Was Obama awful in the Rick Warren debate/interview?
I thought Obama did exceptionally well and came across as an extremely intelligent gifted lawmaker. I was surprised by how well McCain spoke for himself, given all his missteps and odd things he’s said and flip-flops that I don’t believe he intended to say just exactly how he said. My expectations were a lot lower for McCain so when he did so well, it seemed even more impressive than how well Obama did. Know what I mean? McCain also did not put out the Harvard demeanor that Obama did. McCain was more the guy you would go have a beer with. On a personal level, McCain’s personality (at least in that interview) was more likeable than Obama’s. McCain also was able to squeegee in his P.O.W. anecdotes to hit the right emotional buttons with the American viewing audience. If this had been a real journalist conducting the interview, he might have opened the door for some severely embarrassing challenges but this was not that kind of interview. This was an opportunity for the candidates to prom
Barack Obama is totally useless in debates. The only way he can get people behind him is by shoving “We as the American people” into any random sentence, talking louder, and pointing his finger forcefully for emphasis. When doing a rehearsed, word-for-word speech, he sounds natural, but he has nothing off the top of his head and he stutters endlessly and uses the noisy crowd as an excuse to buy him some time to think of a halfway decent answer, which basically always ends up to ridiculously expensive solutions to problems (which everybody wants to hear and not think about in detail). I hate both Obama and McCain. But then again, I hate most politicians.
