I confess a bias, but I think McCain's comment on Colombia was one of his best moments in any of the debates, and one of Obama's worst. Obama's justification (violence against labor leaders) for opposing the Colombia FTA is simply not convincing, for reasons I elaborate on
here.
Also,
two good points from Eve Fairbanks on The Stump (especially the first):
"My campaign is about getting this economy back on track" is a quintessentially anodyne, standard thing for a politician to say.
Why did it sound so terribly jarring when McCain said it? Because he had just spiraled off of an extended riff of complaint about John Lewis's "outrageous" comments, about Bill Ayers, about Obama's negative advertising during a Dallas vs. Arizona football game he watched, etc., etc. McCain's focus couldn't have seemed farther from the economy right then. It was just a patently weird thing to say at that moment -- like seeing somebody adamantly insisting he's wearing green when he's standing right in front of you in red clothes.
And later:
ACORN "Is Destroying The Fabric of Our Democracy"
Seriously? The dead have voted in past elections and it didn't destroy the fabric of our democracy.
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