[Rhodes22-list] Politcal - Presidential Debate

[petelargo]

It's just my personal observation. Politics is the art of managing
"perception". It has minimal to do with actual truth or whether 'prick-ness' 
is good or bad. Like him or not, Obama has accomplished some amazing things
politically, including taking down the Clinton machine. Why? They misjudged
his "ground game".  The McCain campaign needed Palin to secure the religious
vote as this was on shaky ground. He is getting some centrist women with
Palin, but probably republican women that came back.  Now he's Mr. Hail Mary
all over the place.  Perception of that looks desperate. Their problem again
is the Obama ground game. He has registered over 10x more people than the
repubs. If that 12 million is energized to show, watch out. 


Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
> 
> Pete,
> 
> Obama did great!  He really did.  I was half expecting McCain, all 5'
> 9' or so of him to walk across the stage and kick Obama in the nuts.
> McCain showed some restraint - maybe that's something he learned in 5
> years of captivity. Trust me one this, I work with fighter pilots and
> it took some discipline on his part to resist the challenge. I don't
> think these "beauty pageant" debates are as important as they were in
> 1960 where Kennedy won the TV debate but Nixon won the radio debate,
> now that we're in the age of the internet.
> 
> So the best guy is the one who is most "gentlemanly"?  My boss is a
> first class prick.  I'm glad he's our prick and not the other sides.
> 
> Brad
> 
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 2:57 PM, petelargo <petelauritzen at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> I personally thought McCain did as good as he could. Obama did not do as
>> good
>> as he could have. McCains condescending "stance" ie non eye contact, non
>> acknowledgement of Obama, disdaining attitude, dominating the
>> conversation,
>> was not well received by polls.  They will fix him on the next one. He
>> will
>> be more gentlemanly. We will see if  Obama is willing to stick the knife
>> in
>> him in the next one.
>>
>>
>> Rob Lowe wrote:
>>>
>>> What caught my attention during the debate is McCain would not look at
>>> Obama and would not address him by name while Obama did both.  How does
>>> McCain plan to stand up to other world leaders if he can't look his
>>> advisory in the eye? - rob
>>>
>>>
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