McCain sure lost the debate
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McCain sure lost the debate
| Fri, 09-26-2008 - 10:43pm |
Commentators pointing out how McCain never looked at Obama, seemed to be looking for a fight, kept saying Obama doesn't understand - then Obama looked at McCain, looked at camera and spoke to people at home, and showed McCain over and over that he DOES understand.
The bracelet - loved how Obama retorted "I have my own bracelet",

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Really? I didn't think it was that much of a blowout. I think Obama won on points, but there were no knockout blows delivered by either side, and no blatant YouTube-worthy cringers like there were a-plenty in Palin's train wreck of an interview with Katie Couric.
The problem for John McCain in this, though, is that tonight's debate centered on his supposed long suit - foreign (and military) policy. He NEEDED to score a knockout, and he didn't get it. I, too, noticed how many times he said "what Senator Obama doesn't seem to understand..." - and also how Obama combatted each instance by specifically addressing the salient points of the issue about which McCain had just accused him of "not understanding." McCain came off looking a bit wooden as a result, not to mention a bit petulant and argumentative. He sounded like a Senator.
Obama sounded like a President.
noobama - said 7-8 times that he agreed with McCain.
That is what posture is.
Have you read none of the news articles which describe this? I ask that seriously, because I doubt many of the political junkies who frequent this board are under the misapprehension that the President somehow has voting power in the Senate. What the news reports which measured this are describing are times when the President has advocated or proposed a specific action or law, and the Senate has had a chance to vote on such a thing. The easiest example would be the Iraq war. The President argued strongly in favor of an authorization for the use of military force. Enough Republicans in the Senate thought it was a good idea that a bill was introduced, debated, and voted upon. John McCain - in that instance, just as in nine out of every ten OTHER instances - voted in accordance with the President's explicit goals/votes/desires.
Why is that so hard to understand?
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