Friday, September 26, 2008

McCain-Obama debate: "John is right"

That's right, "John is right." That's what Barack Obama said eight times during tonight's presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi.

I have it on DVR--I'll watch it on Sunday at the latest.

For now you have to settle for RedState's take:

Five Eight times tonight the freshman Democrat Senator from Illinois has responded to questions and McCain answers by saying, "John is right."

Further, he listened to McCain's exceedingly knowledgeable response on Georgia by saying, in essence, "What he said."

Tonight, Senator Obama has reinforced the simple fact that - if he can shed the arrogance he wears on his sleeve - he is very well prepared to be an understudy of an experienced, knowledgeable, principled President of the United States.

Unfortunately for Obama and for the party that nominated him, America doesn't elect understudies President -- she elects Leading Men.
And leading women for vice president.

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4 comments:

  1. Unknown12:49 PM

    Does anyone else out there think that it was down right disrespectful for Sen. Obama to used Sen. McCain's first name over and over again during the debate? I mean he kept calling him 'John' over and over.

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  2. the wolf3:45 PM

    joshua,

    Not really. They are both senators and political equals, in that respect. Obama probably would have done better to call him "Senator McCain" or "Mr. McCain" if he were inclined to emphasize their age difference.

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  3. Anonymous5:26 PM

    I found it more disrespectful that McCain refused to look at Obama during the entire debate. Very strange behavior. I wonder what that indicates. Is he angry? Afraid? Either way, it's those kinds of things that tend to form viewers' impressions rather than what the candidates actually said.

    As far as Obama stating that McCain was right about certain issues, that just indicates that he, unlike the current occupant of the W.H., is willing to acknowledge that people outside his own party aren't wrong about everything. And that he's willing to govern in a bipartisan fashion, something that most Americans want in their leaders, rather than the pugnacious and condescending attitude McCain displayed.

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  4. Anonymous3:16 PM

    Obama attempted to use Senator McCain's first name in a weak ploy to project the idea that they somehow are equals.

    It did not fly.

    They are not equal in any matter, as Senator McCain wiped the floor with Obama during the debate on numerous occasions.


    The smirk plastered on Obama's face during the entire exchange, his body language and moments when he lost his cool made a resounding statement of his inability to project any substantive presidential appearance to the American public.

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