Presidential Debates

Last presidential debate::
Create jobs for people now instead of sending jobs to overseas
Help homeowners to renegotiate their mortgages
Fix energy policy

McCain wants to help keep taxes low as well as affordable for small businesses
Nuclear power
Oil drilling (Obama opposes)
Knows how to solve America’s problems
Oppose ethanol
Saved tax payers 6 billion dollars

Both want to cut taxes
Tax payers get their money back
No doubt Americans have been living beyond their means
Eliminate programs that don’t work


McCain-- Both campaigns are about lowering taxes and helping Americans... duhh

Joe Biden is the best service partner, never forgotten where he’s from, knows where the country needs to go, Bien has been wrong about foreign the gulf war

Palin saw corruption and resigned, negotiated with oil companies, 40 billion dollars in a pipeline from Alaska, understands special needs families, up to American people if she’s qualified

Obama: work on offshore drilling but we use 25% of the world’s oil and we can only produce 4% of oil, could created 5 million new jobs, wind-turbine, high quality care like federal health insurance, invest in information technology, and are going to make sure to monitor high diseases like diabetes to prevent them


McCain: talks about free trade agreement, wants to stop the Columbian drug trade that’s hurting our young Americans, I don’t like how he totally bashed Obama and told him that if maybe he went to Columbia, he would understand the things that need to be done with free trade in that country. Free trade . I don’t like how he gets into history with the past when we ask for current solutions and problems within the country. I think that when he talks about things he’s not totally sure about, he feels the need to talk about other things to connect to what he should say

Political Debate—10/07
Obama wants to stabilize housing prices, lower taxes for 95% of families

I felt like McCain was just talking about what happened to cause the bailout. I think that sometimes he tries to attack his opponent by giving research and pointing fingers.

When Obama talked about the bailout package and how it will help Americans, I felt as though he knew what the people wanted. I felt like he was targeting the question directly and telling the people what they want to hear. Obama brings up history, and when George Bush came into office.
Investing in college affordability
Cutting more than he’s spending
Priorities that work for the people

McCain-
System in Washington is corrupt
Talks about records instead of reform
Fought against excessive spending
Talks about Obama voting for 3 billion dollar change
Doesn’t want 800 billion on new spending (Obama’s Plan)

What will be your highest priority: health care, entitlements, or energy?

Obama: energy, healthcare, education
Look at some of tax revenue and where it’s going



What sacrifices will you ask every American to make to ease economic crisis?

McCain: can attack healthcare and energy at the same time

Obama: doubling Peace Corps.
Military families are not the only ones that should carry the burden


Obama: all need to make sacrifices
Unfair burden
Help the people who need it, and don’t help the ones that don’t

McCain: small businesses will have to cut spending


Could you give congress a date to reform social security and Medicare?
Obama:
Wants to lower taxes for the middle class
Small businesses will get tax cuts in which then they can afford healthcare for people with small businesses and their workers
McCain: have smartest people in America come together
Too many lobbyists working
Wants Americans to have people fix the problem

Obama: favors nuclear
Will have to come up with alternatives with innovations with China
Give energy in wind and solar to get away from fossil fuels




Tuesday, October 21, 2008

In regards to the St. Pete Times:
Smith, Adam C.. "Obama Campaign Blankets Florida." St. Petersburg Times 21 Oct. 2008 : #1A,#4A.

I read that Obama preached to about 7,000 people to go out a vote, not to wait until November 4th to start voting. It’s a “healthy sign of democracy” the fact that almost 7,600 people in Hillsborough county alone voted the first day of early voting. It’s funny how Palin denounced the negative ads the McCain Campaign has put out on behalf of Obama. She thinks campaigning should be done face to face. Being a democrat myself, it’s interesting to read that Tampa Bay Rays players donated money to the Democrat Representative and co-chair of the Obama campaign in Florida. A total of $3,000 was donated to the campaign.