More on the Cone of Not-So-Silence

ABC News ^ | 8/18/08 | Jack Tapper

[mngran2]

UPDATE: ABC News' Ron Claiborne, traveling with the McCain campaign, reports that McCain senior adviser Charlie Black would not say whether people around McCain while he was en route to Rick Warren's forum had access to blackberries and cell phones from which they could have tipped off Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., about the questions.

"There's no reason we would do that," was all Black would say, though quite obviously there is a reason.

[Joe 6-pack]

"This is why all the left finds it so easy to say that McCain must have cheated. Because *they would have*."

The terms are projection and guilt transfer. The leftist believes the right is always cheating, full of hatred, insolent and morally debased because they know these qualities exist in their ranks and among their leaders, but they haven't the courage to confront it there.

[Louis Foxwell]

Obama lost. That’s the story here.

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The pundits who rationalize McCain’s destruction of Obama neglect to mention that McCain did not reply to a single comment by Obama. Had he been listening in he surely would have sent a well placed arrow into Obama’s heart. Obama left himself oen on so many fronts it would have been impossible tyo miss. McCain did, however, speak from the heart and his long political and moral experience in ways that left Obama snorting dust. McCain demonstrated courage, wisdom, character and clarity. Obama demonstrated immaturity, ignorance and deceit.
McCain slammed pitch after pitch into the bleachers. Obama struck out again and again.

[MEGoody]

What difference would it make whether or not the candidates were tipped off beforehand to what the questions were going to be? It wasn't like they had to have someone do a ton of research for them so they wouldn't look stupid. The questions were merely questions about personal belief and positions on issues.

The truth is, Obama either couldn't verbalize his beliefs and positions or was afraid to do so because he knows how unpalatable they'd be (or both).

The longer he and his team whine about this, the more attention they are bringing to Obama's dismal performance. So. . . let them keep it up for a few more weeks. ;)

[STE=Q]

Captain Kirk (star trek) — the ONLY cadet to ever pass the “Kobayashi Maru” test at the star fleet academy — when asked how he did it? Replied, “I cheated!... I don’t like to lose!”

Not that I’m a big McCain fan... but I’d rather have a President more like Captain Kirk than, uh, eh, uh, I mean, uh, Obama.

STE=Q

[Free Descendant]

The ums, ers, ahhs, and stumbling that he exhibits when you take his teleprompter away are something that can only be covered up for so long. Acting as if he speaks that way because of his thoughful answers is playing the public for fools.

That's becoming more and more clear to me. One CNN "analyst" said that Obama "takes you through his thought process" and you can "see how he thinks".

[vpintheak]

It is comical seeing the way the MSM is trying to cover for the annointed one’s idiocy. And yet they cannot understand why people mock them so and seek news elsewhere.

[peridot]

This morning, Laura Ingraham played the BO response to the Georgian situation. The statement had obviously been written for him. He stumbled through it. Somebody should teach him to proof read before getting in front of the mics. Contrast this with McCain getting off a plane, crossing the tarmac and speaking without a script. As far as I’m concerned this forum was THE presidential debate. The rest, face to face, won’t tell the American people anything we didn’t see on Saturday night. McCain won big time and nothing the MSM says can wash away the Dim’s pathetic performance. I don’t know or care about Rick Warren’s politics, but maybe we should all send him a “thank you” card.

[TigersEye]

Did the candidates have the questions in advance?

McCain - Yes! He has asked himself these questions a thousand times over.

Obama - No. These things had never occurred to him before.

Conclusion: McCain cheated. He even sounded like he believed what he was saying so he must have cheated.

[Williams]

Well, first off Obama said he would not appoint Thomas, Scalia or Roberts, second I have heard Obama say directly that his model of a great Justice is Ruth Bader Ginzburg. He was absolutely clear on that.

[MortMan]

Does Michelle count? ;-P

[PackerBronco]

One CNN "analyst" said that Obama "takes you through his thought process" and you can "see how he thinks".

I agree and let's examine the Obama thought process of the question of evil.

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Warren:

Does evil exist and if it does do we ignore it, do we negotiate with it, do we contain it or do we defeat it?

Obama:

Evil does exist. I mean, we see evil all the time. We see evil in darfur. We see evil sadly on the streets of our cities. We see evil in parents who have viciously abused their children and i think it has to be confronted..

It has to be confronted squarely and One of the things that i strongly believe is that, you Know, we are not going to, as individuals, be able to Erase evil from the world. That is god's task. But we Can be solders in that process and we can confront it When we see it .

Now, the one think that i think is very Important is for us to have some humility in how we Approach the issue of con fronting evil, but you know a Lot of evil has been perpetrated based on the claim That we were trying to confront evil. And i think one thing That's very important is having some humility in Recognizing that, you know, just because we think our Intentions are good doesn't always mean that we're Going to be doing good.

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Now what I find so fascinating is watching Obama's mind work as it spins around and around upon itself. It goes something like this:

1. Evil Exists
2. and we must confront it
3. but we can't erase it
4. and in confronting it we may commit evil
5. Because Evil Exists ... (repeat)

And that's where we're left. I submit to you that this is a mind unsuited for the Presidency. This is a mind of a ditherer who cannot clearly focus and arrive at a conclusion and resolve a course of action.

[panthermom]

How can you cheat at something when there is not right or wrong?? It’s not like they were taking the SAT. This was a question and answer session, the answers were the opinion of the person being asked the question. From what I’m reading Obama’s answers did’t cut it with the grown ups of the country. Now if he was speaking at a dorm keg party, maybe things would have turned out different. They really need to get over it, they sound like spoiled little brats.

[steveo]

quote from another site:

>Lucy and Ricky were slated to appear on a radio game show with a top prize of $500. Lucy happened to find the answers to the questions before going on air and memorized them, but the questions were changed at the last minute, making her answers quite wrong.

"How long is a term for a U.S. Senator?"
"The sap runs every three years."

"Why was Marie Antoinette put under the blade of the guillotine?"
"To scrape the barnacles off her hull."

So here's my challenge...Have another Q&A session with both candidates given 20 minutes to review the questions in advance. Have them both interview AT THE SAME TIME by different interviewers asking the same questions and then see how the Big-O does.

[Mike Darancette]

Obama the Wussy whiner.

[ovrtaxt]

You’re right, I can’t guess which one.

Which one?

[SteamShovel]

if confronted with defeat let loose the dogs of injustice and cry conspiracy!!!

RATS will do anything for power. They don't lose with class, they go down ugly taking all they can with them.