Don't Talk About the War
I actually was surprised to see polls showing that Obama handily "won" the debate. Particularly if you watched the news commentators, you really wouldn't know why this was the case. And my sense was that Mccain actually righted himself-- he seemed on his game, after a very shaky week, and Obama never really took out McCain, despite having many chances.
On the other hand, Obama went toe to toe with the "foreign policy expert" McCain and came away looking just fine, thank you. So in that sense, it was a win for Obama.
But thinking about it this morning, there is another reason that people think Obama won: the Iraq war is deeply unpopular, and Obama expressed people's frustrations on the war pretty well. Clearly one of Obama's strongest moments was when he went after McCain-- saying how wrong he was about the war from the beginning, saying Mccain knew where the WMD were, etc.
The media STILL don't like to talk about how unpopular war is, in general, but especially the Iraq war. The mainstream media obviously has a strong pro-war bias. If they aren't intel agents or psychopaths, they must be brainwashed idiots.
But the people, deep down, know the Iraq war was a disaster, and at least Obama was willing to express some of that. Of course, Obama is still deeply worrisome in his strident support of the official 9/11 fairytale and talk of going after "al Qaeda". But clearly, Obama is a lesser of two evils compared to the right-wing paranoid McCain-- who never met a war he didn't support.
By the way-- check out what Obama SHOULD have said.
On the other hand, Obama went toe to toe with the "foreign policy expert" McCain and came away looking just fine, thank you. So in that sense, it was a win for Obama.
But thinking about it this morning, there is another reason that people think Obama won: the Iraq war is deeply unpopular, and Obama expressed people's frustrations on the war pretty well. Clearly one of Obama's strongest moments was when he went after McCain-- saying how wrong he was about the war from the beginning, saying Mccain knew where the WMD were, etc.
The media STILL don't like to talk about how unpopular war is, in general, but especially the Iraq war. The mainstream media obviously has a strong pro-war bias. If they aren't intel agents or psychopaths, they must be brainwashed idiots.
But the people, deep down, know the Iraq war was a disaster, and at least Obama was willing to express some of that. Of course, Obama is still deeply worrisome in his strident support of the official 9/11 fairytale and talk of going after "al Qaeda". But clearly, Obama is a lesser of two evils compared to the right-wing paranoid McCain-- who never met a war he didn't support.
By the way-- check out what Obama SHOULD have said.
posted by spooked at 10:42 AM
2 Comments:
mccain started almost every sentence with, "What Sen. Obama just doesn't understand is..."
his handlers must have told him to keep saying that.
both candidates tried to paint russia as the aggressor for defending s. ossetia against georgia's despicable sneak attack - i didn't like that.
The "Rude Pundit" is. As juvenile as Sarah Palin.
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