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Yeah... and if one campaign has a better handle on this while the other drops the ball - I imagine their hands aren't completely tied - that has to count for something. Right?
I'm currently browsing Politico, where they asked a number of experts the following question: Why does the press cover seemingly trivial matters like the "lipstick on a pig uproar?" (Or name your own trivial uproar.) Is the press complicit--or even the principal engine--in making politics so conflict-driven and superficial? Interesting read if you've got the time. www.politico.com/arena/
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Last night, Ron Paul endorsed pretty much every candidate who isn't McCain or Obama at a press conference attended by Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney and the Constitution Party candidate. Bob Barr was notably absent, but reportedly sent Paul a letter offering him the VP slot on the Libertarian ticket.
The tide is turning strongly towards McCain. Obama really needs to do something to recapture momentum. McCain's campaign seems to have really hit its stride with this type of ridiculous "selective presentation" of what Obama says. Somehow McCain's campaign has been able to wrest away Obama's message of change and, even more unbelievably, people are actually buying it. A month ago I was positive the election was Obama's to lose, now I'm not so sure.
As far as I'm concerned, this race has always been McCain's to lose.
He got a two month head-start over the Democrats in having the nomination. He got the luxury of receiving the post-veepstakes/post-convention boosts after Obama did. The Electoral College status quo favors the Republican candidate.
It's up to Obama to turn the tide, as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah... and if one campaign has a better handle on this while the other drops the ball - I imagine their hands aren't completely tied - that has to count for something. Right?
Very true. And if it's more than just the odd spot, then they definitely dropped the ball.
I'm ready for the debates to start. ( when is that by the way? two weeks?) I think then we will get to the issues. (maybe)
Does anyone know what kind of debate this will be. There will be only one for the VP's. I can see her doing okay on a formal debate and duck issues staying strict to the McBush talking points drilled in her. However, if it is more of a town hall debate I can see her implode and flub up.
Also, has Obama said anything about the Whitehouse sex and drug for oil scandal?
* Friday, September 26, 2008 at the University of Mississippi's Gertrude C. Ford Center in Oxford, Mississippi, moderated by Jim Lehrer, executive editor and anchor of The NewsHour on PBS. This debate will focus on foreign policy and national security. * Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at Belmont University's Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tennessee, moderated by Tom Brokaw, special correspondent (and former evening news anchor) for NBC News. This debate will have a town-hall meeting format. * Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at Hofstra University's Hofstra Arena in Hempstead, New York, moderated by Bob Schieffer, CBS News chief Washington correspondent and host of Face the Nation. This debate will focus on domestic and economic policy.
One vice-presidential debate:
* Thursday, October 2, 2008 at Washington University in St. Louis' Field House Gymnasium in St. Louis, Missouri, moderated by Gwen Ifill, senior correspondent on The NewsHour and moderator and managing editor of Washington Week on PBS. The vice presidential debate will cover both foreign and domestic topics.
(Sadly, I had to look it up on Wikipedia because I couldn't find it on the Commission for Presidential Debate's site)
I'm just now watching the first part of Palin interview.
I picked up a few similarities to the way Bush speaks here... that one-and-a-half syllable pronunciation of "terror," pronouncing it "nucular," in the same sentence as goofing Ahmedinejad... But my favorite/scariest moment is that "caribou caught in the headlights" pause/stumbling response when Charlie asks her the Bush Doctrine question. Anyone who's blown their fair share of questions in class/on exams can sympathize with that feeling.
What scares me about that is that I think Charlie was trying to toss her a softball there. When W - himself a relatively new governor, thin on foreign policy and promising to "change Washington as we know it" (OK, I'll give him that one...) - had his foreign policy credentials questioned eight years ago, at least they directly quizzed him on ten world leaders. Doctrines can usually be summed up in one sentence - and aren't they pretty much Foreign Policy 101?
Sarah Palin makes me want to bang my head against my desk.
Post by thingsfallapart on Sept 12, 2008 11:17:58 GMT -5
I thoroughly enjoyed when she nearly suggested that the United States might be forced to engage in a military conflict with Russia should they begin military activity in Georgia. That sounds like a solid idea.
