Barack Obama Closes The Door On John McCain!
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Barack Obama Closes The Door On John McCain
Well, it’s over. Admittedly, I speak from the bleary-eyed perspective of someone who has been listening intently to campaign speeches from Barack Obama and John McCain for what seems like decades. But I thought the surprise and excitement of tonight’s debate in Nashville was basically encapsulated by the way they handled the final question. Tom Brokaw asked what he called a “Zen” question submitted via the Internet: “What don’t you know, and how will you learn it?”
Both candidates shockingly admitted that they were unable to divine the future. They both proceeded to give mini-speeches that had nothing at all to do with the question.
So it went. McCain made the biggest news with his proposal for the U.S. government to somehow buy up “all those” troubled mortgages and renegotiate them so that homeowners don’t owe more than their houses are worth. At least, that’s what I think he proposed; one assumes that details will be forthcoming. Didn’t Congress already mandate that funds from the $700 billion bailout plan could be used to help homeowners facing foreclosure? Was McCain proposing a second mega-outlay of funds?
Obama got in what might have been the hardest punch, and it was a counterpunch. McCain accused him of speaking recklessly about using U.S. forces to pursue Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan. Obama hit back by sharply reminding everyone of how McCain had joked about bombing Iran to the tune of the Beach Boys’ “Barbara Ann.”
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