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McCain Throws Sink, and Plumber, But Obama Isn't Rattled (Time Compares Obama to Cary Grant!)
Time ^ | 10-16-08 | David Von Drehle

Posted on 10/16/2008 11:21:24 AM PDT by wac3rd

Only a cynic would dismiss a presidential debate as a mere television show. You would have to be naive, though, to ignore the drama of these events: Two people enter an arena. Only one will emerge as the protagonist of our national life — also known as the President.

In Final Debate, Can McCain Rattle an Imperturbable Foe? For the first 30 minutes of last night's final debate, a sharper, more spirited John McCain took on Barack Obama. He had a clear message of low taxes and smaller government. He targeted an equally clear-cut audience: Joe the Plumber. (A real guy, who must be dodging every local news crew within 100 miles today.) McCain — henpecked by an incumbent he never liked, a dire economy he can't control and a newcomer with less baggage than the Tooth Fairy — suddenly seemed free from worry. He remembered his years as a leading man in those dramatic episodes of yesteryear — campaign-finance reform, the Gang of 14 — and he was glad to reprise his role as The Fighter. For the first time since the Republican convention (just six weeks ago, though to him it must feel like years), John McCain was in control of the narrative.

The problem for McCain was that no matter how hard or how crisply he punched, it would not last. In the end, the gravity of the debate returned to Obama. The turning point was when McCain finally brought up the issue of Obama's ties to former anti–Vietnam War terrorist William Ayers. All McCain accomplished was to swing the spotlight away from himself back to the engaging newcomer. Predictably, Obama had a mild answer ready — as straightforward and uncontroversial as it was soothing. Was it entirely candid? Who asks that of Cary Grant?

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: liberalmediabias; mccain; obama
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"Predictably, Obama had a mild answer ready — as straightforward and uncontroversial as it was soothing. Was it entirely candid? Who asks that of Cary Grant?

Is this reporting? Is this a venerable news source? This is garbage and partisan adoration...Cary Grant???

1 posted on 10/16/2008 11:21:24 AM PDT by wac3rd
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To: wac3rd

More like Steve Erkle!


2 posted on 10/16/2008 11:22:59 AM PDT by Texas4ever (!WHO IS OBAMA?)
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To: wac3rd

Obama was smirking all night like the condescending smug liberal that he is. That people didn’t see that amazes me.


3 posted on 10/16/2008 11:24:06 AM PDT by jwalsh07 (MSM Lied, Journalism Died. RIP 2008)
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To: wac3rd

Some times the stories in Time make me cry...they’re so brain dead. To think these people are making 6 and 7 figures for this....


4 posted on 10/16/2008 11:24:42 AM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Obama for President!)
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To: wac3rd

Obama knows the white liberals are at his beck and call.

Watch, he smiles with the greatest power when he lies or flip flops, knowing he’ll get away with it. The biggest smile yesterday is when he claimed he was for Bush’s missile defense program. A complete flip flop, and he didn’t say it with a straight face, but a smile. Not a nervous smile but a big, happy grin.

I have not seen such an effective liar since, well, Huckabee. Or Rafael Palmiero.


5 posted on 10/16/2008 11:25:52 AM PDT by Shermy
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To: Texas4ever

well they have 1 thing in common both were born as citizens of Britian.


6 posted on 10/16/2008 11:26:04 AM PDT by scooby321 (Cai)
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Cary Grant was a first rate actor, but any third rate actor can appear presidential; but, alas, nonsense expressed well is still nonsense.


7 posted on 10/16/2008 11:26:27 AM PDT by donaldo
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To: wac3rd

I think Obama must take his ‘meds’ before each debate. Although I did detect a raise in blood pressure each time McCain hit a nerve, Obie flashed his teeth, and I did see a sheen on his brow now and then.

GO MCCAIN/PALIN!


8 posted on 10/16/2008 11:27:05 AM PDT by Paperdoll (on the cutting edge)
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To: wac3rd

The dims have two catagories of voters: liberal elites and bottom feeding takers.

Neither group can articulate to American voters what they need to hear.

What do the pubs have?

SARAH and now JOE!

When a plumber can articulate the conservative message better than the top of the ticket, we have a problem.

As Rush said, we will probably need to literally carry John McCain over the finish line to victory (with Sarah and Joe’s help.)


9 posted on 10/16/2008 11:27:20 AM PDT by Mrs.Z ("...you're a Democrat. You're expected to complain and offer no solutions." Denny Crane)
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To: wac3rd

Joe The Plumber didn’t need affirmative action to become a success.

Obama needed affirmative action to appear like a success.


10 posted on 10/16/2008 11:27:40 AM PDT by chambley1
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To: wac3rd

Wasn’t Cary Grant a closet bisexual with a history of hard drug use?


11 posted on 10/16/2008 11:27:45 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: wac3rd

Obama is robotic no honest emotion


12 posted on 10/16/2008 11:28:23 AM PDT by earmarksrus
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To: wac3rd

What? They compared Mr. Obama to Archie Leach? shame!


13 posted on 10/16/2008 11:32:12 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: wac3rd

Time has the tingle.


14 posted on 10/16/2008 11:32:24 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: jwalsh07

Obama/Biden have the same sneer/leer. It’s beyond disturbing.


15 posted on 10/16/2008 11:33:54 AM PDT by sarasota
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Heck I could not care less if bambi is rattled.

What I wanted to see was CONTRAST!!!!!

I saw and I am happy. I would rather distribute what money I have to whom I want too

16 posted on 10/16/2008 11:34:51 AM PDT by BornToBeAmerican (Sarahcuda = the dems worst nightmare)
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To: wac3rd
Cary Grant (color) Pictures, Images and Photos

Cary Grant?!

urkle Pictures, Images and Photos

He's just a set of suspenders short of being Urkle...

17 posted on 10/16/2008 11:34:57 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: wac3rd

Cary Grant was a closet friend of Dorothy. Some people have said that about Obama too.

His “poem” to his pedophile boyhood friend in HI was really creepy. This black marxist man in HI should have been jailed as he wasa sex pervert and pedophile.


18 posted on 10/16/2008 11:35:52 AM PDT by Frantzie
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To: wac3rd
Cary Grant was a manufactured product of Hollywood and the media——all smoke and mirrors—just like the Zero—his birth name was Archibald Leach. Leach/Leech they do have a lot in common!!!
19 posted on 10/16/2008 11:35:52 AM PDT by madinmadtown
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To: wac3rd

I am constantly amazed when they say Obama wasn’t rattled. That’s not true.

I wonder if they were watching the same debate I was.


20 posted on 10/16/2008 11:37:15 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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