Hank
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Poster: Hank @ Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:07 pm
Well, if anything is to be said about Barack Obama, let it be that he really knows how to squander an opportunity.
This guy, this &^%##* guy, just went one-on-one with the frayed, decrepit, ibogaine-addled 'Penguin' stand-in known as John McCain, and managed to get his individual ass handed to him by sheer virtue of his lack of focus.
Obama is widely mocked in the press for being 'professorial' in tone and prone to digression, but this wasn't professorial. This was more like second-year-grad-student TA. He forgot th' questions before he even started to answer them, and instead repeated vague anti-"last eight years" saws that were tangential at best.
The classic moment was when some goateed ex-Navy guy asked plainly whether, if Iran attacked Israel, we'd wait for UN approval or just blow them I-ranains up real good tout de suite. McCain emerged from his 3rd plateau drug haze long enough to say "we won't wait" before spiralling into a whirlpool of his own jabber. Obama, on th' other hand, completely ignored the question and started to talk about whether or not Iran should have nukes. Wha-wha-whaaat? It's a truism that Democrats are weak on foreign policy questions, but this guy wasn't even trying. He droned on until the heads on the audience very literally started to droop.
Now, McCain was barely able to stop waddling around the stage and forgetting whether his hero is Ronald Reagan or Teddy Roosevelt for long enough to utter any statement of substance, and when he did, it was likely to be the stuff of fantasy such as his assertion that we can tackle health care, entitlements, and some other huge issue simultaneously (the question was 'prioritize these please"). But for McCain, showing that he can communicate in English rather than lecherous quacks can be counted as a victory, whereas Obama came into the ring with a clear public opinion advantage (on paper at least) and tossed it out th' window by digging his own rhetorical grave in exactly the same manner that his detractors say he tends to do. Obama can put together an English sentence, McCain can't. But when Obama puts them together, his credibility falls apart.
Obama : didn't even try in '08
{ gotta love how McCain dated himself with that repeated 'hand on the tiller' metaphor though! This guy is ready to go full sail ahead; I like th' cut of his jib.... WHAT TH' &^%$ }
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