Posted on 10/07/2008 5:04:27 AM PDT by vietvet67
Now his campaign is continuing the deconstruction of Obama that started with the Paris Hilton ad.
“You dont get to be a dummy and fly fighter jets. Nor get elected Governor. GW Bush did both: McCain did both in Anger.”
Nor make Navy Captain......
I would like to think that this is correct.
I assume we will know during and after the debate tonite. The poll #’s have been effective in scaring some people into thinking the race is over.
I would really like to think that McCain is Crazy like a Fox..becase previously it has been proven to be the case..
We will see tonite what the deal is.
Being up on the law is a good idea, if you’re going to be a crime-fighter.
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His base is fickle that way.
History will be more kind than FR.
I misunderstood the point of your earlier post. I thought you were suggesting that it was erroneous to view President Bush as an effective candidate. People keep doing that, as if he didn’t win elections.
Observe, Orient, Decide, Act (OODA). COL John Boyd, USAF invented the OODA loop to describe the process by which a fighter pilot engages an enemy and to explain why a pilot with superior training in an inferior aircraft could reliably defeat a pilot with inferior training in a superior aircraft. The pilot with the tightest or shortest OODA loop wins because his superior decisions and faster actions place him and his aircraft at an increasing advantage over his opponent.
Since then, the OODA loop has proven itself in many facets of military operations and management.
More than a few veterans on Free Republic and elsewhere have observed that John McCain demonstrates a very tight OODA loop against Barrack Obama, who sometimes fails to close his OODA loop ("Call me if you need me.")
Agreed. But McCain is also a risk-taker with his own career and sometimes that pays off and sometimes it doesn’t.
But this is a situation where you have to pull out all the stops on third and long.
McCain is going to do great tonight; he’ll be totally in his element and Obama will be floundering around, Um...Ah...Hmmm...he’s PAINFUL to watch and listen to without a script.
Watch for McCain to land a few good punches tonight. He knows what’s on the line.
I should have been more clear.
> I’m not sure if it shows that I am surrounded by those who are equally smart or equally stupid, but either way, it’s nice to be surrounded by one’s peers. :)
I like it, too, for all the reasons that you describe. The FRee Republic enforces tight thinking and tighter writing precisely because your peers will catch and hi-lite and critique your mistakes publicly.
I got caught there fair and square.
I’ve only been on FR for a few years, but I have noticed that the quality of my thinking and reasoning and debating skills has markedly improved with the practise my peers at FR give me.
It’s a real mental work-out.
I agree. He also knows who to surround himself with. He has been around the block in politics several times and does not seem to have made many, if any, enemies. Obama, on the other hand, has a few good people in his campaign, but he still is naive about national politics. What worked to get him to state senate and then to the US senate does not play to make it to the presidency. Liberation theology has its limits.
No problem. I should have had more coffee :-).
Obama was dumb enough to take the bait. Now all his associations are fair game.
I am not happy with his bailout vote at all. I believe, however, that McCain did what he felt was right for the country. I know that he knew the political risks, but put those aside. While he is not my prefered candidate, he is a man of character, and I greatly respect that.
I don’t know about OODA but I do know that McCain is inside Achmed’s Noodle.
Pray for W, McCain and Our Troops
Well, the Ayres thing did knock the economy out of the news a bit. And it raised the character issue. It is not a strategy. But it is a part of one.
Everyone has someone in your family who absolutely HATES losing, even if it’s a game of Parcheesi. That person may be the friendliest guy/gal on the block when a game is not on the line, but during a game, they become possessed.
McCain reminds me of someone like that. He hates losing. You got a glimpse of that after he knew Bush had won the 2000 SC Primary. He blew by Maria Schriver like a bull in a china closet. He was angrier than heck. That event reinforced the template that he was a hothead.
So far this campaign, he has acting very coolly - I think to blunt the hothead accusation. But I’ve been waiting to see that kind of hot head intensity in this campaign, but controlled and aimed at Obama. I hope he’s starting to show it finally.
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