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Debate Preview: Batman vs. the Penguin

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Posted on Oct 15, 2008

Now we know where John McCain has been getting his campaign ideas: 1960s camp television. My friends, who is the Batman? And why is he always palling around with criminals?

Hat tip to George Edelman

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By purplewolf, October 16, 2008 at 2:05 pm #

Roger it is self explanatory. The questions being thrown out by the Penguin are almost identical to that of Sarah Palin-Who is Barack and the “my friends” is John’s favorite line.

I saw this as it was first shown last night and it is so accurate as to what they are saying today.  The McCain campaign looks like it plagiarized their speech material from the 1960’s Batman series for almost everything. That along with using music from various artists without permission, and even continuing to use it after being asked not to by the same artists.

Their campaign is nothing but a pack of lies, stolen material and the pathetic attempt of placing the blame on their opponent for the things they have done wrong, thinking that We The People are so dumb we will believe them. Well, not everyone is as stupid as the followers of the Repug party.

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By Roger Cornsbee, October 16, 2008 at 3:04 am #
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Is Batman supposed to be like Barack Obama? I don’t get it.

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By Caryl S. Foster, October 15, 2008 at 7:56 pm #

Senator Obama’s response to Senator McCain on Ayers is pretty straight-forward:

“I never “pal around” flying with Ayers on his private plane, never took a family vacation with him, never invested in a real estate deal with him, never attempted to influence an investigation by a federal agency of him, nor ever been reprimanded by Congress for “associating” with a convicted felon who bilked American citizens out of billions of dollars and directly ruined the lives of thousands of Americans.

Can you say the same Senator McCain?”


As is Senator Obama’s difference with Senator McCain’s position on health care:

“Employer-provided health care is viewed as a major employment benefit to the extent that it is likely the first question employees ask employers: Do you offer group health care? Americans realize that obtaining health insurance as part of a group is cheaper than buying it on their own.

And now for the first time in history, Senator McCain wants Americans to pay tax on their health care valued at $12,500 in return for a $5,000 tax credit to pay for their health care.

The numbers do not compute as Senator McCain’s health care plan does not compute as does his statement that health care is a responsibility rather than a right does not compute.

Health care is a right and I intend to pursue policies that will provide it to all Americans.”

On the State of the Economy:

“Even Republican Senator John McCain must now admit that the Republican Party’s long-held Deregulated Trickle Down Theory of Economics is a bad theory as he must now admit that his chief economic advisor Phil Gramm got it completely wrong when he said that Americans are a nation of whiners suffering from a mental recession.

No, the truth is we are a nation faced with a real recession brought on in part by politicians in Washington surrounded by and catering to the wishes of corporate lobbyists working to deregulate in the best interest of major corporations and their CEO’s rather than in the best interest of Americans and our middle-class.

How else does one explain giving tax-breaks to companies that take jobs out of the United States or propose additional tax breaks to oil companies that have recorded record billions in profits this year, or Senator McCain’s willingness to give CEO’s a $700,000 a tax-break in the lost hope that it will trickle down to everyone else who only own one home or not one at all.

No, it is time to rebuild our economy from the bottom-up starting with tax and economic policies that give rebirth to the growth of our middle-class.

This will be my economic policy.”


And of course, Senator Obama’s response of the issue of the War in Iraq.

“As much as Senator McCain likes to say he knows how to do this and do that, let us not forget that Senator McCain did not know how to keep us out of an unnecessary war in Iraq in the first place. Indeed, he was calling for a war with Iraq the day after 9/11 and once again when “victory” was declared by President Bush in Afghanistan, Senator McCain proudly stated “Next Up Bagdad”.

Nor does Senator McCain know how to get Osama bin Laden. How can he know when he believes and agrees with Osama bin Laden that Iraq is the central front on the War on Terror even though Senator McCain and Osama bin Laden both know that Osama bin Laden is not and has never been in Iraq.

And finally, Senator McCain does not know how to get us out of Iraq where we are spending billions of dollars rebuilding their nation when those same billions of dollars will be better spent rebuilding our nation’s economy.

I do know how and I will.”


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