Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[ice grillin you]

Someone explain to me why Obama wouldn't want to do more than one town hall meeting?  Honest question...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Presidential rivals Barack Obama and John McCain have failed to agree on joint town hall appearances.


Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said in a statement Friday that he offered to meet McCain in five joint appearances between now and the Nov. 4 election. But only one of those was a town hall meeting.

McCain wanted them to appear together in 10 town hall meetings that would be unscripted with questions from voters in the audience.
Obama preferred one town hall, plus three traditional debates and an in-depth debate on foreign policy.

barrack doesnt want a bunch of mccain idiots taking over a town hall and asking him if hes a muslim or why his wife hates america...if newsman are asking the questions they become more fair and legitimate....any town halls would be bad for barrack the fact hes even agreeing to one is surprising to me...its the same as mccain refusing obamas offer to do one entire debate on iraq

[Diomedes]

Isn't Randi Rhodes a woman?

yes

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

barrack doesnt want a bunch of mccain idiots taking over a town hall and asking him if hes a muslim or why his wife hates america...if newsman are asking the questions they become more fair and legitimate....any town halls would be bad for barrack the fact hes even agreeing to one is surprising to me...its the same as mccain refusing obamas offer to do one entire debate on iraq

The media is more fair to a Democrat than the general public?  Weird.  I had no idea.

[Diomedes]

Yeah, that's totally what he meant.

[phillymic2000]

Protecting himself, he's not as good without the teleprompter in front of him. Even with that I can't believe he won't do more then 1 town hall against McCain if he's scared to debate him without prepared questions then Wow! 

Nice play on McCain people taking over the townhall streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetcccccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it.

[Diomedes]

Why don't you drop the "I'm not a bush/mccain/conservative supporter" veneer and just break out the pom poms for them? 

[PhillyGirl]

Protecting himself, he's not as good without the teleprompter in front of him. Even with that I can't believe he won't do more then 1 town hall against McCain if he's scared to debate him without prepared questions then Wow! 

Nice play on McCain people taking over the townhall streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetcccccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it.

Right....and McCain's wonderful with his moronic "slip ups".

RAH RAH RIGHTIES!

[ATV]

I have no doubt that if Fixed News hadn't existed our current President would have lost in 2004, and would have lost even worse in 2000.

While a godsend to Right Wingers I believe it's had disastorous consequences for the country. I don't think its impact can be overtstated.

Fortunately MSNBC is starting to fill a badly needed void to counter its influence. Fortunately, MSNBC uses actual facts to back it's arguments, while Fixed News frequently spews pure fabricated propaganda - hate-filled or otherwise. I think many in the nation have caught on to Fixed being a Right Wing mouthpiece though their audience (besides the die hard Right Wingers) is still composed of casual Americans who just don't know better - People who don't follow politics that closely and naturally assume that all "news" stations are "fair and balanced". Times are changing though and for the rest of their existence there's going to be a significant population that's not going to forget what they're up to.

[Father Demon]

From as objective a point a view as I can have, it seems to me that Obama not agreeing to more than one town hall is weak sauce.  I don't agree it would be stuffed with McCain supporters, unless Macain supports significantly outnumber Obama supporters.  To me, trying to make sense of it, it does seem like he is uncomfortable with answering any questions without scripted answers - almost like he has to study on the subjects at hand, rather than know enough about topics off the cuff.  Taking this further - it illustrates in my brain why people are saying he is too inexperienced to be the POTUS.

On the other side of the coin, I would like to see a debate wholly about the war, which would heavily benefit Obama.  but I would also like to see an entire debate on taxes/economy, healthcare, etc that could favor McCaiin.

I just want answers, dammit, and not prepared press releases and canned bullshtein toplevel answers that don't ever get into the meat of the issue.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

On the other side of the coin, I would like to see a debate wholly about the war, which would heavily benefit Obama.  but I would also like to see an entire debate on taxes/economy, healthcare, etc that could favor McCaiin.

Um, yeah... only the exact opposite.  The war debate would only favor Obama if the crowd was allowed to ask questions.  The economy debate wouldn't favor McCain at all in any way ever.  No matter how much sense he would make (which is questionable because he's been having trouble with the whole "public speaking" thing), his opinions on the economy are not the things America wants to hear.  They want to hear about taking it to the evil drug and oil companies and how that's going to solve their problems affording food.

[Father Demon]

True..  I should of included my inner thoughts about open forum like a town hall. 

Also, I would bet that more are on board with lower taxes than higher, no matter what our collective conscience (IGY) tells us what is right.  Actually, a town hall/debate would be interesting if it combined taxes and the economy.  I would like to hear both jokers tell us how higher taxes will help, or how lower taxes would help.  Frankly, I think this one will never happen, because I don't think either has a clue how to fix it.

The war thing with public questions would be awesome.

"Mr. Obama, exactly when would we pull out of Iraq? 2008? 2009?"

"Well, a continued presense blah blah blah structured withdraw blah blah blah next 10 years."

"What wha WHAT!!??  I thought you stood for immediate and quick total withdraw?? That's what I keep reading and seeing on the news!!"

[MDS]

fox's audience is 100% right wing nutjobs. their ratings were lower during obama/hillary election nights than on a normal night. meanwhile, both cnn and msnbc shot through the roof during those nights, so its clear to see who is watching that neocon channel.

[MadMarchHare]

Maybe one of youz financial guys can explain to me......with inflation as bad as its getting, why would Obama's plan of dumping $40 billion in cash onto the market be a good idea?

I'm stretching back a ways to my economics class from HS, but...

[Rome]

The economy is farged because we've spent the last eight years looting the treasury and getting nothing for our money.  Hell, I could see if we spent a few trillion dollars actually building or fixing things, but we haven't.  We've spent that money on retarded foreign wars, tax cuts for the ultra-rich, and even bigger tax breaks for multi-national corporations who've rewarded the american worker by firing them, out-sourcing their jobs, or robbing them of what little pension they've managed to "earn" after a lifetime of service.

This country needs a farging enema the size of the moon to rid itself of the greed, corruption and/or outright larceny that's infected it for far too long.

Neither McCain nor Obama will be able to do anything about it, but at least Obama has promised to try.  The only thing McCain has promised is another 100 years in Iraq. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

My boss was riding with me this week one day. He puts my radio on some republican am station and tells me how I should listen to it all day every day.