WORLD NEWS TRUST: It’s Going To Take a Lot More than Joe the Plumber (Mary Lyon)

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Mary Lyon, From The Left -- World News Trust

Oct. 16, 2008 -- How much do I not like John McCain now, because of this final debate in Campaign 2008? Let me count the ways -- which, at this point, number far greater than the components of a well-equipped plumber’s tool collection.

I’m struck, immediately, by two moments. No, the now-famous Joe the Plumber was nowhere in sight in either case. I’m struck by, and I’m stuck on, the following statement by John McCain: “I’m proud of the people that come to our rallies.” Whoa. You’re proud of that, Senator McCain? Really? You’re proud of the rabid crowd that grows so inflamed that it spews out random belches of anger and racism and murderous violence like molten comets zooming skyward from the bowels of an erupting volcano? How would YOU characterize the hollering of “kill him!” during GOP stump speeches when Barack Obama’s name is mentioned, Senator McCain? You can’t get away with blaming one or two bubbles popping at the surface of the boiling pot of oatmeal for being hot, and excuse the rest of the pot from having reached the boiling point.

The other involved a second incendiary topic -- the choice issue. Moderator Bob Schieffer dared to tread through the treacherous turf of abortion. Soon enough, the talk turned to late-term abortions, and Obama’s opposition to them except in the case of the health or life of the mother. And there was John McCain twitching his fingers in the air to put the word “health” in quotation marks -- at once insulting and stunningly dismissive. A woman’s “health” is something to be demeaned or discounted? A woman’s “health” is so trivial that you put it in visual quotation marks as a wink-wink nudge-nudge type of thing? Excuse me?

Schieffer caused many of the softest sore spots to be laid bare. William Ayers came up for discussion, in what appeared to be an easy point scored for John McCain. Everyone knew or suspected that Ayers would be brought up somehow or other. McCain attempted to use him as a charging bull in a bullfight, with Obama as a sort of matador, brushing the bull past any danger zones with a flourish of his bright red cape. And it was a very fair point Obama made, observing how Ayers has become a main focus, if not an obsession, with the McCain campaign -- which he said tells you more about the McCain campaign than it does about Obama himself.

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[The Wielding Truth]

1. Joe the plumber is proving to be as embarrassing as Palin.

[Tace]

2. Gramps

To my limited thinking, McCain came off like a geezer who should be spending his golden years hanging with his grand-children, not trying to direct an empire.

[firedupdem]

3. McCain looked like an unstable, angry man last night. He gets

not one bit of respect from me ever again in life.

[Me.]

4. K & R

[elfrangel]

5. Missed the debate last night....

what was said about Ayers??


Is there a transcripts anywhere?