Ryan Gill ([info]montieth) wrote,
@ 2008-09-26 22:06:00
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Debate thoughts...
I missed the first part of it, gonna have to check the streams...

Jim/John? Senator...you know who you're debating right?

Sen McCain is NOT hammering Sen Obama on the critical details. Raising taxes isn't going to help the economy AT ALL.

Iraq, AQ was there. Sen Obama just doesn't understand who AQ was.

Afghanistan. Does Sen Obama actually understand what a brigade is? 3 Brigades, is less than a Division.

Sen McCain Knows his military details (go figure, he's a Former Naval Officer). He know's his numbers too.

Sen Obama, Nobody talked about attacking Pakistan? Take them out? What's that mean in the context of Pakistan? Send flowers?

Some of the Cross Border attacks are Pakistani military does that factor for either of them?

Pakistan is not a simple place to just put shiney new Democracy in place. There's a reason the previous presidents fled.

Doesn't have a seal yet....ouch.

Is Sen Obama invoking Kissenger? Isn't Kissenger second only to Karl Rove for status as "evil" figures of the world for liberals?

Sen McCain is starting to hammer on Sen Obama on foreign policy and naivete.

McCain does a zinger on Pres Bush. "I looked into his eyes and saw K G B."

How did Sen Obama (edit and Sen McCain) get from Russia and relations with Russia and the problems in Soviet Georgia to domestic energy research? Increasing US oil supplies isn't going to affect Russian territorial gains. Russia sells energy to Europe.

Continental Attack, tough question (personally I expect such an attack at some point)

Sen Obama - No Nuclear Missile threat?!? What? Taep'o-dong-2 4,000-4,300km range, hello? Dear Leader or his heirs?

Sen Obama - Iraq, you want to keep focusing on the past. What about finishing Iraq?



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[info]notgruntled
2008-09-27 04:38 am UTC (link)
Jim/John? Senator...you know who you're debating right?

Jim (Lehrer) was the moderator. Obama started to direct his comments to him, then corrected himself and addressed them directly to McCain, as Lehrer kept encouraging.

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Obama started to direct his comments to him, then corrected himself
[info]aquaknot
2008-09-27 12:12 pm UTC (link)
and he did so repeatedly. I only watched about 30 minutes in total and it happened 3 times while I was watching. But I chalk that up to nerves.

Obama addressed Senator McCain as "John." I don't remember clearly, but didn't McCain address Obama as "Senator?"

There's a brouhaha about Katie Couric and her employers who have directed the news staff there not to refer to Governor Palin as "Governor," but to refer to Obama and Biden as Senators. Kinda curious.

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Re: Obama started to direct his comments to him, then corrected himself
[info]sydneyrodriguez
2008-09-28 12:07 am UTC (link)
I think that depends on who you're talking about.

In the case of Katie Couric, I think it's a respect thing. After her interviews with Palin, I don't think Katie has much respect left for her (even enough for someone of a leadership position, which usually commands some respect, and therefore formality, by default).

In Obama's case, I think it has to do more with how formal the speaker is. Obama strikes me as less formal than Katie, in my opinion, either from personality or position. I noticed your profile mentions that you live in Georgia. I don't know if you grew up there, or if you've ever been to any of the northern states, but it's been my experience that people in the northern inland states (I have no experience of the New England states, so I can't say anything about them) tend to be a little less formal than people in the southern states (not necessarily all, but in general).

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