Posted on 08/18/2008 6:06:46 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
McCain has been doing townhall meetings all during this campaign and before. No doubt he has been asked every question in every way possible. So it is both his personal life experiences plus his being previously familiar with those types of questions that made his answers come so quickly, so easily and so clearly.
It was typical smarmy lib-speak. It came out of his mouth as naturally as “I voted for it before I voted against it.”
This reminds me of the 2004 campaign. One of the things that I dislike about McCain is his failure to support the Swift Boat Vets in 2004 and failure to criticize Kerry for his lies/exaggerations/etc. Maybe it's his association in the Senate all those years with the Democrats that makes him unable to critically see not only how wrong their positions are but how personally corrupt they are.
I ignored Obama Who? for a long time, but in the first speech of his I heard, he was proclaiming that "the culture wars are over," implying that the liberals had won, and as though saying it would magically make it true. The questions Rick Warren asked, and the reaction of the audience, makes it clear the culture wars rage on. I can only pray that McCain is as principled a president as he was as an interviewee at Saddleback.
I ignored Obama Who? for a long time, but in the first speech of his I heard, he was proclaiming that "the culture wars are over," implying that the liberals had won, and as though saying it would magically make it true. The questions Rick Warren asked, and the reaction of the audience, makes it clear the culture wars rage on. I can only pray that McCain is as principled a president as he was as an interviewee at Saddleback.
Sorry for the *hiccup* double post.
Not much of a difference? And you are a teacher? Just how did you measure the difference between the two candidates to come to that faulty conclusion?
3 a.m. phone calls are clearly above Obama’s pay grade. His finger has no business whatever near the button.
That's for sure! Kerry was more of an expert at that than is Obama -- look at how many more years JFnK had to practice equivocation!
The thing is Obama's supporters have convinced themselves, as they always do, that by virtue of being a liberal, he's a genius...just like they are. Conversely to libs all Republicans, even moderates like McCain, are little more than subhumans. Therefore it should be an easy task for a super-genius/savior like Obama to mop the floor with an old, crusty, troglodyte like McCain. And then the reverse happened which even the ultra-lefties on DummyU and other lib places noticed. McCain made Obama look like the naive, fool that he is. More and more Obama is looking like Robert Redford's character in "The Candidate." What will they do now?
I think the presidential debates are now pointless.
No dinosaur media reporter can do ANYTHING to compare.
I saw Warren on the news. He said that he gave both candidates a list of TOPICS that he would ask them about but not the specific questions on those topics. So they knew they would be asked about taxes, moral issues, abortion, etc.
He also said they both knew the first question.
I have no reason to disbelieve him.
Scene: Night, Whitehouse bedroom
Closeup, digital clock face, 2:59
Pull back as phone beside clock rings
A hand snakes out from under blankets to answer phone, and fumbles around on night table. Knocking over clock, glass of water, finally settling on handset.
Receiver is lifted and pulled under blankets.
Muffled voice: Hu-hu-hu-hello?
Distorted voice from handset sounds agitated
Muffled voice: Wh-Wh-Whu-What?
Distorted voice from handset sounds even more agitated
Muffled voice: Uh-ummm, well, umm...Who did you s-s-say you are?
Distorted voice now has that very deliberate quality to it
Muffled voice: That’s above my pay grade. Good night, Mr Ambassador.
Phone hangs up
Sorry for posting to myself...but I thought of a better ending to my commercial above.
Scene cutaway to American Ambassador in any Middle Eastern country, looking out window as “students” (a la James Earl Carter’s defining moment) scramble over embassy wall.
The smear about McCain getting the questions beforehand, seems to be gaining traction. His campaign needs to stomp on it most forcefully.
Obama actually said at one point in the Saddleback interview that he (Obama) cheated, implying that he knew the questions beforehand. Yet the MSM is trying to smear McCain, because he did better. Maybe they’d like to examine the coin they flipped, too.
According to the DummieFunnies on here, the DU is having a meltdown on their site with ‘the Messiah’s’ poor showing!! :-)
I wonder if he sterilized his kids yet. I mean, if he wants 'zero population growth', he should - and BAN ILLEGALS!!!
This a duplicitous answer inasmuch as he was not in the Senate when that so-called tough decision was made but, rather, was in the IL state legislature. Another ad for an independent group since McCain probably won't do it.
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