# It's the official last Presidential Debate thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 15, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001 "2008-10-15T03:20:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/81 "2008-10-16T01:15:39Z")
Ireland’s not doing so well, now, so that 11% corporate tax isn’t helping them. And wasn’t there a report saying that this notion that US corporations pay the second highest tax in the world ignored all the tax breaks and incentives the corporations ALSO get? ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/82 "2008-10-16T01:16:13Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > He always does that cute little chuckle whenever he lays a clunker. And even if it isn’t a clunker, the audience isn’t allowed to laugh so he looks like he’s laughing alone. It’s okay, the audience is laughing inside their heads, very quietly. It’s just not funny enough to break through to the outside yet. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/83 "2008-10-16T01:17:12Z")
Huh? I just want to get back to home ownership? ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/84 "2008-10-16T01:17:24Z")
Joe the Plumber & Joe Six-Pack are heterosexual life partners. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/85 "2008-10-16T01:17:28Z")
During the depression era, when I was in college… ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/86 "2008-10-16T01:17:28Z")
Wait, what? How does increasing home values increase wealth? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/87 "2008-10-16T01:17:37Z")
I’m biased too but it always seems to me that McCain is doing better than Obama. And I like the ‘look’ much, much better than all the ‘ah, ah’ s he used to do. What does home ownership have to do with energy? Ah-- thank you moderator. ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/88 "2008-10-16T01:17:53Z")
During the depression, we had a thing we called the “home ownership bucket”. And we would put a nickel in the bucket, which Senator Obama opposed. Second- Third of all, I would hatchet that bucket with a scalpel! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/89 "2008-10-16T01:17:57Z")
Obama needs to whip out a little JFK. I’m getting flashbacks to Economics 101, which was at 8:00 AM Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, none of which were particularly good times for a wild little 18 year old to pay attention to … but I digress. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/90 "2008-10-16T01:17:59Z")
Jesus–we’re talking about the Depression? Of course, John remembers the the Big D… He’s off on talking points–ANSWER the question, John! What could he be writing down? Hatchets and scalpels? Why not a chainsaw? ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/91 "2008-10-16T01:18:02Z")
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**Author:** ![ShermanAter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ShermanAter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShermanAter)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/92 "2008-10-16T01:18:10Z")
Answer the question John… Why do these countries “not like us very much”? ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/93 "2008-10-16T01:18:21Z")
Yeah, a hatchet, _then_ a scalpel! And also, McCain knows a lot of things! ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/94 "2008-10-16T01:18:48Z")
This “cross the board spending freeze” seems to be at odds with all this spending. Does it include the war? Senatorial benefits? ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/95 "2008-10-16T01:19:17Z")
Drinking game suggestion: Every time McCain says “I know how…” Any others? ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/96 "2008-10-16T01:19:41Z")
AGAIN with the overhead projector? This is surreal. It’s not fun to watch a man self-destruct. God help McCain. ---
**Author:** ![shogem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@shogem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shogem)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/97 "2008-10-16T01:19:41Z")
I wish Obama would call McCain out on his own pork barrel pet projects. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/98 "2008-10-16T01:19:49Z")
McC seems to think if Palin can get away with ignoring the question he can too. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/99 "2008-10-16T01:19:50Z")
We’re sending money to people who don’t like us very much … strange sense of deja vu, there. OO!! details? some actual details? No, he’s back to saying he knows how to save billions. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001/100 "2008-10-16T01:19:57Z")
I can’t stand McCain’s smirk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-official-last-presidential-debate-thread/468001.md?page=6)