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Schieffer wasn’t available to talk to Politico, but he has sent signals that he’s heard the grousing and intends to hold Barack Obama and John McCain accountable. If the candidates don’t answer questions, he recently told the Hollywood Reporter, “I'm going to call them on it.”

Limbaugh: We know that technological advancement is going along at light speed. And yet during this period of time, whether it be the last 57 years or be it the last 20 years, it seems that a majority of the black population has remained angry, frustrated, and behind. They've been left behind. They are acting like they've been left behind, and of course we've heard that this is because of racism, natural systemic institutional racism in America, that we are unfair, that this country is just horrible and rotten.
...The federal government became the father. The father didn't have to hang around in order for the kids to be okay, depending on how you define okay. But as you study more and more of this ACORN stuff, you find that it has been part of an entire movement that has been going on for two, maybe three decades, right under our noses.
We thought that it was just liberal welfare policies and all that that kept blacks from progressing while other minorities grew and prospered, but no, it is these wackos from Bill Ayers to Jeremiah Wright to other anti-American Afrocentric black liberation theologists with ACORN, and Barack Obama is smack dab in the middle of it, they have been training young black kids to hate, hate, hate this country, and they trained their parents before that to hate, hate, hate this country. It was a movement. It was a Bill Ayers, anti-capitalist, anti-American educational movement. ACORN is how it was implemented, right under our noses.
It has been a movement, it has been a religion, and Obama and Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers were all up to their big ears in it.

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I am betting that McCain chooses the boring route in an attempt to salvage some dignity from this campaign. There will be "new" (i.e. repackaged) economic ideas, and half-hearted attacks... but McCain will pull his punches on Ayers and the terrorist stuff.

I bet this will be another boring debate.

I have no doubt that it would be a bad idea -- I'm just not sure if that will prevent him from doing it. He's shown a willingness to act on plenty of other bad ideas.

He really seems to be telegraphing that he will go on the attack, and I think he hates looking weak more than anything else. (And he'd look weak if he says he'll do it and then doesn't.) So I think attacking will happen, but I'm not sure if it will be the regretful, statesmanlike attack ("It's a pity it's come to this") or crazy-person attacking (getting into Obama's personal space, interrupting, bringing up REALLY out-there stuff, etc.)

Sozobe wrote:

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Yep -- time for you to finally decide which candidate you prefer.

I'd love to see something unexpected, but know I won't.

It will be hard for McCain not to address the Ayers thing when he promised a voter he would. It will be harder for him to do so without sounding like he's getting into the hate baiting of the past two weeks.

From hence forth I suggest that the third debate be a real mud wrestling match complete with referee's and girls in bikini's carrying score cards.

May the best man win!

Okay, John. I'd like you to look me right in the eyes, here on national TV, and tell me and everyone that this is what you think is the most important issue to be talking about right now.

I know that the guys you have hired to run your campaign have told you that these things have to be said, or you will lose. But I know you, John. You're not this kind of person. You don't really want to be a slime merchant.

But, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong about who you are. So, if I am, look me in the eyes and tell me that you think talking about Ayers is important, on this day of all days, with our economy in the toilet. And I'll answer you, in depth. I just want everyone to be clear as to who you really are, before I do.