Debate Roundup [Updated]

McCain was aggressive, while Obama just sat on his ass, trying to play it safe, feeling as he does the media will not do anything to rock the boat and appear "racist."


The Arizona Republic, a paper that knows McCain best, said McCain gave his best performance yet.
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It might be premature to say the GOP is throwing this election, as Karl Rove says Obama still hasn't closed the deal.

Which is true, but McCain has his work cut out for him.
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The Austin American-Statesman thinks McCain's approach won't alter the trajectory of the election.

The Dallas News has the same talking point.

I think one underestimates McCain at his or her own peril.
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I'd like to know what Scott Lehigh (an apt surname) was smoking. Nobody else saw any slam dunk on the part of Obama.
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Reno locals weigh in on the debate.
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By the way, Obama lied his ass off about the "kill him" threat that supposedly happened during a Palin event. It never happened. Joseph Cannon points us to this article:

The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded.

The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that while congressional candidate Chris Hackett was addressing the crowd and mentioned Obama’s name a man in the audience shouted “kill him."

News organizations including ABC, The Associated Press, The Washington Monthly and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann reported the claim, with most attributing the allegations to the Times-Tribune story.

Agent Bill Slavoski said he was in the audience, along with an undisclosed number of additional secret service agents and other law enforcement officers and not one heard the comment.

“I was baffled,” he said after reading the report in Wednesday’s Times-Tribune.

So much for yet another Obama lie. However, we ALL know the Palin t-shirts which McCain mentioned ARE real, unfortunately.

Update on "kill him": Dana Milbank is said to be the originator of the urban legend of "kill him":

The reception had been better in Clearwater, where Palin, speaking to a sea of "Palin Power" and "Sarahcuda" T-shirts, tried to link Obama to the 1960s Weather Underground. "One of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," she said. ("Boooo!" said the crowd.) "And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,' " she continued. ("Boooo!" the crowd repeated.)

"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.

And more about the legend of "kill him" which never happened:

There were no incendiary outbursts from the crowd about Mr. Obama during Mrs. Palin's speech, as there have been during other recent McCain-Palin rallies.

However, someone did shout out, "Kill him!" during Republican congressional candidate Chris Hackett's remarks before Mrs. Palin took the stage.

The outburst came during a round of booing from the crowd after Mr. Hackett said Mr. Obama should come to Pennsylvania and learn what the state's values are.

But why get in the way of a good lie?