Over? Did Someone Say the McCain-Obama Race Is Over?

If Obama does win, God help us. He is an arrogant jerk. He will tear down our country. He is a liar, a fake speaker and if you morans beleive what he says my faith in Americans is completely gone.I have lived a long time and have never seen such unAmericanism in my entire life.It would be a very sad day if Obama gets in. I just hope there are enough real Americans left to get a fantastic person, John Mccain in. His whole life has been devoted to our country.

Irene of FL 10:32AM October 30, 2008

Although I have been an Obama supporter for many months and so am biased, I can't for the life of me understand how McCain can even be close at this point. I honestly wonder what percentage of McCain/Palin supporters are actually just so opposed to Obama, for reasons just or not, that their vote will be cast more as an anti-Obama statement than as a pro-McCain statement.

I don't agree with Obama on certain things, but he seems much more focused and hopeful on what we need to do as a country going forward than does McCain who, to me, seems married to a way of thinking which worked 30 or 40 years ago, but is no longer valid. McCain seems stuck in the past and also appears to suffer from the same lack of interest in learning or understanding anything new as our current president. McCain strikes me as being more enamored in simply attaining the office than he is in actually using the position to benefit the country as a whole. We are in dire need of leadership based on vision, consideration and intellect and not on fear, gut reaction and bellicosity.

Ian of AR 3:39PM October 14, 2008

I do think it's over for McCain to have any chance of winning. But I agree with the other comment that said it's an awful way for a war hero to end his political career. John McCain has changed. Even his body language at the debate showed him to be a doddering old man with early Alzheimer's Disease. The choice of Palin was a gamble, and it backfired. Always a bit of a grouch, he has turned into a grumpy old man. Meanwhile, Obama has maintained his dignity to the point that the mud slinging is just that, mud slinging. Yes, we are voting for a president here, but it is a package deal. With Obama, we have a smart and articulate lawyer for a first lady. She dresses well, but appropriately. It tells you something that the Obamas remained to shake hands with people at the debate. Cindy McCain snared McCain while he was still married. She's addicted to Vicodin. Every time I hear her talk, I think she's high. I'm a nurse and have been trained to pick up on this. She spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on outfits at a time when people's retirement funds have tanked. Not exactly first lady material. In "plain talk," she's a druggie and a slut. It's over everybody, and I'm very relieved.

Diane Gordon of MI 1:06PM October 13, 2008

"This weeks's debate should have favoured Mr. McCain. It was set up like a town-hall meeting, with questions posed by ordinary voters instead of journalists. Mr McCain' prefers such informal settings to standing behind a podium. And he acquitted himself well. He palled around with a veteran in the audience. He bashed Mr Obama as a tax-hiker and for wussiness about nuclear power. But he failed to land a killer punch.

With hefty leads in the polls, Mr Obama needed only to sound safe. He cleared this low hurdle with ease. He provided no new information, but he sounded crisper talking about the economy, and health care. And he hit back at Mr McCain's charge that he doesn't understand geopolitics. He agreed that there were thinks that he did not understand, such as why Mr Bush and Mr McCain wanted to invade Iraq when it had nothing to do with the attacks of September 11th 2001.

Televised debates tend to favor the underdog, reckons Alan Schroeder, the author of "Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV." Tens of millions of voters are watching. Your handlers cannot help you. Anything can happen, and any flub will be amplified beyond recongnition. All this gives Mr McCain a chance, despite his floundering poll numbers. But he has not seized it yet, and there is only one debate to come."

Michael J. Gerrior of DC 8:37AM October 11, 2008