Blitzer on McCain/Palin: CNN 10/22/08

[nekodesigner]

when he is describing palin's "record" is like he is reading a grocery list

[sssdeecee]

Anyone else notice that McCain speaks the same rhetoric over and over and over in every interview. He speak talking points rather than directly answering the questions.

This is a huge difference when comparing interviews with Obama. OMG.... compare them! Obama actually answers the questions asked!

[daviddidonato]

Let's see, spending almost a trillion dollars in Iraq - good. A few billion in pork projects - bad.

$300 for a haircut - bad. $150,000 for new clothes - good.

Got it.

[mymatemartin]

Sarah Palin proves that 'Popular' does not mean 'Competant'.

Wrong choice John. You lose.

[rossmilner77]

He repeats the same thing over and over!

[skydogz1]

McCain/Palin '08!

[bamboobaby2003]

geeser and dingbat

[RonaldR2007]

My parents fled one awful european communist tyranny, which tried to destroy their lives "by spreading the wealth" They came to America with nothing but a bible, after a few years of hard work they recovered all they had lost and got even more, nobody helped them because having freedom they had all they needed.

Fortunately they didn't live to see the day an anti-american socialist, Obama ,is about to take over the very same country, which gave them freedom.

Vote for Mccain!

Vote for Freedom!

[bertinotti]

Give me a break. I am an American living in Italy. I have full health care, trains that work, cops that DO NOT pull me over every five seconds to indirectly raise tax revenue because other taxes have been cut so dramatically. Scandinavia, London, France, Italy, Spain are by no means Communist Russia. There is a choice between bible thumping, pro consumerist, deregulatory right wing nuttery and stalinist states. But you are too obtuse to know the difference.

[RonaldR2007]

Italy is not a good example, you know that if the Germans wouldn't give them handouts, Italy would be a third world country. You may have health care, but at which cost? Your freedom! In America strong people not only to have health care but freedom.

And I don't think for a secound that you are american. I've been in Europe several times, you know it, nothing really works over there, at least not in south. By the way I watch a great movie which shows how rich is Italy, the name is Gomorra...LOL

[bertinotti]

Yes, I am American, born and raised.

I am curious about which particular freedoms you believe I have given up while living and working in various countries throughout Europe? The freedoms you blather on about as particular to America relate as much to the freeom to buy crap at the Walmart and run up your credit card than any philosphical freedom or right that you can think of. But go ahead, go to bed in your Captain America underoos. You are as dumb as the apparachek morons you left behind.

[RonaldR2007]

Usually the kind of american who go live in Europe and loves it, it's one of the degenerate kind. I mean by that: gay, leftists, sicko, etc. You may know the reason you hate America....

Well born Americans, we despise Europe, continental europe.

And about philosphical freedom, we americans put it in practice, it is a fact.

Read from Locke to Friedman and you will discover how deep freedom is rooted in America. You ignore most of our history, that's the reason you adlmire old rotten europe.

[bertinotti]

Aside from the bigotry and truisms, can you please identify the Lockean related freedoms that you identify as unique to America? Hilariously buffoonish of you to recall Milton F. As Warren Buffet reminds us, and as a much more current and effective counterweight like economist Joseph Stiglist confirms, government intervention and regulation of the market place is a necessary and reasonable good. Thankfully, your brand of Reagonomic buffoonery will spell its death knell in ten days and counting.

[RonaldR2007]

Immature leftists are a modern version of the milennialists. You appear when fear appears, claiming that the end of Capitalism is near. We saw rats like you in 1973Oil Crisis, 1979-1981Energy Crisis, 1997Asian crisis, 2000Internet crisis, 2001, and now. During the rest of the time you keep your unproductive lives enjoying what free market brings to you.

[bertinotti]

Stop quoting, and think. We had four terms of the greatest President in our history in our darkest hours (FDR). Thank everything reasonable that we did not vote in to power that Bush Jr. antecedent Hoover. He responded to just the kind of non-interventionist "invisible hand" dogma that you trumpet. You confuse deregulation (which creates a vacuum immediately filled by the unchecked, non disclosing powerful) with freedom, sexual puritanism with holiness, irrationalism with patriotic fervor.

[RonaldR2007]

However the prosperity and freedom that his administration brought to the world are real unlike your ill assumptions.

