The Debate Debate

Friday, September 26, 2008 at 21:03:33

First I want to open with some other people’s comments on the debate before I spout my spew:

Gateway Pundit says McCain caught Obama lying about Kissinger.

Instapundit has some great live blogging stuff going on.

Michelle Malkin has some great analysis and live blogging stuff going on.

Power Line has a couple of good pieces here and here.

Meanwhile, my take on the debate is a bit different. I’m not sure what the point of this was. There really wasn’t anything unexpected, but then I didn’t expect what everyone else seemed to. I expected Obama to strike me the same way Bill Clinton did, as a slick used car salesman trying to sell me a $400 lemon for $4000. I expected McCain to come off as the old soldier who has a mission. That’s what I got. Unfortunately, like Clinton in 1992, most people don’t see the used car salesman. They saw a savior who’s going to provide them with a wonderful new car. Also, a lot of stuff didn’t seem to get caught by McCain, or anyone else for that matter.

Obama was talking about McCain “giving a tax cut” of $300 billion to “the richest Americans.” The obvious answer to that is simple: “Instead of letting them keep $300 billion they already have we should give them $700 billion more?” No, a tax cut isn’t about giving anything to anyone. It’s about letting them keep it in the first place.

Obama is being given a win, or at least a pass on the economic side of the debate, but that should never have happened. The very idea that democrats are better on the economy has to be challenged every day. Who created the environment, the “regulations” that caused the mortgage problem in the first place? It was the democrats. In fact, it was the same people who are now leading the democrat side of the negotiations on the bail out. How much sense does that make? Bush, McCain, and a whole lot of other republicans were in the Congress and the White House tried several times to prevent this. They saw it coming. Why didn’t it happen?

That’s easy: Democrat obstructionism. All you have to do is take a look a the obstructionism the dems were in to during the first 6 years of the Bush administration. The democrats’ heads are on the chopping block. The record speaks for itself. All we need is someone with the stones to pick up the ax and start swinging.