Posted on 09/26/2008 2:16:10 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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Matthews Mad Obama Agreed So Much With McCain
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 11:57:13 PM by governsleastgovernsbest
How disappointed was Chris Matthews with Barack Obama’s debate performance tonight? How angry was Matthews at Obama for agreeing so much with John McCain? Enough that Matthews unleashed the ultimate Dem insult, saying Obama reminded him of Richard Nixon.
Matthews first vented his frustration at Obama adviser Linda Douglass.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Linda, my friend, why did your candidate agree so much, openly and relentlessly, with his opponent tonight?
Douglas’s answer was to the effect that this is how a bi-partisan Obama would operate as president. After criticizing Obama for mishandling the economic issues in the debate, Matthews turned to Andrea Mitchell, and levelled that supreme Dem slap.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091566/posts
I mostly listened, and thus didn't see that. If it was obvious to somebody not pre-conditioned to be irritated by it (i.e., any of us), then perhaps his effectiveness was lessened. But listening to it, I thought Obama did sound more authoritative than McCain did.
Do you think Obama provided more substantive answers than McCain did, instead of just reverting to the blame game in place of actual solutions?
Of course not. But his Wall of Words made him sound a lot more informed and sure of himself than McCain did.
(Serious questions, not meant to be an attack, I’m just baffled by your take on the debate.)
I'm a cynic about things like this. I think that most of the public will settle for the style, and won't dig into what was actuall said to see who won on substance.
I too live in N Va and counted stickers today as I drove from Quantico to Fredericksburg. 4 McCain (in cluding one USAF Vets for McCain) and 1 Obama sticker.
I guess they’re scared of being called racists? Getting sued? Who knows anymore with these people. They’re all delusional.
Do you remember that first debate between Kerry and Bush. I was seething. I was answering for Bush— yelling at the TV.
Bush was terrible! He acted like he had just caught Laura with Bill Clinton in the bathroom just before he was to go on stage.
The [Wall Street] Journal's liberal Washington bureau chief Al Hunt, and his hand-picked successor Allan Murray, both Clinton apologists, assigned other Clinton apologists to the Clinton scandal-news beat.
One notable punch-puller was Viveca Novak, who right from the start dismissed Whitewater as "a dead-end," despite the investigation convicting more than a dozen Clinton cronies. She also tapped liberal Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe to pooh-pooh the legal merits of Paula Jones' sexual-harassment lawsuit against Clinton – one that led to a nearly seven-figure settlement and his impeachment for lying to a judge about a material witness in the case. Novak, now with Time, got her start writing for liberal Common Cause Magazine. ----http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28078 48 posted on 11/27/2005 4:23:58 PM PST by Quilla | To 42
So you wanted McCain to get hung with the "picking on the black boy" tag.
John McCain was on his game tonight! I am very pleased.
The economy debate should be great. McCain needs to keep hammering on the wasteful spending and earmarks. McCain has Obama by the short hairs there.
I haven’t seen as many bumper stickers in NOVA but have seen quite a few yard signs in my middle to slightly upper middle class white ‘hood.
Agree. The area it covered was the economy which is the subject of the next two debates and that worries me. I thought McCain repeated himself too often and some of his points weren't as clean as they could have been. Some of his lines were ones I've heard on the campaign trail but tonight they were jumbled. There were several lost opportunities that he should not allow happen during the next two debates. Obama was swarmy, rude and my perception was that he seemed to have more speaking time than McCain. However if foreign policy was his weaker suit and it was a draw he faired well.
All I know is that Obama’s people had all this material focus grouped, they had his answers tested, just like Clinton's. They aren't burning though money for nothing. His campaign is being run by people other than himself and they know what they're doing.
JFK got his ass kicked in ‘60 but won on looks. Bush kicked Clinton's butt, but Clinton had a better delivery in 92. Dubya came across more likeable in 2000.
trust me, i studied this crap for way too long. There is nothing that Obama’s campaign is doing that hasn't been done before, they're just doing it a little better.
If Obama was white, he would be sitting in Chicago scheming with college dropouts how to get dead people registered to vote for Hillary.
Jeez, it's not about who is best suited to run the country anymore, it's been about who makes the voters feel better.
I would agree with that. I thought he did a decent job of moderating this debate. I don't know who he favors... but that's just it. He didn't seem to favor either side.
Kudos to him, for this. A professional job of it.
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Call me in 5 years, when you reach your 10th anniversary at FR.
Replay on CNN now.
I listened as well, and thought McCain clobbered him. Go figure.
Exactly. The McCain campaign could easily throw together an hour long montage.
You might be surprised how much a stick of gum costs these days.
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