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Someone's comment on MSNBC's First Read today:
"One can clearly see after McCain’s speech why Obama should be President and McCain should not. While not being critical of McCain’s lack of oratory skills one can be critical of the content of the speech. The POW personal story was fine, but is not relevant. Besides, we already knew of McCain’s time in the service and we respect him for that service. But what the speech did lack was substance regarding the issues. It’s clear that McCain is attempting to make personalities the central theme while Obama is focusing on solutions to those issues that are facing Americans today. McCain is staying away from the issues (with the exception of the Iraq surge and a generic call for drilling) because he knows he cannot win the battle of the issues. Prior to the McCain speech the Republicans' attempt to make this race about personalities and not the issues was evident when they sent forward McCain’s condescending, sarcastic, and unchallenged VP pick.
I was amazed to hear some of the kudos given to Palin for her speech by the pundits while it also lacked any substance regarding the issues and at the same time exceeding all other speeches in personally attacking Obama. Palin has only been on the scene for a few days, a complete unknown, and here she is in her first real appearance before the American people attempting to crucify Obama when not even in the same league. Frankly, while listening to her speech one thing came to mind. Thank goodness I have not and will not ever work for this woman as she is obviously one vindictive bit**.
If you listened to McCain’s over-generalized positions on the economy in his speech as well as a few generic comments about education every single one was and is identical to those of GWB over the last eight years. Rachel Maddow was observant enough to point out how 4 or 5 of McCain’s economic comments were identical to those taken by Bush.
McCain’s call for bi-partisanship cooperation to resolve issues was pretty lame to say the least. Following the speeches by Thompson, Lieberman, Huckabee and especially Palin, McCain has the gall to say that he is the change agent who wishes to end the political bickering. His surrogates and Palin attempt to crucify Obama for three nights running with degrading and personal attacks and then McCain shows up smiling and claiming he wants to take the high road.
Finally, I am pretty amazed at how the Republicans at their convention appeared to be salivating all over someone who most did not know prior to the person being selected as the VP nominee a week ago. Seemed to me it shows a real lack of maturity and common sense on the part of these people. Oh, I know, they think that anyone who can give a fairly good speech trashing someone else is supposed to be their star of the future. But in their haste to crown Palin the future leader of the Republican party they remind me of a guy who while in Vegas salivates and then marries a gorgeous female he met but one week earlier. Only to find out on the first night of their honeymoon that this gorgeous gal turns out to be a drag queen."
- A, Tuscaloosa, AL (Sent Friday, September 05, 2008 9:56 AM)
The last two sentences are weird (hah), but I agree with 99% of the rest of it.
"One can clearly see after McCain’s speech why Obama should be President and McCain should not. While not being critical of McCain’s lack of oratory skills one can be critical of the content of the speech. The POW personal story was fine, but is not relevant. Besides, we already knew of McCain’s time in the service and we respect him for that service. But what the speech did lack was substance regarding the issues. It’s clear that McCain is attempting to make personalities the central theme while Obama is focusing on solutions to those issues that are facing Americans today. McCain is staying away from the issues (with the exception of the Iraq surge and a generic call for drilling) because he knows he cannot win the battle of the issues. Prior to the McCain speech the Republicans' attempt to make this race about personalities and not the issues was evident when they sent forward McCain’s condescending, sarcastic, and unchallenged VP pick.
I was amazed to hear some of the kudos given to Palin for her speech by the pundits while it also lacked any substance regarding the issues and at the same time exceeding all other speeches in personally attacking Obama. Palin has only been on the scene for a few days, a complete unknown, and here she is in her first real appearance before the American people attempting to crucify Obama when not even in the same league. Frankly, while listening to her speech one thing came to mind. Thank goodness I have not and will not ever work for this woman as she is obviously one vindictive bit**.
If you listened to McCain’s over-generalized positions on the economy in his speech as well as a few generic comments about education every single one was and is identical to those of GWB over the last eight years. Rachel Maddow was observant enough to point out how 4 or 5 of McCain’s economic comments were identical to those taken by Bush.
McCain’s call for bi-partisanship cooperation to resolve issues was pretty lame to say the least. Following the speeches by Thompson, Lieberman, Huckabee and especially Palin, McCain has the gall to say that he is the change agent who wishes to end the political bickering. His surrogates and Palin attempt to crucify Obama for three nights running with degrading and personal attacks and then McCain shows up smiling and claiming he wants to take the high road.
Finally, I am pretty amazed at how the Republicans at their convention appeared to be salivating all over someone who most did not know prior to the person being selected as the VP nominee a week ago. Seemed to me it shows a real lack of maturity and common sense on the part of these people. Oh, I know, they think that anyone who can give a fairly good speech trashing someone else is supposed to be their star of the future. But in their haste to crown Palin the future leader of the Republican party they remind me of a guy who while in Vegas salivates and then marries a gorgeous female he met but one week earlier. Only to find out on the first night of their honeymoon that this gorgeous gal turns out to be a drag queen."
- A, Tuscaloosa, AL (Sent Friday, September 05, 2008 9:56 AM)
The last two sentences are weird (hah), but I agree with 99% of the rest of it.