But on the other hand, he may have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
As the general election campaign heats up between Senator John McCain (R - AZ) and Senator Barack Obama (D - IL), the public can expect plenty of barbs to be traded and many promises to be made. Each candidate is likely toflip-flopexperience a sudden evolution in some of his core beliefs, causing confusion for many voters. Why, they might ask themselves, if we can't even trust a politician to be consistent and honest about what they intend to do once elected, just what has this world come to?…
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76 - bliffle
Gogol? Did I hear someone mention Gogol? Is someone nosing around among the dead souls of Russian Literature?
77 - Dr Dreadful
Moreover, the networks overlook Obama's "misstatements."
Then where did you hear about them?
78 - Dr Dreadful
Gogol? Did I hear someone mention Gogol?
Yes, Bliff, but no-one knows why. I imagine that Baronius was referring to the mini-debate about 40 comments ago as to the linguistic pedigree of the word caca.
It's rather strange. A bit like when old Wilbur (who sleeps a lot more than he used to) abruptly chimes in with an answer to a trivial question you asked him an hour ago and had forgotten about.
;-)
79 - Baronius
What's that, Dread? My pudding was right over there. I met Jack Paar once.
80 - Independent
Obama beats McCain.
Obame wins on judgmemt and intelligence.
I would rather have Obama making critical decisions of importance to the country.
McCain's military experience is commendable but it is insignificant in selecting a president, and it may actually be a detriment. His long-suffering in Vietnam may may have left him grieving to vicariously win a war with Iran because of the Vietnam war in which he participated in and we lost 35 years ago.
McCain is too old. His inadequate and hesitant answers to questions is obvious. The last thing the country needs is a senile president.
Which raises the question, how in the world did McCain get to be the Republican candidate?
81 - Clavos
"Which raises the question, how in the world did McCain get to be the Republican candidate?"
Umm, lessee...oh, I dunno...hmmm.
Wait, wait, don't tell me!
How about...because millions of Americans apparently don't agree with you and voted for him?
82 - Independent
"How about...because millions of Americans apparently don't agree with you and voted for him?"
It's simply one more example of millions of Americans being senile along with McCain.
But we already knew that.
Proof: George Bush got re-elected in 2004.
83 - Zedd
I love Russian literature! What you talk'n bout Biff?
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Ah I've spotted a fellow goober! Way to go Independent.
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Doc,
I'm hurt. It took a lot for me to post about "you know what". You ignored me. You've just lost an eigth of a cool point, hmph!
84 - Dr Dreadful
I couldn't figure out whether it was the caca itself that freaked you out, Zedd, or the mental picture of John McCain drowning in it.
Your old-fashioned squeamishness on the topic is oddly charming. You remind me of my younger nephew, who when he was little was scared
shitlessstiff of his own poop. It made fatherhood quite an interesting experience for my brother, I can tell you, especially when travelling by train...You'll have to forgive me since I find the whole subject of output from that area, whether it be solid, gaseous or liquid, utterly hilarious, and will continue to laugh about it until I get colon cancer, and serve me right.
:-)
85 - Andy Marsh
George Bush got re-elected in 2004 because John Kerry is a douchebag, no other reason than that...it's called the lesser of two evils.
Most people voted to keep bush in office because we didn't and DON'T want a tax and spend liberal running the country, unfortunately, the republcans found one of the only living tax and spend republicans on the planet!
it's funny, but you'd think that the presidents' approval rating would hurt McCain, but the fact that the democrat controlled congress has an, as bad, if not worse, approval rating as the pres makes that a moot point!
And how the hell you figure Obama has shown any judgement or intelligence is beyond me and a lot of other folks! He hasn't been around long enough to show anything!
86 - Zedd
Boys are gross. Sigh.
87 - Dr Dreadful
And proudly so.
88 - Conrad Dalton
Obama has been around long enough to show he has both better judgment and greater intelligence than McCain.
It should be obvious.
Who was in favor of invading Iraq?
Who was NOT in favor of invading Iraq?
That by itself, is sufficient to separate the real boy from the real man,
Keep in mind that the Iraq war which McCain fully supported has irreparably damaged the US in more ways than one.
The Iraq debacle has exacerbated the economic problems building up for the past several years and which are now out of control.
And McCain wants to bomb Iran, a country that has not started a war in modern history. That bit of lunacy would most likely push the price of oil so high that the US economy would completely collapse.
It is ironic that McCain and his warmongering buddies have been losing the war against bin Laden who sits in a cave watching the US economy self-destruct. And the warmongering McCainites want to make bin Laden happier by continuing to create unrest in the Middle East, the primary source of the energy that keeps the US economy from collapsing.
The US badly needs a change in direction and McCain is hardly the one to do it.
89 - taihunter
Looks to me like some of the most experienced are also some of the biggest criminals!
90 - RJ
Just wondering, two months in, if y'all think 0bama's inexperience has been an asset or a problem.
91 - handyguy
The opinion will split dramatically between the left and right halves of participants here, just as it did before the election.
I think he's doing great; several of the conservative commenters on the site despise everything he does or says [plus several things he probably hasn't actually done or said]. And the rhetoric is often quite vicious, even angry sounding.
Neither opinion has much to do with the quantity of his experience. I would say his confidence and his sense of calm are his strongest qualities, beyond his obvious smarts.
The rightist voices on here might allow that he makes a good speech, but they don't make that sound like a compliment. Then they throw in a comment of dubious importance regarding teleprompters.
So experience rarely enters the discussions here. More important is how the independents and the moderates in the country as a whole view him.
The Real Clear Politics average of polls has his favorability holding strong - it has gone from 63.3 to 60.9 since Jan. 27. His unfavorability has increased, apparently mostly from Republicans/conservatives who answered 'no opinion' in January but rate the president negatively now: from 20.0 in Jan to 30.3 now.
[Tbe Rasmussen Poll, which apparently presses the No Opinions for an answer, gets a higher negative number, 43, which combines 'somewhat negative' and 'very negative.']
I would say a significant number of moderates/independents are still willing to give him a chance.
92 - REMF(MCH)
An asset.