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Obama Is Not

Started by Will Wilkinson · 9 months ago

I cannot find any liveblogging that isn’t stupidly partisan. So here I go. My impression is that McCain is winning this debate. In my snarky piece today for Culture11, I said Obama needs to show his superior grasp of policy details, especially on economic policy. He seems to me to have completely muffed that chance [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • Jack

    9 months ago

    Well, http://thecrossedpond.com/?p=5336#comments live blogged it, with the primary posters divided roughly 50/50 between Obama McCain, pre-debate. Perhaps you might take a scan of the 200+ comments, especially Rojas' sporadic question recaps every 30 comments or so. If it meets your criteria for relative non-partisanship, perhaps you will join us for the next one.
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  • Kevin B. O'Reilly

    9 months ago

    Yes, I think your expectations of Obama were unrealistic. He is not a very good debater, and yet this was his crispest, strongest debate performance. McCain clearly had him on the defensive, and yet Obama made no gaffes -- which is what McCain to back up his assertion that Obama "doesn't understand" foreign policy.

    On style, Obama looked cool, calm and collected. McCain seemed pissed off that Obama was chatting up the pretty clerk in front of him in the grocery store checkout line.
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  • MoonRooster

    9 months ago

    I'm also disappointed. Rather than differentiate himself from the fear-mongering tactics of the current administration, he chose to try to play game better. He's a more efficient terrorist-killer.

    So, to the Americans who believe that the biggest problem facing America today is Russians and Arabs, you have a decision to make.

    If not, fuck you. Vote Obama anyway.

    (Which is actually the right thing to do, I'll sadly add.)
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  • Robert S. Porter

    9 months ago

    I don't think I'd call it for McCain. I think I'd call it completely useless.

    Like you, I had expected much from Obama and didn't get it. However, I don't think it showed either candidate in a particularily good light. I didn't learn anything from either canadidate I didn't already know.

    I want my Friday night back.
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  • stephen

    9 months ago

    ok, ok, now tell us what winston thought of the "Debate!?" and, of course, you must show a picture during transmission.
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  • Michael Drake

    9 months ago

    "McCain exudes firm, experienced, competent, principled leadership."

    If this is irony for "McCain exudes petulance, sanctimony and unstatesmanlike contempt," then I totally agree.

    Oh, and can you say "Ahmadinejad"?
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  • Will Wilkinson

    9 months ago

    No, I cannot say "Ahmandinejad".
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  • Will Wilkinson

    9 months ago

    I can't spell it either.
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  • Michael Drake

    9 months ago

    Neither can I. But it was irresistible snark.
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