Posted on 09/27/2008 12:27:02 AM PDT by Chet 99
John McCain was very lucky that he decided to show up for the first presidential debate in Oxford, Miss., Friday night. Because he gave one of his strongest debate performances ever.
While Barack Obama repeatedly tried to link McCain to the very unpopular George W. Bush, Bush’s name will not be on the ballot in November and McCain’s will.
And McCain not only found a central theme but hit on it repeatedly. Obama is inexperienced, naive, and just doesn’t understand things, McCain said.
Sure, McCain is a pretty old guy for a presidential candidate, but he showed the old guy did not mind mixing it up. He stood behind a lectern for 90 minutes without a break — you try that when you are 72 — and he not only gave as good as he got, he seemed to relish it more.
At least twice after sharp attacks by McCain, Obama seemed to look to moderator Jim Lehrer for help, saying to Lehrer, “Let’s move on.”
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I thought it was interesting how Obama kept bringing up the need for drilling our own oil. Anyone with half a brain knows he is dead set against it.
McCain started slow. I wanted to kick him for not pointing out that this mess can be traced to gubmint-sponsored Freddie and Fannie when Obama started going off on the evils of free markets.
But at the end Obama was looking stupid and silly and Mac was grinning at him like a shark.
I think that both sides will find something to like in the debate (there were no KO punches with few "good shots"), but undecided folks just tuning in were left probably wondering about the Democrats crap about McCain "running from the debate". Obama was probably strategically unwise (tactically sound, tho) to pretend that McCain was scared of him.
The real good news of the debate is that the stop-the-campaign-and -run-to-DC thing is ancient history now. Let the fighting commence!
Those commercials annoy me to DEATH! My daughter has a Mac, and is always complaining about what she can't do with it, and how it's slow and not compatible with the rest of the computing world. Those b@st@rd$ at Apple have gotten by on being "hip" for far too long.
“McCain should have dropped the Bomb —
About Hussein getting the second most campaign donations from Fannie Mae”
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I think he’s waiting for the next debate, focusing as much as possible on FP issues last night. My favorite lines:
Obama - “I have a bracelet too.”
McCain - “I know our veterans. And they know that I’ll take care of them.”
And would someone put together a youtube video playing the song - Tea for two and two for tea, me for you and you for me..... (With Obama and Achmad..what’s his face.)
How is inflicting pain and death on an innocent, helpless human being for profit, moral"a civil right"?
Speak their language, call it "Guantanamo of the womb"
Cheers!
I had to laugh when Obama mentioned his ‘bracelet’ too. He never did actually show it though - did he?
Love your tag line too - it’s new isn’t it?
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Yeah, Obama stumbling over the name of the soldier on the bracelet was telling. McCain’s love for veterans seemed honest. Eye-opening was McCain’s words regarding Obama and Iraq...did he or didn’t he sit down with Petreus (sp?)...thought McCain leveled Obama with the statement that Obama never met with him...something along those lines. Taken together with his fumbling over the soldier’s name—he wasn’t wearing the bracelet, was he?—and McCain’s obvious empathy for vets, Obama’s bumper sticker rhetoric fell far short. I thought McCain’s parting words will be remembered, at least by me...”I know how to heal the wounds of war...” etc.
McCain saying Obama is so far to the left he has a hard time reaching that far across the aisle was a hoot.
Obama, on the other hand, is an empty man whose appeal to envy and resentment, along with his bumper sticker rhetoric, coupled with the threat of riots, his impatience and rude interruptions, along with some of the other actions of his campaign...apparently are not enough to convince those being polled that he is the wrong choice.
Go figure.
just look at his mother to see how well he will age
When a bill is passed... he will attack... not before and for obvious reasons.
LLS
I liked Lehrer too last night, and I wasn’t surprised he did a good job. Lehrer’s always been good at this sort of thing, and even though he’s a liberal he makes a good faith effort to keep his bias out of what he does on camera, which to me is honorable.
I got a mac mini - ran into the some roads missing too so now I run both windows/mac at home. I like the mac for it does run fast, re-boot fast, rarely slows down or locks-up but anytime I need to connect to work from home or do anything more nerdy I have to go back to winders. Have you tried running windows as a 2nd operating system on the mac?
I think we should pronounce obie-wan-so dopeys PC as ‘pissee’
Course then all the conservatives and repubs will line up to be the ‘pissers’
PISS OFF, OBAMA!
I seem to remember him starting to lift his right-arm when he mentioned the bracelet but then he seemed to stop short of showing his wrist..
Filed under:
Things That Make Me Go Hmmm
Orbama probably just forgot to show it and went on to his next talkee points.
But just maybe I’ll try to see if it becomes another YouTube VideoHit moment.
oops - i’m sure you guys have met before - no?
To me one of the funniest things about the debate last night was a facial expression McCain had right after O said that Ahmadinajad was not the leader of Iran.. McCain was on split screen and he just widened his eyes and looked like he was thinking, “is he nuts?” It was funny, but I didn’t see any mention of it on the thread last night. Did anyone else see this?
McCain is fully aware of how fearful a weapon this is but the financial rescue package is not a done deal and could be destroyed by premature attempts at recriminations.
McCain doesn't have to use his entire nuclear arsenal. He is wisely seeking to appeal to the middle folks who are undecided.
McCain understands the real purpose of the debates. The undecideds are his targets and he is wisely playing to that audience.
bttt
I agree, and even though they devoted some time to it last night, this was not the “Economy debate”. By the time we have that debate McCain will have lots of ammo.
BTW, McCain sealed the deal for many Independents last night when he called Barry on the spending and earmarks. I loved it when McCain broke down Barry’s 900+ million dollar spending spree. That’s one million dollars a day for every day he’s been in the senate.
LLS
Moment that caught my eye:
A list of national security issues was being summarized and wrapped up by McCain, and I said out loud (to the TV), “Don’t forget the borders...” And not 2 seconds later McCain DID add at the end, “...including the borders” to his list of security concerns.
THANK YOU SENATOR MCCAIN.
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