Posted on 08/17/2008 4:41:12 PM PDT by Baladas
At a town hall meeting with several hundred union members, Obama said he had a great conversation with McCain at the forum at Saddleback Church sponsored by the popular evangelical pastor Rick Warren.
The two candidates shook hands, briefly hugged and stood onstage with Warren, the first time they appeared together in public since the end of the primary season.
But Sunday, after praising the Arizona senator as a "genuine American patriot," the Democratic presidential hopeful got back to business -- methodically tearing into McCain's health care, tax and energy policies and criticizing his advisers.
"McCain says 'Here's my plan, I'm going to drill here, drill now which is something he only came up with two months ago when he started looking at polling," Obama said of McCain's energy policy.
The GOP hopeful has become a vocal proponent of offshore oil drilling as a way to ease U.S. dependence on foreign oil and has criticized Obama for failing to embrace it as a way to help bring down oil prices. Obama noted that McCain had long opposed lifting the moratorium on offshore drilling.
The Illinois senator also criticized McCain's advisers as "the same old folks that brought you George W. Bush. The same team." He noted many had been lobbyists in Washington before McCain asked them to sever all lobbying ties.
Obama added, "They say this other guy is unpatriotic, or this guy likes French people. That's what they said about Kerry," referring to the 2004 Democratic nominee who lost narrowly to Bush. "They try to make it out like Democrats aren't tough enough, aren't macho enough. It's the same strategy."
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Obama’s claws coming out?
What claws? He’s got female-looking manicured hands that are supposedly connected to a male body.
Obama, the whiner.
It took Hussein’s writers a whole day to script a response to the debate? Wow.
Oh yeah. I guess that's why he has Hillary.
i really enjoyed the los angeles times’:
“obama is analytical and nuanced. mccain answers the same questions crisply to greater applause.”
“They try to make it out like Democrats aren’t tough enough, aren’t macho enough. It’s the same strategy.”
Ummmm...
Obama just got up off the floor being decked by McCain and is now bad mouthing him to his comrades. What a wimp!!!
Someone quick get that man a binki. Seriously, I haven’t heard a man whine so much since John Kerry was running. Of course, it is the same strategy, it works against the effeminite men. It’s not like anyone is saying things that aren’t readily apparent.
"My pay grade doesn't permit me to answer this question."
What absolute drivel.
The last thing I want to see is Obama in a banana hammock. Thanks, but no thanks.
surfer girl
I like what one Freeper on here said....
McCain acted like a man and Obama a boy......what a startling difference for everyone to view. It was obvious Obama was trying hard to “think” about how he stated everything he said...where McCain just revealed his soul!!!
I do not think I have ever heard John McCain mention the haloed one’s name without including the title Senator before it. And yet we have the haloed one referring to his opponent using only his last name and in a disrespectful manner. Yet it will be Senator McCain who the MSM will accuse of low road campaigning.
He’s also got “grey” in his hair where he had NONE days earlier in Hawaii............
oy. next they’ll put in pec implants.
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