Posted on 08/18/2008 5:34:25 AM PDT by kellynla
Barack Obama bumped into something hard on Saturday night. The nuanced naif of Illinois preceded -- in Paris Hilton’s wonderful snark -- the “wrinkly white-haired dude” in Pastor Rick Warren’s civility summit and came up very short.
You can judge how well McCain did by the minimalist coverage in the media. The highlights reported here were virtually ignored in the Sunday papers.
McCain has never been better. His self deprecation, his humor, and his life story turned the back-to-back interviews into a conclusive demonstration that he is ready for the presidency and Obama isn’t.
McCain was energized, comfortable and quietly eloquent in explaining why his life proves the most important of qualities in a president: character and core beliefs. Obama -- consistently charming and shallow -- demonstrated neither of those qualities.
John McCain was a prisoner of the North Vietnamese for more than five years. Researching an article four years ago on John Kerry’s antiwar activities during many of those same years, I interviewed more than a half-dozen of McCain’s fellow POWs. Each of them, in much the same words, said “I wouldn’t be alive today but for the personal courage of John McCain.”
That courage was explained, calmly, by McCain when Warren asked him to describe the most difficult “gut-wrenching” decision in his life.
McCain answered, “It was long ago and far away in a prison camp in North Vietnam. My father was a high ranking admiral. The Vietnamese came and said that I could leave prison early. And we had a code of conduct that said you only leave by order of capture.
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Fine, vote for obammy.
“it was a matter of commitment, principal and honor.”
Some people wimp out and walk away from those things over a lot less than broken bones and the pain of torture and confinement. You can’t say its not hard to make that decision. McCain is a good man, but he’s still flesh and blood.
“Is this interview
going to translate into any vote for McCain that did not exist last week?”
There are millions of Americans who, thanks to the obamedia, are unaware of Obama’s pro-abort extremism. If this forum makes them more aware of McCain’s prolife stand and Obama’s lies and waffles and opposition to even protecting born-alive victims of abortion, then, yes, votes will change.
“I have never questioned that McCain would be a better option for America then Obama.
But did McCain do or say anything to convince Americans that he was the best choice available out there?”
Yes. Prolife, pro-school choice, pro-win-the-war-on-terror, and better on judges, taxes and family issues. Oh, and a straight-talking leaders not a fatuous empty suit windbag.
Simple logic: The 2 choices now are McCain and Obama.3rd party guys will not win, so anything other than a vote for McCain is a vote to not participate in the McCain v Obama race. One of the two will be President. If you know McCain would be better than Obama, then McCain is the best choice available at this time.
This forum proved that McCain is better than Obama.
Most of John McCain's positions and voting record has been conservative. But because he catered to the media and talks up mostly on foreign policy, we rarely get to hear him say what he said in that forum.
It's great to see a Presidential candidate give straight-up conservative straight-talk answers to direct questions.
That was Jesse Helms.
I disagree with McCain on all the issues you mentioned. But how did he stab conservatives in the back? As a senator, he has been very upfront about his position on these issues. And he voted the way he argued his position in public. He didn't sneak in a vote opposite to what he said in public. He has voted consistent with his public posture. I disagree with him on many important issues. But he didn't stab me in the back. He didn't represent himself as a strict conservative and then vote as a moderate. He represented himself as a moderate and voted as a moderate.
McCain was not my first choice as a candidate. He wasn't even my second or third choice. He was my last choice. But at this point he is the candidate of the Republican party. And he is a moderate on most issues. But he is a conservative on two important issues: defense and abortion.
Obama isn't even a moderate on issues. He is a left-wing radical. So I would like to ask you a question, a negative question: who do you think would do more damage to this country as president, Obama or McCain?
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