More of the same from both candidates, but Obama has a better plan spelled out in more details especially on the economy. Obama clearly won this one. To John McCain, "Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran" doesn't play any more and your reduced mortgage housing plan is dead on arrival. Obama will be president in January 2009.

I will vote of the one without a law degree !

Any stories about lawyers around?

It is about time for Ohio to move to the Democratic side because the Republicans have all ready led we the people over the "Bridge To Nowhere"! It is time for OBAMA to bring us HOME!!!! !!!!!!!OHIO FOR OBAMA!!!!!!!

I think the Presidential debates are the deciding factors for votes. The Biden Palin thing was just a mute side show.

The two big debates end up in a Big Tie. Others think differently, but they are slanted people. I try to think and live in a real world, not a slanted world.

The problem with both cnadidates is all the promises. But how do they do all those things with a faultering economy. They both were not very convincing.

Which leads me to believe, the crucial factor on voting day will be how many people retaliate by voting third party.

the mortgage plan should be illegal, as spelled out last night. how can you take public money and benefit individual citizens? say grump bought a house at 100k and it's now worth 60k and i bought a house at 100k and it's gone up to 120k. why should my tax money go to pay off grump's bad choice in housing? even if it's not his fault that the neighborhood went down, it's still my taxes going to pay for his individual bad luck. i believe that's unconstitutional at the very least, if not illegal.

McCain is an absolute pudknucker! He is so arrogant and disrespectful as his running mate Painlin! To refer to Senator Obama and "THAT ONE" was a piece of work! McCain comes off as an old school run of mill racist person. I don't care if he has a child who is of color. That doesn't mean you can not be a racist.

Both candidates stink, but I would have to say that McCain stinks the worst. At any rate,it will take the next several Presidents to undo the damage that the last stinker has created,and if we end up with another one like him, we can just kiss America goodbye.

when will people realize that the candidates can promise the world but unless they get congress to completely go along with all they want to CHANGE it will never happen anyway,the only reason I am going to the poles this year is because of the stinking mayor's great plan to give away our sewers

Take the time to learn about the politicians voting records.

John McCain Voting Record -
http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=53270

Barack Obama Voting Record -
http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=9490

Cut through all of the BS that is being falsely promoted by both parties by visiting and boning up on the presidential candidates at FactCheck.org -

It is a real eye opener!
http://www.factcheck.org/

With all due respect, Marianne, why is it so bad
to have someone educated as President this time?

The "Joe-six packs" of the country are fine, I get wanting something to relate to; Bush was voted the guy eveyone "would prefer to have a beer with". uhhh.. how's that going for everyone?

There's nothing "soft" about working hard and getting a degree ..law degree or whatever it is.

With all due respect, Marianne, what is wrong with having someone scholastically educated as President this time?

I get wanting to have something like "Joe Six Pack" to relate to.. Bush was actually voted the one people would "prefer to have a beer with" -- How's that going for everyone?

There's nothing "soft" about working hard and earning a degree.. law or any degree

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McSame sort of reminds me of when we had to tell my grandpa that he should no longer be driving. It was sad.

McSame sort of reminds me of when we had to tell my grandpa that he should no longer be driving. It was sad.

Sam, you seem confused, dimentia, stories mixed up, talking about wrong candidate perhaps and from the looks of your spelling you should be (indited ha! ha!)education of any degree would be a plus for you. John McCain's campaign manager and Freddie Mac essentially had what amounts to a secret half a million dollar lay-a-way plan. For almost three years and as of late, Freddie Mac made secret, monthly payments of $15,000 to Rick Davis's firm, apparently in exchange for providing special access to a future McCain White House (which won't be happening). If McCain knew about this, his presidential campaign should be in serious trouble (and it is). If he didn't know about it, he ought to fire Rick Davis, but he did know and Rick Davis is still the man.
OBAMA ROCKS!!!

Sam, The McCain-Palin ticket is typical of the republicans. They run an "empty vessel" for president and this year decided to double up on stupidity by running Sarah Palin as vice president. The woman couldn't answer even the simplest of questions from Katie Couric. To put her in position to possibly be one heartbeat away from the presidency was totally irresponsible. Why would you not want the brightest and most articulate to lead us? That choice clearly leaves out McCain-Palin.

I learn little from these so-called "debates", which are a regurgitation of stump speech lines. One thing I learned last night, though: John McCain is simply too old to be President. I still don't know for whom I'm going to vote (I am kind of leaning toward McKinney and the Green Party) but it won't be McCain-Palin. "Sam" who posted above is a good example of the kind of people that I consider the typical thoughtful McCain backer.

Had a great rebuttal for Sam but the ABJ, as usual, is being prejudiced in whose comments get posted.

capital s Sam is a moron.

a) clinton didn't rape anyone. b) it's spelled indicted. c) none of these candidates are up for the communist flag. (note, communist, not socialist. there's a bit of a difference)

lower case s sam

I find it interesting that Obama's campaing slogan is the same slogan Raila Odinga used. Watch this video. It's scary! http://www.hcsfjm.com

I also think it's a shame that these two are the best our country could come up with? They both suck. They should allow other people in on the debates. I'm sick of both of them.

Older Than Dirt started out the comment thread correctly.

I'm almost 60 years old and Obama is the absolute best potential leader America has seen during that entire time.....and that includes Kennedy.

