Posted on 09/26/2008 2:16:10 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
Very well. He started off slow but quickly was driving in the base hits left and right. The foreign policy portion was quite weak for Obama who came off as memorized and coached, like he was regurgitating lines from his 300 policy advisors. There is a Kerryesque element to Obama’s debate style - he’s kind of boring actually. McCain was quite dynamic. Obama looked downright foolish on the surge, on Iran, on talking without preconditions, at one point trying to spin Henry Kissinger’s words repeatedly to his own silliness.
To my knowledge no one has found where he introduced legislation.
I agree with you on this whole-heartedly.
McCain may not want to do this, but this NEEDS to be done. People may not see the facts about Zer0bama anywhere else, because God knows the DBM won't be rushing out the stories.
I just watched the debate.
Statement most often said by McCain: “Senator Obama doesn’t understand.”
Statement most often said by Obama: “John is right about that.”
Obama did better than I expected and was clearly focused on not saying ‘ah, uh.’ I expected John to handle himself well because he has had years of speaking without a script. No doubt, McCain detailed knowledge of the various areas of the world and their leaders showed that he had a comfort level based on his experience. Obama spoke more vaguely, and could not speak with personal experience on international matters because he has almost none. Overall, Johnny demonstrated his superiority on the issue of foreign affairs.
Obama made the mistake of somehow suggesting he would be more concerned about veterans than John. Why go there? You could tell it was personal when John said he “loved” the veterans. You know he does.
Thanks for reporting back, Obama was a communnity organizer in the debate. I’m not giving him the keys to the car, he needs to get a job first.
He didn't. Because of the subprime lending mess and lax regulation Obama claimed to have sounded the alarm two years ago and said last year he wrote to Paulsen to to make sure he understood the magnitude of the problem (imagine that) and called on him to bring the stakeholders together. It was then that McCain, as an aside, said he too warned congress.
He did more than warn and should have been more forceful in explaining that he co-sponsored the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190. urging quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. This from Hot Air shows the role he played
I'm going to visit my son at Misawa AB in December. Gonna be there for the birth of my first grandchild while I'm there.
Going to Japan huh? I’m going there in December to see my son at Misawa AB. Gonna be there for the birth of my first grandchild.
Wonderful! I hope everything goes well for the arrival of the baby. I had a friend who married a Navy officer and had all three of their children while her husband was at sea. Fortunately, she had her mother-in-law, who had also had three children while her husband was at sea. (And they all looked just like him, too, before anyone says anything rude!)
After the birth, though, he'll have only a month at home before he gets shipped off to the desert in support of the WOT. He'll be gone for 4-5 months and she'll be staying with her family while he's gone.
When he comes back he'll be almost ready to be restationed back stateside but they are chosing instead to go to Europe or England, not sure exactly where yet. They don't want to come back here stateside, mainly to stay away from family. His mom, my ex-wife, is certifiably crazy and her siblings are no better. This way he continues to live his own life and not have family get in the way and cause him trouble. Pretty sad but I support him.
My brother was in the Air Force for 22 years; he retired three years ago, I think. He spent 17 years out of 22 in Europe - Germany, Italy, and England. England was his last post, and he’s married to an English woman. Nice girl, nearer my daughter’s age than mine :-), with a cute accent. He’s working for a DoD contractor now, and they live in western Pennsylvania.
He thought life in England was very comfortable, and would not have come back except that my mother insisted that he had to while my dad is still well enough to appreciate seeing him. He goes down to Florida every couple of months for a few days.
I told my son not to make my mistake and stay in for 20. He's a ground refueler and working with the planes is always good for the career, though he'll have a heck of a disability rating due to all the knicks, cuts, bumps, etc, that he gets working out on the flightline.
I'm back in federal service working as a civilian employee. I'm trying to work my way through the ranks and get a better paying position though here in Central Indiana that's hard to do.
Best wishes! My brother was in mobile radar systems. My oldest daughter (17) is planning to join the Air Force. We’re hoping she’ll put in three years of community college and then get an ROTC scholarship for her last two years, but if she gets crazy living at home (with seven younger brothers and sisters, so far), she can enlist and get out and Do Something. She’s taking auto mechanics in college, and the Air Force will like a girl who can work on engines.
I was a typist for the Army Corps of Engineers, way back. Civil service work is a hard slog, imo. My husband put in 10 years active duty in the Air Force and then got into the Civil Service, and civil was much worse. He’s a computer network architect for a large retail chain here, and we’re well positioned to ride out the economic downturn, if it happens.
I hope your grandchild is perfect and everything goes well in Japan. I studied Japanese in college, but I’ve never been there. My husband spend a month in Japan when he was working for the DoD as a civilian, and he said the main thing he noticed was how rude everyone was. The only people who would give an old lady a seat on the train were Americans!
Congrats. I’ve got 6 grandkids. A blessing.
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