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First, why is it disrpesectful for Obama to smirk but okay for McCain to smirk? And he had his little smiles a lot more than Obama did. The only time Obama was smiling is when McCain said something that Obama surprised to hear. McCain just seemed like it was a nervous reaction, to smile off Obama's constant refutes of McCain's accusations.

Second, why is it so bad for Obama to agree with McCain on some issues? In a time when our government is so divided, when so many are calling out for the unity of the nation, why is it so "weak" for Obama to agree with McCain on broad based issues? Isn't McCain the one who crosses the aisle? I just don't get it.

And, finally, and I direct this at McCain supporters, why wouldn't McCain look at Obama? To me, this was the largest disrespectful display in the whole debate. Obama was looking at McCain, both when McCain was talking and when Obama himself was talking. Was McCain intimidated?  It just seemed really odd to me that he never ONCE so much as glanced at Obama.

First, it is impossible to point to a candidate and say, "He won." McCain won in the opinion of McCain supporters, and the same can be said for Obama supporters.

The first thing I noticed it McCain's refusal to even glance over at Obama, even after Jim Lehrer's attempts to get him to do so, as to encourage a dialogue. McCain's stubborness shown through on that, and to me, should a great amount of disrespect towards Obama.

The second thing I noticed is that Obama had a much broader answer for the questions, and seemed to have a better understanding, or vision, of what could be done. McCain''s seemed very narrow, very "my way or the highway." I want a president who can be flexible, not bullheaded. We have a bullheaded president now, and look where it has gotten us.

I keep hearing McCain won when it came to international relations, and I don't get why. He just seemed to babble and get flustered when Obama called him out on the mistakes of the past. McCain threw a lot of names around too. It did not impress me.

For a guy who said continuosly he wanted to run a civil and respectful campaign, his has been anything but, and the debate reinforced that for McCain. His refusal to look at Obama, his constant smirks, it was very condescending. They both dodged question, but McCain did the most. Obama had numbers and facts to support his claims, and McCain did not.

Who won? I don't know, and I don't care. All the debate did for me is solidify the reasons I want Obama as president, and definately do not want McCain.

I'm always reading a book for pleasure. Reading is always the last thing I do before turning out the light. I mostly enjoy fantasy. It is just the most entertaining to me.

Right now I am read A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin. It is a part of the fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. Right now there are four books in the series (Storm of Swords is the third), but unless I am mistaken, there will be seven.

This is the BEST fantasy series I have ever read. I had The Dark Tower series by Stephan King on that top spot, but this is too good. If you like fantasy, I recommend this, but this is a bit different than you average fantasy. It is realistic. It has violence, tragedy, sex, and all that good stuff. The violence is realistic. There are sad parts, because things will happen that you never see coming. There is sex, but it is not overly vulgar. It is well written. Every chapter of the books is titled with name of a character, and that chapter follows that character from a 1st person perspective. The books are long and epic. I love them, and look forward to the fourth, but dread waiting for the rest.

So, what are you reading?

Just a blog for some discussion on video games. Come and say what you are playing and if you like it. Anything video game related is open for discussion, except for the political debate of appropiatness. Take that junk to another blog.

Right now I am playing Ninja Gaiden Sigma on the PS3. Really good, well made game. Definately worth your time.

I find all these comments. McCain is doing the right thing. They should postpone the debate. They should work on our financial crisis.

Do people not realize EVERYTHING McCain and Obama do is aimed at winning the election? McCain and Obama are both politicians, plain and simple, and are competing for one of the most powerful positions in the world. Everything either of them do is aimed at getting them votes, plain and simple.

If you really think McCain wants to go to Washington and fight for all us regular folk, go ahead. I just laugh.

McCain and Obama are thinking about nothing except thier campaigns. Campaign suspension is a campaign decision. If we want this crisis handled, we don't need two people in thier who couldn't care less, because they can't. All they are thinking about is how to turn the current situation to thier advantage. They think of NOTHING ELSE!

Open your eyes to our broken system, everyone. It is all a charade.

That is what it looks like to me. What else am I supposed to think. We have the government working on this "bail out" nonsense. What does McCain think his presence will accomplish, anyways? What would either of thier presences accomplish.

I want to see the debate. If Obama is there, and McCain isn't, that will be the end of McCain.

