Drew Dowdell

Oh this outta be good! "Say it to each other's face"

Zing! Obama: "If I occasionally mistaken George Bush's policies for your policies it's because you've supported him on every major economic policy"

ugh... Obama is dull..... All he needs is a chalkboard and an overhead projector and I'm back in a boring Economics 101 class....

McCain totally overboard on this second question.... "What would you cut?" I'd use a hatchet and then use a scalpel. Wow! This is bad.... he's all over the place! Skizto rabbit on espresso! Note to McCain: Don't mention that you can remember the last depression.

McCain pwned Obama on that first one on style. I believe in Obama's plan over McCain's but that's because I've read it. If all you've seen is this debate, Obama fumbled it bad...

yikes, and McCain is throwing it away with sarcasm and rolling his eyes!

Ouch. Obama crashing bad on the opening question.

Right out of the gate McCain looks pretty good. Best yet. Clear and on point. Obama is on the defensive.

1. "His taxes" are just the planned expiration of Bush's tax cuts. Business survived... thrived even.. under the Clinton tax setup. 2. I *really* need you to link where you're getting your statistic that 2/3s of small businesses make over $250k as well as a definition of what is considered a small business. 3. A company with 40 employees: a. A good comptroller will make sure that the cost of doing business is as high as possible on paper. b. If they're making well over $250k a year in profits, we'll call it an even million (you don't pay tax on a loss remember), their tax will go up 4.6%, 35% to 39.6%. That means that on $1m in profits, the business would pay $396,000 in taxes instead of $350,000. An increase of $46k. "But wait! That could have been another job!" you scream. Fine.. the company hires that new developer for $70k a year. Now their profits are down to $915k (consider healthcare and other employment costs). The tax becomes $362,240. Sorry..... but your OMG OHNOOOZQ!!! doomsday scenario just doesn't play out.

I never stated that MORE government is the way to go. Taxes are not the only measure of the size of government. We DO need financial market regulation. Do you have any idea what CDSes are or how they work? The "market" made up a way for you to take out an insurance policy on the house of someone you don't know and then collect when it burns down. It's a $63 trillion a year ponzi scheme. COMPLETELY irrelevant to the topic of economics. If McCain can't run a successful voter registration and get out the vote operation... how is that Obama's problem? So... the solution to the problem also happened to be the cause? Just parsing the logic of your words there. P.S. Inflation is not the cause of stagnant wages. Then it's not being run right. Fire the comptroller and hire someone who know his $h!. Cutting taxes on companies that don't have an income because their middle class customer base has dried up is like throwing logs on a fire that was put out with a firehose. 'Taint gonna work. Less government involvement got us where we are. We need to regulate/eliminate the CDS ponzi schemes. We need to regulate the mortgage market. We have proven, yet again, that pure, unbridaled, caveat emptor capitalism just feeds off itself in a frenzy till it explodes shattering millions of lives.

I got about two thirds of the way through before my laptop sighed and started typing out the same response all on it's own.l

That new stump speech? Not so new aktually God I love Jon Stewart.

You know WHY they got lower approval ratings? BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T STAND UP TO BUSH! When Bush is no longer in office, that will no longer be an issue.

No... he just has lobbyists for genocidal dictators working for him.... come on, GM4life... don't be dense. The guy worked for Saddam Hussein and now he works for McCain..... that's a bit bigger jump.

80+ years of trickle down economics have led us to where we are today. You keep posting this erroneous statement over and over as if repeating it will make it true. But tell you what... I'll support a tax cut (not really a cut, but an extension of the Bush reductions) if you support a MASSIVE increase in the minimum wage for full time workers. Income has STAGNATED for the past 40 years in this country. CEOs are now making 400 times the salary as your average workers... and for what? For driving this country head first into the iceburg. By infusing the middle class with funds they will have money to spend on "stuff". A CEO doesn't need a tax cut to buy a new car, "Joe Sixpack" does. My great grandfather was the President of a multinational cooperation. He did well, but he wasn't pulling down anything like what these CEOs are getting today. He and my great-grandmother had one car, a 1983 Caprice Classic V6, and a modest town home. We don't have balance today. The republicans have created an unregulated free for all in the banking industry. McCain wants to do the same for your healthcare. You are so off the mark with your "Obama killz bidneessses" it's laughable. Most small businesses do NOT make over $250k a year AGI. Most small businesses will get tax CUTS. Companies ALREADY don't have money to pay their employees but it is NOT BECAUSE OF TAXES!!!!! Holy crap you're getting aggravating by repeating this over and over even though I've corrected you already. REPEAT AFTER ME: THIS IS NOT A TAX PROBLEM. THIS IS A CREDIT PROBLEM. THIS IS NOT A TAX PROBLEM. THIS IS A CREDIT PROBLEM. THIS IS NOT A TAX PROBLEM. THIS IS A CREDIT PROBLEM. Please please please PLEASE learn this and understand it! If you think that was anything other than a purely political move, you're more out of it than I thought. McCain was SMART not to take that bait. McCain is unlike Bush in that he can form complete sentences. In case you missed it, pictures and video of McCain at an ACORN function surfaced over the weekend. Large donors that funded and endorsed McCain have also funded Ayers. McCain's head of transition team was a lobbyist for Saddam Hussein. You are now simply full of it. McCain has been to ACORN functions. McCain has accepted money from people who have funded terrorism <Ayers> McCain has man on his campaign staff who was a lobbyist for Saddam Hussein. McCain has Borrow and Spend policies that will only further this nation's currency crisis.

What in sam hell are you talking about? Most small businesses DO NOT have an adjusted gross income higher than $250,000. How do you account for the 11million people now out of work in this country? Are they now so affluent that they were middle class, but now don't have to work? You want to see Socialist? How about this bank bailout? $700 Billion dollars going to the richest people in this country... and even in other countries. If you're going to go on uninformed rants, at least have the decency to link to things to back your &#036;h&#33; up.

You gotta hand it to McCain, he doesn't do things half way. While Obama may have been paling around with washed up former terrorist funded by Republicans, , the head of McCain's transition team was a lobbyist (*gasp*) for a genocidal dictator.

When you say "don't think it should be legislated", what do you mean by that? I'm curious where you got the idea that you cannot be incorrect on this matter even when opposing evidence is shown? Acknowledgment of fallibility is humbling, but it is also the first step in learning.

Look who is posting on there....

Nothing here either? You have to have something to say about McCain accepting endorsements/money from people who have funded the terrorist Ayers.

Nothing Balthazar? I was hoping you were going to comment on McCain participating in ACORN events like you said you would......

1. 16 years in office is "completely inexperienced"? 2. The details behind his rhetoric is laid out for all the world to see on his website, if you'd take the time to study it you may have a better understanding of what he wants to do. 3. If sounding like a Bible church preacher is the worst you can come up with, I think we'll be ok. Obama/Biden '08 - Bringing phonics back to the Whitehouse.

So... wait. You won't vote for Obama and one of the reasons you cite is lack of experience, yet you're interested in a washed up action movie star who happens to be conservative yet has never held a public office ever!

PCS said everyone at GM's email changed. So what I have probably no longer works. I did get a personal reply way back when though.

I emailed Lutz. He said no. But that was a year ago at least.