Senator McCain talked, as he has previously, about Matthew Stanley and his family of Wolfboro, NH, and the bracelet Senator McCain wears in his honor.
Senator Obama reading the name off ‘his bracelet’ was tacky, and poorly done.
The story of John McCain, Matthew Stanley, and the bracelet.
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Memo to Obama:
“I agree with what she said” might be OK when the debate opponant is a member of your own party.
“I agree with what he said” is not so good… when the opponant is, in your own words, the “third term of Bush.”
Oh, and having a bracelet “too” does not make you the equivalent of Sen. McCain. Nor does frosting your hair make you look more mature.
Yes and if he actually does wear the braclet everyday, and isn’t just using it as a debate prop, wouldn’t he know the name of the dead soldiers inscribed on it?
This moment is much moe damaging than a Gore sigh or a bush Sr. glance at a watch. Will the MSM show it?
It was shamefull. Obama just doesnt get it.
This needs to go viral. The MSM will ignore it. It’s way more telling than a glance at a watch or a sigh.
Obama is MAD TV’s “Look at me!” Stewart!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfZcMdsp_Jg
…that was truly a low moment…and truly pathetic…the man will do anything to create a certain impression…but that went too far…
…then the remarkable thing is that obama supporters can’t just say …mccain was better but it isn’t over or some such thing…they are actually complaining that McCain was mean….
…truly unbelievable for a group that has called McCain every name in the book including liar when in fact even the New York Times has said that Obama is lying in his ads…the Limbaugh the Social Security…they must just be hoping to create fear and benefit from it as the people who watch the ads aren’t the types to go check facts…but they go from one pathetic ploy to another
Obama’s debate tactic of covering up his ignorance by agreeing when he opponent gives an answer finally backfired. He used the same tactic with Clinton. You notice when Obama gets the question first he spews out campaign rhetoric usually involving Bush. When he follows an answer he does his John (or Hillary) is absolutely right schtick.
Obama’s “Sergeant Uh” moment is the defing moment of the debate.
Obama surprised me a little by being more detailed and confident in his answers. However, I assign that to him taking time off to bone up for a debate. It’s like prepping for a law exam - temporary expertise. (Even so, he made many odd comments and looked flustered). I suspect if Obama were asked questions about foreign policy -slightly different questions - two weeks from now he would be utterly lost. He knew what he knew because he studied it up right before the test. I really got the sense that Obama was confident within certain boxed information, but any deviance was limbo.
McCain looked confident and his experience showed.
I really liked Lehrer and his format. It was frustrating when the candidates would not answer the question he actually asked him, but that seems par for course for politicians.
My big question for Obama is this: If we are supposed to save money by pulling our troops out of Iraq - won’t that money be spent if we put them right into Afghanistan? I fail to see the savings. Maybe I’m not good at math . . .
Also, the reason we didn’t dash into a full scale war in Afghanistan is because it is nightmare terrain, our intelligence had dried up there because Clinton kept scaling it back, we relied to heavily on the Pakistani ISI and they were double dealing and we had no bearings. Add to that the fact that if we went into Afghanistan before dealing with Iraq, guess who would have jumped in the fray?
Ground war in Iraq is much easier than two fronts in the maze of rocks, mountains and caves of Afghanistan.
Oh well.
I noted early on that Obama did try to goad McCain into losing his temper by interupting him.
That was why McCain started ignoring the man. If he’d given ground every time Obama tried to take the stage away from him McCain would not have gotten a word in edgewise. That was clearly meant to irritate and provoke the Senator. Instead it was Obama who ended up frustrated and came within an inch of losing his control right there on stage. His handlers must have been in near panic mode a time or two there.
As it was Obama’s lack of experience showed through more than he would have liked.
Anyone notice Obama’s closing statement was Anti-American?
OBAMA: Well, let me just make a closing point. You know, my father came from Kenya. That’s where I get my name.
And in the ’60s, he wrote letter after letter to come to college here in the United States because the notion was that there was no other country on Earth where you could make it if you tried. The ideals and the values of the United States inspired the entire world.
I don’t think any of us can say that our standing in the world now, the way children around the world look at the United States, is the same.
And part of what we need to do, what the next president has to do — and this is part of our judgment, this is part of how we’re going to keep America safe — is to — to send a message to the world that we are going to invest in issues like education, we are going to invest in issues that — that relate to how ordinary people are able to live out their dreams
Obama’s closing statement was bashing America (The CNN transcript replaces his “uh’s” with dashes).
WAS no other country? WAS?????? Still is Obama
“I don’t think any of us can say that our standing in the world now, the way children around the world look at the United States, is the same”
Maybe The Obamas, the Wrights, the Ayers and leftists say that. Not that I give a rat’s behind what children around the world think about the US, but we have a problem of too many people around the world are flocking to our country. Obama must be talking about muslim children who hate our guts.
“this is part of how we’re going to keep America safe, (uh, uh), is to (uh, uh)– to send a message to the world that we are going to invest in issues like education, we are going to invest in issues that — (uh, uh)”
WTF is Obama talking about????? IS he saying we are going to cut of defense budget and spend it on education? What is this globalist socialist crap??????
