Wow! McCain beat The ObaMessiah's viewer ratings?! And Gov Palin matched him?! Even as the VP pick?! And without the Baracropolis?! Hahahahah!!!

Watch the Dems now beg for more money to beat those mean and evil Republicans, all while the media continues to talk about Palin's hair and her preggo daughter but continues to ignore Obama's shady corrupt past and circle of "friends".

To heck with Obamania. I've got a fever and the only cure is more 'Cuda.

I support McCain and even I find this really shocking.

love the McCain ticket. Sarah is amazing.

With her, Romney , Pawlenty, and jindal...folks, we have seen the future. But lets take care of the present first.

McCain-Palin 08

Get out there and work.

Woot Woot - that just tickles me!
Goooooooo McCain/Palin!

Maybe Obama will take the "O" off the tail of his plane, put the flag back on, and realize that he hasn't won the election. CBS has it as a dead heat right now, and even the electoral math has it so close that whoever carries OH/PA is the winner.

It took America 19 months to realize Obama's all sizzle and no steak, but better now than later.

I am shocked, Shocked!, to see that Mav drew a larger share than O!...And without the greek columns???

Here's to hoping that his message came across, and we can kiss the Obamateur goodbye...

Maverick/Sarah'Cuda '08

I'm beginning to see through Obama's act. His policies will bankrupt our country.

CUDA0 CUDA CUDA

Ha! O Dumbys hurtin. The colums are falling all around him. ROFLMAO

the Opie girl is afraid of the Cuda.

Can we say " Thoes of a feather stick together"

Racsim at its "MAX" and it's all comming from the Blacks.
They are the most racest clanish people in the U.S.

I'm a Democrat, but I have to admit it: John McCain made a brillant choice in Sarah Palin. Not because she's right for the job, but because the stupid, gullible public will fall for her well prepared speech and her "soccer mom takes on Washington" persona. The press is too afraid of "Liberal Bias!" to really call out Palin about her various scandals, and the public won't care about them unless it's thrown in their faces. Now all the Republicians really need is a 'Willie Horton'/Swiftboat/ Obama in a tank type attack ad and they've got this election wrapped up.

Perhaps Obama should have talked positively about America and the American people and not go to foreign lands to apologize for it.

Perhaps he should have looked to appeal to the real men and women in America and not entertainment industry elites.

Perhaps he should speak positively about American industry and the free market and not extol European Socialism.

Perhaps he should not speak about engineering surrendering in Iraq when victory is in sight.

Perhaps he should talk about the glory of the individual and not the power of the state.

VAL

What a great explanation of Obama. Simple and complete.

I think people are finding out Obama's an empty suit finally. No new ideas. He even picked Joe freakin Biden as a running mate. The death blow!

Jupiter said: "The press is too afraid of "Liberal Bias!" to really call out Palin about her various scandals, and the public won't care about them unless it's thrown in their faces."

Yes, perhaps we should be asking for more focus on the scandals of all the candidates, including those involving long-standing friendships with terrorist Weathermen, Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright's 20-year influence on one etc.

Comparing scandals would be interesting, given the way the left has begun to attack Palin's daughter's pregnancy.

One would hope those on the left would care as much about long-standing friendships with domestic terrorists as they do about Palin's teenage daughter's pregnancy.

Maybe it's not a great thing for McCain? I fell asleep during the speech.

"Perhaps Obama should have talked positively about America and the American people and not go to foreign lands to apologize for it.

Perhaps he should have looked to appeal to the real men and women in America and not entertainment industry elites."

Obama has done nothing but talk postively about both Mc Cain and the American people. It's the Republicans who can't say a positive word about anyone or anything.
As far as the 'industry elite' are concerned, the so called elite is kissing the butts of both the Republicans and Democrats in order to get in the good graces of whoever wins.

It's been reported that Less Republicans supporting McCain watched Obama's speech. It's also been reported that more Democrats watched McCain(although, they had no intention of voting for McCain).

I am voting for the McCain/Cuda ticket!!! I want my taxes lowered, a choice for kids to go to school, death tax eliminated, a simpler tax system, less gov't and most of all a leader who our service men and women will be proud of!!!

Yippy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am voting for the McCain/Cuda ticket!!! I want my taxes lowered, a choice for kids to go to school, death tax eliminated, a simpler tax system, less gov't and most of all a leader who our service men and women will be proud of!!!

