Hey folks,
I can not wait to see the spin on this one. Last night at the debate, Hulk McCain arrived yet again. This time, he brought a steel chair with him. He was aggressive, direct, and CLEAR. Obama? Well, as I observed, was defensive, at times confused, or outright lying, and TRIED to simply repeat talking points. Now some of the criticism you will hear today and the coming days I AGREE with, along with one of my own, but all in all, McCain won this one again, hands down. THAT you will not hear.Now I posted the entire transcript of the debate. Feel free to read the whole thing. But I want to talk about a few points, and the overall debate itself. I also want to talk about the REAL star of the debate, "Joe the Plumber," who was mentioned 26 times.
The first time, in just the first question. McCain wants to use 300 billion to buy homes that are in trouble to keep the people who are hurting from being thrown out in the street. Obama just went into his Socialistic agenda. McCain called him on this.
MCCAIN: No. I would like to mention that a couple days ago Senator Obama was out in Ohio and he had an encounter with a guy who's a plumber, his name is Joe Wurzelbacher.
Joe wants to buy the business that he has been in for all of these years, worked 10, 12 hours a day. And he wanted to buy the business but he looked at your tax plan and he saw that he was going to pay much higher taxes.
You were going to put him in a higher tax bracket which was going to increase his taxes, which was going to cause him not to be able to employ people, which Joe was trying to realize the American dream.
Now Senator Obama talks about the very, very rich. Joe, I want to tell you, I'll not only help you buy that business that you worked your whole life for and be able -- and I'll keep your taxes low and I'll provide available and affordable health care for you and your employees.
And I will not have -- I will not stand for a tax increase on small business income. Fifty percent of small business income taxes are paid by small businesses. That's 16 million jobs in America. And what you want to do to Joe the plumber and millions more like him is have their taxes increased and not be able to realize the American dream of owning their own business.
Obama?
OBAMA: He has been watching ads of Senator McCain's.
Then he goes for the talking points again.
Obama: What I've said is I want to provide a tax cut for 95 percent of working Americans, 95 percent. If you make more -- if you make less than a quarter million dollars a year, then you will not see your income tax go up, your capital gains tax go up, your payroll tax. Not one dime. And 95 percent of working families, 95 percent of you out there, will get a tax cut.
Then this.
OBAMA: Now, the conversation I had with Joe the plumber, what I essentially said to him was, "Five years ago, when you were in a position to buy your business, you needed a tax cut then."
And what I want to do is to make sure that the plumber, the nurse, the firefighter, the teacher, the young entrepreneur who doesn't yet have money, I want to give them a tax break now. And that requires us to make some important choices.
So he just admitted it. You see the problem I have with Obama, is he sees NOTHING wrong with this. He just told Joe. "Back when you were a grunt, scraping to get by, you were fine with me. But now, after all your hard work, you have made it to a place that you are actually going to be successful, I'm going to take your money, and give it to others that I feel need it more than you." He SEES NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS. Joe does. So should you.
MCCAIN: You know, when Senator Obama ended up his conversation with Joe the plumber -- we need to spread the wealth around. In other words, we're going to take Joe's money, give it to Senator Obama, and let him spread the wealth around.
I want Joe the plumber to spread that wealth around. You told him you wanted to spread the wealth around.
Yup. That is the way it works. Not according to Obama, who just admits it AGAIN that Joe is going to get hit with Obama MASSIVE, Hell, the biggest tax increase in US history. Along with the biggest increase in Government in history.
OBAMA: If I can answer the question. Number one, I want to cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans. Now, it is true that my friend and supporter, Warren Buffett, for example, could afford to pay a little more in taxes in order...
MCCAIN: We're talking about Joe the plumber.
OBAMA: ... in order to give -- in order to give additional tax cuts to Joe the plumber before he was at the point where he could make $250,000.
{Laughing} Joe was right to peruse the American Dream. Up to $250,000. But now, he is the devil. He is the enemy. He needs to pay.
Can they balance the budget? Obama said this.
Obama: But there is no doubt that we've been living beyond our means and we're going to have to make some adjustments.
Now, what I've done throughout this campaign is to propose a net spending cut. I haven't made a promise about...
