download limit has refreshed and i can watch the third debate streamed online a few hours after it aired! YAYS!
ooh - i like the divided screen.....barack listens so attentively to mccain looking straight at him. will mccain do the same?
i definately think obama did waaaay better with the 'Why is your economic plan better than your opponents?' question. and he is ready to say when he agrees with stuff mccain is planning, but mccain doesnt do that.
haha - i just noticed obamas tie is red (well maroony), mccains tie looks blue (though it MIGHT be purple perhaps). something is wrong with this picture! lols!!
i dont dislike what he is saying but mccain just sounds more desperate and a bit flustered as he talks....while obama is super smooth!
but again - if you like McCain you gonna say 'he did great', if you like Obama you're gonna say the same.
its definately gonna be interesting to see how the last few weeks of the campaign play out.
These took FOREVER to download. I wish there wa someway i could watch the third debate live so i dont have to suffer for HOURS again! Sadly i will be at work.
Anyways - just some commentary by a lil aussie. No one really cares what I think.... :D
Okay so before i start commenting I have a feeling i may be a little bit more biased with this one. I dont know for sure. I plan to TRY but I
really like how Obama talks about stuff so I have a bit of a soft spot for the guy. And I cant even think of one thing where i have really
paid attention to McCain (oh dear.....) so yeah. I apologise if i get all Obama happy on you all! Please dont hate me Republicans!
first question - where do you stand on the recovery...i thought they both say nice things first up but did mccain ANSWER???
i liked what he said about the greedy lil money makers taking responsibility and being held accountable.
but obama - you rock....i agree with you too - they should have accountability even when things are going well, not just during a
crisis.
fundamental differences on how to solve the financial crisis. the wasteful spending on is it earmarks?? that mccain wants to cut
back on sounds good, but the tax cuts obama wants to do for the lil people instead of the big money makers sounds good too. cant you
both do those? :D
what the heck is pork barrel spending? ah thanks wikipedia.
i agree with Obama that they shouldnt have gone into Iraq.
Iraq is such a touchy subject. i dont like the war at all but as long as troops are there you gotta support them.
omgawd so funny - obama is talking right at mccain about where he was wrong about stuff in iraq and mccain is refusing to look at him.
lols
in fact Obama is more willing to look straight at McCain and say stuff but mcCain never does it back. makes him look a bit wimpy i think.
okay its really frustrating me the way McCain always takes something Obama says and goes 'look he said this - and its wrong because...' - dude you are twisting what he is saying. its driving me nuts!
most of the debate is about foreign policy stuff. its really interesting. good ol' oz only has a very small area of influence in the
world....america has an impact on the whole planet. its crazy. i feel sorry for the people who run the US and have to deal with this stuff.
and that the american people cant just vote for someone who will look after them at home, but also on an international level.
anyways overall i thought they both had awesome points. McCain definately knows his foreign policy stuff, though i think Obama is
gonna be more diplomatic when dealing with problem nations and helping to garner respect from other nations around the world.
like the VP debate - i seriously believe anyone on the fence is gonna have a really tough choice.
onto the second debate:
after taking almost 24 hours to get this to load i am too lazy to give comments to specific questions. just giving an overall comment.
It could be bias but the way McCain creeps around and goes up to the person who asked the question but then wanders back and
forth....he is giving me the heeby jeebies. sorry McCain dude.
seriously these debates are a shocker...if you like McCain then you are gonna love what he says, if you like Obama you're gonna love
what he says.
i dunno i feel like McCain isnt really answering the questions half the time.
hmm - 90% of what they are saying was already said in the first debate and i am getting annoyed with them both.
lol the end made me laugh where they both got in the moderators way.
I am gonna try and watch all the US predidential/vice presidential debates...i hope youtube has 'em all. i found the Biden/Palin one and just started watching it.
My net connection is being a dicey bitch this week and wont stream properly so i am only getting a few seconds at a time - its seriously ticking me off.....i am gonna be here for hours watching this shit.
Okay the question about who is at fault about the subprime thing - omgawd Sarah said some sensible shit (okay not the going on about joe sixpack shit..please woman stop with that crap, it makes all your smart words sound ridiculous!) but yeah i totally agree the lenders were at fault AND that people need to learn from this to not live beyond their means. well done chica!
and then Biden starts goin on about how Barack Obama saw this coming two years ago and McCain just let it happen...dude dont start pointing the finger at the other side on this one okay. its a monumental fuck up all around but the main ones at fault ARE the arseholes lending to people, who signed people up for loans they couldnt afford!
