McCain seemed old and out of date while rattling the Israeli sabre for war with Iran by referencing the Holocaust, which I found to be disturbing and despicable and obsolete, as are all of his militaristic solutions that underline every issue he addresses.
I found Obama to be a lithe thinker who is open to solutions and new thought. I found him to be inclusive in his comments while McCain was exclusive, and had that familiar Republican sneer that is a required accessory for his demographic. McCain was mining the old "compassionate conservative" con, and referencing the author of the failure of our economy right now, whose name was Ronald Reagan. That McCain stands on top of the heap of rubble that Reagan put into economic play and speaks reverentially of him still just says it all!
Trickle down economics is when the rich piss on the poor, and John McCain thinks that's swell. Obama tried to remind Americans of what is morally right and what is morally wrong, and that was fantastic to witness. McCain defends the status quo instead of the moral right.
BTW, Roseanne, your show remains the only one that was ever honest about the lives of blue-collar Americans. You know, before the lottery horseshit.
I used to respect John McCain. I wouldn't have voted for him, but I respected him for taking stands against his own party on occasion. Unfortunately for him, but fortunately for us, he's sold his soul to Bush's Brain (the same pile of concentrated fecal matter that used his child to stoke the ugly fires of racial hatred against him in 2000) in his megalomaniacal quest for POWER. I find it fitting that he and his campaign are UNSPOOLING just like Katherine Harris' Senate bid in '06.
Instant Karma's gonna get you!
I think it is important to remember that during the Republican primaries even Pat Buchanan said:
" McCain will make Cheney look like Ghandi." -- Pat Buchanan
OBAMA PROVED HE IS FULLY QUALIFIED TO BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF!
Lets Remember: McFlipFlop
Pat Buchanan calls him "HOT HEADED"
He calls himself a "GAMBLER"
We know he loves "WAR"
We see he is a "FLIPFLOPPER"
He likes to "GAME the AMERICAN PEOPLE"
Prefers "LOOKS over SUBSTANCE" Palin
Indecisive about most EVERYTHING
Do we want a GAMBLING, HOTHEADED trigger finger, WAR LOVING, FLIPFLOPPER, who likes GAMING the system and the AMERICAN PEOPLE to be in control of the President's BUTTONS?
McFlipFlop (Just a FEW!)
Economy is Sound - Must Support Bailout Economy is BAD
For Bailout - Stop Bailout
Against AIG - For AIG
For Debate - Against Debate - For Debate
For Funding Banks - For EVEN LARGER TAX BREAKS FOR BANKS
For Control of Executive Compensation - Not For Control of Executive Compensation
For Helping Home Owners - Against Helping Home Owners
For Equity in Banks - Against Equity in Banks
Against AIG - NOW FOR INSURANCE
Lehrer, Ifill, they're all corporate puppets.
Can not WAIT!
That one statement defined Jim Lehrer better than anything anyone else could ever say.
I miss Tim Russert more every day.
Obama/Biden/America '08
I would also like to mention that if you were watching C-SPAN instead of the networks, 15 minutes before the debates started, Lehrer addressed the audience in the same condescending manner. It really rubbed me the wrong way the way he spoke to the audience...like they were children.
I doubt there was racial bias in his comments. It may have only been his inflated ego coming through.
You also appear to be ill informed about the allegiances these groups have to their motherlands. When the Irish conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland raged not that many years ago, there were active fundraisers in New York for both groups, but mainly the Greens (Catholics), and a little gunrunning as well for Sein Fein, if I remember correctly.