No, listen up, the debate format was supposed to be conversational. McCain gave stump speeches and he didn't properly answer the questions. The interviewer had to rephrase the questions several times. - Princeps
WTH are you talking about? McCain didn't properly answer the questions? Now, I hate John McCain, but John McCain said what needed to be said. That's it. He didn't need to say anything more. It wasn't supposed to be conversational, and often times McCain elaborated on his "stump speeches."
Also he lied about his exprience in Vietnam and plagiarized "the cross in the sand" story from Solzhenitsyn who he admires. It's sort of like Hillary's "sniper fire" experience, except much more shameless. - Princeps
Pure conjecture. There is now evidence that McCain was talking about this incident long ago. Secondly, this anecdote does not even appear in Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn spoke of this incident in the early nineties. The left wing blogs have really been back peddling on this one. Now the stance is, "this is probably something that happened to neither of these guys, it's just a feel good story!"
Rather, McCain has taken worse positions despite the evidence, he moved closer to Bush when the people moved away from him, and he has demostrated incredible lack of judgement. He has failed to maintain any semblence of consistency, or consistent values, whereas Obama has despite the occasional flip-flops. - Princeps
This is an interesting exchange right here. What's more important, molding ones self to meet the views of the American public? Or standing by ones own guns? Obama has probably been the more dangerous flip-flopper when it comes to the war. Sure, he was against the war from the start, but when we had lost 1000 men, Obama believed in staying the course. He used such famous rhetorical lines as, "We need to finish the job for our brave soldiers so that they may not be lost in vain," and "We broke it, it's our job to fix it." Funny though, as the popularity of the war dwindled, Obama's tone changed into the anti-war, pro-withdrawal line. He even penned legislation to get us out of Iraq before the primary season was to really heat up. Ya know, so he wouldn't have to deal with it as president himself. He was anti-surge, advocated withdrawal through the primary contests, and was totally wrong on all counts. Obama was playing politics with a war.
In all honesty, it's a pretty big bullet to bite when you can't realize your candidate is more dangerous when it comes to war policy, and will act irrationally out of the whims of the general public as opposed to doing what is right when it comes to war.
What is the problem with McCain cozying up with Bush on the war? Bush was right. McCain was right. These guys didn't suddenly have epiphanies after they won the primary contest. These guys didn't go back and edit their webpage, and reconstruct their entire Iraq war plans. Bush and McCain stuck their guns. Bush and McCain ignored the fickle will of the people and pushed the surge through. And they were right.
Your guy has sat upon podiums and said that this election is about "judgement." But he's totally f---ed himself, because a chimpanzee can see that Obamas judgements in regards to this war have been fueled by nothing more than popular opinion. And now that the rubber has met the road, Obama doesn't have the guts to either go through with his original plans, or admit that he was totally wrong on the surge.
Obama is a total rank amateur. And he's showing time, after time, after time.
The great uniter is down by 5 points to John McCain. I say again, the great uniter, black Jebus, is down to 5 points to JOHN MCCAIN! My half aunts ex-husband's best friend's half ******** cousin could do better against John McCain.
Maybe thats how McCain conducts his conversations?
