Saturday, September 27, 2008
The 1st US Presidential Debate
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7639070.stm
Ok, so McCain is older and more experienced (and believe me when I say I've liked the man ever since I saw him on the Daily Show)... but to me, knowing how things have always been and how they've always been tackled just means that we'll have more of the same George Bush shit we've been having for the past 8 years.
Obama actually seems to be getting better and better... especially from the time he said “It is going to be part of the president’s job to deal with more than one thing at once.”
Obama debate quotes:
"You said that we were going to be greeted as liberators. You were wrong. You said that there was no history of violence between Shia and Sunni. And you were wrong."
- Obama's capable of delivering punchshots
"We have seen Afghanistan worsen, deteriorate. We need more troops there. We need more resources there. Senator McCain, in the rush to go into Iraq, said, you know what? We've been successful in Afghanistan. There is nobody who can pose a threat to us there.
This is a time when bin Laden was still out, and now they've reconstituted themselves. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates himself acknowledges the war on terrorism started in Afghanistan and it needs to end there."
- Oh thank God someone's remembered the whole 'War on Terror' should really be in Afghanistan.
McCain debate quotes:
"And I want to tell you that now that we will succeed and our troops will come home, and not in defeat, that we will see a stable ally in the region and a fledgling democracy."
- Just by looking at that statement, you wouldn't think he's talking about Iraq... 'fledgling democracy' indeed!
"And this strategy, and this general, they are winning. Senator Obama refuses to acknowledge that we are winning in Iraq.
They've just passed an election law just in the last few days. There is social, economic progress, and a strategy, a strategy of going into an area, clearing and holding, and the people of the country then become allied with you. They inform on the bad guys. And peace comes to the country, and prosperity.
That's what's happening in Iraq, and it wasn't a tactic."
- If he says so...
"First of all, I won't repeat the mistake that I regret enormously, and that is, after we were able to help the Afghan freedom fighters and drive the Russians out of Afghanistan, we basically washed our hands of the region."
- I liked that he acknowledged that.
Ok... to be fair,if you look just at the debate performance, then McCain's more suave (in my opinion at least), but he's reminding me more and more that he is, no matter what, a Republican.
And I don't really agree with them.
Ok, so McCain is older and more experienced (and believe me when I say I've liked the man ever since I saw him on the Daily Show)... but to me, knowing how things have always been and how they've always been tackled just means that we'll have more of the same George Bush shit we've been having for the past 8 years.
Obama actually seems to be getting better and better... especially from the time he said “It is going to be part of the president’s job to deal with more than one thing at once.”
Obama debate quotes:
"You said that we were going to be greeted as liberators. You were wrong. You said that there was no history of violence between Shia and Sunni. And you were wrong."
- Obama's capable of delivering punchshots
"We have seen Afghanistan worsen, deteriorate. We need more troops there. We need more resources there. Senator McCain, in the rush to go into Iraq, said, you know what? We've been successful in Afghanistan. There is nobody who can pose a threat to us there.
This is a time when bin Laden was still out, and now they've reconstituted themselves. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates himself acknowledges the war on terrorism started in Afghanistan and it needs to end there."
- Oh thank God someone's remembered the whole 'War on Terror' should really be in Afghanistan.
McCain debate quotes:
"And I want to tell you that now that we will succeed and our troops will come home, and not in defeat, that we will see a stable ally in the region and a fledgling democracy."
- Just by looking at that statement, you wouldn't think he's talking about Iraq... 'fledgling democracy' indeed!
"And this strategy, and this general, they are winning. Senator Obama refuses to acknowledge that we are winning in Iraq.
They've just passed an election law just in the last few days. There is social, economic progress, and a strategy, a strategy of going into an area, clearing and holding, and the people of the country then become allied with you. They inform on the bad guys. And peace comes to the country, and prosperity.
That's what's happening in Iraq, and it wasn't a tactic."
- If he says so...
"First of all, I won't repeat the mistake that I regret enormously, and that is, after we were able to help the Afghan freedom fighters and drive the Russians out of Afghanistan, we basically washed our hands of the region."
- I liked that he acknowledged that.
Ok... to be fair,if you look just at the debate performance, then McCain's more suave (in my opinion at least), but he's reminding me more and more that he is, no matter what, a Republican.
And I don't really agree with them.
