Summary of Obama's debate performance tonight: "I've got a bracelet, too."

PBS ^ | 9/26/2008 | PBS

[Notwithstanding]

Barack was the very junior senator on the defensive the entire evening.

After John McCain eloquently (and without notes) discussed the bracelet he wears given to him by the mom of a dead Iraq war vet.

Trying to prove his own support for the troops, Obama chimed in with a pathetic "I've got a bracelet, too," as he looked down at his notes to read the name of the soldier.

[Radl]

You were at the game. You tell us.

[Bobarian]

Okay, 37 minutes into the debate ZeroBama said "We can't do it."

I don't have the resources to pull this off, but someone has GOT to put together this montage:
"We can't do it."
"Yes, we can!"
"We can't do it."
"Yes, we can!"

[lilycicero]

McCain’s got dogtags and Obama has an anklet.

[ataDude]

What about the Zero’s hairdo? Did anyone else notice? It distracted me by making me laugh out loud.

[Lloyd227]

"I've got a bracelet, too."

Yeah, that was a rather weak moment, but I gotta say.... McCain should not have brought it up if he didn't have that bracelet on his wrist.

After BHO said his "I've got a bracelet too" thing, I was truly waiting for McCain to pull his sleave up and follow with: "But, I'm wearing mine"

No such luck... he's ours and we're stuck with the man, but we truly picked the wrong man for our nominee. This is quite possibly the most boring debate I've ever witnessed, blah, blah, blah..... same things we've heard from the both of them all along, nothing new, no bold gigs, no mention of BHO's 'friends'...

Johnny should have stayed in Washington working on the bail out and sent Sarah to this debate.

[Gordon Greene]

Lance? Nah... maybe Stretch Armstrong.

I don’t have what it takes to be Sheryl...

[discipler]

Yep, that is how I was seeing it. It was disgusting. Obama got to “set the record state” and have the last word almost every instance. I was watching and not listening.

[FishFace222]

I’ve been wondering that, too. Clintoon was, at least, minimally towards the center. Gore was left of him and came close to winning but didn’t, Kerry was further left and lost by more. Obamy is even further left and will probably lose in a landslide.

[Brett66]

That was lame.

The last part where Obama was talking about how America is not looked as a great country as we used to be pissed me off.
This jerk always puts America down, he can get bent!

[muawiyah]

McCain very cynically came with an "agenda list". As the debate progressed you could see him cross off the topics he'd intended to make points on.

Obama stutters a lot.

[river rat]

Those who have lost brothers or loved ones — don’t need a plastic bracelet or notes to remember their names.

Obama is such a freaking loser on so many levels - it horrifies me to see him pushed forward as a candidate for President...

Horrifying..

[ClearCase_guy]

McCain showed his bracelet when he mentioned it.

[Westbrook]

> Puhleeze, we’re getting our ass kicked. Osama, er...Obama
> is far better coached. We’re doomed!

I think I understand what you’re saying.

McCain has a quaver in his voice. He sounds shaky.

Obama appears poised and confident. He seems to have overcome, for the most part, his “uhs” and “ums”.

However, Obama is all over territory he once eschewed.

Obama is running to the center, and even to the right on national defense.

Whereas, McCain is where he has always been.

Anybody who knows anything about what Obama and his wife Michelle really tnink about the USA, or about their terrorist associations, and their pandering to terrorists and dictators, would be peg Obama’s performance as INSINCERE.

At least McCain was real, he was who he has always been. No masquerade, no “born-again” conservatism, no sudden shift from left to right.

[dr_who]

BO is not presidential material, true. Neither was Bill Clinton. But since Bill Clinton, appearing to be presidential has been the most important qualification. People can say paragraphs rife with stupidity, contradictions, non-sequiturs, and irrelevancies ... with great eloquence and fool a whole lot of people. Especially when part of it is what they want to hear at the time they hear it. Reagan wasn't incapable of explicating on complex issues, but he was intelligent to answer eloquent bullshit with simple truths that matter most to the voters. McCain improves into the debate, but his exertions are not bringing home his case for the presidency, not attacking the incredible deceit of his opponent, and not answering the attacks that are going to hamper his candidacy from now until November. I don't give a rats rear how gracious he will be conceding to Obama. He should know full well never to shake hands with the enemy.

[BigBobber]

What a dork!

Ha ha! That's exactly what I told my wife.

At that moment he looked just like the dorky kid in high school who had to show the girls he had a bracelet, too.

NPM - Not Presidential Material

[RochesterFan]

I think it will be much closer. Too many Bush haters think a vote for Obama is a vote against Bush.

[Chong]

Oh, damn, this is a good one, notwithstanding!

I was laughing about that when Hussein O Boy said that and almost chocked on my pizza!

Bwahahahahaha... I’ve got a bracelet too!

Well, the O boy is a boy...

Maybe he should go kneel in front of dying or dead kimchee boy and wash kimmie’s feet with his hair and ask for advice.

“Anoint me, kimchee, please, and tell me how I can be more like you?” “I want to RE-DISTRIBUTE WEALTH and make all my people EQUALLY starve while I dine on Lobster whenever Michelle allows me to?”

Please tell me how, pleeeeaaassseeeee!!!

[Lloyd227]

"Makes me wonder whether 0bama’s team didn’t somehow have a look at McCain’s debate material."

Why would anyone wonder that? McCain had absolutely nothing new except the bracelet and that should have included actually having the bracelet on his wrist.

[Cicero]

I was hoping that Obama was going to have one of those uh . . . uh . . . uh . . . moments, but no such luck. He stumbled a bit now and then, but not badly.

I’ll make one point that I noticed. McCain looked as if he was genuinely amused by some of the stupid things that Obama said. He has a great smile. In contrast, Obama has a very snarky, superior smile. I’m hoping that will make an impression on undecided viewers.

[Repeal 16-17]

McCain got under the Liberal Messiah’s skin. The LM repeatedly tried to interrupt McCain. Hopefully, the squishy brained people, known as “the undecided”, were paying attention.