Comments on: Post-Debate Thread http://www.mahablog.com/2008/10/07/post-debate-thread/ Making the World Safe for Liberalism Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:40:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Swami http://www.mahablog.com/2008/10/07/post-debate-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-548252 Swami Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:38:17 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/?p=2798#comment-548252 McCain's habit of using the "my friend" attempt at endearment is an automatic red flag of insincerity to me. I reserve the right to designate who I consider a friend, and what criteria that friendship is based on. When you have to announce a friendship to acknowledge it..maybe it hasn't been established as a real friendship? ...Ya think? Love is an action.. and not words. And so is friendship! You show friendship..not talk it. McCain’s habit of using the “my friend” attempt at endearment is an automatic red flag of insincerity to me. I reserve the right to designate who I consider a friend, and what criteria that friendship is based on. When you have to announce a friendship to acknowledge it..maybe it hasn’t been established as a real friendship? …Ya think?

Love is an action.. and not words. And so is friendship! You show friendship..not talk it.

]]> By: moonbat http://www.mahablog.com/2008/10/07/post-debate-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-548241 moonbat Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:23:52 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/?p=2798#comment-548241 I saw Joe Biden speak about "that one" on a network news show - from having seen McCain in the Senate for years, Biden brushed it off as merely McCain's attack style, to attack in the third person, instead of directly face to face. No biggie, was how Biden took it, but it doesn't give any points to McCain. I thought Obama did well, and I especially liked his closing remarks. McCain said "my friends" so many times, gimping around on the stage, I felt he was like a aging car salesman, increasingly aware he wasn't making the close. The fact is that Obama/Biden completely outclasses McCain/Palin, and the public is becoming more and more aware and comfortable with this. I saw Joe Biden speak about “that one” on a network news show – from having seen McCain in the Senate for years, Biden brushed it off as merely McCain’s attack style, to attack in the third person, instead of directly face to face. No biggie, was how Biden took it, but it doesn’t give any points to McCain.

I thought Obama did well, and I especially liked his closing remarks. McCain said “my friends” so many times, gimping around on the stage, I felt he was like a aging car salesman, increasingly aware he wasn’t making the close. The fact is that Obama/Biden completely outclasses McCain/Palin, and the public is becoming more and more aware and comfortable with this.

]]> By: biggerbox http://www.mahablog.com/2008/10/07/post-debate-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-548239 biggerbox Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:18:42 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/?p=2798#comment-548239 Does Andrew McCarthy actually believe Obama is from the radical left? Is someone arranging proper psychiatric attention for him? Does Andrew McCarthy actually believe Obama is from the radical left?

Is someone arranging proper psychiatric attention for him?

]]> By: Griffin http://www.mahablog.com/2008/10/07/post-debate-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-548235 Griffin Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:04:22 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/?p=2798#comment-548235 Maha, So Mr. McCarthy says that the conservative cause IS the American cause. Therefore, how can Obama be a real American? I mean, it's so obvious. Only us righties are real Americans. I think all ideologues, of whatever kind, are ego driven. They have to have somebody to hate. They can't even admit we're Americans. No wonder McCain hates Obama so much. Obama poses some threat to McCain's self image, which he's spent years carefully building out of pure smoke. If he stopped believing his own BS, he'd go crazy. Griff Maha,
So Mr. McCarthy says that the conservative cause IS the American cause. Therefore, how can Obama be a real American? I mean, it’s so obvious. Only us righties are real Americans.
I think all ideologues, of whatever kind, are ego driven. They have to have somebody to hate. They can’t even admit we’re Americans. No wonder McCain hates Obama so much. Obama poses some threat to McCain’s self image, which he’s spent years carefully building out of pure smoke. If he stopped believing his own BS, he’d go crazy.
Griff

]]> By: RadioClash http://www.mahablog.com/2008/10/07/post-debate-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-548234 RadioClash Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:50:32 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/?p=2798#comment-548234 Maybe my skin has become a little thin over these last years, but "that one" really smacks of racism to me. "That one" what? Dunno, maybe I'm out of line here. I truly believe, that if Obama was a white man, this would be the biggest landslide in the history of this country. Instead, polls show McCain still in the race. Sad, really. Just sad. Maybe my skin has become a little thin over these last years, but “that one” really smacks of racism to me. “That one” what? Dunno, maybe I’m out of line here.

