Obama/McCain III

In response to a message board post proclaiming McCain knocked out Obama.

I totally disagree. I don't think it was a total KO. McCain kicked Obama's ass for the first 30 minutes. McCain was on the offense and kept bringing up flaws in Obama's policies which kept Obama on the defensive and that made him look so weak. After that however Obama settled down and McCain kinda screwed up by kinda doing what Palin did and he avoided answering questions. He brought up that Bill Ayers shit out of nowhere and kept bringing it up. Obama tried to maintain the clean campaign image, but again lost control and he eventually explained himself. He did do a good fucking job totally disconnecting himself from Ayers, but I already knew that was some made up Palin bullshit(what isn't?). I also thought it was awesome for McCain to strike back at Obama for relating him to Bush. "I am not President Bush. If you want to run a campaign against Bush, you should have done that four years ago." Great line. Whether or not it's true...but great line nonetheless.

The one part that stuck out in my mind was when they talked about Roe v Wade and they were asked about whether or not they would elect judges based on their ideas and beliefs. I was sorta impressed with McCain's response, that he wants the most qualified people and wouldn't elect someone just because they felt like he did. That was all well and good UNTIL he slipped this line in at the very end. Something like, "Someone who believes in Roe v Wade is obviously NOT qualified." Just like that, throw out everything you just said Skeletor.

I still think Obama did better. He answered the questions as best he could and didn't sink to McCain's level by using unnecessary attacks. However, even if people say they want to hear the issues, it's not true. I don't have that much faith in America. People watch politics for scandal, for hate messages, etc. so I McCain did what he had to do. He rallied his supporters for sure. Obama, despite looking weak at times, he never fired back with cheap shots, and I hope that people see how fucking awesome that was.