Not personally or anything, but I am sick of him. I'm one of those people who think it was an idiotic idea to get rid of Warner. But, even when he is doing good, I noticed something from Bulger. He never seems to show emotion. He never looks angry, he never looks happy, not even after a touchdown. I don't like that. He is the leader of the team, afterall.

I think putting in Trent Green is a good idea. At least it is something, and I think when it comes to the Rams, any change should help. We did win two pre-season games. I don't expect them to win Sunday (who would?) but maybe they will put up a fight. Maybe. 

This whole bail out thing. It is totally something I would do. I am a procrastinator. I would put it off, put it off, and put it off, until BOOM, I'm scrambling. Like right now I should be preparing for a speech. But I'm not.

Bad government, that's a bad, bad government!

Okay, I'm just wondering how our conservative bloggers feel about this bail out. I don't understand it at all. I won't pretend to. All I can gather is that all these companies that were giving out shady loans left and right were about to reap what they had been sowing. But, apparently, this would be horrible for the economy. So the government is giving them a huge chunck of cash.

Now, as far as I know, welfare and handouts are what conservatives HATE! So, I have a question for the Rush-heads; how does it make you feel?

This was orginally posted as a comment by freespirit55, but I thought it was too good to be buried.

Let's see: If you're name is Barack, you're a Muslim; if you name your kids trig, track, bristol, willow, etc., you're a maverick. If you graduated Harvard Law school, you're unstable; but if you went to 5 small colleges before you could graduate, you're well grounded. If you advocate age appropriate sex education, you're eroding the fiber of America; but if you espouse abstinence only and your unwed teen-age daughter gets pregnant, you're a very responsible person. If you've been married to the same woman for almost 20 years (without cheating) and raising your kids in a protestant church, you're not a Christian; but if you repeatedly cheat on your wife, get engaged to a rich woman while still living with your wife, and marry that woman for the money, then you're a real Christian. If you have no morals or sense of birth control, then get pregnant while you're unwed, then "have" to get married (like Sarah), you're a "true" Christian. If you're spouse is a Harvard Law graduate, gives up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of inner city communities, then gives that up to raise her family, their family values don't represent mainstream America; but if you have a spouse who couldn't cut it in college at all, has at least one DWI conviction, didn't even register to vote until age 25, once belonged to the group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the Union, and is nicknamed "First Dude", that's "real" representation of American values. Yeah, it all seems pretty clear how McCain/Palin have morals/ethics. NOT!

Freespirit55, if you want me to delete this, just say the word and it is gone.

I have noticed some people asking why I am acting the way I am. How I used to at least make reasonable arguments, and now I am just being a jerk. Well, I'll tell you why. Because no matter how logical I was, or how reasonable I tried being, I got the same crap responses by the same BLEEP. So, I'm done with it. Screw all you conservatives. You can go eat BLEEP.

Plus, this is so much more fun.

Dumassis, out.

Sorry to burst your bubble, conservatives, but OBAMA is back in the lead. According to the latest gallup poll, he has a 5 point lead over McCain. And when people were asked who they though were better suited to turn the ecnomoy around, a staggering 60+ percent said Obama, while McCain couldn't even get 30 percent.

Sorry, conservatives, but now that people are finding out what a decieving liar Palin really is, the support is slipping away. HAHAHAHAHA, I LOVE IT!

Could McCain be more useless? The middle class is consistently getting screwed, and he wants to creat a commision? Like all those useful and productive commisions before I guess. Oh, wait. . . .

Just another display of his astounding lack of knowledge.

As the person now on the VP spot on McCain's ticket, it is rather odd how much earmark and "pork-barrel" (what does pork-barrell even mean? Who came up with that dumb ass term?) spending she has done. Along with the 230+ million dollars she got for her infamous Birdge to Nowhere (something she enthusiastically supported until it became unpopular) she has spent around 450 million dollars (that is including the Bridge to Nowhere money) for wasteful earmarks, one including funding for s tudy that investigated the heartbeats of crabs.

For a candidate who hates unneeded spending and has am amazing record when it comes to cleaning up such spending, it is odd that McCain would choose such a big spender. It just backs up the all too probably theory that Palin was chosen for no more reason than to scoop up more women and disgruntled Hillary voters. After all, he is the maverick. Even when it means making idiotic decisions for the sake of publicity.