I watched the debate tonight. John McCain is finished. He isn’t saying what the Americans want to hear, he’s not challenging Obama on the right issues, he’s not answering the questions in the way that the sound bites will be repeated around the water cooler tomorrow and, frankly, he comes off like your friendly grandpa sitting around the dinner table nattering on and on.
Obama is going to sweep into the nation, and I think he will be the worst president since Hoover, as I believe he will be even worse than Jimmy Carter.
The best thing about the debate was Tom Brokaw. I loved that he didn’t let Obama roll over him with his “Can I respond to that?” the way that Biden did to Ifill.
I’ll be going to the Sarah Palin rally on Monday, because I want to see her. But I hold out almost no hope that McCain will pull this out.
I’m sorry you feel such antipathy to Obama. I would have voted for Clinton had she been running and switched my allegiance early on to McCain when she was eliminated. But McCain has been a massive disappointment (especially — and here’s where we have a major disagreement — in picking Palin as his running mate: picking her was an insult to all the terrific and truly qualified Republican women who were available) and Obama has begun to grow on me. I may even vote for him.
McCain sounds and looks old and tired.
The question you have to ask yourself is: Are you still going to vote McCain? Don’t forget, John Kerry was ahead in EVERY single poll in the last election up to and including the exit polls. Obama sounded trite and immature, he had answers but no “hows.” The “we have to make people do what we want” answers were ridiculous, and sounded that way. Remember, John Kerry “won” every debate against Bush, and the Leftstream Media will do the same thing tomorrow morning. I’ll bet they won’t even notice that Obama didn’t know we fought World War II! (If we could have done something about the Holocaust, we would have?!? Hello? Barry??? History???)
Robert
I didn’t say I wasn’t going to vote for him. I just don’t think he’s going to win.
I’d love to believe he has a chance. But I don’t.
I’ve actually have come off the undecided fence after tonight’s debate. Mccain may have looked like a grandpa and I think that will work in his favor. His experience(grandpaness) and the way the economy is has made me stop waffling. McCain it is.
Robert,
That business about Kerry leading Bush in the 2004 polls is a wishful myth. It didn’t happen. From late August (2004) onwards Bush was in a clear lead. It narrowed somewhat at the end but not enough.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/chart3way.html
Actually, we could have done something but didn’t. There are a number of reports about how the prisoners in Auschwitz prayed for the bombers to hit the railroads leading to the camp during the war and we did not. His “colud’ve, should’vew, would’ve” lines convinced me that he is a liar. He wouldn’t have done anything. All he is saying is that he wants us to have surrendered Iraq to the terrorists and pull out of the places we did go in by pretending to go to the places that we have not gone. I do not believe him.
I think Obama is the worse thing since Carter, and when January 21st comes around I think people are going to wake up say what they hell did we just do.
Jason, you may be right. Of course we all know the old saying “you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all the people all the time.” The question is how many people will Obama be able to fool for how long.
I live in Chicago, il. I would not vote for obama if he was the only one running. Obama could talk flies off a pile of …..
and a look at obama’s advisors on the middleast make jimmy carter look good.
Gov’r Palin is the breath of fresh air
If you look here:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/bush_vs_kerry_hth.html
You’ll see Kerry was up +2 at this point in the previous election. I took Statistics in school, and I can tell you a dozen different ways they can be manipulated. You can change poll results just by what time of day they’re taken. And with the MSM giving up any pretense of objectivity and being totally, unashamebly in the tank for Obama, what do they care anymore if polls are “accurate.”
Besides:
http://zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1575
Not to mention the fact that Bill Ayres is just entered the public lexicon… Remember how long it took for the Swift Boat Veterans to catch on, and how hard the MSM had to work to destroy them. They never gave up, even after the election. Heck, the Lefties still think we lost in Iraq, and Viet Nam wasn’t their fault!
Might want to google “Bradley Effect.”
Robert
Don’t discount the Bradley Effect, or the effect that Bill Ayres is going to have once the MSM decides to bite the hand that feeds it – like they did with John Kerry and the Swift Boat vets…
Robert
Robert,
1. You are either being disingenuous are simply don’t understand what the RCP average entails. It is made up of ALL polls averaged and weighted on a given date. Here is the chart for 2004 again.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/chart3way.html
Kindly show me where the blue (Kerry) line was ever higher than the red (Bush) one at ANY time from late August onwards.
2. The “Bradley Effect” concerns latent racism. Are you implying that that is a good thing?!
If you want a good take on statistics, go FiveThirtyEight.com. They make their living doing baseball statistics and predicted the Devil Rays to be good this year.
They are for Obama, but openly state that and predicted many of the primary results that others got wrong. They are also pretty open with their methodology.
I agree, Jeff. They are excellent for analysis. Anyone who’s into (read obsessed) with statistics will find a lot of interesting stuff.
http://www.Realclearpolitics.com is also quite good, a conservative site that presents the data fully and clearly. Very little wishful thinking on either site. (So that won’t please some people!)