Letters to the Editor
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Here's Something For Obama's Playbook
A little added information for Obama's first debate with Mac:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y395Tftgz0E
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McCain's remarks
What exactly does McCain mean when he says "sound and proven ideas?" The economy is in tatters...from a Bush presidency. The war in Iraq has been ill-conceived and mishandled from the start. It continues to serve as an enormous drain on our military and financial resources which lead us to be exposed, not protected from attacks. This is a winning argument? McCain is toast.
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McCain is gaming the press already
They adore him, and Obama, if he gets the nomination, had better make himself widely available to the press, or McCain's claim that he is more accessible and not afraid of the give-and-take of hard questions (as if he ever really GETS hard questions from the MSM lapdogs) will start to become a resonating meme.
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This is what I mean...
"To encourage a country with only rhetoric rather than sound and proven ideas that trust in the strength and courage of free people is not a promise of hope," he said. "It is a platitude."
McCain's opening salvo might as well come from Clinton, and that's good for Obama, because he's got plenty of time for and practice with derailing that kind of attack. Clinton's been attacking Obama from the right, so it's like a practice round for the hard-right attacks McCain's going to throw his way.
I mean, what're the "sound and proven ideas" he's invoking -- Soaring deficits? Unending war? Permanent tax cuts for the richest Americans? A recession? Plummeting national prestige overseas? Decaying infrastructure? Oh, they're proven, alright -- proven unsound!
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old speech
What strikes me about McCain speech is that , except for the (fair) attacks on Obama, there was nothing I haven't heard since years from republican/right side.
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I once feared McCain...
But this guy is just sad. Obama will take 55 percent in the fall.
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"Vote for me, America ...
"I am more accessible to the press." I'm willing to give McCain that issue.
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Reciting a speech
Well, of course if McCain is running for President he is going to make speeches saying that he will be a better President than his opponent.
And anyone who is running for President had better have a few capable speechwriters writing his lines for him.
But the real test is the ability to think on his feet and to make decisions.
Let's see. How about the Keating Five? We can start with that.
Then didn't McCain, with all his experience, including several years as a POW, vote in favor of the disastrous Iraq occupation? Sounds like he is kind of a slow learner then.
[On torture you have to give some credit to McCain. At least he knows that waterboarding is torture, something that seems to have escaped Romney. Frankly if someone has so little interest in current affairs that they have not found out what waterboarding is, then they should not be running for office.]
My point is that both candidates (assuming it is Obama) are going to take shots at each other's record, and in the end the voters will make a decision.
One big question is whether either candidate can win over the centrist voters who could vote for either party, because it doesn't look like either will win over many adherents of the other party.
The other question is whether the candidates can get a large turn out of their own supporters. It looks like Obama will get a large turnout. Now can McCain? You can bet that a fair amount of his speechifying will be aimed at firing up the faithful enough to turn out on a cold November night.
Or in the case of Florida, a mild November night!
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@tangerine
Wow, I figured from your name you must be some sort of New Age prophet (or maybe an exotic dancer). But you know the actual results of the November election already! Very impressive!
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If Obama surrenders the press to McCain
they will eat him alive. They did it to Gore, they did it to Kerry. They will be happy to do it to Obama. He will have to court them, make himself available to them.
For my part, I hope he does try and stay aloof, to hide behind scripted events. I want to see what the press does to him. It will be very entertaining.
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Don't be bitter, Cythera
The best candidate is winning. By crushing margins. Constantly. BTW, Tangerine is just my cat's name. But thanks for wondering.
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Hope = platitude?
Only a republican would stand there and say that. Who wants to be the person who campaigns on squashing the hopes and dreams of an electrified and motivated electorate? Keep talking there Mr. Straight-talk.
Platitude. Jesus Christ! There is nothing "dull or trite" about hope! Or even making a hopeful statement. He thinks that repeating the promise of a new day is trite? It dulls after repetition? Really?
The only thing stale, cliche & tired is McCain and his patronizing "my friends" doom and gloom and the talk of 100 year wars.
He refers to the promise of change and hope as platitude yet he turns around and steals a slogan by saying he was fired up and ready to go?
Please!
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Obama the weakest Dem nominee since at least Dukakis
or maybe even McGovern. McCain will shred, abuse, and eviscerate him. But since you take political predictions from a cat, I can't expect you to know a good candidate from a goofy dunce.
What is bitter now will be sweet when McCain dances on Obama's grave.
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I haven't seen anything that sad and depressing since...
...I saw Connie Francis at the Holiday Star Theater in Merriville Indiana in 1985.
McCain has nothing. He's a tired, worn out old man. His speech sounded self indulgent and maudlin. He came across as weak and unsure surrounded by dinosaurs.
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In the Bitter Barn?
I hope everyone takes note that the majority of anti-Obama rhetoric comes from one familiar name here. It's sad too because Hillary and her supporters are getting a bad name for it.
If we don't have a national security issue or some other drastic event, I don't see anything standing in the way of Obama to become the president. You can't really make the case, in my opinion anyway, that McCain is going to be a formidable opponent nor will Hillary catch up and over take Obama except in a very unfair way with FL/MI and Superdelegates.
This is a defining moment in American Politics. Obama is not just a candidate for president, he's the leader of a movement out of this thick partisan environment in government that exists now.