Any promise about WHAT? He cannot say he is going to balance ANYTHING. Nor can he say he will reduce the deficit. All Obama is calling for is MORE spending. There a problem? Throw money at it. And HE will tell you if you are living beyond your means. Then HE will tell you want to cut back. Mean while, HE will keep the millions he has.
McCain said energy Independence, helping people stay in their homes, and this:
McCain: OK, what -- what would I cut? I would have, first of all, across-the-board spending freeze, OK? Some people say that's a hatchet. That's a hatchet, and then I would get out a scalpel, OK?
Because we've got -- we have presided over the largest increase -- we've got to have a new direction for this country. We have presided over the largest increase in government since the Great Society.
Government spending has gone completely out of control; $10 trillion dollar debt we're giving to our kids, a half-a-trillion dollars we owe China.
I know how to save billions of dollars in defense spending. I know how to eliminate programs.
OF course Obama disagreed with that. He want to SPEND more. Yeah that will help. McCain said he can balance the budget. He said this. Which is the truth and a great line by the way.
MCCAIN: Yes. Senator Obama, I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago. I'm going to give a new direction to this economy in this country.
Senator Obama talks about voting for budgets. He voted twice for a budget resolution that increases the taxes on individuals making $42,000 a year. Of course, we can take a hatchet and a scalpel to this budget. It's completely out of control.
He then talked about his CLEAR examples of standing up against his own Party. Which EVERYONE knows is true. Obama's response? He voted for some unpopular Bills. Unpopular with the FAR Left Loons. Not normal intelligent people on both sides. McCain said this.
MCCAIN: Senator Obama, your argument for standing up to the leadership of your party isn't very convincing.
{Laughing} No it wasn't. Then the question of negative Campaign Ads. Obama said 100 percent of McCain's is negative. Why? Because they tell the truth? That's all they do. Obama's Ads? "Old," "out of touch," "can't use computers." ETC. They ARE negative and simply NOT true. They pointed fingers a bit and then moved on to Congressman John Lewis. McCain asked Obama to denounce this.
McCain: One of them happened just the other day, when a man I admire and respect -- I've written about him -- Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the worst chapter in American history, segregation, deaths of children in church bombings, George Wallace. That, to me, was so hurtful.
And, Senator Obama, you didn't repudiate those remarks. Every time there's been an out-of-bounds remark made by a Republican, no matter where they are, I have repudiated them. I hope that Senator Obama will repudiate those remarks that were made by Congressman John Lewis, very unfair and totally inappropriate.
Obama? He ignored it until McCain asked him again about it. Then he said this.
OBAMA: I mean, look, if we want to talk about Congressman Lewis, who is an American hero, he, unprompted by my campaign, without my campaign's awareness, made a statement that he was troubled with what he was hearing at some of the rallies that your running mate was holding, in which all the Republican reports indicated were shouting, when my name came up, things like "terrorist" and "kill him," and that you're running mate didn't mention, didn't stop, didn't say "Hold on a second, that's kind of out of line."
And I think Congressman Lewis' point was that we have to be careful about how we deal with our supporters.
So he STILL didn't repute it or say it was wrong. McCain wasn't done yet. He said how proud he was of his supporters. Obama kept trying to avoid the whole thing.
I'm almost out of time here. Just read the transcript and you will see who clearly won. To sum it up. McCain wants to cut spending, balance the budget, and HELP get America back to finical freedoms and liberty. Obama want to throw money at any and every problem, as long as the government is in control of it. SOCIALISM.
Now Joe the Plumer was really the star of the debate. ABC's Katie Couric interviewed him after the debate. What did he think?
COURIC: We want to go to Joe the plumber, Joe Wurzelbacher from Toledo, Ohio, because Joe is telling me that he's got three live trucks parked outside his house - actually from Holland, Ohio, let me correct that, Joe. Was this a bit of a surreal experience, hearing your name mentioned not once, but twice, but almost half a dozen times during the course of this debate, Joe?
Mr. JOSEPH WURZELBACHER: Yeah, actually, surreal's a good word to use for it. It was - you know, I was glad I was able to act as some type of point, you know, to where they could sit there and hammer out what they both think, what they want to say. But ultimately, you know, the important part was the debate.
