Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama meet tonight for their final debate before the Nov. 4 election. What questions do you hope they will answer? What would you ask if you were the moderator? Share your thoughts here.

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Laura Fiorilli - 15 October 2008 11:47 AM

Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama meet tonight for their final debate before the Nov. 4 election. What questions do you hope they will answer? What would you ask if you were the moderator? Share your thoughts here.

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Personally, I think it would be a huge mistake for McCain to bring up Ayers. People want to hear what each candidates vision for the future is, and how their proposals differ from the other. In a debate setting, I think bringing up Ayers would be seen as both a personal attack and as inconsequential to the issues facing the country. Out on the campaign trail you hear the personal stuff; a debate is not the forum for it.

I thought the ‘Debate Bingo’ was funny!

namjah - 15 October 2008 12:27 PM

Laura Fiorilli - 15 October 2008 11:47 AM

Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama meet tonight for their final debate before the Nov. 4 election. What questions do you hope they will answer? What would you ask if you were the moderator? Share your thoughts here.

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Personally, I think it would be a huge mistake for McCain to bring up Ayers. People want to hear what each candidates vision for the future is, and how their proposals differ from the other. In a debate setting, I think bringing up Ayers would be seen as both a personal attack and as inconsequential to the issues facing the country. Out on the campaign trail you hear the personal stuff; a debate is not the forum for it.

I thought the ‘Debate Bingo’ was funny!

I do want to hear about Ayers.

Frankly, I’m sick of Obama’s campaign spokespeople coming on the news and claiming that “It’s not the American people asking these questions.” Uh, yes it is.  I want to know why when in charge of distributing grant money Obama “gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bill Ayers’ small schools project” (by the way ... this grant was supposed to improve education and tuirned out to be a failure) and when in charge of another grant “recipients were the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church, where Obama attended and was married; and the Children and Family Justice Center, where Ayers’ wife Dohrn was director.”

Look at the judgment Obama uses when in positions to give out other’s money?  Can we trust him with our nations money?  No. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/07/obama.ayers/?iref=hpmostpop

Janny - 15 October 2008 03:31 PM

namjah - 15 October 2008 12:27 PM

Laura Fiorilli - 15 October 2008 11:47 AM

Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama meet tonight for their final debate before the Nov. 4 election. What questions do you hope they will answer? What would you ask if you were the moderator? Share your thoughts here.

Read the story

Play Debate Bingo!

Personally, I think it would be a huge mistake for McCain to bring up Ayers. People want to hear what each candidates vision for the future is, and how their proposals differ from the other. In a debate setting, I think bringing up Ayers would be seen as both a personal attack and as inconsequential to the issues facing the country. Out on the campaign trail you hear the personal stuff; a debate is not the forum for it.

I thought the ‘Debate Bingo’ was funny!

I do want to hear about Ayers.

Frankly, I’m sick of Obama’s campaign spokespeople coming on the news and claiming that “It’s not the American people asking these questions.” Uh, yes it is.  I want to know why when in charge of distributing grant money Obama “gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bill Ayers’ small schools project” (by the way ... this grant was supposed to improve education and tuirned out to be a failure) and when in charge of another grant “recipients were the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church, where Obama attended and was married; and the Children and Family Justice Center, where Ayers’ wife Dohrn was director.”

Look at the judgment Obama uses when in positions to give out other’s money?  Can we trust him with our nations money?  No. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/07/obama.ayers/?iref=hpmostpop

I certainly can’t judge whether you’re right or wrong—we all have certain things that are important to us. For me, the debate is the wrong forum to bring it up and, as I wrote in another thread, this issue doesn’t appear to be important to most voters, except for those who are stridently opposed to Obama and are looking for any weakness to try to stem the tide.

namjah - 15 October 2008 05:08 PM

I certainly can’t judge whether you’re right or wrong—we all have certain things that are important to us. For me, the debate is the wrong forum to bring it up and, as I wrote in another thread, this issue doesn’t appear to be important to most voters, except for those who are stridently opposed to Obama and are looking for any weakness to try to stem the tide.

God this is a horrible election. But namjah I would respond to your statement that the only ones that they are not important to are those that will vote fro Obama no matter what. In business we look at a persons past to determine if they are trustworthy to do business with today. Yet everyone is saying the past activities shouldn’t matter in the elections, only what they say now today. And its both sides saying that about their candidates every election. If someone brings up things from the past that are detrimental the side doing it is accused of throwing mud. But if the detrimental things weren’t there, they couldn’t be brought up could they. We need a none of the above choice.

John Mc CAin is unbelievable!  I was hoping to hear him quote something new.  He just keeps harping the same old crap.  I could careless that his feelings are hurt over negative adds...but I did figure out that he is the LIAR.  He looked right into the camera and said that Obama is running the most attack adds.  Here in Tampa...I have not seen one positive add by McCain.  Obama’s adds are at least 50/50 positive and negative.  Also, Obama talks about what he will do.  McCain can only talk about how we need to be scared of Obama.

Again, Obama came across as ‘more presidential’, and certainly more in command of his policies. McCain’s time was in 2000, when the GOP chose Bush over him.

Janny - 15 October 2008 03:31 PM

Look at the judgment Obama uses when in positions to give out other’s money?  Can we trust him with our nations money?  No.]

Where is this money you speak of?  The loans we get from China?

ghost

I don’t think this debate changed anyone’s mind, and it certainly didn’t improve McCain’s chances. He’s going down. When they analyze what went wrong, one of the first things will be the selection of Palin.

PBS Frontline had a 2 hour show called “Campaign 2008” last night, giving the background on both Obama and McCain. It was pretty good. Obama was identified as a future leader about 10 years ago. McCain is more in the twilight of his career.

I did figure out that he is the LIAR.  He looked right into the camera and said that Obama is running the most attack adds.  Here in Tampa...I have not seen one positive add by McCain.  Obama’s adds are at least 50/50 positive and negative.  Also, Obama talks about what he will do.  McCain can only talk about how we need to be scared of Obama.

Actually, about 30% of Obama’s ads are negative; for the past several weeks, ALL of McCain’s have been negative. 100%.
Personally, I really need to hear precisely what you can do for the country. Simply calling your opponent names suggests to me that you haven’t anything further of value to offer the national conversation.

Speaking of calling names; check out this commentary by Keith Olbermann