The Discerning Texan

All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

My Verdict: McCain Better, but lots of missed opportunities

By far McCain's best debate, and anyone who watched the first two could see that Obama spent most of the time regurgitating the same talking points he used in the first two (yawn).

However McCain missed some HUGE opportunities, especially on the so-called "Tax Cut for 95% of Working Americans" (especially when only 60% of working Americans PAY any taxes now-- just do the math...). He also could have landed solid punches on Obama's judgment:

Obama had "no idea" what ACORN was up to all those years he gave them legal services, training, and 800,000 cash that we know of
he also had "no idea" what the Reverand Wright was saying from the pulpit all those 20 years he spent in as his "mentor" and giving him hundreds of thousands of dollars
he went from Ayers being "some guy in the neighborhood" to serving on two boards with him, launching his Senate campaign from Ayers' home, and doling out over a million dollars of Ayers' money to radical causes--but he had "no idea" of Ayers' radical past (right)
his participation on Farrakhan's million man march...
he had no idea that Rezko's purchase of that 700,000 plot of land on the same day he bought a house on an adjacent lot was financed with money from a Syrian supporter of Hezbollah...

But he wouldn't go there. So Obama comes off squeakly clean, even though he may be the sleaziest politician in decades. He makes Bill Clinton look like an ethicist. But no, Johnnie has to be "above all that". Fine. So we get 4 years of Marxist hell, probably ushering in a real, live Depression. That is putting his "country first"?? Not in my book.

MAYBE you could say McCain won on points. Arguably you can. But it was no knockout--and Obama dropped his left several times. Reagan would not have missed those opportunities, and Reagan would have decked him. But McCain is no Reagan...

Other views:

Hugh Hewitt
Ann Althouse
Bob Owens (in just two sentences):