COURIC: And again, why don't you just reiterate quickly for us, Joe, because I want you to get back, get to your local news station where you are, how you felt about the statements made by the candidates vs. the statements you heard when they were out on the campaign trail talking to you.
WURZELBACHER: One thing I noticed that seemed like Obama changed his mind on offshore drilling, which I thought was a good move. I don't know how much he wants to do of it, I'd like to talk to - hear more about that. McCain I - made a solid - you know, McCain was solid in his performance.
Obama speaks well, but the one thing that's really important, that everyone in America really need to know is, you know, talk is talk. You know, he can speak pretty, but, you know, there's got to be action behind it. We've seen McCain, we know his actions. Even if you disagree with him, at least you know where he stands. McCain - or Obama, we're not sure where he stands yet, even after his debates. Like I said, he speaks eloquently, better than I do, but I honestly, I still don't know where he stands. He's said a lot, but none of his experience has backed it up. You know, the only experience I've seen or his actions are raising our taxes, so, you know, I'm middle class. I can't have my taxes raised anymore.
COURIC: Well, he supposedly will raise taxes only on people who make over $250,000 a year. Would you be in that category?
WURZELBACHER: Not right now at presently, but, you know, question, so he's going to do that now for people who make $250,000 a year. When's he going to decide that $100,000 is too much, you know? I mean, you're on a slippery slope here. You vote on somebody who decides that $250,000 and you're rich? And $100,000 and you're rich? I mean, where does it end? You know, that's - people got to ask that question.
COURIC: Could you just, Joe, explain quickly, and then we'll let you go, how you met both of the candidates?
WURZELBACHER: I've yet to meet John McCain. Obama came to my neighborhood and my son and I were outside tossing the football, and all of a sudden he showed up, and there went our football tossing for a while. And, you know, neighbors were outside asking him questions, and I didn't think they were asking him tough enough questions, so I thought, you know, I'll go over there. You know, I've always wanted to ask one of these guys a question and really corner them and get them to answer a question of--for once instead of tap dancing around it. And unfortunately I asked the question but I still got a tap dance. Do you - almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr.
COURIC: Joe Wurzelbacher, I mispronounced your last name earlier, Joe. Maybe you should fill in on "Meet the Press," Joe. Or "Face the Nation," I should add. I know they're looking for someone on "Meet the Press," that's why I said that. Joe, hey...
WURZELBACHER: Great. I've got opinions and I, you know, and that's it. But I - you know, everyone has opinions.
COURIC: Yeah, that's for darn sure. Well, Joe, thanks so much for talking with us. I'll let you get outside to your local news reporters. And really, I really appreciate your spending some time with us tonight. And now everybody knows your name, at least, right?
WURZELBACHER: I don't know if that's good or bad, but we'll see how, you know, the future brings.
COURIC: All right, Joe, thanks very much.
This is your average American Joe {No pun intended there.} This is who will be going into the Voting Booths. THIS is who will elect the next President. THEY do not like what they hear from Obama. As long as their votes do not get overridden by ACORN, Obama is not a sure thing.
Oh, yeah. As expected, Obama lied about ACORN and Ayers as well. You really need to read the transcript. OK. You are going to hear how aggressive and mean McCain was. He will be accused of personal attacks, you know, for telling the truth, and may even be called a racist. Of course, you should expect that. You will also hear how he did not close the deal. He lobbed some things out there, but then let Obama skate through and move on. That is partly true. I wish he stayed on some of the topics a bit more than he did.
But here is one of my biggest criticism of McCain last night. I do not know if it is a nervous habit, or what. I know we all have things that we sometimes do without thinking about it. But, John, can I call you John? PLEASE, you are running for the Presidency of the United States, PLEASE, keep your tongue in your mouth. One time when he went the wrong way at the end of the debate, and then when reacting to the crowd, for some reason, he stuck his tongue out. People got pictures of this that I'm sure you will see around. This really doesn't help you.
Anyway, I'm out of time. See you tomorrow.
Peter
Sources:
CBS News- Joe The Plumber's Chat With Couric
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