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- ukit0
Anyone else notice how the Obama campaign sent Biden to talk on the networks after the debate? Where was Sarah Palin? McCain is afraid to let her speak in public now!
- -1SarahPalin
- It's trueukit
- it is pathetic how they are shielding her from the mediaformed
- then again, if I had her on my team i wouldn't have anyone asking her anything either!formed
- SarahPalin0
- Nice posts. Must be tough to squeeze them all in when your mommy only gives you ten minutes of 'puter time.TheBlueOne
- prayah********
- SarahPalin0
{{{{DRUDGE POLL}}}} WHO WON THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE?...MCCAIN
68% 217,106
OBAMA
30% 95,346
NEITHER
2% 7,688- YEAH OTHER REPORT SAYS OBAMA< SO WHAT THE FUCK> HOW DO YOU MEASURE OPINION ANYWAYjanne76
- YOU CUMGULPING ALASKAN NUMBSLUT!!!janne76
- This is a web poll on a right wing site, meaninglessukit
- oh yes, i see now. they are lying to their own people. typical.janne76
- It only reflects the site's visitors. Kinda like if you did a poll here it would be Obama at 90%.ukit
- i don't see how there was a winner at all. mccain was frustrated and was getting angry the whole time. but sure mccain won if that keeps the right wings nuts happy.cosmoo
- ... mccain won if that keeps the right wings nuts happy.cosmoo
- ukit0
Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll, Saturday:
Obama 50%
McCain 44%
- pengcito0
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- colin_s0
at about 2:00 in this gets brilliant.
- TheBlueOne0
I find it interesting how Obama's campaign just simplfy doesn't respond to all the McCain nonsense. I mean I know alot of Dems are getting frustrated, wanting Obama to play hardball back and call McCain on his antics- like "suspending" his campaign and all that shit. But Obama is just refusing to play these Rovian games tit-for-tat. Unike Gore - who always seemed to be off balance on the attacks and Kerry who always seemed to try to respond but was forced to be reactionary(and thuis look weak), Obama is playing this like "Sure, play in the sanbox all you want and call me all these names. I'll be over here with the big boys when you want to ditch the shit pail....." And he's pulling it off....
- ukit0
The morning after watching the debate, I same to a different conclusion...Obama isn't aiming at the people like us who will already vote for him. He is aiming specifically at the 10% of people who are still wavering between the two candidates. It would be stupid to go scorched earth on McCain because that group of people already likes and respects McCain...after all, they are considering voting for him.
- hallelujah0
"And it was in watching the replay that I picked up my absolute favorite unsung moment of the debate.
It came when Senator McCain was stumbling with Ahmadinejad's name. He was stumbling hard, almost unable to get the name or any semblance of it pronounced. Very quietly, but audibly Senator Obama can be heard saying something. In the first viewing, I knew he had said something there, but was unable to decipher exactly what he had said. In listening to the replay it's easy to hear his comment.
He quietly acknowledged to Senator McCain "That's a tough one." When I heard his remark, his gracious nod to the Senator's struggle to pronounce a very difficult name, his compassion for the man, I choked up. It humbled me. It made me briefly look inward, and feel lesser for originally maybe hoping that it was some cutting barb. And it showed him as a man greater than politics, greater for inspiring empathy and compassion for a fellow man.
Senator McCain's demeaning, belittling style in the debate has drawn criticism. Rightly so in my opinion. Some has been said of Senator Obama's gracious and respectful style, some even criticizing his style for not being more vicious, more attacking. But to me, the real measure of the man, not his "style", but who he is, came in that comment.
It was a very quiet statement. But what it said about Barack Obama is loud and clear.
This man is not only a great leader, he is a very good man."
- The fuck? Are you serious?SarahPalin
- Did you start crying?SarahPalin
- we h8 u sarah,.BrokenAC
- hallelujah0
"Barack is intelligent, fiercely so--but his intellect has heart.
He is respectful of Senator McCain's humanity. I appreciated that too. He is collegial, and has healthy ego strength.
You just know that he has an inner directedness that comes from abiding by his own behavioral principles, whatever others do.
He is one of the emotionally healthiest, principled, dignified, and poised candidates any of us will ever have the opportunity to vote for."
- cosmoo0
was i the only one who thought mccain was frustrated? he looked like a bitter man. his responses were long boring stories about he tried to do things, which really doesn't help anything.
- locustsloth0
The most agonizing thing to watch last night was McCain trying to bottle up his rage. When they'd have the split screen up and Obama would be zinging McCain, you could just see McCain clinching his teeth, almost looking like he was gripping the podium, having to willfully stop himself from exploding. i had never lent much credibility to the "hot-head" labels he'd been given until now. But now i can't imagine him dealing with a 9/11 type attack or tragedy in a measured and calculating way as Pres
- hallelujah0
"I see a broken old man, stuck in the past, fighting decades old ghosts, so consumed by his own ego and lust for power, that he can't even acknowledge the human connection of a man reaching out to him with compassion and dignity. It's tragic really.
I'm sure Obama takes no pleasure in making McCain look so pathetic just by being on the same stage together. "- where are you quoting from? Just curiouslocustsloth
- somebody on daily koshallelujah
- TheBlueOne0
Ah the rightwing christianists are saying Obama has the power of a dark spirit (as yet unnamed, but I hear "satan" in the subtext). Of course, Palin in a Jesus Warrior brought to strike him down:
"....an invisible factor may be a strong spiritual force behind him, causing some people to actually swoon in his presence....Last week at Obama's acceptance speech, that spirit exalted itself in front of a Greek temple-like stage, and to a huge audience like in a Roman arena. Omama was portrayed as god-like....Sarah is that standard God has raised up to stop the flood. She has the anointing. You can tell by how the dogs are already viciously attacking her. But they will not be successful. She knows the One she serves and will not be intimidated."
http://adultchristianity.blogspo…
Now, the scary part...if Obama wins,how many whack jobs will there be out there will there be wanting to do the work of Jesus with a bullet...an open ended question...
- people without intuition or soul, which is godhallelujah
- holy crap, the people who think this stuff scare the shit outta melocustsloth
- She scares me as much as many of the 'evil doers'formed
- locustsloth0
One smart thing Obama did (and this may have not been a strategy, but i'm guessing it was) was to call McCain "John". McCain didn't refer to Obama as Barack even once, that i heard. Obama switched back and forth between "John" and "Sen. McCain". This made Barack seem more friendly. This also showed that Obama views McCain as a person, not just a candidate or a party. This gave McCain some humanity as well, which again reflects well on Obama for gracing him with that humanity.
- I noticed that too. I think it was bothering the shit outta McCain too...TheBlueOne
- People of that generation think it's disrespectful to call an elder by their first namelocustsloth
- lolformed