I just can't believe they didn't prep her better for this. Some questions she was right on top of, had the perfect answer. But for most of it, it just seemed like she was making stuff up as she went along. She definitely needs tougher media training.
Or maybe to just sit in her hotel room with stacks of paper and study a little more.
When she said "nuclear," I swear, she was thinking in her head - wait, how do I pronounce it again? And so I don't really fault her for that because she was trying and just got herself all confused. Unless she does it again in the future.
And thinking about it more, THAT was her biggest problem. She doesn't have a poker face. You can tell exactly what's going through her head when she's answering a question.
Perhaps I've missed the post, but Palin is having an official investigation against her about her abuse of power in regards to the termination of a state trooper.
McCain saying someone who was mayor or governor for a short time is not prepared for national security
What he said "I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I've been involved in every national crisis that this nation has faced since Beirut, I understand the issues, I understand and appreciate the enormity of the challenge we face from radical Islamic extremism, I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time."
I had a revelation last night watching Palin's Charlie Gibson interview
Sarah Palin = Dick Cheney
When GWB was running the first time, everyone said "well, I'm not so sure about him, but hey, he's got Dick to back him up." It just felt like a lot of people were voting for Cheney, not Bush.
This time - at least right now - it seems like a lot of people are jazzed about the McCain/Palin ticket because of Palin. Which, I know, is the whole point, but with Obama/Biden, they're voting for the person who is actually going to lead the country, not his back-up. The back-up is just the cherry on top.
Obama didn't need Clinton on his ticket, his image is strong enough on its own. McCain needed Palin, he'd be dead in the water without her.
It's just so stupid to pick a ticket based on the 2nd. Just like it's stupid to vote for someone you'd want to hang out with.
I gotta respond. I love Sarah because she is DISRUPTIVE. Just like Napster, she has thrown the media, the Dems, Obama, MSNBC, for a fu*king loop. Just like Napster, they don' know whether to sh!t or go blind. Its so much fun to watch. Yes, she a little light, but so what. Shawn Fanning was 17 and just wanted to share music with a few friends and he ended up changing the music world forever.
Underestimate her non- Washington, Alaska appeal at your peril. Btw, I'm voting for Obama, but nothing makes me happier than watching the powers-that-be go apoplectic over someone they never heard of..... And have no fu*king clue how to respond to. Remember, the more the labels attacked Napster, the more popular it became. The Dems should be afraid, very afraid............ Peace. ---------------------------------------------------- John Hummer Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Sarah Palin makes me want to bang my head against my desk.
This. Sooooooo much this.
I talked to my buddy this weekend, who has been an unapologetic republican for as long as I've known him. I asked him about Palin, cause I'm honestly curious as to how people justify her lack of experience and love her "morals". Well, he told me what I pretty much expected from most Republican voters. He wasn't sold on McCain at all before. In fact he told me he wasn't gonna vote. Then Palin got added and he's all for the ticket. Why? "Because she believes what I believe." Yep. That pretty much sums up the mindset.
Sarah Palin makes me want to bang my head against my desk.
This. Sooooooo much this.
I talked to my buddy this weekend, who has been an unapologetic republican for as long as I've known him. I asked him about Palin, cause I'm honestly curious as to how people justify her lack of experience and love her "morals". Well, he told me what I pretty much expected from most Republican voters. He wasn't sold on McCain at all before. In fact he told me he wasn't gonna vote. Then Palin got added and he's all for the ticket. Why? "Because she believes what I believe." Yep. That pretty much sums up the mindset.
This is exactly what my parents, and I have to assume many of their friends, are saying right now. Like sassbox said a while back, don't underestimate the evangelical right.
I hate politicians who think they're above the law!!! If McCain and Palin win the presidency, thats it for me. This country is pretty much fucked for the next four years.
I hate politicians who think they're above the law!!! If McCain and Palin win the presidency, thats it for me. This country is pretty much quacked for the next four years.
Longer then that, figure that the next president will pick may two supreme court justices that could screw us up for many years after McCain/Palin...