Quit Making Excuses For This Guy!
By Divine Democrat on August 19, 2008 at 2:05 PM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Christianity, Daily Kos, Iraq, John McCain, Michelle Obama
(SADDLEBACK DEBATE-JOHN McCAIN VS BARACK OBAMA)
Obama did it again, he blew another debate. Now, this should have been a simple debate, the question, in my opinion were pretty straightforward and didn’t deal with difficult subjects like the economy or taxes. And most of all, he was debating John McCain, the guy that every Democrat said would never be able to stand up to the oh-so intelligent Barack Obama.
For those who cannot see or hear the video, let me give you a few of the questions and answers from the candidates. The first one I will show is Obama’s answer to the following question:
Q. WHO ARE THE THREE WISEST PEOPLE THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOU WOULD RELY ON HEAVILY IN YOUR ADMINISTRATION?
A. YOU MENTION ONE PERSON THAT I WOULD BE LISTENING TO IS MICHELLE, WHO IS NOT ONLY WISE, BUT SHE’S HONEST. ANOTHER PERSON WOULD BE MY GRANDMOTHER.
Wait…Michelle and his grandmother are going to be in his administration? WTF??? Are you kidding me? I have to wonder if this guy has ADD because obviously he didn’t understand the question… either that or we are going to have an awful lot of nepotism going on in the White House. I wonder if he plans on asking his young daughters for advice, too? That had to be the dumbest answer that Obama has ever given in a debate, and he’s had plenty of dumb answers to choose from. This was the perfect opportunity for him to show that he will have an administration that would compliment his weaknesses, but he blew it.
On the other hand, McCain didn’t hesitate (not one uh), he gave the names, General David Petraeus and Meg Whitman who is the CEO of E-Bay. McCain pointed to people who would help him with foreign policy and military issues, and the economy. Meg Whitman who is an American economic success story AND a woman will certainly help him with his weakness in economics and with the woman vote. In fact, I’ve seen the rumor floated around that she may be his V.P. pick…certainly a wise decision, IMO.
Q. WHAT WOULD BE, LOOKING OVER YOUR LIFE (EVERYBODY’S GOT WEAKNESSES, NO BODY’S PERFECT) WOULD BE THE GREATEST MORAL FAILURE IN YOUR LIFE–WHAT WOULD BE THE GREATEST MORAL FAILURE OF AMERICA?
The answers to this question are pretty long, so I’ll just leave some of it, you can listen to the video to get the rest. Obama jumped right in and started talking about how his dad left him at an early age. Yeah..we’ve heard t hat story a million times, poor Obama raised by a single mother. You never hear him mention on the campaign trail that it wasn’t long before she married a wealthy oil executive and he didn’t exactly go without the necessities. Here’s the Wikipedia quote:
After her divorce, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved to Soetoro’s home country of Indonesia in 1967, where Obama attended local schools in Jakarta until he was ten years old. He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents while attending Punahou School from the fifth grade in 1971 until his graduation from high school in 1979
Yeah…tough life he had there! If anyone would take the time to check, Punahou School is a very exclusive, well-to-do school. Not exactly what you would think of when you hear “I was raised by a single mom”, is it? But that’s what he’s counting on, voter naiveté.
He then goes on to give the impression that because of his difficult upbringing, he turned to drugs and drinking while he tried to “find himself”. I could tell you of a lot of kids who were raised by single moms who had it a lot tougher than Obama, some who didn’t go to the best schools, have nice clothes to wear, and didn’t have a decent place to live, and yet they didn’t turn to drugs or alcohol. Obama’s whining goes to show you that he cannot take responsibil ity for his own behavior.
OBAMA: I WAS SO OBSESSED WITH ME AND YOU KNOW, THE REASON I MIGHT BE DISSATISFIED THAT I…UH UH…COULDN’T FOCUS ON OTHER PEOPLE.
Guess what? Obama is STILL obsessed with himself and will never focus on other people. He certainly hasn’t proved that yet. Everything that he has done in his career has been for himself. And don’t let that phony “community service” bullshit make you think he was doing it for others. If he gave a rats ass about anyone but himself, he wouldn’t have let those in his district– black community, live in housing without heat for six months while the slumlord who ran the buildings was giving him large contributions for his campaign and holding fund raisers for him.
