I’m soon heading out to my cousin’s 21st birthday party.
It’s not at a bar thank heaven, it’s at my aunts home. I won’t have to drive home an intoxicated individual and see him through the night. Anyhoo, my cousin really isn’t much of a drinker, though I’m sure he will revel in the fact he can do so now, legally. It’s the first family 21 party I’ve attended, so yay me.
My opinions on the debate, after reviewing it again in the middle of the night.
I believe people on the far left wanted to see a political stomping, they didn’t see that.
What they saw was McCain looking like a constipated midget, an old man with the maturity of a toddler, a man who thought saying “Obama just doesn’t know” would be enough for people to believe it. I think Obama clearly showed otherwise.
They saw the man who would be dealing with foreign leaders (McCain we are speaking if here), acting dismissively and condescendingly toward an opponent he wanted to clearly show his contempt for. I imagine an abrupt attitude, which dismisses out of hand those he is contemptuous of, would be a rather disastrous trait for a president when dealing with foreign leaders. Not to mention when you do it to someone like Obama, who clearly does not deserve such contempt, it looks plain silly. It’s also a good idea to look your opponent in the eye, whether that opponent be a political opponent or a socialist dictator.
What some see as scrappy posturing, and his “I’ve taken my wake-up pills”, demeanor, is really just a little bully. We’ve had a big bully for 8 years, no need for a pint sized one.
Some say Obama lost because he didn’t come off as Kucinich. Please, for those of you out there still thinking those like Kucinich will ever have a chance at winning — unless you actually go and put those like him into office a much lower levels, and get rid of the party system, which we know controls who actually gets to run for prescient in either party, or who gets to run for governor for that matter — wake up.
Obama did what he had to do to convince many of those in the middle he was capable, and by that preferable. McCain came off like an impatient hothead, one who wants to form “A League of Democracies”, something which in this day is a rather fruitless endeavor which would only increase resistance to diplomacy. China, owns us, and though that may be able to be lessened some when Obama gets in office it will never totally go away. Let’s deal with that. This is the real world.
I’ve seen this discussed, but it is in my opinion a large blooper to call Pakistan a “failed state” on national television? Isn’t that something a president says behind closed doors?
Obama shows clearly he isn’t about trashing the opponent, though politically maybe he should do it, and many of those on the left wanted him to do it. The reason I preferred him even before I investigated his policies and his potential was because he tried to stay away from that kind of garbage.
Looking at this from a distance I saw a man who loves vets, repeats himself often, and on further political fact checking made slightly more errors in foreign policy than I had previous thought. A contemptuous dismissive man set up against a man who looks you in the eye and tries to engage you in conversation, a man who did not look rabid and ready to rumble, but looked calm and ready to think before jumping into the fire pit.
I saw a president, and I saw a mole.
The mole was the shorter older one.
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