That is what makes the difference between puerile leftists like you and Obama and mature politicians and individuals. I bet you feel it in your life anyway;)

[bertinotti]

What assumptions, you clown. Point to me the Freedoms that you declaim to exist in America but not in Europe. Tell me who your exemplum of a mature politician is? Perhaps Reagen appointee Charles Fried, a conservative professor at Harvard Law School, who has long been one of the most important conservative thinkers in the United States (under President Reagan, he served, with great distinction, as Solicitor General). Guess who he is voting for? Give you hint, it's the guy with the funny name.

[RonaldR2007]

The most important and valuable freedom of all, the freedom to think beyond the atavic feudal values that rule over continental european cultures and political institutions.

That is the root difference between Europe and US. Whatever you achieve with it, call it Puritanism, libertarianism, Mormonism atheism doesn't matter, the essence of it does: freedom.

But your immature and/or ill-rooted spirit (your name suggest a Italian catholic ethnic background) is not fit to understand this.

[bertinotti]

You have adopted a sophomoric characterization of what it is like to live in contemporary Europe based on what your scared, nativist parents preached to you about. Your definition is an abstract muddle, worthless. Even so, "Thinking beyond atavistic feudal values" puts you in the parking lot at Walmart stuffing your gas guzzling SUV filled with crap, bombing the hell out of oil exporting countries, and destroying the world's environment. Some freedom. My name isn't Bertinotti, you moron.

[RonaldR2007]

Your Psychological projection on my parents proves that you are ethnically ill-rooted. It is not nativist preaching but sociology. If freedom makes you full your SUV with crap, etc.the feudal values of your European Masters, -for feudal way: master. slave- make you a dirty depressive unproductive hypocritical deadbeat, who pollutes the world and whose country doesnt attack other countries not by policy but by lack of intellectual and economical resources, full of rhetoric, i.e bs.

[RonaldR2007]

For you Reaganomics were dead even before Reagans government. However the prosperity and freedom that his administration brought to the world are real unlike your ill assumptions.

That is what makes the difference between puerile leftists like you and Obama and mature politicians and individuals. I bet you feel it in your life anyway;)

[bertinotti]

Yes, the grand Reagonomics, which set into motion the deficit spending, deregulatory excesses, anti-science, religious based intolerance that we moderates will be spending the next twelve years cleaning up. Reagan inspired Bushism could have created worse results if it tried. Please take your Banana Republic economic philosophies and your proto-Fascistic political beliefs and move to a cave - I hear the Alaska Independence Party has a free deer shack and "snow machine" for the first 300 cranks.

[RonaldR2007]

You are the immature one who lives in and loves Olive Republic economical philosophies. The kind of your leader Obama will apply in the usa.

You are the crypto-fascistic socialist full of personal discontent, who hates the world as it is for personal reasons, (Obama even wrote it in his book) someone who hates the leaders who really did history.

The awful part is when people like you (you, Obama, Mugabe, Hitler, etc.) take the power.

[bertinotti]

Hate and anger pair nicely in your vapid mind. Review your messages, you are nothing but a compendium of Archie Bunker hatreds bottled up in the repressed, authoritarian psyche of a crank. Thanks though for the interaction. Good luck.

[RonaldR2007]

I hope one of the numerous awful social results of socialist Europe will teach you the sociological truth of my works by raping or stabbing you, but being that you are there because you like dirty stuff, I bet you may like it. Stay in europe, weirdo, Why don't you invite your leader Obama to establish there? Oh I was forgoting that Europeans like black people but only to clean up their streets. I hope you aren't black, they do like black gays though, But that's a dirty job too it isn't? lol.

[bertinotti]

RonaldR you are barely literate or intelligible. Is your first language Spanish?To wit: "of my works", "to establish there", "oh I was forgoting", "that's a dirty too it isn't." I believe you need a bit more ESL training. The only idiot who expresses herself as poorly is our dear loveable idiot Palin. Now once you are done taking your meds and brushing up on the rudiments of English, you might begin a bit of therapy to treat your host of fear-based obsessions with gays, blacks, foreigners, etc.

[juanito21]

Wolf is to nice and lets McCain bypass the question..

[itubeutude]

we're sick and tired of hearing this old fart talking shit. the quicker this election is over the better.

[sparrow007bond]

To McCain! Stop taking so long to answer a damn question! Secondly, come up with a good plan to help get the economy back on track instead of trying to defend yourself against your opponents!

[Euranell]

instead of bridges to nowhere? lol , he needs to pull his head out of his ass.