Presidential Debate #2 Live discussion (speech, unemployed, security, Obama)

[gallowsCalibrator]

I have a GREAT idea. Put McCain and Obama in a kiddie pool full of mud. Let them DUKE IT OUT!!

Hurray.

[SGrey]

Originally Posted by pghquest

A Senator is elected to SPEND money, their job is to know what they are spending.. If they dont know what they are spending, they are not doing their job.. (and thats ALL of them).. Yes, I know, its impossible to go line by line.. but Obama is now claiming that he'll do it as president..

While I agree they should know or there should at least be more oversight, to say that they should know now ignores how the system is set up and how it works.

ARGH. Another use of my friends. Make him stop.

[pghquest]

Originally Posted by Kuharai

Somebody should probably pass the memo that you CAN'T NAIL JELLO TO A WALL!!

Wow, you figured that out all by yourself.. (that was the point he was making)

[arctichomesteader]

Originally Posted by buildings_and_bridges

It would've been great to see Obama and Tom fight over it. Fist fight in the middle of the debate...yeah.

Now I sound like I've been drinking, but I haven't.

I think my guess earlier today was right, Obama will lose his temper first. lol

[Jaymum]

Originally Posted by muffinman

I'm with you...I love mine too but it goes to the heart of this whole issue. It's a discriminatory government policy that everyone is encouraged to own a home by the desire for this deduction...hey I'll get a tax deduction, I can afford it and while I'm at it, I'll take out an equity loan to buy a boat and go buy a new car.

Materialism... the downfall of a society.

[Beretta]

These two are the best that the parties have to offer? yowsa.

Oh yea, all the smart folks wouldn't dare run. <sigh>

[StuckPA]

Now McCain looks like the old man that comes running out of his house yelling at the neighborhood kids

[stmaarten]

Please John, enough with the "I've done it, he hasn't."

[brokensky]

Originally Posted by muffinman

I'm with you...I love mine too but it goes to the heart of this whole issue. It's a discriminatory government policy that everyone is encouraged to own a home by the desire for this deduction...hey I'll get a tax deduction, I can afford it and while I'm at it, I'll take out an equity loan to buy a boat and go buy a new car.

That's like saying people have kids to get the deduction. Now really, do you think the cost of home ownership is even in some very small way offset by that deduction?

Remember - we used to get to claim credit card interest as a deduction, too, and that sucked when they took that one off.

[Nancy-NJ-NY-ME?]

"Social security - it's not hard to fix it, my friends." Then why haven't you done it in the decades that you've been then.

Oh yes, that's what we need, -- another commission that will do fine work and Congress won't listen to.