[edit1] i forget which question its for but Palin keeps going on about how taxing people is not helping job growth. how is income tax affecting that? its taxing of businesses that would affect job growth.
hmm - okay so if people are getting less in the hand they are buying less on stuff and that affects retail businesses ability to employ more people. but back to the financial crisis and the increases in fuel prices (is the US having a rdiculous increase on food costs too? australia has gone mental in the last few years) - i think that has had a lot bigger affect on peoples spending than how much they are being taxed.
[edit2] okay well omgawd she said something smart again. Biden was talking about democrats planning to not increase taxes for people earning under $250,000 or something, and she said that small business would be earning above that so WOULD get taxed more and that would affect job growth...okay thanks for starting to make sense woman!
oh but now on to the health care thing. shes there commenting on 'do you really want the federal govt running the health care system because look how dodgy the govt has been lately?' - WOMAN - its your party running the show!!11 if there is fucking up its on your side.
anyways this health care credit thing sounds suspiciously like the thing we have in oz for people to join up to private health care. rebecca votes that one down!!!
i cant afford private health care...i earn jack shit in my job! only reason i was able to pay for the hospital/surgeon fees on friday was 1) dad payed for me temporarily and 2) half the money i have saved for canada - as soon as i get there i gotta pay it back to dad.
and omgawd the stupid video has stalled again! DIE!!!!!!!!!! (only a third of the way through.....kill me nooow!)
i know this sounds like i am supporting the crazy lady and her cohorts but if i was a US citizen i would totally be voting Democrat and would generally be going go lil Biden-dude! but i am just wanting to be fair and point out where i think he is talking shit and Palin is making sense. heh.
[edit3 - fucking 2am people! yes it took that long!] there is so much they are talking about and they are both saying okay things. i just grabbing certain things that jump out at me.
okay same-sex couples thing. fine about the giving equal civil rights to all but everyone needs a slap for not supporting gay marriage.
hmm - the diplomacy question......i like what they both said, damnit!
but Republicans havent done much about diplomacy while they have been running the show. i need to see some more McCain stuff....does teh guy have any skills in this area??? i dont have a lot of faith in that party. good ol' Clinton was a shonky perv but one thing that guy was a winner at was diplomacy.
okay i am done.....overall - they both did really well. i think because i am not American so not actually invested in this personally i am not going 'oh she sucks and he is brill'. politically i would SO be a Democrat but i think they both had good things to say about different issues. and really - after the stuff i have seen of her previously i was seriously impressed with Sarah Palin in this debate.
i liked Bidens final statement better though. :D
i feel sorry for people sitting on the fence in this election. I need to see the Barack/McCain debates, but based on this alone if you arent committed to one party of the other - how can you choose?
gawd how long is it gonna take me to download the two presidential nominee debates?????????
anyways i am off to read about teh war in Darfur while i start trying to download the first pres nominee debate because i dont know much about it and it was something in the VP debate that i was all 'okay i need to find out about that!'
Anyways I am probably gonna give the other debates their own posts.
Dear Liberal Party of Australia
Every time you start having a go at the Labor Party to make some change you guys wouldnt have even considered during your 11 year tenure - you just look like utter wankers!
Please crawl back in your hole and shut the fuck up!!
kthx bai!
~rebecca
The latest wankery? They have suggested Labor increase the pension by $30 a week. I am not against the idea itself, hell pensioners could use way more than that! But Liberal would never have raised the pension in one go THAT much! They were the stingiest arseholes when it came to helping people on any kind of pension that I have ever seen!
Oh and because we are on a political rant - everybody screaming because Labor hasnt done enough to help Australians during the current economic crisis - they inherited this state of affairs from the wanker Liberals people! THEY ARE TO BLAME for pushing the economy hard and fast for so fricking long! Plus the whole bloody planet is in a sorry state economically. Labor can only ride it out and TRY to do stuff to help.
Dont expect any helpful suggestions from the Liberals....they will criticise everything Labor does in the hopes it will convince moronic aussies that they could have rode out the 3-4 years better when its UTTER BULLSHIT!
Damn - I love and hate politics man....I love knowing whats going on but damn it gets me riled up.
I am not even gonna go on about the crazy US election shit. I just wish it was over, and I hope Obama gets in.
