wayneL
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Gee I hope they show it here in Blighty. That would be worth staying up to see.
Gee I hope they show it here in Blighty. That would be worth staying up to see.Whathe! What a surprise!
John McCain will attend presidential debate
The Republican candidate says progress has been made on a measure to solve the financial crisis, allowing him to take part in the Mississippi face-off with Barack Obama.
In these difficult financial times, and with the war in Afghanistan set to intensify, the world needs a strong experienced steady hand to take over from President Bush.
John McCain is that person.
McCain's behaviour over the last couple of days has demonstrated how erratic he is.The US needs a President that can engage the Russians without threatening (and/or actually) shooting Nukes at each other. The US needs a president that can repair the nation's image overseas, to build bridges with its "friends". It needs someone that can restore the people's confidence in its own government and reverse the polarization of American society.
McCain is definitely not that person.
I don't know whether Obama is either, but a better shot at it IMO.
Also, just like Oz, the conervatives need a break to be able to cleanse to dross from its ranks. They'll be better for it.
Is America, and the world, accepting the lessor of two weavels then?McCain's behaviour over the last couple of days has demonstrated how erratic he is.
There was an interesting discussion on Radio National this morning with a Harvard Prof. who was rueing McCain's lack of economic credentials, particularly in light of the fact that his favoured adviser has suggested there is nothing much wrong with the financial system and the banks are just whining!
Maybe Obama is no more qualified, but he does seem to take a more measured and thoughtful approach.
McCain has won this debate hands down. Much more knowledge and substance in his remarks. I almost feel sorry for Obama.
I said ALMOST.
Way to go McCain.
By the way, John Zogby, one of the most experienced pollsters in the U.S.A., and a registered Democrat, said today that he expects the race to remain tight until one week before election day, and then break to a landslide for McCain - just like the Carter/Reagan election of 1980. People just have too much of an uneasy feeling for Obama from his polling, and they will break for the steady old shoe instead of the new unknown kid on the block. FWIW
Jed Lewison: John McCain lied right out of the gate during tonight's debate, claiming that he had warned us about the financial crisis that we are now facing. But in November, 2007 he admitted that he hadn't seen the mortgage crisis -- the root of today's financial crisis -- coming.
In these difficult financial times, and with the war in Afghanistan set to intensify, the world needs a strong experienced steady hand to take over from President Bush.
John McCain is that person.
McCain has won this debate hands down. Much more knowledge and substance in his remarks. I almost feel sorry for Obama.
I said ALMOST.
Way to go McCain.
By the way, John Zogby, one of the most experienced pollsters in the U.S.A., and a registered Democrat, said today that he expects the race to remain tight until one week before election day, and then break to a landslide for McCain - just like the Carter/Reagan election of 1980. People just have too much of an uneasy feeling for Obama from his polling, and they will break for the steady old shoe instead of the new unknown kid on the block. FWIW
John McCain won on style and rhetoric, but lost on substance and truth.
He makes a great statesman, but still frightens me as president. Chuck in the MILF disaster and I'm still hoping the US goes for Obama...
...hang on! That worries me as well.
Lesser of two evils as far as I'm concerned, maybe.
Anyone know where I can pick up a second hand spaceship?
Time and again, Mr McCain hammered his rival for his lack of experience. "That is a little naive, come on," he sneered at Mr Obama's reiterated readiness to meet hostile foreign leaders such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran (whose name, unfortunately, the 72-year-old Arizona Senator had difficulty in pronouncing). On every question he produced a variant on his mantra. "Senator Obama doesn't understand", he would say, then "Senator Obama doesn't get it", before uttering with a despairing roll of the eyes that "Senator Obama still doesn't understand."
In fact, his opponent gave pretty much as good as he got. Almost inevitably, the fiercest argument was over Iraq, with the Republican mocking his opponent for his doubts about the troop surge that has brought a measure of stability to the country. In reply, Mr Obama reminded him that he had opposed the war from the outset. "John, you like to pretend the war started in 2007," he hit back at one point. "The war started in 2003."
Throughout, Mr Obama was professorial and unflustered, displaying the hallmark cool which sometimes so irritates his critics. "The key question was whether Obama would get over the bar as a president and commander-in-chief," Norman Ornstein, a veteran political expert at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, said afterwards. "That is the key to this election. And I believe he cleared the bar pretty easily."
After days of saying that John McCain would not attend Friday's presidential debate unless an agreement on a bailout package for the markets was "locked-down," the McCain campaign has gone back on its word.
On Friday, it announced that the Senator would head down to Mississippi even though, as they readily admit, much work remained needed on the bailout agreement.
The whole episode left even conservatives admitting that the McCain campaign looked erratic and a bit foolish with no apparent direction or guiding principle.
"It just proves his campaign is governed by tactics and not ideology," said Republican consultant Craig Shirley, who advised McCain earlier in this cycle. "In the end, he blinked and Obama did not. The 'steady hand in a storm' argument looks now to more favor Obama, not McCain."
Adding to the rocky perception was a McCain campaign web ad released this morning declaring "McCain Wins Debate!" -- put out even before the candidate had announced he was planning to debate.
Wow. If McCain keeps this up, he'll eventually be run over by his own "Straight Talk Express" bus. Unbelievable if it were not typical McCain style.
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