Q. WHAT’S THE MOST SIGNIFICANT — LET ME ASK IT THIS WAY: WHAT’S THE MOST GUT WRENCHING DECISION YOU’VE EVER HAD TO MAKE AND HOW DID YOU PROCESS THAT, COME TO THAT DECISION?
A. WELL, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE OPPOSITION TO THE WAR IN IRAQ WAS AS TOUGH A DECISION THAT I’VE HAD TO MAKE NOT ONLY BECAUSE THERE WERE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES BUT ALSO BECAUSE SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS A BAD PERSON AND THERE WAS NO DOUBT THAT HE MET AMERICA ILL.
BUT I WAS FIRMLY CONVINCED AT THE TIME THAT WE DID NOT HAVE STRONG EVIDENCE OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND THERE WERE A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT AS I SPOKE TO EXPERTS KEPT ON COMING UP, DO WE KNOW HOW THE SHIITES AND THE SUNNIS AND THE KURDS ARE GOING TO GET ALONG IN A POST SADDAM SITUATION, WHAT’S OUR ASSESSMENT AS TO HOW THIS WILL AFFECT THE BATTLE AGAINST TERRORIST LIKE AL-QAEDA, HAVE WE FINISHED THE JOB IN AFGHANISTAN?
Wait….his most gut wrenching decision was his opposition to the war? The guy gives one speech in the 13th District in Chicago, the stomping grounds of Louis Farrakhan, and THAT was his most gut wrenching decision? Are you kidding me?
Also, who were these so-called “experts” he talked to? This guy’s story builds and builds the more he talks. I would really love to know what intelligence he had at the time he made that little vanity speech of his. Was every Senator in every State privy to such intelligence?
On the other hand, McCain’s answered that his most gut wrenching decision was to stay in the prison camp in Viet Nam after he was told he could leave early. His depiction of what he was facing with that decision was heart breaking. For those who think that this won’t hit home to every military family, you’re sadly mistaken.
As usual, the Obama campaign is trying to make excuses for Obama’s bad performance at this20debate, just as they made excuses for his horrible showing in previous debates with Hillary. Andrea Mitchell, carrying the water for Obama, said this:
“The Obama people must feel that he didn’t do quite as well as they might have wanted to in that context, because what they are putting out privately is that McCain may not have been in the cone of silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama. He seemed so well-prepared.” (NBC’s “Meet The Press,” 8/17/08
Yeah…McCain “cheated”…..
McCain’s campaign had an answer to this ridiculous charge.
We are extremely disappointed to see that the level of objectivity at NBC News has fallen so low that reporters are now giving voice to unsubstantiated, partisan claims in order to undercut John McCain.
Make no mistake: This is a serious charge. Andrea Mitchell is repeating, uncritically, a completely unsubstantiated Obama campaign claim that John McCain somehow cheated in last night’s forum at Saddleback Church.
Indeed, instead of taking a critical journalistic approach to this spin, Andrea Mitchell did what has become a pattern for her of simply repeating Obama campaign talking points.
Oh, and for those who think that I’m using my “bias” to state that Obama screwed up big time, Daily Kos has the same opinion and Taylor Marsh was just beside herself with worry over what is going to happen to poor Obama if he doesn’t start preparing for these debates. Gee…do you mean she actually expects Obama to do the hard work for him? Isn’t that the job of Howard Dean, Donna Brazille, and Nancy Pelosi? As far as McCain is concerned, he had a great debate and was well prepared (no, he didn’t cheat and if anyone can prove that, be my guest). I can say this, however, at this point in time, with the economy in the dumpster and having the last eight years watching our country go to pot because of a Republican president,at this stage of the game this should be a cake walk for Obama, and yet he is dead even with McCain in the polls. So, what do you do when you can’t climb above 50% in the polls? Go on vacation to Hawaii, of course!
Being crowned king isn’t as easy as it looks, I guess.
Divine Democrat can be found at her usual digs, Bad Habit.
by Ronald Scott
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