Sore Loser

WSJ via Hawaii Reporter ^ | August 18, 2008 | John Fund

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Sore Loser By John H. Fund, 8/18/2008 10:11:19 AM The Barack Obama campaign apparently went outside the normal spin guardrails yesterday in trying to explain how John McCain did so well in Saturday's Saddleback Forum with Pastor Rick Warren. As NBC's Andrea Mitchell noted on Sunday's "Meet the Press," what the Obama campaign is "putting out privately is that McCain may not have been in the cone of silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama. . . . He seemed so well prepared."

[MaineConservative]

Obama replied, "Harry, you're not going to believe this, but he's cutting holes in the ice!"

LOL... Great joke!! :-)

[colorado tanker]

There's a good reason no one gave Obama the questions in advance. Because the answers are above his pay grade.

[MaxMax]

Oh, and I believe that McCain will win by a landslide.
Unless the Enquirer catches him in bed with Helen Thomas.

[Doomonyou]

LOL! Stolen for email purposes!

[hermgem]

I'm certain you meant this to be sarcasm.
Right???
Let candidates answer written questions to agreed upon propositions?
I for myself want a candidate not prepped but come straight out with his true answer and conviction, as McCain did.
The three most important people in my life:
My wife, my Grandmother, Ted Kennedy. stop...enough.

[jeffc]

As NBC's Andrea Mitchell noted on Sunday's "Meet the Press," what the Obama campaign is "putting out privately is that McCain may not have been in the cone of silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama. . . . He seemed so well prepared."

But FOXNews is reporting that the BO campaign itself is not accusing McCain, but that others are . . .

[Blood of Tyrants]

Even if he DID hear the questions and answers, he would have had practically no time to prepare his own answers. Perhaps 2-3 minutes each and certainly not enough time to memorize them. Also, McCain answered SEVERAL questions that Warren never got to with Obama because of Obama’s long-winded, mealy-mouthed, say-nothing-with-a-lot-of-words answers that ate up his allotted time.

[Blood of Tyrants]

That is literally impossible.

[my right]

I have no idea if JM was in the cone or not but I have to say he has to be damn stupid to give these idiots the ammunition to shoot down his first real victory. And you know the MSM will be bias against him.

[GloriaJane]

That’s funny! LOL!

[Presbyterian Reporter]

I have seen other comments like that regarding Obama’s managerial skills in hiring people to run his campaign.

However, a basic problem with that proposal is that Obama has had to fire a bunch of campaign helpers when we nasty conservatives outed them as being super radicals.

[LearsFool]

That was a silly question to begin with, something you might hear in a Barbara Walters interview - with answers appropriate for that venue as well. And was that nonsense about “your greatest moral failure”? Sheesh.

What I’d like America to hear is how a man sees things, what he plans to do if he’s elected, what are the reasons behind that plan, and why he thinks it’s the right thing to do. Let the two of them answer this question:

- “Is abortion wrong? If so, why? And what, if anything, do you plan to do about it?”

(Instead, we get handed the same old song and dance about how “I’m pro-life and have been for 25 years” - followed by more abortions.)

Or how about these:

- “What is the greatest single external threat and the greatest single internal threat confronting this nation, and how would you address them in the capacity of president?”

- “The president is charged with upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States. What, in your opinion, is the greatest threat to that Constitution, and what is your battle plan for defeating it?”

- “Summarize your political philosophy. Which of the founding fathers would most approve of your political philosophy and why?”

- “How would you define liberty? Is it currently under attack in America? If so, what is your plan for defending it?”

I tire of listening to politicians respond to questions like the last one in “debates” and town hall meetings with, “Well, you know, this is the greatest country on earth. And we need to, uh, spread that greatness around the world, uh, you know, to be a beacon of freedom and prosperity and tolerance, in, uh, places like Iraq and Afghanistan and Rwanda and......” Zzzzzzz...