Fresh Off The Presses--"That One" Won!

In order for John McCain to have won the debate tonight, he would have had to leave the American public with no doubt about who had won the debate. He left no such impression. Instead John McCain proposed a massive new government program to buy up failing mortgages:

You know that home values of retirees continues to decline and people are no longer able to afford their mortgage payments. As president of the United States, Alan, I would order the secretary of the treasury to immediately buy up the bad home loan mortgages in America and renegotiate at the new value of those homes -- at the diminished value of those homes and let people be able to make those -- be able to make those payments and stay in their homes.

Now, a $300 billion dollar buyout of bad home loan mortgages is the kind of prima facie big government liberal program that is likely to have those Republicans that count themselves as fiscal conservatives shaking their heads vigorously just before they stroke out. But fear not evil ones, there is one man who is committed to making sure all government spending is frozen, except for a few critical items (and a home mortgage rescue program isn't on the list), and that man was at the debate too.

That man's name....JOHN MCCAIN! Yes my friends, good old two face returns...or maybe it was an MPD McPenguin...you be the judge (is it a sin to mix Batman memes?).



Yes, the schizophrenia that has plagued McCain's campaign almost from the beginning reared it's beautiful head again tonight as Johnny (McPenguin #2), took a position diametrically opposed to Johnny(McPenguin #1) by uttering the followingl:

So we're going to have to tell the American people that spending is going to have to be cut in America. And I recommend a spending freeze that -- except for defense, Veterans Affairs, and some other vital programs, we'll just have to have across-the-board freeze.

Zoinks! Surely things couldn't go further south for the Johnnies...could they?

Oh yeah! I'm not sure which Johnny McPenguin it was (maybe cranky-ass JohnnyMcPenguin... who am I kidding, that's pretty much all of 'em) but one of 'em unforgivably refused to call Barack Obama by his given name, and chose instead to refer to him as "that one":

"You know who voted for it? You might never know. (pointing dismissively at Obama) That one. You know who voted against it? Me."

Wowsa! Johnny McPenguin, you got some 'splainin' to do! Now you've gone and done it! The Right is pissed, the American Public confused (are you a spender or cutter?), more than a few folks are offended, and your chances to become President are falling faster than the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

But lets be clear, McPenguin didn't loose the debate all by himself, Barack also clearly won it on points and charisma. On more than one occasion Obama absolutely owned McPenguin (all of 'em), pointing out the laughable chasm between who John McCain says he is and who he actually is. Responding to an attack by McCain that Obama should be more like Teddy Roosevelt, speaking softly and carrying a big stick, Obama launched the following scorching salvo:

Sen. McCain, this is the guy who sang, "Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran," who called for the annihilation of North Korea. That I don't think is an example of "speaking softly."

This is the person who, after we had -- we hadn't even finished Afghanistan, where he said, "Next up, Baghdad."

So I agree that we have to speak responsibly and we have to act responsibly. And the reason Pakistan -- the popular opinion of America had diminished in Pakistan was because we were supporting a dictator, Musharraf, had given him $10 billion over seven years, and he had suspended civil liberties. We were not promoting democracy.

This is the kind of policies that ultimately end up undermining our ability to fight the war on terrorism, and it will change when I'm president.

Ahhh...was it good for you?

More later,
PolitiGal1

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