Yippy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Val:
They need you in their speech making process.
Right on.

Jupiter:
You need to get over your goverment schooling and learn to read the Liberal blogs and Press.
You can tell you are Lib indoctrinated. You follow the Dem talking points to a tee. To dumb to see defete for your man as it stares you in the face.

You better stay out of the CUDAS path.LOL

Wonderful news that McCain beat Obama. This means that Democrats are definitely watching and learning that McCain is NOT McBush.

The DNC's Howard Dean put civil rights violators from Indian tribes on his platform committee and McCain talks about the NEW civil right of education.

Not only is the Republican base energized and contributing, but those on the fence are feeling good about the McCain/Palin ticket.

Let's get a woman in the White House NOW. Oh, NOW doesn't want a woman if they don't have abortions, do they?

This will be the most watched election in quite a long time. Let's get ready to RUUMMMMMBLE!

McCain was booooooooring

I watched Senator McCains' speech because it was history, not because I was going to vote for him(or even open to voting for him).
The Republicans think they are the only ones that can fix the problems "THEY" got us into in this country........GIVE ME A BREAK !!"

By the Way.....I sure would have liked to see a tribute to our VP Dick Cheney(ooops! I guess he's no longer a Republican).How about a tribute to the accomplishemnets of our President George W. Bush(oooops.....he had work to do).

I'd rather vote for the city dogcatcher than vote for another Republican(Check out today's unemployment numbers folks!)

When Obama was a community activist in Chicago and a State Senator in Illinois, Obama flat out opposed increasing aggressive law enforcement actions. he was more worried about the "civil rights" of dangerous criminals.

In Iraq, Obama wants to withdraw our troops and surrender.

Recently, there have been MORE murders in Chicago than Iraq.

That tells you all you need to know about Obama

Yeah - as soon as women find out that 'Cuda wants to ban abortion even in the case of rape and incest, and she wants creationism taught in schools? Yeah, they are going to flock to her.

Anyone want to thank Rick007 for his obvious racist leanings? Way to take the gloves off and declare "blacks are most raceist [sic] clan.." You are money, dude. Get that sheet on and register some nice whiteys for McCain

you know, i'm good with the next 8 years being boring, and me being able to choose how to spend my own damn money.

The lunatic left never lets the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory. Look for them to make up a whole batch of new ones to explain their defeat and theories on why "Americans" are too stupid just because they don't agree with the far left.

1. Willie Horton. The first edition of the webpage had a section on falsification of the election ad regarding Willie Horton (the convict, not the baseball star). This was one of the earliest criticisms of Bowling--Ben Fritz caught it back in November, 2002.

To illustrate politicians' (and especially Republican politicians') willingness to play the "race card," Bowling shows what purports to be a television ad run by George Bush, Sr., in his race against Governor Dukakis. For those who weren't around back then -- Massachusetts had a "prison furlough" program where prisoners could be given short releases from the clink. Unfortunately, some of them never came back. Dukakis vetoed legislation which would have forbidden furlough to persons with "life without parole" sentences for murder, and authorities thereafter furloughed a number of murderers. Horton, in prison for a brutal stabbing murder, got a furlough, never returned, and then attacked a couple, assaulting both and raping the woman. His opponents in the presidential race took advantage of the veto.

The ad as shown by Moore begins with a "revolving door" of justice, progresses to a picture of Willie Horton (who is black), and ends with dramatic subtitle: "Willie Horton released. Then kills again."

Fact: Bowling splices together two different election ads, one run by the Bush campaign (featuring a revolving door, and not even mentioning Horton) and another run by an independent expenditure campaign (naming Horton, and showing footage from which it can be seen that he is black). At the end, the ad ala' Moore has the customary note that it was paid for by the Bush-Quayle campaign. Moore intones "whether you're a psychotic killer or running for president of the United States, the one thing you can always count on is white America's fear of the black man." There is nothing to reveal that most of the ad just seen (and all of it that was relevant to Moore's claim) was not the Bush-Quayle ad, which didn't even name Horton.

Fact: Apparently unsatisfied with splicing the ads, Bowling's editors added a subtitle "Willie Horton released. Then kills again."

Fact: Ben Fritz also noted that Bowling's editors didn't bother to research the events before doctoring the ads. Horton's second arrest was not for murder. (The second set of charges were aggravated assault and rape).

