McCain fails, Obama is not rattled

Source: Politico

Roger Simon2 hours, 18 minutes ago

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Debates should not be confused with trips to Lourdes: Few miracles are dispensed.

John McCain needed a miracle in his final debate with Barack Obama on Wednesday night, a miracle that would wipe away McCain’s deficit in the polls and re-energize his flagging campaign. He did not get one. The clouds did not part. Heavenly choirs were not heard. Instead, the American public heard angry attacks from McCain.

Sometimes McCain attacked directly, and sometimes he attacked sarcastically, but he never stopped attacking. And he never rattled Obama. Obama answered every attack and kept his cool. How cool? Obama was so cool that after 90 minutes under blazing TV lights, an ice cube wouldn’t have melted on his forehead.

McCain attacked him on everything from wanting to raise the taxes of Joe the Plumber - - now the most famous plumber in America and at serious risk of becoming so wealthy his taxes will go up no matter who wins - - to not traveling enough. “I admire so much Sen. Obama’s eloquence,” McCain sneered. “Sen. Obama, who has never traveled south of our border.” (This from a man whose running mate got her first passport last year.)


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The biggest impact of the three presidential debates for Obama was not anything said or not said. It was impressionistic: Obama simply did not appear to be the scary “other” that McCain needs him to be. “When people suggest that I pal around with terrorists, then we are not talking about issues,” Obama said smoothly.



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K&R. Everybody should read this.

Oh, who am I kidding - "inner?" Anyway, sounds like debates are exactly like Lourdes, since no miracles are actually performed there, and the main source of income is selling religious trinkets and the baloney story that miracles do happen there.

I'm just pedantic about stuff like that.

TlalocW

This nonsense in reference to a man who was born and raised in Hawaii and who lived in Indonesia, which, the last time I checked, were places that are very much "south of our border" (and Indonesia is right on the equator).

Flunkie McKKKlan lives up to his jackassery again! :rofl:

I believe McHoover wanted Obama to get defensive and say something like, "It is not necessary to travel to Mexico to understand how NAFTA has failed." Then McBush would counter with, "Ah ha, but you and your surrogates have ridiculed Governor Palin for her lack of travel.... blah blah blah"

while retained his cool and a bit of amusement.