Posted on 10/16/2008 10:31:03 AM PDT by LegalEagle61
MAC'S SHOT AT A LATE-GAME WIN
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published in the The New York Post on October 16, 2008
The short term impact of the third debate will be to help Barack Obama. But the long term implications may give John McCain a needed boost. Obama looked good, but McCain opened the tax-and-spend issue in a way that might prevail.
Obama took the worst that McCain could hand out and came out looking good. McCain was the more aggressive debater, but Obama looked like the better president. The constants of the debate remained. Obama is smoother, prettier, younger and more presidential. But McCain had a feisty appeal, a Trumanesque approach that may resonate in these times of anger and unrest.
Obama seemed to rise above the charges and show his reasonableness and his ability to inspire confidence. McCain was like a trial lawyer, hammering out his points, but Obama came across with dignity.
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I don’t always agree with Morris but when you look at Mac’s track record of come from behind, Dick makes sense with his take.
“..but Obama looked like the better president.”
Morris is never right. Things are looking up..=)
Looks like its over for McCain....
Whatever Morris says...the opposite always happens. His prognostications are always wrong.
Remember this is the same guy who said “Condi vs Hillary” in 2008. Wrong
The fact that anyone takes Morris’s insight with any serious thought needs to have their head examined
Thanks Dick. Now go suck on a toe.
Morris (I think) “but Obama looked like the better president. “
Um, er, arh, um (pregnant pause) um, ur, ar......Yeah right!!!!
I don’t know which debate he was watching, but the one I saw last night saw McCain savage Obumbler. Did no one else take that away from last night?
Obama looked like a defensive, bumbling wannabe.
I find that Dick Morris is very shrewd when anaylzing specific situations — I think his take on the debate last night is dead-on — but he tends to get larger conclusions wrong. I recall Dick Morris talking about how McCain should choose Lieberman for his running mate, which was just nuts. When you see how psyched the core of the Republican Party is about Sarah Palin, it’s clear that the same people would have stayed home or voted for a third candidate if Lieberman were the running mate.
“but Obama came across with dignity.”
Heck then why don’t we go get any local car salesman and put him in as POTUS. They are far more dignified and much less obnoxious!
Just look at his judgement and the people he surrounds himself with. . .And that “thing” he picked for a wife. She’s the most angry, hate filled person imaginable. Who wants her near the White House?
“Who wants her near the White House?”
About half of America. Frightening, isn’t it!
Yes, very. She would be an awful First Lady. No class.
I agree
The debate gave McCain the chance to give national exposure to Obama’s very revealing “spread the wealth around” comment.
That remark alone will cost Obama his lead as it grows legs, and if not for the debate it would have been assiduously overlooked and deep-sixed by the in-the-bag media.
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