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Well, I definitely thought my idea of going to a debate-watching party instead of liveblogging paid off. It was a lot of fun, not to mention a great way to gauge reaction throughout the night. The attendees were all clearly excited about McCain’s performance, as was I.
Was this a game-changer? By itself, no, but if this is the John McCain we’re going to see for the next three weeks, it will be. Obama, now known as Senator Government, did his usual thing… you know, lie about everything, regurgitate memorized talking points, and try to hide his socialist streak as much as possible. Unfortunately, last night it just didn’t work. He let the mask slip — or rather, McCain got him so agitated that he had no choice but to let it slip. McCain hit Senator Government over and over and over again on every single issue, from the economy to Ayers and Acorn to abortion. Obama clearly got flustered and stuttered and entrapped himself. He set himself up for so many side-by-side comparisons of the multiple, multiple lies he told last night.
Bottom line: McCain upped his game, and Obama couldn’t keep up. McCain was sharp, he was eloquent, he was confident, and it worked. He hammered Obama on his redistributionist policies, and if he keeps hammering, the people will listen. Obama’s numbers will drop, and the race will tighten.
Now, as for focus groups, I think Rachel Lucas pretty much summed it up best:
Those “independent” voters in the Lunz focus group? LIARS. FUCKING LIARS. There is no way a rational adult walked into this debate “totally undecided” and came away from it in the bag for Barack Obama. LIARS. These people are not operating in the same reality as normal thinking human beings. I’m too flummoxed and speechless to say anything else, after watching the post-debate analysis. Sleep. Nightmares. Socialism. Wealth redistribution. Doom. Ammo. Tacos.
Via Right Wing News, here’s a quick three-minute best-of from last night:
btenney says: For years the Left has referred to G W Bush as the chimp. In a show of fairness I intend to call Obama the monkey. If as the left beleives, repeating something enough times makes it so, well we should be able to put this Fucker in a cage, where he belongs.
Racist? Maybe. I haven’t been even mildly racist for the past 50 years. The way his Campaign has been conducted will set Citizen against Citizen. Be advised I do not blame any Demographic for B. Obama, he just came like a cancer out of nowhere.
someone says: btenney, it appears that you’ve set yourself citizen against citizen. By claiming you haven’t been even mindly racist over the past 50 years you’ve made yourself a hypocrite. Surely those remarks come from somewhere, clearly you believe it’s ok to make those statements.
The way BOTH campaigns have been conducted have been less than great. But you’re surely doing your part by advocating hate and propagating intolerance.
Congratulations on being a part of the problem instead of the solution.
I R A Darth Aggie says: Joe the Plumber has draw a map to one way of beating the One into a bloody pulp: the One’s war against small businesses.
btenney says: dear someone is it racist to apply the same standards to Obama as G W Bush?
btenney says: Dear someone: I have peacefully coexisted in and with different cultures all my life. However the 2 years I spent as the only white kid on the Bus taught me that no one Demographic has a monopoly on prejudice.
Cylar says: The way BOTH campaigns have been conducted have been less than great. But you’re surely doing your part by advocating hate and propagating intolerance.
Translation: My (liberal) fellow travelers have been caught red-handed doing what I condemn, so I’ll weasel out of it by saying that “both sides do it.”
McCain’s gone out of his way to run a “nice guy” campaign. Too nice, actually. If he’d spent more time over the summer hammering on ACORN, terrorist associations, Obama’s dreadful plans for tax increases/gun control/healthcare/assorted socialism…the Annointed One would be polling around 24% right now. He’d still be carrying the hardcore Left, but everyone else would have turned on him.
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