I truly believe, that if Obama was a white man, this would be the biggest landslide in the history of this country. Instead, polls show McCain still in the race. Sad, really. Just sad.

]]> By: joanr16 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/10/07/post-debate-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-548233 joanr16 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:54:56 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/?p=2798#comment-548233 Two words: <i>That one.</i> McCain referred to Obama as a thing, not a person. In front of the whole blinkin world. Morning-after polls, even among the old and enfeebled CBS viewers, give a decisive win to Obama. Apparently the days of the smug, dumbass CinC are over. Thank heaven. Two words: That one.

McCain referred to Obama as a thing, not a person. In front of the whole blinkin world.

Morning-after polls, even among the old and enfeebled CBS viewers, give a decisive win to Obama. Apparently the days of the smug, dumbass CinC are over. Thank heaven.

]]> By: maha http://www.mahablog.com/2008/10/07/post-debate-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-548232 maha Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:15:26 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/?p=2798#comment-548232 #3 and #4 -- thanks. I must have dozed off. #3 and #4 — thanks. I must have dozed off.

]]> By: mustbetrippin http://www.mahablog.com/2008/10/07/post-debate-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-548230 mustbetrippin Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:09:50 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/?p=2798#comment-548230 I still thought McLame was very dismissive, not even shaking hands at the end of the night. But good lord, with all of the complete falsehoods McLame put out there, how is it that anyone is supporting the GOP? Are they trying to "Enron" the country? Faith is one thing, but faith this blind is going to destroy us. I still thought McLame was very dismissive, not even shaking hands at the end of the night. But good lord, with all of the complete falsehoods McLame put out there, how is it that anyone is supporting the GOP? Are they trying to “Enron” the country? Faith is one thing, but faith this blind is going to destroy us.

]]> By: crazyhusseinworld2046 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/10/07/post-debate-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-548227 crazyhusseinworld2046 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:30:20 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/?p=2798#comment-548227 I like Andrew Sullivan's take: "This was, I think, a mauling: a devastating and possibly electorally fatal debate for McCain. Even on Russia, he sounded a little out of it." I think that pretty well sums it up. In their 1st debate, O merely bested him. In this one, to quote Sully again, he "wiped up the floor with him." I like Andrew Sullivan’s take: “This was, I think, a mauling: a devastating and possibly electorally fatal debate for McCain. Even on Russia, he sounded a little out of it.” I think that pretty well sums it up. In their 1st debate, O merely bested him. In this one, to quote Sully again, he “wiped up the floor with him.”

]]> By: crazyhusseinworld2046 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/10/07/post-debate-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-548226 crazyhusseinworld2046 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:20:41 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/?p=2798#comment-548226 Maha, it appears you missed on of the best moments of the night. McCain DID say Obama doesn't understand and Obama slamdunked it! It was the only time all night that Obama said "Senator McCain is right." The line was "Senator McCain is right. I don't understand some things. I don't understand why we attacked a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and let UBL and Al Qaeda..." I'm sure you know where he went from there. That and reprising his reminder of "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" were the 2 moments he truly pwned McCain. The most powerful moments tho, were when he was relating directly to the personal side of the issues and McCain may as well have been on Mars, such as his story about his grandmother dying. You know everyone in the audience felt that one right where they live. Maha, it appears you missed on of the best moments of the night. McCain DID say Obama doesn’t understand and Obama slamdunked it! It was the only time all night that Obama said “Senator McCain is right.” The line was “Senator McCain is right. I don’t understand some things. I don’t understand why we attacked a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and let UBL and Al Qaeda…” I’m sure you know where he went from there. That and reprising his reminder of “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” were the 2 moments he truly pwned McCain. The most powerful moments tho, were when he was relating directly to the personal side of the issues and McCain may as well have been on Mars, such as his story about his grandmother dying. You know everyone in the audience felt that one right where they live.

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