look for major newspapers to send squads of reporters to Ohio to sort through Joe the Plumber’s toolbox.
Best line, about time: ”Sen. Obama, I am not George Bush. If you wanted to run against George Bush, you should have run four years ago.”
Next best line: “Sen. Obama doesn’t want a free trade agreement with our best ally in the region but wants to sit down across the table without precondition to — with Hugo Chavez, the guy who has been helping FARC, the terrorist organization.”
Next best line after that: “Well, you know, I admire so much Sen. Obama’s eloquence. And you really have to pay attention to words. He said, we will look at offshore drilling. Did you get that? ‘Look at.’”
Another good one: ” … there’s a lot of things that have been yelled at your rallies, Sen. Obama, that I’m not happy about either.”
Best Obama line: “I agree with that, John.” Hey, how come not so much agreeing this time?
Good line that Obama should be held to: “Now, the reason I think that it’s important to just get these facts out is because the allegation that Sen. McCain has continually made is that somehow my associations are troubling.” More facts out!
Nice to see him go at Obama on the negativism. No out-of-the-park hits tonight, but feisty McCain calling Obama on the crap, hitting hard on the socialism, the taxes may resonate with some independents. He should have hit the Obamist media re the negatives while he was at it, point out that his camp has been under constant assault while Obama gets a free ride. No one ever went broke overestimating how much the American public can’t stand the media. Right up there will lawyers. And pols.
Considered take: McCain did. He didn’t die. It’s still an election. Like I’ve been telling you. There’s this Fat Lady, she gets to sing.
Links:
Vodkapundit’s Nyquil blogging … man, that guy’s hardcore. He’s also on free-speech jihad.
Hotair’s debate/chat thread.
C-Span’s transcript blogging, plus.
Ace’s debate thread, Surge or Surrender! O ye of little faith …
Surber with your Daily Scoreboard: Gallup, McCain is done 7, no 3, no 8 … Murtha calls his small-town, gun-toting, religion-clinging constituents racists.
Gateway: Dick Morris, if you care about Israel … and Whiny Obama, Fox is stealing the shine off my polling apple!
Reynolds: Palin’s no Reagan, but neither was Reagan at 44 … is Obama?
Malkin: Houseful of out-of-state activists registered in Ohio. Guess who they’re active for.
This one’s just fun. Tim Blair, Pulp Friction. French car-b-q enthusiasts torch vehicles of Travolta’s “From Paris With Love” handwringing French poverty/despair flick production crew.
Also a little off topic, Pollard, citing unnamed Russky sources, Iranian mystery ship was a dirty bomb meant to help Israel celebrate Yom Kippur. Well, interesting theory, anyway. Though a ship with a return address like that sounds like a great way to get a rack of Wrath of David missiles or whatever they call them up your turban.
Theo Spark: Obama addresses the nation.
Jawa: Communist Party USA, “Our time has come!”
Lex: Ayers rehabbed!
OTB with a boatload of government involvement. Do you know we’re in the ocean shipping business? I did not know that.
Tigerhawk: Who deregulated what, when, and why does it matter?
Speaking of which, Hyscience with the Fannie and Freddy Mac attack ads.
Speaking of which, American Digest notes there’s another election and asks you to ask yourself: Are you better off now than you were two years ago?
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:04 pm on Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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October 16th, 2008 at 2:11 am
McCain won.
October 16th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Joe the Plumber won. Too bad his rates are so high…I won’t be voting for him, either.