{"id":3484,"date":"2008-10-16T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2008-10-16T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T00:33:00","slug":"tonights-debate-is-brought-to-you-by-the-word-cockamamie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3484","title":{"rendered":"Tonights Debate is Brought to You by the Word Cockamamie<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

cockamamie<\/a>: <\/span>ridiculous, pointless, or nonsensical: full of wild schemes and cockamamie ideas. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…as in John McCain on Joe Biden’s “…cockamamie<\/em> idea of dividing Iraq into three countries…” for me was the highlight of last night’s debate. Not because the statement was truly relevant in times like these nor because it was debate time well spent. Rather, it was a glimmer that John McCain was finally going to go after Barack Obama on the issues that matter to conservatives.<\/p>\n

Last night’s debate was certainly John McCain’s best effort, repleat with gritted teeth and his nervous ticks, criticizing Obama for his affinity for government spending and earmarks, a broken promise on campaign financing, his relationship with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and finally delivering the one-liners that McCain supporters have been waiting for like “I am not George Bush.”<\/p>\n

The crowd at the AM1280 The Patriot event at Trocadero’s had many opportunities to stand in applause…and as many to shout at the screen in disagreement or disappointment when opportunities were fully grasped…or totally missed.<\/p>\n

Missed were opportunities to talk extensively about effective strategies for growing our economy out of the current malaise, and hitting Obama harder for his far-left liberal record on a litany of issues (that should be) relevant to the American voter.<\/p>\n

Alas, all Barrack needed to do was not lay an egg. As such, it was probably not the breakthrough McCain needed to sway the lion’s share of the undecideds he needs let alone dislodging any Obama supporters. Obama was calm, cool and never appeared defensive as he lied through his teeth to the American people.<\/p>\n

So as a souvenir, I leave you…”Cockamamie”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

cockamamie: ridiculous, pointless, or nonsensical: full of wild schemes and cockamamie ideas. …as in John McCain on Joe Biden’s “…cockamamie idea of dividing Iraq into three countries…” for me was the highlight of last night’s debate. Not because the statement was truly relevant in times like these nor because it was debate time well spent. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}