Who Won The Debate? Reviews Go To Obama

[KenH]

The comfort is to know that a lot of people who don't say much but think a lot will actually end up going to the polls to vote.

...for Senator Obama. :thumbs:

 

[KenH]

Pundits: Debate Even. Viewers: Obama Clearly Won. Why the Disparity?

"But many pundits threw out the window what they, and others, had said beforehand, about Obama needing to appear presidential and seem expert on international matters. When he did just that in the debate, they suddenly forgot the importance they had placed on it beforehand.

But here's the key to the viewer/pundit disparity. It took awhile for McCain to build up to it but then he hammered it home near the end: Obama, he charged, lacked the "knowledge and experience" to be president.

Pundits highlighted that and said it was the key to McCain gaining at least a tie. But I didn't hear a single person on TV point out: McCain just picked Palin for vice president! How, then, could he make such a charge against Obama?

My feeling is that the Couric interview might have done for McCain what the first Nixon-Kennedy did for Nixon in 1960 -- a true watershed moment. The American voters finally "got it" about Palin and so McCain's "best moment" against Obama either fell flat with many of them, or proved laughable.

This made all the more stark with Palin AWOL during the post-debate analysis -- and Joe Biden all over the place. And with reports of McCain team alarm about her performance during the mock debate preps.

But the pundits barely recognized that the "experience" charge was a non-starter -- and that's why they scored the debate fairly even even as viewers seem to have rated it a landslide for Obama."

- rest at www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003855844

 

[JustChristian]

Of course the liberal rag, Huffington Post, would believe Obama won. No surprise there.

Obama was disrespectful to John McCain.

I beg to differ. McCain was disrespectful to Obama. Obama acknowledged several areas in which he agreed with McCain. That's the approach of a statesman. McCain only attacked.

 

[here now]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/27/debate.poll/?iref=hpmostpop

This link that to CNN says that a national poll has Obama coming out on top, so what. I can take a 'national' poll and have it lean however I'd like.

Let's see do I poll mostly Democrats or mostly Republicans, hmmmm?

 

[dragonfly]

I beg to differ. McCain was disrespectful to Obama. Obama acknowledged several areas in which he agreed with McCain. That's the approach of a statesman. McCain only attacked.

I see I'm not the only one who noticed this. :wavey:

 

[dragonfly]

This link that to CNN says that a national poll has Obama coming out on top, so what. I can take a 'national' poll and have it lean however I'd like.

Let's see do I poll mostly Democrats or mostly Republicans, hmmmm?

Just wait until the election in November. Obama will win by a landslide! :laugh:

 

[Bro. Curtis]

I see I'm not the only one who noticed this. :wavey:

I noticed it. And so will everyone else, once the GOP gets done splicing all those together.....

 

[here now]

Just wait until the election in November. Obama will win by a landslide! :laugh:

Don't mention landslide; it reminds me of the dixie chicks, ughhh.

Anyway, I think you meant to say that Obama will lose by a landslide.:laugh:

 

[LeBuick]

Everyone keeps saying that Obama has a better grasp on economic policy, but that wasnt how he struck me last night..

AJ

Now that is one great big surprise... :smilewinkgrin:

I don't think anyone feels Obama has a better grasp on the policies, I think most like Obama cuz he doesn't know the policies which means he won't stick to them. American wants change and you can be confident the Man who is not part of the problem won't continue the same failed path.

 

[Dragoon68]

... Now, I have some football and other stuff to watch and some food to eat, so I will be away from this forum for while today I hope no one will think that I am running away.

...for Senator Obama. :thumbs:

So you're done with the football and eating already!

 

[KenH]

So you're done with the football and eating already!

Basically, the Razorbacks played about like the McCain campaign has been doing - terrible.

But I did enjoy my meal.

Now I'm fixing to watch the Alabama-Georgia game.

 

[Dragoon68]

Now that is one great big surprise... :smilewinkgrin:

I don't think anyone feels Obama has a better grasp on the policies, I think most like Obama cuz he doesn't know the policies which means he won't stick to them. American wants change and you can be confident the Man who is not part of the problem won't continue the same failed path.

Change to what? Socialism perhaps? Let's hear him explain exactly what changes he (1) has in mind, (3) how they'll be better, and (3) how they'll get accomplished. I don't think we're any closer to having a clue from this debate than we were before.

 

[Dragoon68]

Basically, the Razorbacks played about like the McCain campaign has been doing - terrible.

But I did enjoy my meal.

Now I'm fixing to watch the Alabama-Georgia game.

You're cheering for the wrong teams in both politics and football!

 

[Dragoon68]

... Obama acknowledged several areas in which he agreed with McCain. That's the approach of a statesman. ...

Nope! Agreement is good when it's about something worth agreeing on. Agreeing just to be agreeable is a very bad thing.

 

[KenH]

How does one root for the wrong football team? There isn't a right or wrong team to root for in football. Except for the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL as every American should root for them because they are America's team.

 

[KenH]

Agreement is good when it's about something worth agreeing on.

Which is what Senator Obama did. :thumbs:

 

[Dragoon68]

Which is what Senator Obama did. :thumbs:

It's good Obama recognized that McCain was right. It's too bad that Obama is not and thus there's no reason to agree with him on anything except the trivial.

 

[KenH]

It's good Obama recognized that McCain was right. It's too bad that Obama is not

So you think that Obama is wrong on the things he agreed with McCain on? If so, that makes McCain wrong.

 

[Pastor Larry]

I beg to differ. McCain was disrespectful to Obama.

How so?

Obama acknowledged several areas in which he agreed with McCain. That's the approach of a statesman.

It's also the approach of someone who recognizes that his opponent is right and he can't deny it without looking dumber than he looks already.

McCain only attacked.

And rightly so. Obama's not right about anything McCain isn't already right about. They are both wrong about a ton of stuff. And if McCain is right, as Obama said, then why doesn't Obama vote for him? The point is to draw distinctions, and that was well done, and Obama came out on the losing end of them in foreign policy. He was exposed as someone who has no clue what he is talking about.

McCain did so bad in this bad. But Obama could not capitalize on it because he is equally bad.

 

[Dragoon68]

So you think that Obama is wrong on the things he agreed with McCain on? If so, that makes McCain wrong.

I see why you have trouble understanding.