Posted on 06/12/2008 8:06:41 PM PDT by Trajan88
If only John McCain could use surrogates instead of having to debate Barack Obama in person. The other day in Toronto, McCain's team, his foreign-policy adviser Niall Ferguson and conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer, crushed the Obama squad - Samantha Power, who had to step down from his campaign after calling Hillary Clinton "a monster," and Richard Holbrooke, who was Bill Clinton's UN ambassador. Before the debate, only 21 percent of the audience agreed with the motion that "the world is a safer place with a Republican in the White House." Two hours later, the mostly liberal, anti-George Bush crowd had a profound change of heart: 43 percent ended up voting for the motion. "Was it simply that Power was the weakest of the speakers on the stage?" columnist Shinan Govani wondered. "Or did it point to a weakness in the Obama brand?" Power, a Pulitzer-winning Harvard professor, left "shocked and visibly downbeat," Govani reports. "What happened?" she was heard asking.
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If anyone has a link to a transcript...
transcript would be great..
But Obama’s sooo dreamy.
Obama will never be president.
Not only is he not qualified, but the legions of morons with whom Obama would stock his adminstration are Clintonite and Carterite morons who are languidly anti-american and squishy on national defense because of it.
Guilty! Whoops, wrong thread! ;-)
I’ll tell you what happened, Krauthammer is a genius. Conservativism is correct, put in the hands of a Krauthammer or a George Will even Alan Dershowitz would look bad. Dershowitz is too smart to be against the war though.
Why is the “no make-up look” so popular with these lefty women? To me, that is the international symbol for “I am a lefty, man-hating kook”
(disclaimer; In order for me not to get physically hurt (hi pg26) I must now claim that there are right-wing ladies who go sans makeup as well and are not insane...quite lovely in fact)
{;O)
Why is the “no make-up look” so popular with these lefty women? To me, that is the international symbol for “I am a lefty, man-hating kook”
(disclaimer; In order for me not to get physically hurt (hi pg26) I must now claim that there are right-wing ladies who go sans makeup as well and are not insane...quite lovely in fact)
{;O)
It was by far the best and most educational series of debates on the issues because they were genune debates, not joint press conferences.
My favorite memory was the debate on economic issues where Arthur Laffer from the Reagan campaign eviscerated Mitch Rogovin from the Anderson campaign.
We need more of this.
If she were a conservative she'd look just fine. It's what's inside that's ugly.
Heh heh heh... Like sending a hobbit to duel with Cyrano.
I think we say “PWNED!” now. It’s like the latest thing.
Dershowitz is a supporter of action in the middle east. He would be on the same side as Krauthammer and the rest of us “neocons”
Win or lose, the SCOTUS ruling today will be an albatross around the neck of Obama and the Dems. As the smoke clears and it becomes clear what the consequences of giving key documents to unlawful combatant lawyers, of divulging military operations in an open court, in the media and protester circus that will surround trials, to the potential (seems to me there is no way around it) of forcing military personnel to testify in a trial for every combatant captured etc. the public will become wise to the foolishness of this ruling.
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