I originally deleted this from the main webpage, because in the VHS version of Bowling Moore had the decency to remove the misleading footage. But as Brendan Nyhan recently wrote in Spinsanity, he put it back in in the DVD version! He did make one minor change, switching his edited-in caption to "Willie Horton released. Then rapes a woman." Obviously Moore had been informed of the Spinsanity criticism. He responded by correcting his own typo, not by removing the edited in caption, nor by revealing that the ad being shown was not in fact a Bush-Quayle ad.

Most of the debate between the former shipmates who swear by John Kerry and the group of other Swift boat veterans who are attacking his military record focuses on matters that few of us have the experience or the moral standing to judge. But one issue, having nothing to do with medals, wounds or bravery under fire, goes to the heart of Kerry's qualifications for the presidency and is therefore something that each of us must consider. That is Kerry's apparently fabricated claim that he fought in Cambodia.
It is an assertion he made first, insofar as the written record reveals, in 1979 in a letter to the Boston Herald. Since then he has repeated it on at least eight occasions during Senate debate or in news interviews, most recently to The Post this year (an interview posted on Kerry's Web site). The most dramatic iteration came on the floor of the Senate in 1986, when he made it the centerpiece of a carefully prepared 20-minute oration against aid to the Nicaraguan contras.

Kerry argued that contra aid could put the United States on the path to deeper involvement despite denials by the Reagan administration of any such intent. Kerry began by reading out similar denials regarding Vietnam from presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. Then he offered this devastating riposte:

"I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared -- seared -- in me."

However seared he was, Kerry's spokesmen now say his memory was faulty. When the Swift boat veterans who oppose Kerry presented statements from his commanders and members of his unit denying that his boat entered Cambodia, none of Kerry's shipmates came forward, as they had on other issues, to corroborate his account. Two weeks ago Kerry's spokesmen began to backtrack. First, one campaign aide explained that Kerry had patrolled the Mekong Delta somewhere "between" Cambodia and Vietnam. But there is no between; there is a border. Then another spokesman told reporters that Kerry had been "near Cambodia." But the point of Kerry's 1986 speech was that he personally had taken part in a secret and illegal war in a neutral country. That was only true if he was "in Cambodia," as he had often said he was. If he was merely "near," then his deliberate misstatement falsified the entire speech.

Next, the campaign leaked a new version through the medium of historian Douglas Brinkley, author of "Tour of Duty," a laudatory book on Kerry's military service. Last week Brinkley told the London Telegraph that while Kerry had been 50 miles from the border on Christmas, he "went into Cambodian waters three or four times in January and February 1969 on clandestine missions." Oddly, though, while Brinkley devotes nearly 100 pages of his book to Kerry's activities that January and February, pinpointing the locations of various battles and often placing Kerry near Cambodia, he nowhere mentions Kerry's crossing into Cambodia, an inconceivable omission if it were true.

Now a new official statement from the campaign undercuts Brinkley. It offers a minimal (thus harder to impeach) claim: that Kerry "on one occasion crossed into Cambodia," on an unspecified date. But at least two of the shipmates who are supporting Kerry's campaign (and one who is not) deny their boat ever crossed the border, and their testimony on this score is corroborated by Kerry's own journal, kept while on duty. One passage reproduced in Brinkley's book says: "The banks of the [Rach Giang Thanh River] whistled by as we churned out mile after mile at full speed. On my left were occasional open fields that allowed us a clear view into Cambodia. At some points, the border was only fifty yards away and it then would meander out to several hundred or even as much as a thousand yards away, always making one wonder what lay on the other side." His curiosity was never satisfied, because this entry was from Kerry's final mission.

After his discharge, Kerry became the leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). Once, he presented to Congress the accounts by his VVAW comrades of having "personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires . . . to human genitals . . . razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan . . . poisoned foodstocks." Later it was shown that many of the stories on which Kerry based this testimony were false, some told by impostors who had stolen the identities of real GIs, but Kerry himself was not implicated in the fraud. And his own over-the-top generalization that such "crimes [were] committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command" could be charged up to youthfulness and the fevers of the times.

But Kerry has repeated his Cambodia tale throughout his adult life. He has claimed that the epiphany he had that Christmas of 1968 was about truthfulness. "One of the things that most struck me about Vietnam was how people were lied to," he explained in a subsequent interview. If -- as seems almost surely the case -- Kerry himself has lied about what he did in Vietnam, and has done so not merely to spice his biography but to influence national policy, then he is surely not the kind of man we want as our president.

