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McCain Staggers
McCain asks, "Why is Obama repeating over and over again that McCain is running for President Bush's third term?" His response is that "because it is very difficult to get the american public to believe something that is not true."
Straight talk? Obama's attack have put McCain on the defensive, and his addressing of Obama's "third term" comments prove that Obama has drawn blood.
In McCain's speech tonight, McCains underlying theme is Obama's special interest, position on taxes and military inexperience, "is not change we can believe in." He claims that Obama's does not have the judgement to run the country. The MSNBC punditry is excited about McCain's speech tonight. They claim it was his best speech yet. But in the background you could hear a small crowd, and the voices of operatives in the audience who are cheering the audience on in responding to his McCain's comments. I think it comes off phoney. Sure, a large percentage of the electorate will believe McCain's political comments. But I don't it will play well with the majority of the electorate.
So far, McCain seems weak and unable to effectively respond to Obama's repeated jabs. And consider McCain's verbal gaffes that Obama has yet to take advantage of. Finally, McCains repeated use of his war experience so early in the campaign seems desperate. It is as if his war experience entitles him to something that Obama doesn't deserve.
Comments (5)
The problem with McCain is that, no matter what he's saying, his delivery is grotesque!
He says something - it can be something fromt he prepared text - gets an appropriate amount of outrage, disdain, whatever into it, then stops nd looks at his audience and smiles as if to say,
that was ok wasn't it? Think that worked.
His delivery must be agonizing his staff. They must be having nightmares about it!
June 3, 2008 11:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
It embarrasses me. He looks like a sitting duck.
June 4, 2008 12:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
"It embarrasses me. He looks like a sitting duck."
Doesn't embarrass me: I don't identify with him.
Now, what was it McCain said about the lack of war experience of such as Dick "Dick" Cheney, William "Bill" Kristal, Paul "Comb-Sucker" Wolfowitz, and Richard "Wealthy with a House in France" Perle?
June 4, 2008 12:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Someone should wake up grandpa Keating 5 McCain and explain, very slowly and loudly, that starting wars against nations that have nothing to do with you is not war experience but a WAR CRIME! The man is pathetic on a Bob Dole level. Whom he will have to pick as his VP as everyone else would overshadow him. I can only imagine that somehow the democrats are behind his election results as nothing else would explain it. I mean, in every speech he looks and sounds like a very old child molester speaking to a grade school. In a real debate we can sit back and watch the sad show of him losing his temper every time that young whipper-snapper O-Osama? O-Obama presses on him the least little bit.
This is the best my party had to offer? Well then that leaves one choice.
SAY IT LOUD, SAY IT PROUD!
OBAMA/EDWARDS 2008!!!
June 4, 2008 1:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain looks old, stiff, speaks like an automaton, and has been scrupulously trained to use that bizarre pasted-on smile to cover his famous anger.
Maybe it isn't right that appearance counts for so much in politics, but it is about time that, for once, the progressive Democrat is the sexy, charismatic candidate. Our time has come. I'm grateful for every advantage Obama can use.
June 4, 2008 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
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