October 2, 2008 • 3:05 pm
At the presidential debate last week, Senator McCain went on about all the many countries he’s visited in his 200+ years as a senator. He made a point at almost every chance he got to mention “when I went to ___” or “when I visited with the leaders of ___”. He even pointed out that Senator Obama had never even been to Afghanistan, implying that his foreign policy experience lacked because he wasn’t a world traveler.
Switch to the now infamous Katie Couric/Sarah Palin interview… Katie asked Governor Palin why she didn’t have a passport until 2007. Gov. Palin said she wasn’t one of those people who graduated and was given a passport to roam the world (a jab at the wealthy I guess?), and that she worked all her life. But this didn’t make her any less aware in terms of foreign policy. She knew a lot about foreign policy from her education and from books and reading.
Once again, it seems like McCain and Palin are saying opposite things. Either you can learn a lot about foreign policy without traveling to those countries, or you can’t. They have been so unaligned.
I am looking forward to tonight’s VP debate. I am a little scared, but extremely anxious. I have read many articles that say Palin is a good debater. I have also heard that it will be difficult for Biden because if he is sarcastic or demeaning, it will look even worse because Palin is a woman. I guess we’ll see what happens.
Currently Obama leads in the polls anywhere from 5 to 12 pts….
Filed under: events , debate, election, politics
September 27, 2008 • 2:51 pm
I guess the thing that most struck me about last night’s debate was the fact that John McCain refused to make eye contact with Barack Obama. I kept yelling at the TV “look at him, damn it”. It was obviously disrespectful, but, and don’t take this the wrong way, it seemed racist to me.
Let me explain- like when a white racist person won’t speak directly to the black doctor in the e.r. (maybe I saw that on Grey’s Anatomy). It seemed like John McCain refused to acknowledge that a black man could possibly be running against him for the highest elected position in our country, or that this black man could have anything worth saying that would compel McCain to look his way.
Yes- I am probably looking too much into it, but honestly, and not politically, that is how it seemed to me.
Filed under: events , debate
September 26, 2008 • 2:16 pm
Is the debate on? Man, this last week brings me back to the chaos of the 2000 election where I kept thinking, ‘is this for real’? Speaking of the 2000 election, I highly recommend the HBO movie Recount which I think is now available on Netflix.
As of this morning, we still don’t know if John ‘Maverick’ McCain will be showing up for the debate tonight in Mississippi. I watched CNN and MSNBC and even Nightly News with Brian Williams last night. The one feeling I had was these peace talks, I mean strike negotiations, I mean bailout banter were actually almost resolved. That is until John ‘Maverick’ McCain showed up. It seems the interjection of presidential politics has actually slowed this process down. Who are McCain’s advisers anyway? It seems he has made a lot of mistakes and bad decisions in the past few weeks.
I guess we will see how it all plays out on Nov 4th, or the 5th, or like in 2000, the following month…. oy.
Filed under: events , debate, McCain, politics