Save the nation....vote Obama.

Bottom line is they are both politician and will say whatever gets them elected.
3 out of the 4 are in part responsible for the mess we are in even though Obamination acts like he isn't. S. Palin is the closest thing to Main Street America. I am voting for the candidate who won't raise my taxes and that is McCain. As far as balancing the budget, anyone can gut the miitary, robbed Social Security and pass the largest tax increase in US history like Clinton did.
If the liberal party would have been in office and had to deal with 911, Katrina, the housing crisis, creating the Department of Homeland Security, they would have a deficit as well.

ACORN, Obama's favorite job experience:
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada authorities seized records Tuesday from a group they accused of submitting fraudulent voter-registration forms — including for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys.

"Tony Romo is not registered to vote in the state of Nevada, and anybody trying to pose as Terrell Owens won't be able to cast a ballot on Nov. 4," said Secretary of State Ross Miller, referring to star players on the pro football team.

State authorities raided the headquarters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a group that works to register low-income people. See full story . . .
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hvb0LfZQ5mY-X8PYSvYxTe3QGgdgD93LVDS80

I turned the debate off mid-way. This was no debate. It was a farce. Since when does a moderator give their own opinion in a debate? Tom Brokaw's personal disdain was thinly veiled. My wife asked what other country we could move to. American politics is causing irrepairable damage to our country.

McCain Economic policy is IDENTICAL to Bush's policy. He Voted with Bush over 90% of the time.

McCain has been in Washington for nearly THREE decades fighting FOR Deregulation. Look at the mess that has gotten us.

McCain-- Bad for Jobs, Bad for the Economy, End of Story.

D. needs to state the whole story-

ACORN themselves turned over fraudulent, suspicious voter registration forms such as the Tony Romo, ect. ones to the State Authorities (Secretary of State).

This is just another typical Republican distraction stunt.

Quote from ACORN officials-
"Today's raid by the Secretary of State's Office is a stunt that serves no useful purpose other than discredit our work registering Nevadans and distracting us from the important work ahead of getting every eligible voter to the polls."

Craig: Your opinion is your opinion, but if you present it as "facts", you should know that you are misinformed. According to factcheck.org, the "largest tax increase in US History" was signed by Ronald Reagan in 1982. Ouch.

so craig, you make a ton of money, huh? enjoy it while it lasts, as mccain and the fiscally irresponsible republicans will have you bankrupted too.

McCain lost alot of respect from both parties last night!! ( we seen the true side of him - the self centered inconsiderate "person") Get OBAMA in there and lets see improvements!!!

Demanding every corporation, farmer, business, outsourcer sweatshop, and nonprofit, tax-exempt, organization and Church markets the cost in the wholesale and retail price of his or her product and service. Of workers, consumers, and taxpayers fund defiant of realities demands homeowners bailout with money derived from wages or independent business profit.
Is defiant of demands of Natural Law (what Mother Nature, God, or Whatever Power decreed to be the reality of the real world), God, democracy, capitalism, the US Constitution, and free, fair, and affordable commerce.
Demanding every corporation, farmer, business, outsourcer sweatshop, and nonprofit, tax-exempt, organization and Church markets the cost in the wholesale and retail price of his or her product and service. Of every Human Being honoring their mortgage agreements, workers, consumers, and taxpayers living (including pension and health care). Enabling parents to love, nurse, nurture, discipline, protect, and provide, for every child (job) they conceive and fund schools, infrastructure, national security, government services, and etc.; with money derived from wages or independent business profit.

I think most people can add, and know what it means to make monthly payments. So are the mortgage companies at fault because a mortgage holder fails to pay according to a written contract.
If the companies raise the rate a great deal, I do blame the company. But many of the mortgage falures are just people who do not pay per month.

Maybe the USA should fund AMHA to agreater extent to house people who cannot pay mortgages.

I like john McCain because he said he cares about the murder of the unborn. Obama does not, he even thinks these unborns are not human.

But it is the continuing war and both candidates pointing toward a future worse war that bother me greatly.

Give me a good ole passifist, and I will vote for him, because of one important issue...the right to life.....which is being ignored here and abroad.

If we had not encouraged all those abortions those 40 million babies would be another 100 million Americans by now, and they would buy goods and make this country prosperous.

From what I have notice on these blogs is that everyone believes their candidate never lies. Well NEWS FLASH no politician with a political career worth mentioning can be completely honest. It just comes with the territory. And for all the hypocrites that think they have to be 100% honest think about all the lies you tell in a day. Telling fibs, half truths, little white lies, embellishing just a little, exaggerating alot, or even omitting some of the truth is all the same & we all do it everyday whether we want to admit it or not. What matters to me is the sincerity behind the person making the statement. I don't claim to know either candidates fully on their political career or personal lives but I am a decent judge of character in my own life. And if I had to gamble my life on one of the two. It would have to be with OBAMA. McCain LOOKS as though he is lying in his campaign. That sinister grin lets you know that he may not have EVERYONE'S best interest in mind. I am not rich and I am not poor. I am the very definition of middle class & if McCain can say "My Friends" ten times in a debate ....why can he not say middle class once in the very same debate to let me know he talking to me? I can tell you why...BECAUSE HE'S NOT TALKING TO MIDDLE CLASS!! That's why!

So you just vote for the better liar?