McCain sure lost the debate

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Registered: 04-06-2008
McCain sure lost the debate
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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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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-25-2008
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 11:08pm

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.


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Registered: 04-02-2008
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 11:09pm
Yep!
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-19-2008
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 11:10pm

noobama - said 7-8 times that he agreed with McCain.

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 11:12pm
Exactly!
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-25-2008
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 11:12pm
Unfortunately, I suspect Senator McCain is all to well acquainted with those remarks.....he just chose to flat-out lie about them.

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-18-2006
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 11:13pm

That is what posture is.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-16-2008
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 11:15pm
I appreciate that Obama addressed the things I am interested in hearing about as opposed to McCain who seemed to just want to remind us again that he had been a pow and that he supported military action that many people don't even remember. It would have been nice if McCain could have stayed relevant - but he really just accentuated his age - guess that was thousands of dollars in makeup wasted!
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-16-2008
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 11:17pm
Unfortunately by lying about them he just comes of as ill-informed. He really needs to get into a 12 step program for the lying - it seems to be getting out of hand.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-25-2008
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 11:17pm

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?


iVillage Member
Registered: 05-10-2008
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 11:20pm

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