And the Big Winner of the First Debate Is…
By Joe Giardiello
Bill and Hillary. By a long shot. I am now more convinced than ever that Hillary will have her second bite at the apple in 2012. She will get the nomination next time because Democrats always seem to be running the last presidential election all over again. But more on that in the future.
If you’re asking who won the debate between the second and third place finishers, it was John McCain. As much as I hate to agree with Mario, alas, I find I have no choice. For only the third time this presidential cycle he is actually right. John McCain won this debate. (If you want to know the other times he was correct, they are 1) Hillary should have been the Democratic nominee, and 2) Hillary would win New Hampshire even after her devastating loss in Iowa).
According to the people who were watching the debate more sober than me, Obama agreed with McCain 11 times. Note to Obama: If you agree with the guy so much, why don’t you just vote for him? While there is no problem agreeing with your opponent in a debate, one of the cardinal rules is you don’t say you do. You simply state the same opinion as if you were the first one in the free world who ever had such a brilliant thought. Obama uses the “I agree with John” line because he’s trying to think about what he actually wants to say. So much for the grand orator.
Let’s face it – Obama is the ultimate one dimensional candidate. He has not had an original thought in his life.
Case in point: Obama is fixated on the idea that he was opposed to the war in Iraq from the beginning, as if that qualifies him to be president. That’s fine as far as it goes. Unfortunately for the Democrats, Obama’s pea brain can go no further. He seems to think if the war in Iraq was never fought, the fight against terrorism would have ended in Afghanistan. Never mind there is no logical reason to believe that. After all, al Quaida had attacked U.S. interests in at least six different theaters in the previous years.
John McCain, on the other hand, recognized the strategy in Iraq had failed to change with the changing circumstances. But then he doesn’t get his information from a teleprompter.
Yet not once did Obama suggest any plans to fight terrorism other than he would get that video tape making Osama bin Ladin. Hey Obama, if all he’s doing is making videos or audio tapes, at least he’s not flying planes into our buildings.
What Obama did do repeatedly was torture us with a collection of “Ummms,” “Ahhhhhs,” and st-st-st-stutters. I stopped counting at 47. Hey, I had pizza in the oven. I couldn’t wait around for the young man to compose his thoughts.
About the only thing Obama had going for him the whole night was the stiffness of John McCain. It was a stiffness that could only have come from serving his country and being tortured by our enemies.
And another thing – Who was leaking information to the state Senator from Illinois about the weapons program of Saddam Hussein? Obama stated one of the reasons he opposed the war was because we didn’t have reliable intelligence about WMDs. That would undoubtedly come as a surprise to the Clinton Administration, the Democratic leadership in Congress, the EU and the UN who all believed there was enough intelligence. So exactly where was he getting his information? The only person who would have known conclusively whether Iraq had WMDs or not would be someone whose middle name is not (or should that be was not) Hussein.
Up next – the Vice Presidential Debate. I can’t wait for that one. There will be a draft Hillary campaign unleashed before the debate is even over.
Bill and Hillary. By a long shot. I am now more convinced than ever that Hillary will have her second bite at the apple in 2012. She will get the nomination next time because Democrats always seem to be running the last presidential election all over again. But more on that in the future.
If you’re asking who won the debate between the second and third place finishers, it was John McCain. As much as I hate to agree with Mario, alas, I find I have no choice. For only the third time this presidential cycle he is actually right. John McCain won this debate. (If you want to know the other times he was correct, they are 1) Hillary should have been the Democratic nominee, and 2) Hillary would win New Hampshire even after her devastating loss in Iowa).
According to the people who were watching the debate more sober than me, Obama agreed with McCain 11 times. Note to Obama: If you agree with the guy so much, why don’t you just vote for him? While there is no problem agreeing with your opponent in a debate, one of the cardinal rules is you don’t say you do. You simply state the same opinion as if you were the first one in the free world who ever had such a brilliant thought. Obama uses the “I agree with John” line because he’s trying to think about what he actually wants to say. So much for the grand orator.
Let’s face it – Obama is the ultimate one dimensional candidate. He has not had an original thought in his life.
Case in point: Obama is fixated on the idea that he was opposed to the war in Iraq from the beginning, as if that qualifies him to be president. That’s fine as far as it goes. Unfortunately for the Democrats, Obama’s pea brain can go no further. He seems to think if the war in Iraq was never fought, the fight against terrorism would have ended in Afghanistan. Never mind there is no logical reason to believe that. After all, al Quaida had attacked U.S. interests in at least six different theaters in the previous years.
John McCain, on the other hand, recognized the strategy in Iraq had failed to change with the changing circumstances. But then he doesn’t get his information from a teleprompter.
Yet not once did Obama suggest any plans to fight terrorism other than he would get that video tape making Osama bin Ladin. Hey Obama, if all he’s doing is making videos or audio tapes, at least he’s not flying planes into our buildings.
What Obama did do repeatedly was torture us with a collection of “Ummms,” “Ahhhhhs,” and st-st-st-stutters. I stopped counting at 47. Hey, I had pizza in the oven. I couldn’t wait around for the young man to compose his thoughts.
About the only thing Obama had going for him the whole night was the stiffness of John McCain. It was a stiffness that could only have come from serving his country and being tortured by our enemies.
And another thing – Who was leaking information to the state Senator from Illinois about the weapons program of Saddam Hussein? Obama stated one of the reasons he opposed the war was because we didn’t have reliable intelligence about WMDs. That would undoubtedly come as a surprise to the Clinton Administration, the Democratic leadership in Congress, the EU and the UN who all believed there was enough intelligence. So exactly where was he getting his information? The only person who would have known conclusively whether Iraq had WMDs or not would be someone whose middle name is not (or should that be was not) Hussein.
Up next – the Vice Presidential Debate. I can’t wait for that one. There will be a draft Hillary campaign unleashed before the debate is even over.
posted by Joe Giardiello at 9/28/2008 12:43:00 PM
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