- The Fine Art of Debating

The Fine Art of Debating

01:35, 28-Sep-2008 .. Posted in General Word Stuffs .. 7 comments .. Link

In reference to Obama apparently threatening Pakistan, McCain says a president has to be more careful about what he says. Obama responds by repeating exactly what he’d said about Pakistan, which completely flattens McCain’s lazy interpretation, then points out two examples of McCain letting his mouth go - saying North Korea should be wiped off the map and singing Bomb-bomb-bomb, Bomb-bomb Iran. McCain’s response? To once again reiterate his record in the senate (stopping short of certain decisions made regarding Iraq) and telling some irrelevant story about a woman giving him a bracelet at a town-hall meeting commemorating her son who died in Iraq.

Less than two minutes after Obama has said the situation in Afghanistan can’t be solved by more troop deployment alone and needs some careful strategy, McCain accuses him of not understanding that it’ll take more than just increased troop-deployment to improve the situation and some careful strategy is needed.

That was pretty much the theme of the whole debate. McCain accuses Obama of something, which Obama casually discredits or puts in context before bringing up two or three examples of McCain doing exactly what he’s accusing Obama of, to which McCain has no reply, or Obama says something that McCain immediately forgets and accuses Obama of having the opposite view.

The only reasoning I can think of for why people can’t decide who won, or even think McCain won, is that McCain appeared to be on the offensive more, while Obama was willing to admit when he was in agreement with McCain, but the fact is McCain was stuck with rehashing his campaign ads, while Obama was responding intelligently and articulately to the questions being posed and the responses from the other side.

Judge for yourselves:

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07:27, 29-Sep-2008 .. Posted by cherry

McCain's old and unfunky and I bet he's into Kenny G.

*pelts screen with salted cashews*

09:51, 29-Sep-2008 .. Posted by bebbet
He's also a moron.

11:33, 29-Sep-2008 .. Posted by Eclectablog
I think his fave is actually Abba, if I'm not mistaken.

At first, I felt like McCain actually did way better than I thought he would do. But after some further thinking on that, I realized that (a) he was supposed to do better on this debate since foreign policy is his strong suit and (b) he has probably been in more debates than the other three candidates combined. So he damned well BETTER be good at them! LOL

Seriously, though, his body language and the fact that he never once looked at Senator Obama and the fact that he muttered to himself nearly the entire time Obama was speaking made him look like a grumpy, angry, mean old man. He was patronizing and condescending and I think most people watching thought he was overbearing and way, way too snarky.

This is in addition to all of your very fine points which I agree with 100%.

11:37, 29-Sep-2008 .. Posted by cherry

I think I should be President of the United States of America.

We. Would become. The Nation of Rock.

01:13, 29-Sep-2008 .. Posted by bebbet
Thanks E. That means a lot coming from our resident pundit :)

All hail the Commander-In-Axe!

01:17, 29-Sep-2008 .. Posted by cherry

*juts out bottom teeth and makes rock symbol*

10:07, 3-Oct-2008 .. Posted by annmi
Snarky. That's a good word. I should use that more. Snarrrrrky..... *goes away muttering the word in an attempt to ignore the debate completely*

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