I absolutely agree with Gen's accessment of the debate
The smartest political mind that I know, genvc , wrote this:
http://genvc.livejournal.com/193137.html
I could not agree more! The debate performance that we saw from Obama was not intended for the liberal faithful. Like many of you, I was screaming at my TV whenever it looked like Barack missed an opportunity to step on McCain's throat (and there were many of them!) While I agree with Gen's assertion that the strategy of the Obama camp was to play to the voters in the center (to whom I hope McCain's grumpy grandpa routine was off putting,) I would like to add one more intended audience.
Barack's performance was, at least in part, to create this:
McCain only leads Barack on who won the debate by 2 points in a Fox News poll?!!?!?
Obama had a checklist on the podium that looked like this:
[Check] Don't have five o'clock shadow
[Check] Don't look at watch
[Check] Don't compare yourself to Kennendy (oppontent might have met him)
[Check] Don't scare the white people!!!
The thing that most people forget is that Obama is black! Now that is probably a good sign as to the color blindness of liberals, but the country as a whole hasn't gotten there, yet! I would love to see Obama go all Angela Davis Dolomie Shaftastic on McCain, but passion is often mistaken for anger and for black people it is more often than not.
On the first day of black man finishing school, they teach you the most important lesson, "Don't scare da' white folk!" As ridiculous as it is that a little skinny guy from Hawaii with a white mom and big ears could be categorized as just another angry black militian (by this measure, I'm screwed,) there are plenty of people who see him this way. Obama doesn't need to court these people's vote because let's be honest, he isn't gonna get them! He just needs to make sure he doesn't scare them to the polls for McCain.
My advice to Obama would be this:
"Avoid tripping the American 'They're coming for our daughters' Mandingo trigger and you have a pretty good chance of getting a Presidential Library on the south side of Chicago someday!
http://genvc.livejournal.com/193137.html
I could not agree more! The debate performance that we saw from Obama was not intended for the liberal faithful. Like many of you, I was screaming at my TV whenever it looked like Barack missed an opportunity to step on McCain's throat (and there were many of them!) While I agree with Gen's assertion that the strategy of the Obama camp was to play to the voters in the center (to whom I hope McCain's grumpy grandpa routine was off putting,) I would like to add one more intended audience.
Barack's performance was, at least in part, to create this:
McCain only leads Barack on who won the debate by 2 points in a Fox News poll?!!?!?
Obama had a checklist on the podium that looked like this:
[Check] Don't have five o'clock shadow
[Check] Don't look at watch
[Check] Don't compare yourself to Kennendy (oppontent might have met him)
[Check] Don't scare the white people!!!
The thing that most people forget is that Obama is black! Now that is probably a good sign as to the color blindness of liberals, but the country as a whole hasn't gotten there, yet! I would love to see Obama go all Angela Davis Dolomie Shaftastic on McCain, but passion is often mistaken for anger and for black people it is more often than not.
On the first day of black man finishing school, they teach you the most important lesson, "Don't scare da' white folk!" As ridiculous as it is that a little skinny guy from Hawaii with a white mom and big ears could be categorized as just another angry black militian (by this measure, I'm screwed,) there are plenty of people who see him this way. Obama doesn't need to court these people's vote because let's be honest, he isn't gonna get them! He just needs to make sure he doesn't scare them to the polls for McCain.
My advice to Obama would be this:
"Avoid tripping the American 'They're coming for our daughters' Mandingo trigger and you have a pretty good chance of getting a Presidential Library on the south side of Chicago someday!