After listening to McCain and Plain in the past two days, it seems to me that theirs is the birth of a new third party..
>They both believe and will confront and have confronted corruption in government and even in their own party.

>They both believe that they are elected to serve the citizen of American and not themselves.

>The both believe and have both worked across the floor with the Democrats and McCain wants to appoint a Democrat to his cabinet.

True Republicans are to far Right and True Democrats are to far to the Left, McCain and Palin are perfect they want to utilize both positive policies of both parties.

McCain and Palin are both very appealing to the electorate, compared to Obama who is the unknown, untested and inexperienced Democratic Leader.

just because people watch does not mean they buy the same old bull
he talks about change i think that he means his adult diaper

three independent economic analysts have concluded that obamas tax plan saves 3 times more for 95% of the population. Republicans can only lie on this point. Luckily McCain got big ratings for his bumbling disaster of a speech trying to pretend his party isn't complicit in the current state of washington. Voting for the incumbent party isn't "change"

I am shocked. I thought that Obama with his Greek-godlike stadium show would kill McCain.
I really liked the end of McCain's speech when he talked about his POW experience and how that shaped him as a man (from a cocky flyboy to someone who truely loved his country!). The rest of the speech was pretty much what I expected except more positive - I thought McCain might follow Obama's lead & trash his opponant. Instead he tried to show that he has experience, actually accomplished, working together with the dems to get stuff done for America.

Frank, you checked the polls today? The Obamessiah's bounce is GONE, they're all tied up...and that's not counting numbers from the last two nights' speeches!

It seems like if anyone needs a change of adult diapers, Genius, it's you leftards. You're crapping yourselves now! LOL!

Posted by Maryn | September 5, 2008 8:50 AM

Maryn - It might come as a shock but not all woman want to kill their babies. Also, the rape and incest thing is a red harring - the number of abortions for that reason are very small. There is also the morning after pill to prevent a pregnancy to begin with. As for Intelligent Design vs. Evolution - Palin is on record for teaching both - not just one. She has stated that knowledge is nothing to be afraid of. I have no problem with that. I was taught both . I actually believe in them both. I believe that humans where created by God. I also believe that through evolution humans have changed throughout time. I do not believe that my ancestors where bugs.

It's amazing how Obama has REAL baggage to him. Sat in a ANTI AMERICA church for twenty years, but can't distance himself from the man until campaign tells him he must. His wife hates this country. Affiliated with terrorists and corrupt business men, but the Moran media is fine. We finally have a decent human being on the table and they can't find any baggage other then her daughter how terrible and that she's punished with children, You morons!!!

McCain/Palin 08

Posted by Maryn | September 5, 2008 8:50 AM

Maryn - It might come as a shock but not all woman want to kill their babies. Also, the rape and incest thing is a red harring - the number of abortions for that reason are very small. There is also the morning after pill to prevent a pregnancy to begin with. As for Intelligent Design vs. Evolution - Palin is on record for teaching both - not just one. She has stated that knowledge is nothing to be afraid of. I have no problem with that. I was taught both . I actually believe in them both. I believe that humans where created by God. I also believe that through evolution humans have changed throughout time. I do not believe that my ancestors where bugs.

Awesome. So not only did McCain beat Obama, but Palin also beat Obama by 2 million viewers despite that fact that 4 fewer networks showed Palin's speech than Obamas. If that doesn't prove media bias I don't know what will. Four networks refused to broadcast Palin's speech when they did show Obama's.

This is not very surprising. Barry's speeches are disturbingly lacking in specifics. If you've listened to a couple of them you'll soon decide to not waste your time on them. Unless you're a worshiper life is better without Barry. And you can bypass the ugly thoughts of what might happen with an empty suit in the White House.
It's too bad that the dinosaur media can't keep themselves from worshiping and can't see what is becoming obvious to most of America.

The liberals have held abortion over women's heads for far too long, using it as a scare tactic to keep women from voting for a republican. Well, it's no longer working. Women and men alike are seeing this scare tactic and finally challenging it. They realize that the Dems have preyed on lies and fear, sexism and racism. It's about time America woke up!

And I'd rather have a boring old guy than someone who relies on fraud, cheating and dirty Chicago politics to win an election.

I am sick of the abortion issue shaping our country. Wake up American - Roe vs Wade is holding us prisoner.

Folks we are in trouble here - economy and world terrorism, and the women are being stupid if they vote on abortion.

