The Presidential Debate, The Sequel.

Well, this time around was much better for McCain than the first. 

What most people don’t know is that McCain immediately broke one of the rules of the debate by walking more than 3 feet from his stool, right over to a concerned citizen to talk directly to him.

Why?

Because McCain cared. 

McCain walked right over to the guy, looked him in the eye and gave him the classic McCain “Straight Talk.”

Also, McCain landed quite a few heavy blows, with very little as far as a response from Obama…  just obfusification, especially on the question of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac when McCain charged Obama and his “cronies” for blocking his legislation to reform the two GSE’s. 

Obama’s only response to the five or six sentence explanation that McCain gave showing how Obama and his buddies were tied into the housing crisis…  “I never promoted Fannie Mae…” and then he moved on.  That was his only response! 

Weak.

McCain clearly won this debate, but he missed the jugular.  He didn’t land the knock out punch he really needs.  So in a way, because Obama survived the match still standing, he wins a little too.

The polls will probably show an uptick of a point, maybe two, for McCain because of the debate, but not much more than that.

The real impact on how people are going to vote is probably going to result from the pitbull Sarahcuda and her attacks, which will drive Obama’s negatives up.  These results are already showing up in the polls, as can be seen in this group of four quoted in the American Sentinel;

National	Rasmussen Tracking	Obama 51, McCain 45	Obama +6
National	Reuters/CSpan/Zogby Tracking	Obama 47, McCain 45	Obama +2
National	Hotline/FD Tracking	Obama 45, McCain 44	Obama +1
National	GW/Battleground Tracking	Obama 49, McCain 45	Obama +4

The Obama campaign is trying to counter with accusations of racism and by rehashing a badly warped version of the Keating 5 story.

In my opinion, in and of itself, the debate was a net tie, but McCain laid the ground work for a very tough October for the Obama camp.

Hey, Obama… the Keating 5; I Don’t Think That Means What You Think It Does?

Apparently Obama is a bit frightened of the coming hardball game that McCain and his crew are gearing up for.  So much so that Obama is telegraphing a move he could make as a warning to McCain…

The Keating 5.

From the AP

Barack Obama’s allies warn that John McCain’s attacks on the Democrat’a character will lead to the political equivalent of mutual assured destruction: fire your big weapon at your own peril.

Several Obama surrogates said his supporters may start reminding voters of McCain’s ties to Charles Keating, a convicted savings and loan owner whose actions two decades ago triggered a Senate ethics investigation that involved McCain as one of the “Keating Five.”

Well, it seems that Obama fulfilled the promise and quietly released a youtube video on the subject called Keating Economics.

For those of you that are not familiar, the Keating 5 is a term that refers to a group of 5 Senators that were accused of corrupt dealings with a banker named Keating during the “Savings and Loan Crisis” of the 80′s.

The group of Senators was comprised of 4 Democrats and 1 Republican…  John McCain.

Only problem is that John McCain (as well as John Glenn) was completely exonerated of any wrong doing what-so-ever by the Special Prosecutor Robert Bennet and recommended removing John McCain from any further investigation.

The problem was that removing John McCain would remove the only Republican from the corruption case and politically the Democrats in power could not afford to have 3 of their Senators sit up there alone, going down in flames for shady dealings.

Against the wishes of the Special Prosecutor, the Democratic Chair of the Ethics Committee kept McCain’s name on the list and gave him what essentially amounted to a scowl and a wagging finger.  The committee decided that McCain’s actions “were not improper nor attended with gross negligence,” about which McCain said…  “I see it as a full exoneration”

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Yeah, so let’s tell that story Barry…  about how John McCain is a good and honorable man, yet there were 3 DEMOCRATIC Senators at the center of the “Savings and Loan Crisis.”

Yeah, Barry, lets talk about how wonderfully the Democrats have handled the banking institutions…  there couldn’t possibly be a parallel to today’s problems could there?

I dare you to keep pushing this meme…

Keep talking about the corrupt Democrats and the uncorruptable John McCain.  Yeah, do that…  Keep talking…

I double dog dare you.

Even Saturday Night Live knows the Democrats are the root of the cause…

CLICK HERE

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Oh, and lest I forget about the Keating 3

Three of… the Keating Five have endorsed Obama: Former senators Dennis DeConcini. John Glenn, and Donald W. Riegle. All three are Democrats… and DeConcini and Riegle were among the more deeply implicated officials.