Posted on 09/26/2008 10:33:14 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Nervous Nellies is an establishment on Deer Island, Maine, selling excellent jams and chutneys in a weird and wonderful garden featuring sculptures made of household junk and old car parts. It also pretty much describes the state of mind of the Democratic Party as it contemplates a presidential election it knows it ought to win but could lose.
That mindset was not improved by the televised debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, at least if my personal Democratic focus group, consisting of three women, a business executive, a writer on culture and a think tank director, and one man, a lawyer, was any guide.
All thought that McCain’s aggression scored heavily over Obama’s relative passivity. All noticed, even counted, the number of times the Republican candidate said “what Senator Obama doesn’t understand” or “what he doesn’t get.” Similarly they noted how often the Democrat declined to challenge McCain, even when his record was being clearly distorted, as, variously, on his positions on nuclear power, relations with Iran, and the war in Iraq.
All five observed that, in the critical area of body language, McCain hardly ever looked at his opponent but adopted a slightly superior smile when Obama was speaking. By contrast Obama, who had no problem looking directly at McCain, was almost deferential to the older man, saying, perhaps half a dozen times, “I agree with John,” before launching into a modest critique or dissent.
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“debates only sometimes determine the outcome of presidential elections”
I think Obama undermined himself as arrogant fools so often do, but if he is not elected then the outcome of the election will have been boosted not undermined by this debate.
Excellent!!!
Oh yes FRiend, that was delicious, as in “Jim, make him stop!!!” WAAAAAAAAA
Please somebody post that pic of the crying baby!!!
I’d like to make one correction. It is Deer Isle, Maine, not Deer Island. He is correct though, Nervous Nellie’s does have excellent jams.
I grew up a couple of miles from there. It used to be a very conservative place, mostly fishermen and small business owners. In the 60’s it was “discovered” by the artistic crowd from NYC. Now it is a liberal sewer. Members of my family, who still live there, have been infected with the liberal disease.
......Obama was all in a hissy!......
He was often visibly figity and irritated. McCain got under his skin on numerous occasions producing a look of distress on the face of the naive one.
my personal Democratic focus group, consisting of three women, a business executive, a writer on culture and a think tank director, and one man, a lawyer... thought that McCain's aggression scored heavily over Obama's relative passivity...for passivity, read, defensiveness. Obama's been an empty suit right along, a sock puppet, a closet smoker, a liar on many counts (including lies about his own past, his clear-as-day flip-flops, and his other lies) reciting from a teleprompter. He won't do well in the debates because he can't. Fence straddlers -- the Great Middle -- will have made up their minds by the time this quadrennial farce is over. It's all over but for the Demwit ballot-box stuffing.
There were no distortions. The author is clearly buying the Obama spin and words as distinct from his voting record. As McCain said, "You can look it up."
Tells it like it is? The author has a liberal bias and believes that McCain distorted Obama’s positions. He was bemoaning the fact that Obama did not fight back hard enough. The only problem is that McCain was not distorting Obama’s voting record, which seems to have been lost by the author.
right...in fact I would REALLY like for McCain to point out that NOTHING authored by Obama has passed - EVER.
And only FIVE bills that he has co-signed (out of like 300) have passed.
One of them being the very IMPORTANT legislation that if a lobbyist buys you lunch, you have to eat it while standing.
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