Debate Number Two!
Here’s a news story for you: a father, despondent over his financial losses, kills his family and then himself. Here’s another: a 90 year old woman attempts suicide in her soon-to-be forclosed home. If John McCain meant the American worker, when he said the fundamentals of our economy are strong, why didn’t he just say that? “The American workforce is strong!” It’s actually a much better statement than anything about fundamentals. He didn’t say it because he didn’t mean it that way. He was attempting to tell people that there was not going to be a financial crisis. Sorry, John, no such luck. For once, I wish you had been right.
The second presidential debate is tonight at 8 PM Central. It’s a “townhall” style debate, where Obama and McCain will take questions from the audience. McCain held a lot of these style campaign events, especially in New Hampshire. But he gets long-winded. And with the poll numbers as they are (FiveThirtyEight.com has an Obama win at 88.5%), John McCain needs a miracle more than Palin’s psycho-fake-god can deliver. He needs jihad on Obama, without appearing like a desperate, old man, who’s out of touch with America. In other words, he needs a completely new image from the one he’s been cultivating for the last 8 years.
Expect McCain to follow Palin’s lead and go on the attack. But to what end? Does anyone really think that McCain can possibly lead us out of a financial crisis? HOW will he do it? By keeping us in Iraq for 100 years? By cutting taxes? By deregulating the financial industry, or as Palin put it, telling the government to get out of our way? Which one of McCain’s numerous misguided policies could possibly help get businesses working again? It’s not like the financial industry is saying to the government, hey – it was all your fault that we got into this mess! No, instead, they have their hands out. Money please!, they say. In this case, deregulation will do nothing to get the industry back on track.
It should be a good debate, hopefully one with a large number of slip-ups for McCain. The good news, for Obama, is that he doesn’t have to be anything spectacular. He just needs to keep doing what he’s doing. The American people are too smart to fall for McCain’s, Bush’s, and Republican lies any longer.
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