McCain is Scaring the Pants Off of the Obama Camp
Written by Sam on August 18th, 2008They are clearly in desperation mode:
The Obama camp and its media water-carriers are seriously accusing John McCain of “cheating” in his appearance over the weekend at Rick Warren’s Saddleback church forum because he was in his motorcade when the program started– and then escorted to an empty room without media hook-ups. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell spread the unsubstantiated rumor that somehow McCain heard Obama’s questions while on his drive. The nutroots went, well, nuts. The NYTimes piled on
The Obamaniacs are starting to get a taste of reality. They have been worshipping a false idol and like the cultists that they are they have become completely divorced from reality and are turning to any excuse possible to convince themselves that Obama is still indeed the second coming. It’s complete denial mode. It’s funny too because I was out of town at a friend’s house the night of the forum and as soon as it was over I turned to him and predicted that the left would accuse McCain of cheating because he did so well.
For us normal individuals not dripping with leftist insanity, we know there are two reasons why McCain outshined Obama Saturday night. One, Obama had no teleprompter. As has been pointed out time and time again Obama can deliver a hell of a speech when he’s rehearsed and practiced it over and over, but when his feet are on the fire he chokes. The other reason for McCain’s success is that his answers were genuine. It’s easy to be comfortable and answer even difficult questions with clarity when you know where you stand on the issues. Obama was doing every song and dance he could not to say the wrong thing and create another 30 second ad against him because he knows his positions aren’t mainstream.
So it seems the Democratic smear machine is now out in full battle gear. We can expect a lot more of this over the next two and a half months. The DNC will use every dirty trick in the book, but accuse us of it around every corner, to win this election.
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McCain performed brilliantly at the Saddleback Forum. I was very, very impressed by his eloquent–yet trenchant–comments on every matter, from abortion to the nature of evil to the definition of “rich.” If he keeps up this performance, he will win decisively in November.
Obama performed miserably. He’s certainly a smart guy, but his answers reveal an underlying incuriosity about the world and about the moral, social, and diplomatic challenges facing our country–contra the media’s narrative about Obama’s being “nuanced” and “cerebral.” And Obama’s answer to the life question (being “above my pay grade”) was incredibly callous and very disturbing.
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I cannot wait for the debates. McCain will destroy Obama in a fashion not seen in years.
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So Sam, you’re saying that a debate had rules, both candidates agreed to the rules in advance, McCain broke the rules, Obama called him on breaking the rules, and because of this Obama is a whiner?
You don’t think that if the opposite was true and Obama wasn’t in the cone of silence room that Fox News wouldn’t be claiming that he cheated?
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David, please back up your assertion that “McCain broke the rules.” If you can’t, don’t bother wasting our time by alleging it.
And this is very interesting: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2008/08/18/pressed-cnn-warren-says-obama-had-competitive-edge
Guess who had advance knowledge of a question, as admitted by Pastor Rick Warren? The Chosen One, Barack Obama!
Barack can’t speak very well without a teleprompter, and McCain is very comfortable in his own shoes, shooting the breeze with reporters, questioners, and citizens alike… just look at McCain’s offer of town-hall forums, and the Obama camp’s refusal of them.
Obama isn’t a very good speaker without prompting and practice… just face it.
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I’m not saying that Obama is a good speaker without prompting and practice, though I don’t think he’s as bad as you guys seem to.
Both candidates had advance knowledge of a couple of the questions (your greatest moral failing and 3 wisest people in your life, I think).
The candidate who wasn’t speaking first was supposed to be sequestered in a room isolated from the outside world when the first candidate was speaking. McCain was not sequestered, he was in his motorcade, for at least part of that time. Thus, breaking the rules.
I don’t think it’s a big deal and I don’t think it influenced his answers, but you can’t complain when people point out that he wasn’t where he was supposed to be according to agreed-upon-in-advance debate rules.
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By the way, John K, excellent use of the word “trenchant”. We don’t see that much anymore.
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If I were the McCain campaign, I’d jokingly release a picture of McCain holding a glass up against a door and trying to listen through it. It would show how completely asinine this whole thing is becoming.
The more the Obamaniacs keep this up, the more they’re gonna hurt their candidate. Not that that’s a bad thing…