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McCain was presidential. Obama was childish, arrogant & rude. Obama constantly interrupted McCain, called him John, the “Pakeestan” pronunciation, and the defining “I have a bracelet too but forgets the soldier’s name moment” That was so appalling! That was a red flag for me throughout the whole debate. Obama wearing Ryan Jopak’s bracelet in vain and had to look down for the name. That’s disgraceful. He doesn’t understand the sacrifice of our troops and wears the bracelet of a slain soldier for political theatrics and not even remembering his name is unbelieveable and is not comparable to John McCain’s service and sincere commemoration to our fallen service men and women.
Tina, 4:56 PM said it well: Obama is childish, arrogant and rude. Worse yet, because of his stupidity and ignorance, he often resorts to “Yeah, what HE said” moments. The bracelet was about the MOST crassly cynical moment in debate history.
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This just in. Family of Ryan Jopek told obama to stop wearing the bracelet and stop using their son’s name.
They support the war in Iraq and John McCain.
Make onother post on this new info!
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ROUND ONE TO MCCAIN
McCain’s age has been a primary concern presented by the liberals and would appear to be one of his liabilities coming into the debate. It turned out to be a great strength. He was calm, reassuring, knowledgeable and presidential.
When discussing the economy, McCain pointed out that Obama had asked for $932 million in earmarks, “nearly a million dollars a day for every day that he’s been in the United States Senate”. Obama answered yes, the process has been abused, “which is why I suspended any requests for my home state, whether it was for senior centers or what have you, until we cleaned it up.” McCain pointed out that Obama suspended his requests for earmarks after he initiated his campaign for the presidency, but was fine with earmarks before his campaign began.
Obama thinks his big sell is that Bush/McCain are one and the same. When Obama tried his old line about how McCain voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, McCain was ready with a list of issues where he has disagreed with Bush, like torture, conduct of the war in Iraq and federal spending and Guantanamo Bay.
McCain noted that Obama never held a hearing on Afghanistan, although Obama chairs the committee which has oversight of operations in Afghanistan. Obama downplayed that, indicating someone else handles that, and hoping no one would notice. Yet now he’s stating Afghanistan is the most important area of concern. If it’s so important, why didn’t he hold one hearing?
Obama admitted that McCain was right numerous times. At least once Obama seemed to have no idea what McCain was talking about, so he was smart enough to just agree rather than disagree and make a fool of himself.
McCain criticized Obama for saying he would meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without precondition. “This is dangerous. It isn’t just naive; it’s dangerous.” Obama believes that all tyrants or terrorists need is for someone to sit down and politely ask them to stop threatening to annihilate our allies. McCain’s experience and wisdom came through in stark contrast to Obama’s naivete.
McCain put Barack Obama on the defensive throughout the 90 minutes session. Obama did little to ease voter concerns that he’s experienced enough to handle foreign and defense policy. I had the feeling Obama thought his smile would win the day and cover up his inexperience and poor judgment.
A former Hillary supporter now supporting McCain asked: Would you rather fly with a pilot who learned how to fly from reading a book, or with a pilot who had flown 101 times?
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ROUND ONE TO MCCAIN
McCain’s age has been a primary concern presented by the liberals and would appear to be one of his liabilities coming into the debate. It turned out to be a great strength. He was calm, reassuring, knowledgeable, and presidential. McCain put Obama on the defensive, and Obama did little to ease concerns about his inexperience and judgment.
2000 CHARACTER TOWN HALL BLURB
McCain’s age has been a primary concern presented by the liberals and would appear to be one of his liabilities coming into the debate. It turned out to be a great strength. He was calm, reassuring, knowledgeable and presidential.
When discussing the economy, McCain pointed out that Obama had asked for $932 million in earmarks, “nearly a million dollars a day for every day that he’s been in the United States Senate”. Obama answered yes, the process has been abused, “which is why I suspended any requests for my home state, whether it was for senior centers or what have you, until we cleaned it up.” McCain pointed out that Obama suspended his requests for earmarks after he initiated his campaign for the presidency, but was fine with earmarks before his campaign began.
Obama thinks his big sell is that Bush/McCain are one and the same. When Obama tried his old line about how McCain voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, McCain was ready with a list of issues where he has disagreed with Bush, like torture, conduct of the war in Iraq and federal spending and Guantanamo Bay.
McCain noted that Obama never held a hearing on Afghanistan, although Obama chairs the committee which has oversight of operations in Afghanistan. Obama downplayed that, indicating someone else handles that, and hoping no one would notice. Yet now he’s stating Afghanistan is the most important area of concern. If it’s so important, why didn’t he hold one hearing?
Obama admitted that McCain was right numerous times. At least once Obama seemed to have no idea what McCain was talking about, so he was smart enough to just agree rather than disagree and make a fool of himself.
McCain criticized Obama for saying he would meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without precondition. “This is dangerous. It isn’t just naive; it’s dangerous.” Obama believes that all tyrants or terrorists need is for someone to sit down and politely ask them to stop threatening to annihilate our allies. McCain’s experience and wisdom came through in stark contrast to Obama’s naivete.
McCain put Barack Obama on the defensive throughout the 90 minutes session. Obama did little to ease voter concerns that he’s experienced enough to handle foreign and defense policy. I had the feeling Obama thought his smile would win the day and cover up his inexperience and poor judgment.
A former Hillary supporter now supporting McCain asked: Would you rather fly with a pilot who learned how to fly from reading a book, or with a pilot who had flown 101 times?