Pretty soon, this country will be gone if we continue to think like that.

OMG - abortion should not be the deciding factor here - REFORMING WASHINGTON IS THE ISSUE.

I join McCain and Palin in the fight. I am charged - I saw a new vision for us, as I listened to McCain and you look at how Sarah has lived her life. A new vision is needed, and McCain and Palin are it!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am sick of the abortion issue shaping our country. Wake up American - Roe vs Wade is holding us prisoner.

Folks we are in trouble here - economy and world terrorism, and the women are being stupid if they vote on abortion.

Pretty soon, this country will be gone if we continue to think like that.

OMG - abortion should not be the deciding factor here - REFORMING WASHINGTON IS THE ISSUE.

I join McCain and Palin in the fight. I am charged - I saw a new vision for us, as I listened to McCain and you look at how Sarah has lived her life. A new vision is needed, and McCain and Palin are it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Matt: Get your head out of the sand! Our current situation is a direct result of 30 years of a "do-nothing" Liberal Congress about oil drilling because of "environmental" issues, which is a bunch of hogwash...just as the McCain/Palin said, it's time to stop partisan debating/gridlock, and actually DO something. Also, drastic cutbacks in military spending by the "do-nothing" Clinton administration ahs resulted in US needing to increase spending for defense as well as OFFENSE because nothing was done about the terrorist attacks in the 1990's. Get your facts straight. McCain/Palin is the way to go!!!!

FOOTBALL

What were the numbers for the Game? That will explain it.

Of course Mr. Obama's audience was smaller. His voters don't want to be confused by getting any information or facts. Their minds are made up.

This is not very surprising. Barry's speeches are disturbingly lacking in specifics. If you've listened to a couple of them you'll soon decide to not waste your time on them. Unless you're a worshiper life is better without Barry. And you can bypass the ugly thoughts of what might happen with an empty suit in the White House.
It's too bad that the dinosaur media can't keep themselves from worshiping and can't see what is becoming obvious to most of America.

Wow... the love abounds this room.

Yeah, there would be more people watching McCain speech, because the uneducated masses want to see more Palin.

The people cheered more Palin's name than for McCain.

More people wanted to watch Palin because she was new... oooh look at the pretty woman on TV... It's sad that so many of you bought what they were selling.

If the majority of you believe the lies about Obama, I'm not surprised you believe the lies from RNC.

The speeches by McCain and Palin had no substance other than speak directly to the base that hates America.

FOOTBALL

What were the numbers for the Game? That will explain it.

Nancy, how many of the last 30 years has Congress had a Democratic majority? More pertinently, how many of the last 8 years?

Go SARAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

McCain/Baracuda is the choice for security, pride in country, and the end to pork barell spending.

Frankly, I'm a bit offended that he completely hung the president out to dry and completely took credit for all the progress in Iraq. It seems the President has been working over time lately to push for some positive changes there and bring peace, and all McCain wants to do is associate himself with this weeks victories, not those of the past 6 years.

Frankly, I'm a bit offended that he completely hung the president out to dry and completely took credit for all the progress in Iraq. It seems the President has been working over time lately to push for some positive changes there and bring peace, and all McCain wants to do is associate himself with this weeks victories, not those of the past 6 years.

The wheels are off the Obama bus and it is careening off the edge of a cliff

This is not very surprising. Barry's speeches are disturbingly lacking in specifics. If you've listened to a couple of them you'll soon decide to not waste your time on them. Unless you're a worshiper life is better without Barry. And you can bypass the ugly thoughts of what might happen with an empty suit in the White House.
It's too bad that the dinosaur media can't keep themselves from worshiping and can't see what is becoming obvious to most of America.

An interesting sidebar to this is the donations that flooded into Obama's coffers after Palin's speech. It's not much of a stretch to come to the conclusion that a large percentage of the 10m in donation was from people who watched the speech and were moved to donate to the other side.

Oh McCain, how much do you have to lie to win? Relying on the 3 R's to win as well.

Religious Right, Rich, and Retards.

McCain/Palin 08

2 Pit Bulls only one wears Lipstick!

To Timb?

90% of blacks to vote for O Dumby even before anybody heard from McCain?
OPIE will not let the Cuda on her show?

Give me a break.

To Timb?

90% of blacks to vote for O Dumby even before anybody heard from McCain?
OPIE will not let the Cuda on her show?

Give me a break.

