Posted on 04/16/2008 8:56:05 PM PDT by ricks_place
Three quick points on the Democratic debate tonight:
First, Democrats, and especially Obama supporters, are going to jump all over ABC for the choice of topics: too many gaffe questions, not enough policy questions...We may not like it, but issues like Jeremiah Wright, flag lapels and the Tuzla airport will be important in the fall...
Second, Obama and Clinton were completely irresponsible. As the first President Bush discovered, it is simply irresponsible statesmanship (and stupid politics) to make blanket pledges to win votes. Both candidates did that on vital issues...Both promised to not raise taxes on those making less than $200,000 or $250,000 a year...The second pledge was just as bad. Nobody knows what the situation in Iraq will be like. To pledge an automatic withdrawal is just insane...
The third point concerns electability...
(Excerpt) Read more at campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Brooks hit the nail on the head. DUmmies started their whining when the debate wasn’t even over.
Of all the countless Dem debates thus far, I found it pretty entertaining. Can’t believe that Charlie and George kept hammering on BHO as they did on all his public controversies, and HRC kept it going as well. (They also came down on her). Not bad!
If you go to the site only about 1 of the 22 comments so far agrees with you. Its frightening how partisan people are for Obama. They’re more than happy to gloss over his shady associations to stick with the so-called “real issues”. What could be more real than the character of the candidate?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Gibson asked B. Hussein about capital gains taxes were cut, revenues increased, and vice versa. I couldn’t believe it when I heard him ask it—how did that question slip through the MSM cracks???
The blind support for Obama is frightening, and it is more frightening to think of him as leader of this country. I don’t trust him.
It amazes me that so many people believe that Obama represents something new in politics. His type is as old as the hills.
What the heck got into the MSM tonight?
You can NEVER gauge public opinion by internet polls or comments posted to an article.
The Left has rabid teams ready to “take it to the web” and politicize everything on the internet.
Howard Dean’s electoral support in 2004 was entirely online. That’s why the DNC hustled him off the stage (and gave him party leadership in exchange) over “a scream”. The scream didn’t do him in, they could tell he couldn’t “sell the agenda” and pulled him while there was still time.
Ron Paul’s support in 2008 was entirely online. The votes just weren’t there.
On the internet, you don’t even have to be a US citizen or even IN the US to click comments or online polls.
And hit him with it again after Obama said it was needed to pay for all his programs. Obama looked like Joe Louis had clocked him.
Now, it Gibson has only pointed out the same facts about income tax rates, I would have levitated.
“The blind support for Obama is frightening, and it is more frightening to think of him as leader of this country. I don’t trust him.”
Obama will not be President. Obama will not make it to November. Obama is the stalking horse in the lead with 1/2 a race still to go.
I hope you’re right. Of course, I don’t want Hillary to succeed either. I would like to see McCain beat whoever is the Dem nominee, even though McCain was far from my first choice.
The press was willing to pretend that Michael Dukakis also had a shot at winning back in 1988.
I didn’t listen to the debate, but it is my understanding that domestic terrorist Bill/Will Ayers from the Weather Underground, Obama’s buddy, was mentioned, to the dismay of the drive by media. How could Brooks overlook that?
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