Clearly not the answer he was expecting, huh? I absolutely love how his face went from such a condescending attitude and smug look when he said "Oh, by the way, we still haven’t heard how much that fine is", to the look shown above.
I understand that McCain doesn’t like Obama, and that he feels some unexplainable compulsion to demonize his opponent rather than simply disagreeing with him, but I feel his entire attitude and his body language in these debates made him look like a very angry and mean-spirited old man.
Which just makes the moment above all the more humorous to me 
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But doncha know he’s a Mmmaverick? Even my Dad who is military conservative is starting to think Obama wouldn’t be so bad. (mostly cause of that same reason related to taxes.)
Unfortunately I had class during this last debate. I missed the comedy gold moments.
McCain is such a dumb ass, I think the Palin pick proved that and this is just icing on the cake. May he lose big come November 5th.
Can anyone tell me how many times John McCain blinks in this video? I have tried to count it several times and I usually get over 70 times. I can’t remember the myth about blinking but I think it has something to do with less concentration?
JulieAnne
104 actually
Every time Caribou Barbie Palin opens her mouth, I feel a bit smarter. And a bit sadder.
How could anyone in McCain’s campaign have thought she was the right person? I understand wanting to pick a woman to ‘energize the base’, but there are so many more-qualified women to pick from. Like… Almost all of them, except for this crazy wingnut :
As an immigrant to the US, I weep quietly every time I see someone like that in one of the highest offices in the government.
I can only imagine
I look forward to having leadership that *increases* our standing in the eyes of the rest of the world, rather than being something they laugh about. I desperately want someone in power who exhibits intellectual curiosity, intelligence, diplomacy, and compassion.
McCain FTW! >:D Now that I pissed all you off. lol Let’s talk about cooler stuffs… like a unqiue special for the taketori? :p Where have you been mister?
C:SI seems to be picking up and I don’t see anyone but Haruko and Ayame. o.o We miss our Robby! (and Esprite) XD Go old guy and semi… borderline attractive older lady! >:)
I should probably have made a blog post about this…
Our economy sucks. Sucks goats, actually.
I’ve been a software developer for almost 20 years now. I should be making a great deal more than I am right now, just about double, in fact. On top of that, I am not a well man, and am chronically ill, which limits me in other ways.
When you combine those two factors, I am hurting, which is why I felt passionate enough about the economy to post political things when I promised myself originally that I would never do such a thing.
It’s also why I am currently working two jobs
Which, as you can imagine, leaves me little time for the fun stuff. I started working on new weapons, and a new animation rig for Second Life animations, but… I just haven’t had the time lately to do the things that I know need to be done. Like the special attack, and putting out networked Wave vendors, and etc. etc.
Starting next month I am supposed to be getting a raise at my primary job, which should give me the freedom to only have one job. That’s dependent on landing a contract that will provide the funding to give me that raise, and to keep me employed to tell the truth, so I’m desperately hoping everything works out.
And fuck McCain and his ‘insurance credits’, that doesn’t cut it. I need *real* health care, and I work my ass off and pay my dues as a US citizen. I’m a productive member of society, and I require an adequate level of health care, which McSame’s plan does not provide for.
If he were to win and put his health plan and health industry deregulation into practice, there are many thousands of people in this country who will see their lives shortened by a decade or more because of a lack of adequate health care. That is simply not acceptable.
Sorry for the rant, that’s a hot-button issue for me
The good news is that I should have some free time soon, and will be taking full advantage of it as soon as I am able.
Have you seen http://www.fivethirtyeight.com? If you like data (which I know you do), it’s a really interesting site that takes the poll data plus a lot of demographic and historical data and runs Monte Carlo simulations to hopefully get a more accurate prediction of the election than basic polling data.
Subscribed to his RSS feed the first time I ever saw it! Nate Silver is my man-crush right now, lol.
I absolutely love what he’s doing, and how he’s doing it, and his analysis is very interesting to follow.
His explanations of how he arrives at the assigned weights makes a lot of sense to me, and seems far more complete and transparent than most. In addition, I like how he’s pointing out potentially mistaken assumptions in other polls like Zogby.
Another one that I like a lot is Princeton Election Consortium, which is similar in that it’s a meta-analysis of the available poll data, and which tends to strongly correlate with FiveThirtyEight’s predictions.
I’m sorry to hear about your health. I hope you get better soon and that you’ll only have to work one job. (Other than C:SI of course. lol)
As far as politics go I don’t like either of their health care plans. More importantly I don’t want the government telling me what kind of plan I do and don’t need and that’s what Obama’s plan is. Thousands of people won’t have the coverage that they need ’cause the government says they won’t need it. Obama still didn’t answer the question. What’s the fee company’s will have to pay. I know he said small businesses won’t be fined but, if big businesses do get fined, who do you think is paying for that? Not them. They’ll just pass it on to us. But whatever. As far as I’m concerned we’re F’ed with either one. I’m not to happy with the way people are acting with this election either. All I hear is F that senator or that guy can go F himself. This is from both sides. As I am NOT a Democrat nor a Republican so don’t think that who I vote for determines who I am as a person. What happened to the days when we could talk about this as people and not self appointed lawyers? We should be able to way both sides of the story and if at the end of the day we don’t agree, we should be able to just agree to disagree without thinking that the other person is an idiot. We strive to be more accepting of each other but all I see is a huge division between ourselves. Accepting my yellow butt. XD OH! One more thing! I didn’t hear a DANG thing about the poor. All I hear is about the middle man getting better stuff and the rich having to pay for it. I don’t fit in with the middle class or the rich. I’m from freakin’ Cleveland. What about the poor? lol Okay now I’m done. Sorry about that and I await the firing line.
On the C:SI (the more important) side of things. I am getting help from someone to get a 3v3 going. I shall be called C:SI Reloaded! Why? ‘Cause you’ll have to fight in a completely white room. Like the one from Matrix. The room where they’re like, “I need guns… Lots of guns.” It’ll be awesomes…. I hope!
PEACE
~Shindo
Well thank you for that
The problem is that I will never get better, that’s the very definition of chronic illness. It goes in cycles where there are times that I feel better, and there are times where I feel like it’s my last day on Earth. For people with chronic illness, the prospect of losing your health insurance is one of the scariest things you will face on a regular basis, because it’s nearly impossible to ever again get decent insurance after having lost it once, since “pre-existing conditions” will disqualify you for all but government-mandated programs that are barely better than nothing in many cases.
And McCain specifically wanted to eliminate the catastrophic care coverage for seniors, which I think is absolutely despicable. No, I’m not a senior, I just feel strongly about the issue. And further deregulation of the health care and health insurance industries will help nobody but the people running the show.
A 3v3 sounds cool, but I hope you’ll forgive me for saying this: When I hear of a white room, I don’t think of Matrix first, I think of this :
Yeah… Gawd I feel old
/me hugs her Canadian Health Care Card.
I hate politics! XD Let’s all move to Canada, become lumberjacks and eat pancakes all day long! PANCAKES FTW!
Oh and the white room will be the E VILE! >:D People will tremble. Grown men will cry out for their mothers like babes. It will drive even the most stable of minds insane! Muahahahahaha!
You Should Be Allowed to Vote
You got 13/15 questions correct.
Generally speaking, you’re very well informed.
If you vote this election, you’ll know exactly who (and what) you’ll be voting for.
You’re likely to have strong opinions, and you have the facts to back them up.
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