Second Presidential Debate

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

I would hope that others would give me the same respect about my decision to vote McCain, or that others would respect those who have chosen to vote Obama, but that "mutual partisan respect," so to speak, has been missing this election cycle.

I guess we're rolling in completely different circles, but I've seen nothing but "mutual partisan respect" in my own life, and for the most part on the Internet as well. Like I've said a bunch of times before, I could have gone either way before McCain selected Palin; if it had been Hillary instead of Barack, I probably would have gone McCain/Palin. Most people I know have perfectly viable reasons for selecting either candidate, and honestly could have gone either way.

This election seems much cleaner to me than 2004. 2000 is all a blur to me, so I can't recall that one very well.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

I guess we're rolling in completely different circles, but I've seen nothing but "mutual partisan respect" in my own life, and for the most part on the Internet as well. Like I've said a bunch of times before, I could have gone either way before McCain selected Palin; if it had been Hillary instead of Barack, I probably would have gone McCain/Palin. Most people I know have perfectly viable reasons for selecting either candidate, and honestly could have gone either way.

This election seems much cleaner to me than 2004. 2000 is all a blur to me, so I can't recall that one very well.

In my own group of friends (college, law school, work, etc.), definitely, I've seen what you described. Outside of those groups, though, things have been the exact opposite for me. My memory, which may be flawed, is that the past election cycles involved more of the mutual respect.

Again, that may just be my subjective perception, and it might not be an accurate picture of the reality of the situation.

[pbear19]

Back to a topic from pages 2 and 3, about the comment from McCain that a questioner probably didn't know what Fannie Mae was. Here is the response from the questioner, as copied from Facebook on FirstRead:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archi...9/1523335.aspx

7. How did I feel about Sen. McCain stating “You probably never heard of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac before this.”
Well Senator, I actually did. I like to think of myself as a fairly intelligent person. I have a bachelor degree in Political Science from Tennessee State, so I try to keep myself up to date with current affairs. I have a Master degree in Legal Studies from Southern Illinois University, a few years in law school, and I am currently pursuing a Master in Public Administration from the University of Memphis. In defense of the Senator from Arizona I would say he is an older guy, and may have made an underestimation of my age. Honest mistake. However, it could be because I am a young African-American male. Whatever the case may be it was somewhat condescending regardless of my age to make an assumption regarding whether I was knowledgeable about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

And one other fun part to quote from the same link:

4. Was I nervous?
No. I was cool as a polar bear’s toe nails. Yes, of course I was nervous, they said the show was going to be seen by tens of millions of people, but hey I am son of Blood and Thunder so I held it down! Shout out to the Ques Roo!

Am I reading the reference to 'Ques' correctly, or is this something else?

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by pbear19

Back to a topic from pages 2 and 3, about the comment from McCain that a questioner probably didn't know what Fannie Mae was. Here is the response from the questioner, as copied from Facebook on FirstRead:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archi...9/1523335.aspx



And one other fun part to quote from the same link:



Am I reading the reference to 'Ques' correctly, or is this something else?

What percentage of voters do you think knew what Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were six months ago? I think maybe a third. I think a higher percentage of voters had probably heard of them, but I doubt they knew what they did nearly as well as they do now.

While it was probably a condescending thing to say to any individual, I don't think McCain's comment was that far off the mark generally.

Most voters lived in happy ignorance of most of the institutions and practices that are failed/ are now failing.