What are the odds that Biden is "off the ticket" & Hillary "on" in 10 days if polls show McCain has a big bump from last night?

I thought that was a Matlock episode I was watching.?!

Just Kidding. Go Mac!

The game changer is not so much that Sarah Palin will pull away that many Hillary supporters (she will pull some), but that she has absolutely electrified the GOP. For the next 60 days, you're going to see that the enthusiasm gap that had previously existed is entirely gone. We are planting signs, pasting stickers, making calls, waving banners, and doing everything we can to rally the vote. Obama has held center stage by himself for too long. Now we have a real race. I'm jazzed!

McCain-Palin 08

Palin Jindal 16

The harder the Media push Obama the more the American people wake up! It is great. Keep the liberal bias coming! I didn't like McCain at first but the more the liberals beat the tar out of him the more I am defending him. For crying out loud I might actually donate to the campagin today if I see another stupid smear. Oprah's bias and deception issue about made me buy a bumper sticker this AM!

"Palin Power - Alaska the coldest state with the hottest governor"

I watched McCain simply because he really "SCARES" me.... Some of the time he really seems that he dosen't have a clue.... I am so sick of hearing about the surge and how Obama didn't support it.... Last night the man said """FIGHT"""" 43 times.... He can only talk about himself or the military.... what about the MIDDLE CLASS.... not part of the Repubs conversation.

Am I missing something? All I heard from McCain/Palin is bashing and fear of what the Democrats might do. If we are to look at the candidates records, I find it amazing that the self-proclaimed reformer Sarah Palin, openly accepted $27 million in earmarks for a town under 9,000! Not to mention that when Palin become a mayor the town had ZERO debt. In 2003, when she left office, the town had over $18 million in debt.
THAT IS NOT WHAT I WANT FOR THE USA!

As Governor, she requested $197 million in Federal earmarks for the 2009 budget, and last year requested over $240 million! So much for gov't decrease!

Spend away McCain and Palin ... spend away.

I was very impressed with John McCain last night. Some people say they are "tired" of hearing about McCain's experience as a POW... I wonder if they're tired of hearing about Obama's tireless years working as a community organizer? Some say McCain's story is noun, verb, POW... if that's true Obama's story is noun, verb, Community Organizer. I'm certain I'd rather go with the Community Organizer. You know why Obama does so well with young people? They're too young to remember Jimmy Carter!

There's a big methodological error here. Much of the audience comes from cable. McCain was up at NBC, which had the football lead-in. Those viewers may simply have watched Obama on cable last week.

All this while the opening game of the NFL was on!!

As a democrat and an Obama supporter, I am thrilled that McCane's ratings were higher. It was the worst speech in the history of the presidential election process.

brian said: “three independent economic analysts have concluded that obamas tax plan saves 3 times more for 95% of the population.”

So, Obama taxes the rich and what do you think the rich will do? Do you think they will actually pay those taxes? No, they will pass that tax right down to you and me. These are business owners that will simply raise prices on the goods and/or services to offset any additional increase in their tax rates. It's exactly the same as trickle down economics - we the people will pay for Obama’s tax plan. Sorry.

This may indicate that the weighting factors for polls are WAY OFF, and need to weight Republicans higher.

You repubs are too shallow to figure out what this really means.

I'm a staunch Obama supporter yet I watched the speech last night for comic relief. I guarantee half of that audience is voting Dem. On the other hand, you guys can't stand the sight of Barack so I'm sure the bulk of his audience, greek columns and all, were Democratic voters as well.

By my count - if Obama drew 40 mil and McCain 40 mil or slightly more - that's about 60 million Obama voters and 20 for the Maverick.

Either way, the hypocrisy is rampant. Who's the messiah now? Who's the celebrity now!?

Just becuase people watched doesn't mean they liked it.

Karl Rove said it best, "I was his best speech ever, but overall wasn't that good"

He may have lost some voters who were considering him based on the fact that he has a hard time speaking and his stage persona. It was really funny to see the same people who cheered bush on Tuesday, cheer for McCain as he blasted bush and the party.

A sense of confusion?

This speech was a winner because it was personally substantive and, unlike the Obama address, not built on spectacle. McCain laid out who he was, and how he got there in a clear and honest way.

Agree or disagree with his politics, but it was an honest, and, for me anyway, a sometimes moving look into the man himself.

McCain/Palin is the winning team for all the right reasons.

Val wr